Turkey farmers growing greenhouse tomatoes have been using this technology since 2005. California is going to get it before the end of this year.

LA-based ClimateMinder now completely owns the Turkish company Kodalfa and it is eager to bring some of its technology to the US. This company’s “new” climate-monitoring and control system helps greenhouse farmers to monitor their crops and adjust the conditions of their greenhouses with wireless technology. This helps farmers and consumers in numerous and significant ways.

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At a power plant at Lacq, energy company Total has upgraded an existing gas-fired boiler with CCS technology – a crucial step towards reducing carbon emissions from fossil-fuel power plants worldwide.

With renewable energy sources a long way from covering the world’s increasing demand for energy, many experts believe that developing reliable technology to allow countries to burn fossil fuels without releasing dangerous amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere is essential to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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At RICOH booth, we saw the demonstration of a new erasable advance paper. Printed document on this advance paper can be erased by ironing and be ready for another round of printing.

I had an opportunity to take the English guided tour at Eco-Products 2008. The Eco-Products exhibition is one of the largest green fairs in Japan, showing all kinds of green products and services to the public. The event draws a large number of visitors. It’s possibly the world’s largest event of its kind. The tenth Eco-Products 2008 exhibition was successful enough to attract 173,917 visitors this year according to the event organizer.

Visitors came from all over the world to see the latest of Japanese green activities. To accommodate such foreign visitors, guided tours in English, Chinese and Korean, were offered for free by volunteer staff from Japan for Sustainability (JFS) and EcoNetworks (ENW). The English guided tours were offered twice during the three-day event, but you needed to register for the tour beforehand at JFS’s website.

Our tour was guided by Frank H. Ling Ph.D. from USA, who works as a researcher for the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. Our group had five visitors including me plus a lead guide, Mr. Ling, with a few more staff for additional assistance.

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Much like Digg, Tip’d is a site that has the advantage of showing up at the right time. The stock market has recently been on a roller coaster ride and the world’s economy has been on the brink of depression for over a month. As you know most speculative behavior is driven by human emotion which tends to spread news like wildfire. In this scenario, Tip’d has found the perfect fit by offering an ideal platform for readers to share their favorite business stories.

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But electronics rarely last as long as a real pet. As faithfully as it might serve you, within a few years it’s time to put that gadget out to pasture. This is your guide to the greenest pastures around.

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Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh are writing a series on the impacts of everyday things. They will be posting previews on Green Options before launching the posts on Huffington Post. Want to know how to green your internet porn (or emailing or iTunes) habit? Check out these tips and a post-mortem of where your computers go to die.

Recently, the world computer population surpassed 1 billion. It’s a legion of artificial intelligence that will never die, at least not while humans are around to see it.

The computer species appears to have a high mortality rate (whether due to the rapid progress of technology or an industry conspiracy to ensure that products must be replaced regularly). They “crash” and “die” in droves, their human counterparts literally kicking them to the curb. But there is no heaven, no place in the clouds, for the cold, hard shell once warmed by electrical currents. Once it has left your desk, your computer doesn’t disappear. In a sense, it lives on.

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]]> http://sustainablog.org/2008/08/05/e-wasted-where-will-your-computer-and-ipod-go-to-die/feed/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/19/cool-tech-of-the-week-cordless-3d-sensor/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/19/cool-tech-of-the-week-cordless-3d-sensor/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:22:12 +0000 Michelle Bennett http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/19/cool-tech-of-the-week-cordless-3d-sensor/ It looks like a child’s toy from the 70s, but this new high-tech camera can record more than a simple Polaroid. It can create a 3D image of almost anything, and you can take it almost anywhere.

Developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena, Germany, the Kolibri CORDLESS is the size of a shoe box and it weighs a little over 2 lbs. No cables required, you just point and click. Several seconds later a detailed 3D image will appear on a laptop. From there you can analyze and use the digital model.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/19/cool-tech-of-the-week-cordless-3d-sensor/feed/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/23/if-we-have-to-kill-people-lets-at-least-do-it-in-an-environmentally-friendly-way/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/23/if-we-have-to-kill-people-lets-at-least-do-it-in-an-environmentally-friendly-way/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:06:14 +0000 Noelle dEstries http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/23/if-we-have-to-kill-people-lets-at-least-do-it-in-an-environmentally-friendly-way/ Holy crap, did you know that your average U.S. soldier in Iraq uses 88 AA bateries during a five day mission!?! The U.S. Military blows through 2.4 million gallons of fuel every day in Iraq and Afghanistan and 2/3 of the stuff soldiers carry in combat is fuel.

