Telsa Motors makes the fastest hybrid “sports” car. Twice as efficient as a Prius and matches speed in comparison to a Porsche. Elon Musk, the founder of the company, named the car company after Nikola Tesla, an inventor.
We highlight this car company by mentioning its location in downtown Washington DC. You can tour the Telsa Store and experience the Tesla Roadster in Person. How cool is that!
The attached video is courtesy of PBS. Here the interviewer asks Musk a couple of questions ranging from selling his on-line company to Paypal back in the early days of the internet to his current investment in space.
Tags: Downtown Washington DC, Telsa Motors
This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at 10:55 pm and is filed under Green Technology, green products. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Telsa Motors in Washington DC
Earth day is near, what have you heard lately?
Every one makes the effort to encourage and promote eco-friendly consciousness or awareness, proving there are variety of benefits that steam from energy consumption to sustainable nourishment. Consistently, newer technology points to different aspects to sustainable environment. In other instances, energy efficient technology is the in-coming wave to business investments and other living endeavors. So to that effect we thought about highlighting some cool eco-friendly features in recognition of Earth day.
Young kid singled-handedly take on Climate Change:
Alec Loorz, a young teenager was inspired by an earth awakening documentary that caused him to embark on a mission to educate people about the concerns of climate change. Not until his bold endeavors did he gain more attention. Loorz became the youngest to be featured at The Climate Project. Then he initiated a his company (Kids vs Global Warming) to connect with youth to continue educating about climate change. Today you see many more people inspired by his achievements.That is youth grass-root foundation at its best.
Mobile App navigation for electric car charge stations:
While we have a growing list of electric cars soon to debut, I am sure many of us would eventually be looking to either sign up to the waiting list or perhaps walk in to purchase/lease an electric car. So while those who are already in line to soon own one, can be one thing less worried about for finding the closest charging station. Xatori developed an app – PlugShare, which will serve as the information resource for electric car owners to buy or share electric outlets. Though this could be also done by simple internet search, the difference is that this app provides electric car owners with comprehensive list of charging stations along with homes or locations that are part of the program that offer the different options of electric charging services. In turn plug-in electric vehicle stations would develop network association which is gladly welcomed.
Plastic bag ban in U.S cities:
You may have heard that Italy, Mexico or some cities in Canada ban the use of plastic bags. Well the momentum is running its course within the United States. Oregon or Washington state is set to be the first to adopt a statewide plastic ban. Their effort seems to be the most compelling attempt than some states that initiated imposed taxing on plastic bag purchases.Eventually other cities, then further to states would adopt the same policy to ban plastic bag usage. It already seems to be collectively endorsed by grocery stores and restaurants.This poses to be a more effective approach for us to unlearn the use of plastic bags to impact our behavior.
The push for clean energy – first up, solar maybe?
Recent interest and investments on solar technology has been on the rise. Several cities and states like Arizona, New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey among others have engaged in different solar panel acquisition doubling the national interest from previous year. These moves have offered projections that will reduce the cost of solar. At it seems, the outlook will continue closing in as the solar market expands. There are options that are already established such as solar lease or solar renewable energy credits (S-Recs) that are available to many states. Sobuka is proud to be in association to provide affordable renewable energy services to your business or homes*. Wind energy is not far behind; Google and Warren Buffet (MidAmerican) heavily invested in wind farm development along with large sums of government grants towards wind energy expansion.The result to this is clean energy – green jobs. So the push for clean energy is shifted on the next gear. Now it is time for people and communities to embrace it and create more popularity as solar energy.
Shipping containers: The new housing design concept
Just when you get wowed by beautiful building designs, more innovative concepts keep rolling out. Recycled shipping containers are gaining more attention to build for homes and businesses. Though this is not a new housing concept,some of the latest models are more appealing to small businesses; in fact it is a good incentive to quickly set-up an establishment. You could buy a shipping container from ebay, apply your architectural design, subscribe to a renewable energy supplier, then your smart business comes to life.These shipping containers are cheap (with respect to conventional housing construction), conducive and more reliable in security. It is certainly a welcoming element for commercialized trailers – especially for fast food joints such as this.
