http://www.greenmomentum.com GreenMomentum, cleantech for Latin America http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=6123 i calculated that this is roughly 500 times off. pls advise if i get anything wrong here http://renewables-usa.blogspot.com/2010/07/that-bill-is-not-being-payed-for-ten.html Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:24:26 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=6123 2010-07-23T17:24:26Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=105 Sin invernaderos adecuados y de gran dimencion es imposible realizar estos trabajos. Si hemos realizado prototipos de invernaderos que pueden alcanzar dimenciones correctas para absorber el humo y CO2 de cada una de las industrias. Fri, 28 May 2010 16:03:44 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=105 2010-05-28T16:03:44Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=5662 The Paice v. Ford/Toyota cases are just two more examples of how broken the patent system is today. One could make a strong argument that Paice should not have been granted a patent originally. The first granted US patent to cover the combination of torque from an internal combustion engine and an electric motor dates back the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1909, US Patent No. 288,181 was granted to Henri Pieper for a "Mixed Drive for Autovehicles". The '181 patent is the true grandfather of all hybrids and it is actually quite shocking how little we have improved upon it in the past 101 years. All of Paice's patents, indeed all patents on hybrids, are merely incremental improvements on this patent and therefore are not novel and non-obvious. However, the same corroding of the system which allowed Paice to receive any patents has also worked to exclude them from the market. Automotive giants like Ford and Toyota are allowed to basically copy Paice's patented systems and get away with a slap on the hand (currently $98 per Prius sold). These abuses do nothing but hurt consumers. Technologies are tied up in litigation, keeping them from the market. Manufactures are granted redundant patents and are allowed to charge proprietary prices. This has been allowed to continue because the consumer is unaware of these abuses and is brainwashed into thinking all patents benefit them. Until we are able to break these information asymmetries we will continue to be unable to fully realize the benefits of new technologies and companies will continue to founder in seas of legal fees. The report linked below helps to shed some light on the story around Paice and gives some public domain alternatives. We need to build on what is already out there, just like we should have starting back in 1909. http://patentlyobvious.m-cam.com/blog/?p=76 Wed, 26 May 2010 15:44:44 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=5662 2010-05-26T15:44:44Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=5547 Thank you for your intelligent comments, Luis. It's hard to find anyone here on the left remotely sensible about Evo's fakery. I don't expect that to change anytime soon even after today's meeting with the Pope where Evo took the opportunity to not only criticize church policies on celibacy and women priests, but also to blast Arizona's immigration laws. Certainly those three issues are among the most pressing the world faces today. Pachamama? He conveniently forgets her as he negotiates the exploitation of iron in Mutún without the slightest sign of environmental impact studies. Smoke and snake oil. Tue, 18 May 2010 03:56:44 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=5547 2010-05-18T03:56:44Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=5636 I wish you would have contacted us for this story. Here's what we would have told you so that you could present a balanced story: The Division of Ratepayer Advocates (DRA) said in a press release that California’s investor-owned utilities did not reach 2006-2008 energy efficiency goals and that their shareholders should not be entitled to any shareholder bonus payments and may owe penalties. DRA's assertions are premature and not based on a solid, credible foundation. Southern California Edison (SCE) and other parties have provided considerable evidence to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that the measurement studies cited by DRA contain significant flaws that render them unreliable as a basis to assess energy efficiency program results. In recognition of the issues surrounding these measurement studies, the CPUC is evaluating the measurements cited by the DRA and is working with all parties to determine a more appropriate means to assess California’s energy savings achievements. SCE supports the CPUC’s thoughtful approach to developing a reliable record upon which to base a decision. The CPUC has not determined the final amount of earnings related to California’s 2006-2008 energy efficiency achievements. In addition, the CPUC has already concluded that the first two years of earnings recorded in 2008 and 2009 are not subject to reconsideration. From 2006-2008, SCE customers saved more than one billion kilowatt-hours annually by participating in SCE programs that provide free energy efficiency information and energy audits, services such as refrigerator recycling, and financial incentives that make it easier for customers to buy and install energy saving lighting, appliances and other improvements to make their homes and businesses more energy efficient. By partnering with customers to help them become more energy efficient, SCE energy efficiency programs were able to reduce the overall amount of electricity needed to serve customer demand during this time period, thereby shrinking utility costs, lowering customer bills, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Mon, 17 May 2010 17:52:47 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=5636 2010-05-17T17:52:47Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=5140 Great article! Wish it had more exposure! Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:13:22 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=5140 2010-03-27T10:13:22Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1465 Hi, I live In El Centro,Ca. I heard about this project but i dont have any info,Im in the union of carpenters local 547 san diego,I will apreciate if you send me some info.thanks Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:13:18 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1465 2010-01-12T23:13:18Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=4668 If people want a green world. then stop buying Chineese products. No more "made by china" unless approved by a green label. China frustrated the COP top, now people act themselves. No more "made by china" unless approved by a green label. Start yourselves, start today, start small! If governments want to join, they shloud implement green labels. We make china transparent! That should be done anyway. How can you expect your government to take responsibility if you do not even bother about a green label ? Imagine a green label, next to "made by china" (hi hi) People who care act. Hypocritical to ask your covernment and at the same time you want to buy communist party polluting toys Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:53:30 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=4668 2009-12-23T19:53:30Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2667 I am founder and chairman of "Lights Out 9999" and I have a lot of ideas for helping and resolving our needs. Please contact me. If we work together we can stop the Crisis, the Crime and Global Warming. I have the "medicine". I live in Mexico City by the way. Thanks for reading. