Iceland's energy mix has the highest share of renewables of any country, giving it the lowest emissions intensity of any developed nation that doesn't use nuclear power. And Reykjavik Energy plays a very important role in this. "In a nutshell, Reykjavik Energy provides electricity, geothermal water for heating, and cold water for consumption to its customers," says Eirikur Hjalmarsson, CPO - Management Committee. "We also harness hot water from geothermal fields within Reykjavík itself and distribute it to our customers."

Reykjavik Energy, he says, operates geothermal plants at Hellisheiði and Nesjavellir, where it heats groundwater and distributes it to the district heating; it also produces electricity by using geothermal, high-pressure steam at those same plants.

Maybe we should follow their lead.

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The Voglreiter Auto Residence is an unusual car-shaped house located near Salzburg, Austria. This unique dwelling has been created by designer Markus Voglreiter, who initially purchased a 70's style house but wanted it to look different than all other houses in the area.

Even with the unique layout, every modern efficiency and sustainability technology has been incorporated into the design.

Every day it seems that science fiction from my childhood becomes more of an everyday reality. Now a company called Shimizu Corporation is vetting the idea of putting a ring of solar panels around the entire 68,000 mile lunar equator.

Sunlight would be converted into electricity by the solar panels, which would be transmitted via cables to facilities closest to the earth where it will be converted into microwaves or laser power in order to be transmitted to the earth.

This company dreams big! If you would like to see more of their ideas, follow the related link below.

Glenn Old tops up with water


"We have developed our HHO generator with safety first, designing a unit that produces enough hydrogen to safely gain up to 60 per cent increase in fuel economy and up to 30 per cent reduction in carbon emissions," Mr Old said.

"We have gained national display rights to our product. Our purpose is to reduce the public dependency on foreign oil and we believe on a large scale with our device we will be able to remove smog from our capital cities within five years.

Our unique patented device simply converts water from H2O into a gas called HHO, this gas is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Thus turning any vehicle into a water/petrol or water/diesel hybrid.

Although this technology has been available for some time, its new application hasn't. This gas is then fed into any current engine, petrol or diesel. The gas mixes with the current fuel and increases the flame burn rate and reduces GHGE.

During testing at a government-approved air care facility in Vancouver, Canada, a reduction of 51.5 per cent of emissions was achieved on a 5.9 litre Cummins turbo diesel engine.

One of the best features of our product is that the gas is produced on demand, so there are no storage requirements of hydrogen. You start your vehicle it produces the gas, turn the vehicle off (and) production ceases."

This product should cost under $1000 and became available May 30, 2010. Follow the related link below for more information. Please note that while this makes sense to me, I have not reviewed it in detail and am not in any way endorsing this product. Proceed at your own expense.

First, let me remind everyone that I personally own this server, in fact some of the hardware is actually at my house. I am posting this entry as an individual who happens to know a lot about the measure and how it was formed.

MDUSD is asking voters to continue measure C, not to create a new measure. The update will include new projects as has been stated, however, totals posted in the paper are sums of the existing & the new collectively. MDUSD is not about to turn $348MM into 1.8b of debt as the paper implies. The 1.8b is the total of the previous measure and the new measure combined. It seems convenient for the papers to sensationalize the numbers by skipping certain details. They are technically correct because it is all together Measure C, but they neglect to clarify it is the sum total.

Another thing, if PG&E rates only increase 3.3% a year for the next 40 years, the solar portion of the bond will save $198MM above the investment cost vs paying PG&E. As you know, PG&E almost always goes up by 5.5% or more. This year it went up closer to 6.5%. If PG&E rates increase by 5.5% a year for the next 40 years, solar will save $329MM.

As the MDUSD is trying to get $346MM, the return on the solar would almost pay for the principle of the bond and the difference would be the $17MM and interest on the whole amount. This is pretty good use of our money. The MDUSD is a necessary entity that we will have to support anyway, this measure takes a big bite out of our burden as tax payers.

An added benefit is the immediate injection of funds to the district general fund through the solar incentives. This money will act like a booster shot to help preserve jobs and services. Although there is no guarantee. What we do know is, without it, the cuts will continue and get deeper than with the funds.

This measure will not increase our payments as tax payers, it simply adds to the duration of the original measure. Please consider these points when you cast your vote. And please, vote.