All political issues aside, that is a terribly inefficient way to run an army. The military needs to get way more aggressive about embracing renewable energy. Soldiers, missions, and equipment would be more flexible; you would eliminate the need for a lot of convoy driving, which would save lives, equipment, and money; and a whole lotta pollution would be kept from the air.

I’m pragmatic about the world we live in and see the need for our nation to have a strong and kickass military. I have major problems with how it’s been abused by the Bush administration, but that aside- the U.S. Military has gotta be badass.

So why not do it in a way that is smart. Dump a ton of military R&D funds into advancing solar, wind, and thermal energy generation technology. Get advanced solar panels on top of every vehicle, develop panels that can be sewn into uniforms, and build single unit small scale energy power stations that use wind and solar. Consumers will feel the technology overflow love and the whole effort to green up this world will be that much further along.

Swing over to Mother Jones for to read more about the Military’s work to green itself up, also a quick post about how much of an energy hog the military is at the Seattle pi.

Despite agreement from almost all sides that CCS must be made commercial if the world can ever hope to meet its carbon-reduction targets, a full-scale system remains years away, largely because of the costs involved in its development. As a result, many leading power companies have been reluctant to fund CCS individually, arguing that governments should also shoulder some of the financial risks.

The UK government wants to fund a single demonstration plant using post-combustion capture technology and is running a competition to decide which new power station will get the go-ahead. Within the next few weeks, ministers are expected to announce proposals on how to fund further CCS projects in the UK beyond the competition.

But the British government’s procrastination has forced many CCS projects planned in the past decade to be abandoned or moved abroad. These include BP’s plans to build a carbon capture plant at Peterhead and Centrica’s Eston Grange project.

Haszledine also criticised the lack of research effort in the UK, saying just over £6m has been spent on CCS research in the UK in the past decade compared with $2bn to date in Canada, and annual spends of around £40m in Norway and several hundreds of millions of dollars in Australia. New CCS demonstration projects are due to start operating later this year in the United States and Australia.

At Lacq, Total has fitted one of the plant’s 30MW gas-fired boilers with oxyfuel technology, where the fossil fuel is burned in an atmosphere enriched with oxygen. The resulting exhaust gas is then composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide and water vapour, which can be easily separated and stored.

“Total needs to master this new technology,” said Luc de Marliave, climate change coordinator at the energy company. “Oxycombustion had never been tested at this scale in such an integrated CCS scheme.”

Philippe Paelinck of Alstom, the engineeering company that designed and built the CCS equipment at Lacq, said the experiment was an important milestone. “We first proved the feasibility of retrofitting an installation to carbon capture and storage, but also this will be the first demonstration in Europe of CCS with [existing] integrated CO2 pipeline transportation and storage.”

De Marliave said Total chose to test oxyfuel because it could potentially save costs in future. “Our calculations showed that, with oxycombustion in that type of application, you could reduce the cost of capture – which is a large part of the cost of the CCS chain – around two-thirds of the cost roughly. For just capture, existing post combustion technologies would cost you something like 70 euros per tonne of CO2. Oxycombustion could reduce this to 35 euros per tonne.”

Despite that, he said Total was still open to the investigating the other types of CCS technology, both pre- and post- combustion. “We are not set on one technology. We selected oxycombusiton for the pilot but it doesn’t mean that we are not very much interested in post-combustion as well.”

Plans for government-funded CCS demonstration plants across Europe have been moving slowly. The EU wants 12 demonstration plants in operation next decade and has reserved 300m carbon credits from the next stage of the European emissions trading scheme to help fund the technology.

In January, the European Commission proposed earmarking €1.25bn to kickstart carbon capture and storage (CCS) at 11 coal-fired plants across Europe, including four in Britain: the Kingsnorth plant in Kent, Longannet in Fife, Tilbury in Essex and Hatfield in Yorkshire would share €250m under the two-year scheme.

* Written by Alok Jha of the Guardian and published at EcoWorldly via the Guardian Environment Network.

Image credit: pfala via Flickr, under a Creative Commons license.

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Lots o’ links today, enjoy!

• 5 Best Ways to Go Zero-Energy At Home

• Turn Your Whole House Off!

• Why Bugs Are Not Huge

• Study: Dredging Harming Great Lakes

• Robber disguised face with duct tape

• What Happens To Those New Home Winners When The Cameras Shut Off? Well, They Slowly Go Broke And Lose Those New Houses!

• Person to person loans for home buyers

• Some Arithmetic on the Cost of NYC Traffic Congestion
• Cars are the Real Enemy of the Environment

• Vote On the Most Shameful Wikipedia Spin Jobs

• Ask The Sietch: Can My Compost Pile Catch On Fire?

