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The Sun In Your Basement

Sun Cat­alytix’ water split­ting tech­nol­ogy to gen­er­ate Hydro­gen as a medium to stor­age energy sounds like a nice way to drive a fuel cell. Maybe a fuel cell like the much hyped Bloom Box. Based on research done at MIT they say they have a new way to split water into its com­po­nents (Oxy­gen and […]

Hype In Green Land

In Feb­ru­ary 2010 a Sil­i­con Val­ley com­pany named Bloom Energy touted a new rev­o­lu­tion­ary prod­uct that will change the energy future for­ever, or some­thing to that degree. They gave a press con­fer­ence lin­ing up celebri­ties like Google’s Larry Page, for­mer Sec­re­tary of State Colin Pow­ell, Cal­i­for­nia Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger, and high rank­ing exec­u­tives from Ebay, […]

12 Principles Of Green Engineering

In 2003 sci­en­tists pro­posed ideas for green engi­neer­ing. Based on work done to artic­u­late prin­ci­ples for green chem­istry, Anas­tas and Zim­mer­mann devel­oped prin­ci­ples for “Green Engi­neer­ing”. I do like the prag­matic approach inher­ent in these prin­ci­ples. I think it is worth to look at these prin­ci­ples: 12 Prici­ples For Green Engi­neer­ing: Inher­ent Rather Than Circumstantial […]

Walmart’s Impact (2)

Ear­lier I was look­ing at a ques­tion­naire sent to all of Walmart’s sup­pli­ers. This was their first step. Their sec­ond step – and the real beef in Walmart’s sus­tain­abil­ity ini­tia­tive — lies in its “Sus­tain­abil­ity Index”, a marker that should give con­sumers a clue about how green a prod­uct is (or sup­posed to be). To get […]

Lean Means Sustainability

It hap­pened in the early 1990ies in a small Euro­pean coun­try in a small val­ley sur­rounded by the Alps. The exec­u­tive of the small brew­ery raised his glass of freshly malted beer for a toast: “ We’ve accom­plished to save a bunch of money by help­ing to save our envi­ron­ment. We make more with less, […]