People with opportune landscapes should be thinking to explore a shipping container business/housing structure. Reading through businesses that own shipping container models in places as North Carolina or Austin,Texas,they enjoy the benefits of self-advertisement as their unique design draws more crowds. This counts as one of the coolest eco-friendly features in our recent technology.
These are among the few highlights worth of mentioning based on eco-living ventures. As we look to celebrate and share experiences about the frills of the environment, we stand to encourage and promote the notion that eco-living is smart living. So invest in any relative energy efficient resource.
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Tags: clean energy generation, Clean Energy Investments, climate change, Earth Day, electric cars, plastic bag ban, renewable energy investments, Wind Energy, wind farms, Wind RECs providers, wind services
This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at 6:03 pm and is filed under Environment, Featured Content, Green Events, Green Technology, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, green products. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Another reason to believe in wind power
Another bold move to contribute in green strides recently occurred. These types of recognition is always encouraging to have because there is only so much engagement and infrastructure that are developed to increase energy efficient consciousness to more communities. This is reports about Warren Buffert – who is considered one of America’s brilliant investor, recently invested in a lot of wind power project making his company #1 in wind power ownership. This amount of possession increases wind energy technology and businesses that will lead to more alternative energy subscribers.
In addition, this project counts another wind farm development like that of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Wind energy industry continues to expand as more interested parties like Google buy into this aspect of developing clean energy. To this effect, wind power is going to be a major factor to producing clean energy into the nation’s power grid thus garnering more bureaucratic and private attention.
Though some may think that this move could be based on mere investment rather than an environmental interest. But, be that as it may, the end result will not only encourage more investors and this particular market, it will pose to gain more commercial and residential customers. Eventually other energy efficient resources could enter this market to this movement a national success.
The company – MidAmerican plans to install significant numbers of wind turbines that would generate about 3000 megawatts of clean energy this year, with more to come. That is quite a catalyst for clean energy generation services. Similar to MidAmerican, companies like Clean Currents* provide renewable energy to either businesses or residents at affordable prices. Their efforts benefit the community by providing a more affordable energy resource and also contribute to using natural sustainable energy.
So this, in a matter of doubt is proof that renewable energy is the technology that is paired with today’s technology worth every penny for investing. Producing energy that is competitive to the fossil fuel market is something worth buying into. Sooner than later, a large percentage would be subscribers to these types of “preferred reserves”.
sobuka is proud to be of service to assist in converting to clean energy supply. The easy steps starts here.
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Tags: clean energy generation, Clean Energy Investments, renewable energy investments, Wind Energy, wind farms, Wind RECs providers, wind services
This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 at 2:04 pm and is filed under Featured Content, Green Business, Green Technology, Wind Energy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Meet Sobuka @ the National Network (NNCMW) Forum
Meet Sobuka @ the National Network (NNCMW) Forum:This event is part of The National Network (NNCMW) Chapter Meeting & “Community Transition Center.” This is a strategic Planning Forum.The facilitator: Pastor Fayrene T. Koroma, M. Div.
Guest Speaker: Mr. Nathaiel Tutt – Office of the County ExecutiveCome see what businesses are doing inside our community!
Magic Hat: a brewery that runs on beer
If you’re like most folks at happy hour, you probably never think about what it took to make that beer in your hand… some could care less about the quantity they consume, but that’s another topic… anyway, did you know that one of the best breweries out there is running its operations on beer? No, they’re not getting drunk off their own supply, instead they’re running their facility by turning their excess beer and other organic waste into natural gas.
