TerraBlog from TerraPass (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Stimulus funds, consumer backlash, and intelligent thermostats by Adam Stein Lotsa smart grid news these days: Barack Obama announced $3.4 billion in stimulus funding for smart grid projects. A good chunk of that goes to smart meter deployment and demand response programs. Another huge chunk goes to grid modernization. $3.4 billion isn’t that much in the scheme of things, but cash-for-clunkers...
Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Michael Giberson A week or so ago I posted, “Smart meter benefits mostly going to utilities so far,” riffing off a Forbes.com story, “Smart Meters: Not So Sharp For Consumers.” Today, Tyler Hamilton suggests in a post about smart meters that it is a good idea to focus on the utility benefits of smart meters at [...]
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Re-live the electricity and excitement of CrossVegas with video interviews from the stars of the men's and women's fields. US national champion Ryan Trebon, US national champion Katie Compton, Todd Wells, Georgia Gould, Bram De Groot and Kelli Emmett share their thoughts about the racing action and the season ahead. Additionally, Cyclingnews spoke to Tyler Hamilton who was taking in his first CrossVegas...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
On Friday, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) withrew its appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for Tyler Hamilton. In June, Hamilton had accepted an eight-year suspension as punishment for what was his second doping positive offense. "Following receipt of the background information that was not available to WADA when the appeal was launched, WADA has determined that the eight-year sanction...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has withdrawn its appeal of the eight-year suspension of former Rock Racing rider Tyler Hamilton. Hamilton tested positive for testosterone or its precursors in February. He later acknowledged the positive test, declined to ask for further confirmation of the result and announced publicly that he had taken DHEA as self-medication for depression. Since the case involved...
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
Top notch cycling returns to the Greenville area this coming weekend with the Greenville Hospital System US Pro time trial and road cycling championships. Last year's time trial champion David Zabriskie is once again on hand to try to take his fourth straight national time trial championship, while he and the rest of his Garmin teammates will hope to take home the Stars & Stripes in the road race...
The Nuclear Green Revolution (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
A true nuclear hedgehog believes, contrary to conventional thinking, that there is an energy silver bullet. That bullet is one or more forms of nuclear technology. Rod Adams and I both believe that small reactors are essential to the nuclear fix. As Tyler Hamilton notede about a mini-reactor design: Efficient. Flexible. Safer. Transportable. Scalable. Swappable. In the world of nuclear energy, small...
The Nuclear Green Revolution (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα ("The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"). - Archilochus (c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC) The philosopher Isaiah Berlin divided thinkers into two categories , Foxes who know many little tricks,...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
John and I have covered Air Conditioning With Ice Energy - Climate Saving Can Be Cool "> Ice Bear units before. It is one of those simple, elegant ideas: Instead of using peak daytime (and often more expensive) electricity to cool your home or office during the day, use your air conditioner to make ice at night (it is cheaper and cooler) and use it during the day. Now Canada's Mountain Equipment...
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
Tyler Farrar's victory yesterday in the Vattenfall Cyclassics Classic could use a little historical perspective. For all our country's impact on the Tour de France and the odd other stage race, American one-day wins are pretty hard to come by. Using the "major races" (Pro Tour, etc), here's a list: Greg LeMond, 1983 World Championship Greg LeMond, 1989 World Championship Lance Armstrong,...
Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
TreeHugger has a post in last week's bout of publicity for EEstor - Super Secretive Supercapacitor CEO Tells All in Leaked Phone Call . In what appears to be a huge leak, the notoriously secretive Dick Weir of Eestor did a phone call with someone that got out, copied, transcribed and put up on TheEEStory.com. We have been losing hope that the eeStor ultracap would ever arrive, but it appears that a...
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
It is becoming an exhausting exercise to have to read quote after quote from accused cheaters in cycling about how they are innocent and can't imagine how they possibly tested positive. From Danilo Di Luca t0 Mikel Astarloza to Michael Rasmussen to Tyler Hamilton to Alexander Vinokorouv to Floyd Landis to Stefan Schumacher to Alejandro Valverde to many others, it is obvious that there are few cyclists...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
That's the headline at Knowledge Problem. I usually visit them for substantive blogging on electricity transmission* but this post tickled my funnybone: Have you ever hopped into your car heading out of town, and thirty minutes down the road you wonder, “Did I remember to adjust the thermostat'” There will soon be an app for that, at least if you have Ecobee ’s thermostat and an iPhone....
advanced nanotechnology (Free subscription) | 31/07/2009
Power pistons: General Fusion's reactor is a metal sphere with 220 pneumatic pistons designed to ram its surface simultaneously. The ramming creates an acoustic wave that travels through a lead-lithium liquid and eventually accelerates toward the center into a shock wave. The shock wave compresses a plasma target, called a spheromak, to trigger a fusion burst. The thermal energy is extracted with a...
The Nuclear Green Revolution (Free subscription) | 25/07/2009
Talk about recycling titles. Head EEStor honcho, Dick Wier reappeared in one of his telephone interviews last week, The Interview got recorded, and was posted on the Internet for a while. Transcripts of the interview exist. Tyler Hamilton did a story on it. Tyler's story includes a transcript. Will, one of Tyler's readers commented: Honestly, this interview drops my confidence…significantly....
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