So you say you want to measure the temperature and humidity in each room of your house to help you understand why your heating and cooling system is not making you as comfortable as you expected. Well. A mortgage payment later and a week fraught with frustrating Internet expeditions and we have Nirvana. Temperature and … Read More “Internet of Things…Lots of Things!” »
Can we use the Oceans to power our City’s? Or power a floating Data Center? Lets begin with a floating Data Center. Is this a picture of Google’s latest floating Data Center. Originally from : http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57609509-93/san-franciscos-bay-barge-mystery-floating-data-center-or-google-glass-store/ San Francisco’s bay barge mystery: Floating data center or Google Glass store? After CNET reported Google may be building … Read More “Can we use the Oceans to power our City’s? Or power a floating Data Center?” »
Oceanlinx launches world’s first 1MW wave energy machine in S.A. By Giles Parkinson on 25 October 2013 Australian wave energy company Oceanlinx on Friday formally launched what it claims to be the first 1MW wave-energy-to-electricity unit in Port MacDonnell, South Australia. The machine – the first commercial scale unit launched by the company – will … Read More “Can We power the world with wave energy?” »
New Jersey SREC Prices Make New Highs – October 2013 Solar Capacity Update Posted on October 22, 2013 by Michael Flett Prices for New Jersey solar renewable energy certificates (SRECs) have risen in the past few months. On October 4th the 2014 energy year SRECs settled at $149.63 on the Flett Exchange Trading Platform. This … Read More “New Jersey SREC Prices on upswing.” »
How vulnerable is our National Electric Infrastructure? The Grid. This was the topic of a live presentation hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Organization on August 8,2013 in Washington DC. The title of the presentation was “Protecting the Electric Grid from Cyber Hacking’ and included a Who’s Who of participants including: General Hayden – Former NSA … Read More “Hacking the GRID” »
One of the buzzwords making its way around the Renewable Energy space today is something called the Smart Grid. The Smart Grid is the next generation of the way we distribute electricity from the supplier to the consumer. The Grid being the electrical distribution network. Think of the way electricity is distributed today. An electrical … Read More “Smart Grid” »
When I visit Atlantic City, New Jersey I always stay at the Borgata Casino or Harrah’s Casino on the Bay. Why you might ask? Becasue I always request a room facing what I call the Windmill’s of AC or more appropriately the Wind Turbines of Atlantic City Electric. From the floor to ceiling windows at … Read More “AC, DC, IC.” »
I just finished reading the June issue of the Green Media Magazine entitled the “Power of Sustainable Design”. In this issue the Green Builders Staff layed out some very interesting examples of what they titled “Life Altering Design” and it got me thinking. What follows is