• Every Green Website Needs a Wild Green T-Shirt

• Tap Water: On Its Way To Being Cool Again

• Wisdom trumps science

Despite agreement from almost all sides that CCS must be made commercial if the world can ever hope to meet its carbon-reduction targets, a full-scale system remains years away, largely because of the costs involved in its development. As a result, many leading power companies have been reluctant to fund CCS individually, arguing that governments should also shoulder some of the financial risks.

The UK government wants to fund a single demonstration plant using post-combustion capture technology and is running a competition to decide which new power station will get the go-ahead. Within the next few weeks, ministers are expected to announce proposals on how to fund further CCS projects in the UK beyond the competition.

But the British government’s procrastination has forced many CCS projects planned in the past decade to be abandoned or moved abroad. These include BP’s plans to build a carbon capture plant at Peterhead and Centrica’s Eston Grange project.

Haszledine also criticised the lack of research effort in the UK, saying just over £6m has been spent on CCS research in the UK in the past decade compared with $2bn to date in Canada, and annual spends of around £40m in Norway and several hundreds of millions of dollars in Australia. New CCS demonstration projects are due to start operating later this year in the United States and Australia.

At Lacq, Total has fitted one of the plant’s 30MW gas-fired boilers with oxyfuel technology, where the fossil fuel is burned in an atmosphere enriched with oxygen. The resulting exhaust gas is then composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide and water vapour, which can be easily separated and stored.

“Total needs to master this new technology,” said Luc de Marliave, climate change coordinator at the energy company. “Oxycombustion had never been tested at this scale in such an integrated CCS scheme.”

Philippe Paelinck of Alstom, the engineeering company that designed and built the CCS equipment at Lacq, said the experiment was an important milestone. “We first proved the feasibility of retrofitting an installation to carbon capture and storage, but also this will be the first demonstration in Europe of CCS with [existing] integrated CO2 pipeline transportation and storage.”

De Marliave said Total chose to test oxyfuel because it could potentially save costs in future. “Our calculations showed that, with oxycombustion in that type of application, you could reduce the cost of capture – which is a large part of the cost of the CCS chain – around two-thirds of the cost roughly. For just capture, existing post combustion technologies would cost you something like 70 euros per tonne of CO2. Oxycombustion could reduce this to 35 euros per tonne.”

Despite that, he said Total was still open to the investigating the other types of CCS technology, both pre- and post- combustion. “We are not set on one technology. We selected oxycombusiton for the pilot but it doesn’t mean that we are not very much interested in post-combustion as well.”

Plans for government-funded CCS demonstration plants across Europe have been moving slowly. The EU wants 12 demonstration plants in operation next decade and has reserved 300m carbon credits from the next stage of the European emissions trading scheme to help fund the technology.

In January, the European Commission proposed earmarking €1.25bn to kickstart carbon capture and storage (CCS) at 11 coal-fired plants across Europe, including four in Britain: the Kingsnorth plant in Kent, Longannet in Fife, Tilbury in Essex and Hatfield in Yorkshire would share €250m under the two-year scheme.

* Written by Alok Jha of the Guardian and published at EcoWorldly via the Guardian Environment Network.

Image credit: pfala via Flickr, under a Creative Commons license.

]]> http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/15/wednesday-linkdump-compost-fires-the-coolness-of-tap-water-the-five-best-ways-to-go-net-zero-and-more/feed/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/15/how-do-you-know-att-is-involved-with-the-iphone-how-about-the-500-page-double-sided-phone-bills/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/15/how-do-you-know-att-is-involved-with-the-iphone-how-about-the-500-page-double-sided-phone-bills/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:03:53 +0000 Noelle dEstries http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/15/how-do-you-know-att-is-involved-with-the-iphone-how-about-the-500-page-double-sided-phone-bills/ At least they are printing on both sides of the page, right?

Who is the mental giant who is responsible for this?

[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=UdULhkh6yeA]

I finally got my first bill from AT&T in a cardboard box containing 300 pages of it. Apparently, they give you a detailed transaction of every text message sent and received. Completely unnecessary.

I weep for the trees lost due to this stupidity.

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I’m putting this on my Christmas Wish List.Via Ecofriend via Coolest Gadgets, a crank powered MP3 Player ($340) that gives you 40 minutes of listening time for every minute cranked…

The inventor of the Free Play Wind up radio, Travor Baylis is back again and this time with a much better earth-friendly gadget. The device known as the Eco Media Player requires you to wind it up to play music, watch videos, listen to radio, view photo albums and even read eBooks and all that will not require you to pay for electricity.

