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- October 27th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Supermodels for a good cause, 360.org
360.org A friend of mine showed me this and I think it is a good way to get people’s attention…clearly we need a new approach to get people to take climate change seriously. also I though…
- October 15th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
General Electric doesn’t have a very high opinion of the consumer
GE, I’m disappointed. I work in a hardware store and we have three basic types of lightbulbs for general use, Incandescent: The original Thomas Edison invention, they use 3% of the electricity…
- September 25th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
- September 15th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Pollution in the Charles River
pollution I just read a book called Zodiac by Neal Stephanson and I liked it very much mostly because it takes place in Boston, the rivers and harbor which I know quite well. It made me realize how di…
- August 27th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
I liked Ted Kennedy
even though he caused a great many traffic jams that I got stuck in… “Bostonians like the feeling of being steeped in history,” Ted Kennedy wrote. “They give special deferen…
- August 21st, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Calpine
The best and most plentiful source of power on this planet is geological activity. I have mentioned this belief before particularly when talking about what exactly the oil companies will do when t…
- August 14th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Conflicting results
I got some harsh feedback from the last post, particularly because of the idea that sea levels are not rising. The UN hired some scientists to research levels rising and when they found no positive re…
- July 13th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
“It offends the human ego that nature is indifferent to our dreams”
This post is somewhat dated, I’ve been moving and haven’t had internet. I forget where I heard that quote but if you haven’t guessed it relates to the G8’s “decision̶…
- June 26th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Top 50 Environmental Engineering Blogs
GROG is on this LIST at number 13 as an “Industry Insider” They even wrote a little summery: “GROG: green tech blog The main focus of this blog is Green Technology. Get reviews of…
- June 25th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
LED part two
A while back I wrote a post on how LEDs might suck because my personal experience with them has been bad. Well I’ve done the research and it seems clear that all lighting will eventually be LED…
- June 9th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
What are China’s Priorities?
There is somewhat of a standoff going on between all the countries in the world over this cap and trade emissions idea. Most notably is the US and China as we account for 40% of the world’s ca…
- May 28th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
$467 Million for Solar and Geothermal
Congratulations to the president for making a good decision, he has done some things well and other poorly but this is a good step. For one, these are the two alternative energy sources that have by f…
- May 26th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Managed relocation of endangered wildlife
This is a debate that has become more relevant as more and more people get freaked out about all the species that are being killed indirectly by people. I say why not? If Asian elephants are being poa…
- May 21st, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Bio-Fuels are bad part 3: Ethanol
In addition to causing more green house emissions in the process of creating ethanol from corn and not getting better has mileage, apparently ethanol causes expensive damage to engines, the fuel pump…
- May 20th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
John Adams was a smart man
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the…
- May 15th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Why burning carbon is bad, Chaos Theory and Laws of Thermodynamics
Givens: The Earth is a closed system exposed to radiation. Second law of thermodynamics, about entropy: The total entropy of any isolated thermodynamic system tends to increase over time, approac…
- May 13th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
The future of Exxon-Mobil
What will the giant oil companies of the world do when production declines and what will they do when the black gold runs out entirely? If the Arctic continues it’s recessive trend, the Exxon-Mo…
- May 6th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Top 50 renewable energy users
Some surprising ones like Pepsi, Dell, Whole Foods, Dannon are using 100% renewable energy. This seems like a good business decision strictly in terms of long term business strategy. Imagine the com…
- May 4th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
A short discussion of Cap and Trade
Emissions trading (or emission trading) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. It is sometime…
- May 1st, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Interactive renewable energy map
NRDC Map This is an interesting little tool showing the potential energy of different parts of the US. also more on this later but “Several types of energy resources and specific technologies us…
- April 29th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Multi-directional wind turbines for the home. Vertical Axis Wind Turbine VAWT
Vertical Axis Wind Turbines VAWT. These have been around for a while but no one design or company has really taken off. The most efficient ones are generally shaped like a helix so that it spins no…
- April 28th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
The future of energy storage
What is the best way to store energy in the long run? and by long run I mean after all the fossil fuels have been used up. Batteries It is safe to say that eventually the power we get will originate a…
- April 24th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Solaren and Pacific Gas and Electric take on Space based Solar Power
These two companies are implementing the proven along with some mysterious new technology to make Space based Solar economically feasible. I wrote a post a while ago about this subject and now with…
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Richard Cory
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869-1935 Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him; He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially…
- April 16th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
- April 13th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Diatoms and Solar Nanotechnology
Article HERE Microscopic algae called diatoms could help triple the electrical output of experimental, dye-sensitized solar cells, according to researchers at Oregon State University and Portland Stat…
- April 4th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
The Carbon cycle
Go back two hundred years The carbon cycle has been occurring for four billion years. Plants take carbon from the air and store it in themselves. When the plants die the carbon is either composted o…
- April 3rd, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Who will stop burning coal? Transferring our Carbon footprint to the Third World
Nobody. By most estimates we have used about a third of the coal deposits on the planet. Led by western Europe, industrialized nations are moving towards a sustainable future. Unfortunately this may…
- March 30th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Earth Hour 2009: seeing at night
Here in Los Angeles I couldn’t tell that anyone had turned their lights off but HERE are some great pictures. I would be interested to know if anyone saw the stars?
- March 26th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Only Good Stuff
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Gas Hydrate solid methane
collected from the bottom of the ocean. vast amounts. Why can’t drill for it like we do for oil? Those were the questions I had about the large amount of natural gas trapped mostly on the bott…
- March 24th, 2009
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Mastadonzq has posted a new entry on: Grog the Green Tech Blog
Turtle in commercial fishing net
Turtle in net by Carlos Villoch from Spain I don’t know where this was taken but there are very simple contraptions that can be attached to a fishing net that will filter out the turtles.…