A typical brewery produces plenty of organic waste during the brewing process by using large quantities of hops, barley, yeast, etc.. Some of the spent grain is usually sold or given away to farmers as cattle feed, and some of it may end up as wastewater in the watershed, after being treated on site. But thanks to Purpose Energy‘s biphase orbicular bioreactor (or B.O.B.), the brewery’s organic waste can be turned into biogas, which can then be used to power the facility.
The man behind Purpose Energy and B.O.B. is Eric Fitch, a 37 year-old mechanical engineer by training, and home brewing extraordinaire (he once clogged up the pipes of his Cambridge, MA, apartment building when he dumped the oatmeal looking organic waste from his brew into his garbage dispenser). Fitch initially tested out his invention by taking away the waste from Yuengling’s brewery in Tampla, FL, to a local farm, where he dumped it into a 400-gallon methane digester. With his refined B.O.B, he went back to New England to approach several breweries for a pilot project, and Magic Hat agreed.
Magic Hat’s 42-foot tall silo structure is what houses Purpose Energy’s B.O.B. system. The B.O.B. has a 50-foot diameter, can hold 490,000 gallons of waste slurry, and produces about 200 cubic feet of biogas per minute to power the brewery’s operations. The whole thing cost about $4 million to build, and just 100 feet away from the main Magic Hat facility, it’s like having your own power plant in your backyard. The system can save up to $2 per barrel of beer, and with Magic Hat’s medium-sized operations delivering 154,000 barrels of beer per year, they save approximately $25,000 every month!
Like its company slogan says, Purpose Energy is “saving the earth, one beer at a time.” And we say cheers to that! (via boston.com, treehugger.com)
Tags: biogas, green brewery, Magic Hat, Purpose Energy
This entry was posted on Friday, March 11th, 2011 at 6:04 pm and is filed under Featured Content, Green Business, biofuels. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Magic Hat: a brewery that runs on beer
If you’re like most folks at happy hour, you probably never think about what it took to make that beer in your hand… some could care less about the quantity they consume, but that’s another topic… anyway, did you know that one of the best breweries out there is running its operations on beer? No, they’re not getting drunk off their own supply, instead they’re running their facility by turning their excess beer and other organic waste into natural gas.
A typical brewery produces plenty of organic waste during the brewing process by using large quantities of hops, barley, yeast, etc.. Some of the spent grain is usually sold or given away to farmers as cattle feed, and some of it may end up as wastewater in the watershed, after being treated on site. But thanks to Purpose Energy‘s biphase orbicular bioreactor (or B.O.B.), the brewery’s organic waste can be turned into biogas, which can then be used to power the facility.
The man behind Purpose Energy and B.O.B. is Eric Fitch, a 37 year-old mechanical engineer by training, and home brewing extraordinaire (he once clogged up the pipes of his Cambridge, MA, apartment building when he dumped the oatmeal looking organic waste from his brew into his garbage dispenser). Fitch initially tested out his invention by taking away the waste from Yuengling’s brewery in Tampla, FL, to a local farm, where he dumped it into a 400-gallon methane digester. With his refined B.O.B, he went back to New England to approach several breweries for a pilot project, and Magic Hat agreed.
Magic Hat’s 42-foot tall silo structure is what houses Purpose Energy’s B.O.B. system. The B.O.B. has a 50-foot diameter, can hold 490,000 gallons of waste slurry, and produces about 200 cubic feet of biogas per minute to power the brewery’s operations. The whole thing cost about $4 million to build, and just 100 feet away from the main Magic Hat facility, it’s like having your own power plant in your backyard. The system can save up to $2 per barrel of beer, and with Magic Hat’s medium-sized operations delivering 154,000 barrels of beer per year, they save approximately $25,000 every month!
Like its company slogan says, Purpose Energy is “saving the earth, one beer at a time.” And we say cheers to that! (via boston.com, treehugger.com)
Tags: biogas, green brewery, Magic Hat, Purpose Energy
This entry was posted on Friday, March 11th, 2011 at 6:04 pm and is filed under Featured Content, Green Business, biofuels. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
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