The player supports media and data of all types on its 2GB internal memory or via SD cards. The media player is so robust that it does not require you to sync it with a computer as when connected to a PC or a Mac it’s seen as an external drive which allows for easy “drag and drop” of all media files.

The device can also function as its own record and tape ripper to capture a large record collection into portable MP3s, it also comes with a microphone for recording voice memos. Another great feature of this device is that it can also act as a cellphone charger.

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]]> http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/13/must-have-for-the-tunes-loving-greenie-crank-powered-mp3-player/feed/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/09/green-design-smart-design-green-design-pollution-eating-cement/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/09/green-design-smart-design-green-design-pollution-eating-cement/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:06:39 +0000 Noelle dEstries http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/09/green-design-smart-design-green-design-pollution-eating-cement/ Via Got2BeGreen…

Many big metropolitan cities suffer from ugly smog and thick layers of pollution that can leave many with health issues like asthma or allergies. Fortunately a team of Italian inventors have found a solution for this increasing problem, pollution-eating cement.

Western Europe has already started to use the new cement called TX Active in building and streets. The town of Segrete in Northern Italy has repaved a street that sustains 1,000 cars per hour. Italcementi says it has measured 60 percent reduction in nitric oxide on that particular street.

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]]> http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/09/green-design-smart-design-green-design-pollution-eating-cement/feed/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/27/happy-sysadmin-appreciation-day-to-noel/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/27/happy-sysadmin-appreciation-day-to-noel/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:12:05 +0000 Noelle dEstries http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/27/happy-sysadmin-appreciation-day-to-noel/ Hug your Sysadmin today for it’s System Administrator Appreciation Day.

Our designer/sysadmin Noel kicks much ass and everyone at Planetsave and Green Options appreciates all the hard work he does having to deal with us non-coder types who sometimes break things when we shouldn’t.

Despite agreement from almost all sides that CCS must be made commercial if the world can ever hope to meet its carbon-reduction targets, a full-scale system remains years away, largely because of the costs involved in its development. As a result, many leading power companies have been reluctant to fund CCS individually, arguing that governments should also shoulder some of the financial risks.

The UK government wants to fund a single demonstration plant using post-combustion capture technology and is running a competition to decide which new power station will get the go-ahead. Within the next few weeks, ministers are expected to announce proposals on how to fund further CCS projects in the UK beyond the competition.

But the British government’s procrastination has forced many CCS projects planned in the past decade to be abandoned or moved abroad. These include BP’s plans to build a carbon capture plant at Peterhead and Centrica’s Eston Grange project.

Haszledine also criticised the lack of research effort in the UK, saying just over £6m has been spent on CCS research in the UK in the past decade compared with $2bn to date in Canada, and annual spends of around £40m in Norway and several hundreds of millions of dollars in Australia. New CCS demonstration projects are due to start operating later this year in the United States and Australia.

At Lacq, Total has fitted one of the plant’s 30MW gas-fired boilers with oxyfuel technology, where the fossil fuel is burned in an atmosphere enriched with oxygen. The resulting exhaust gas is then composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide and water vapour, which can be easily separated and stored.

“Total needs to master this new technology,” said Luc de Marliave, climate change coordinator at the energy company. “Oxycombustion had never been tested at this scale in such an integrated CCS scheme.”

Philippe Paelinck of Alstom, the engineeering company that designed and built the CCS equipment at Lacq, said the experiment was an important milestone. “We first proved the feasibility of retrofitting an installation to carbon capture and storage, but also this will be the first demonstration in Europe of CCS with [existing] integrated CO2 pipeline transportation and storage.”

De Marliave said Total chose to test oxyfuel because it could potentially save costs in future. “Our calculations showed that, with oxycombustion in that type of application, you could reduce the cost of capture – which is a large part of the cost of the CCS chain – around two-thirds of the cost roughly. For just capture, existing post combustion technologies would cost you something like 70 euros per tonne of CO2. Oxycombustion could reduce this to 35 euros per tonne.”

Despite that, he said Total was still open to the investigating the other types of CCS technology, both pre- and post- combustion. “We are not set on one technology. We selected oxycombusiton for the pilot but it doesn’t mean that we are not very much interested in post-combustion as well.”

Plans for government-funded CCS demonstration plants across Europe have been moving slowly. The EU wants 12 demonstration plants in operation next decade and has reserved 300m carbon credits from the next stage of the European emissions trading scheme to help fund the technology.

In January, the European Commission proposed earmarking €1.25bn to kickstart carbon capture and storage (CCS) at 11 coal-fired plants across Europe, including four in Britain: the Kingsnorth plant in Kent, Longannet in Fife, Tilbury in Essex and Hatfield in Yorkshire would share €250m under the two-year scheme.

* Written by Alok Jha of the Guardian and published at EcoWorldly via the Guardian Environment Network.

Image credit: pfala via Flickr, under a Creative Commons license.

]]> http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/27/happy-sysadmin-appreciation-day-to-noel/feed/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/18/earth2tech-poaches-a-red-herring/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/18/earth2tech-poaches-a-red-herring/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:10:54 +0000 Noelle dEstries http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/18/earth2tech-poaches-a-red-herring/ I found this slightly juicy green news item over at Valleywag the other day. GigaOm, the well regarded tech blog, just introduced a new green tech site Earth2Tech. Om Malik, the founder and big cheese at GigaOm hired Adena DeMonte away from struggling tech mag Red Herring to run the site. I guess Om has poached a few other Red Herring writers (he used to write for them back in their golden days) and RH Editor Joel Dreyfuss is not happy about it.

You haven’t really made it in Silicon Valley until Valleywag casts their snarkish glare at you, so congrats to Adena and the crew over at Earth2Tech. Welcome to the Green Blogosphere! If you haven’t checked out Earth2Tech yet make sure to give a click over. Every green tech geek should have it in the ol’ RSS subscribe list.

[Valleywag]

Despite agreement from almost all sides that CCS must be made commercial if the world can ever hope to meet its carbon-reduction targets, a full-scale system remains years away, largely because of the costs involved in its development. As a result, many leading power companies have been reluctant to fund CCS individually, arguing that governments should also shoulder some of the financial risks.

The UK government wants to fund a single demonstration plant using post-combustion capture technology and is running a competition to decide which new power station will get the go-ahead. Within the next few weeks, ministers are expected to announce proposals on how to fund further CCS projects in the UK beyond the competition.

But the British government’s procrastination has forced many CCS projects planned in the past decade to be abandoned or moved abroad. These include BP’s plans to build a carbon capture plant at Peterhead and Centrica’s Eston Grange project.

Haszledine also criticised the lack of research effort in the UK, saying just over £6m has been spent on CCS research in the UK in the past decade compared with $2bn to date in Canada, and annual spends of around £40m in Norway and several hundreds of millions of dollars in Australia. New CCS demonstration projects are due to start operating later this year in the United States and Australia.

At Lacq, Total has fitted one of the plant’s 30MW gas-fired boilers with oxyfuel technology, where the fossil fuel is burned in an atmosphere enriched with oxygen. The resulting exhaust gas is then composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide and water vapour, which can be easily separated and stored.

“Total needs to master this new technology,” said Luc de Marliave, climate change coordinator at the energy company. “Oxycombustion had never been tested at this scale in such an integrated CCS scheme.”

Philippe Paelinck of Alstom, the engineeering company that designed and built the CCS equipment at Lacq, said the experiment was an important milestone. “We first proved the feasibility of retrofitting an installation to carbon capture and storage, but also this will be the first demonstration in Europe of CCS with [existing] integrated CO2 pipeline transportation and storage.”

De Marliave said Total chose to test oxyfuel because it could potentially save costs in future. “Our calculations showed that, with oxycombustion in that type of application, you could reduce the cost of capture – which is a large part of the cost of the CCS chain – around two-thirds of the cost roughly. For just capture, existing post combustion technologies would cost you something like 70 euros per tonne of CO2. Oxycombustion could reduce this to 35 euros per tonne.”

Despite that, he said Total was still open to the investigating the other types of CCS technology, both pre- and post- combustion. “We are not set on one technology. We selected oxycombusiton for the pilot but it doesn’t mean that we are not very much interested in post-combustion as well.”

Plans for government-funded CCS demonstration plants across Europe have been moving slowly. The EU wants 12 demonstration plants in operation next decade and has reserved 300m carbon credits from the next stage of the European emissions trading scheme to help fund the technology.

In January, the European Commission proposed earmarking €1.25bn to kickstart carbon capture and storage (CCS) at 11 coal-fired plants across Europe, including four in Britain: the Kingsnorth plant in Kent, Longannet in Fife, Tilbury in Essex and Hatfield in Yorkshire would share €250m under the two-year scheme.

* Written by Alok Jha of the Guardian and published at EcoWorldly via the Guardian Environment Network.

Image credit: pfala via Flickr, under a Creative Commons license.

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