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:49:04 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2667 2009-06-15T21:49:04Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2473 CFE Oaxaca I Sat, 30 May 2009 20:51:38 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2473 2009-05-30T20:51:38Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2365 Good One. Can I have more details on CPV III - V and also on concentrator tracking system. I am in India and into the area of Solar. Sat, 30 May 2009 20:51:05 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2365 2009-05-30T20:51:05Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2347 Absent from your list of the influential people advocating the green revolution is one who surprised me: the Pope. Thu, 28 May 2009 23:56:20 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2347 2009-05-28T23:56:20Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2565 This is bogus! Tue, 26 May 2009 00:19:18 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2565 2009-05-26T00:19:18Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2481 GreenFuel relied on WKWB public relations not on scientific information. A kid from England ran the tours and overlooked so much of the obvious it was painful to look into investing into this company. Promises never produced much but high costs of offices and equipment to impress. Not a good business operations strategy. Mon, 18 May 2009 20:44:18 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2481 2009-05-18T20:44:18Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2347 Me encantó el esnayo... muy ilsutrativo e inspirador... felicidades! Mauricio Fri, 08 May 2009 18:45:59 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2347 2009-05-08T18:45:59Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1142 Look forward to public demonstration of Algenol process and confirmation of cost/gal so regulators do not continue ignore the system. Tue, 05 May 2009 23:10:54 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1142 2009-05-05T23:10:54Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1182 Antonio Jose Maciel is not correct that more research is needed for extraction of bio diesel oil from Algae. He needs to review the extraction system developed by "OriginOil" I am member of SAE. Tue, 05 May 2009 23:10:35 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1182 2009-05-05T23:10:35Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2150 Mr. Territo: Thanks for your response. I do appreciate the effort throughout the auto industry to meet stricter emissions and fuel economy standards, and in particular the difficulty of revamping designs to meet additional constraints at a time when the industry is already troubled for other reasons. I think the issue here is as follows: California, and now several other states, have pushed for stricter emissions standards than the national baseline (see, for example, this article (http://www.examiner.com/x-1793-Sacramento-Environmental-News-Examiner~y2009m1d21-Govenor-sends-letter-to-president-urging-clean-air-waiver) on Governor Schwarzenegger?s appeal to the EPA to allow California to set a stricter standard). This seems to me to be largely a states?-rights issue; beyond a baseline set to ensure environmental safety nationwide, states should be able to choose to set emissions standards that allow them to keep their local environment as clean as possible. In a densely-populated state like California, which has had severe problems with smog in the past, this is particularly important. Of course the potential for variety in standards makes life much more difficult for the auto industry, which must choose between the problem of manufacturing cars that all meet the stricter standard and the problem of manufacturing cars that meet a variety of standards and thus cannot be sold nationwide, and I understand the difficulty of this. Like most of the challenges involved with our need to protect both the environment and the economy, there is no easy answer to this one, and a long national conversation will be required to find the best solution. Thanks for joining our conversation here - your perspective is very valuable. Incidentally, I would be interested in knowing more about how MPG is calculated from grams of CO2/mi; if you could post more information here or email me at courtney(at)greenmomentum.com, I would really appreciate your insight. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:31:08 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2150 2009-04-21T09:31:08Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2150 Courtney, I don't remember speaking to you last week about the auto industry's response to the EPA announcement but if we did i think you got the wrong impression? The auto industry isn't upset at all about this announcement, in fact we welcomed it. The auto industry has more experience with CO2 regulation than any other inudstry. Most people don't know that miles per gallon is actually a conversion from grams per mile of CO2. I think you'll have a hard time finding folks that disagree on the wisdom of a single national standard. I also think that if you took the opportunity to compare the proposed federal fuel economy standards to the California standards you'd see that applied nationwide, the federal standards are equally, if not more stringent. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:11:16 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2150 2009-04-20T16:11:16Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2096 John, I believe the issue is not so much whether sugar cane can produce more or less fuel per hectare, the issue has become (for some time now) sustainability. Jatropha is a non-edible crop, which 1) does not compete with food and 2) will not result in an increase in the price of corn or sugar or any other food. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:32:42 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2096 2009-04-14T22:32:42Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2096 sugar cane produces more calories (fuel) per hectare then any other plant and it grows abundantly in jalisco. brazil uses cane for biofuel very succesfully. why not use it now? Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:50:51 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2096 2009-04-14T21:50:51Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1810 There could be no better investment than to invest in becoming energy independent! We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. The cost of fuel effects every facet of consumer goods from production to shipping costs. After a brief reprieve gas is inching back up.OPEC will continue to cut production until they achieve their desired 80-100. per barrel.If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUV's instead had plug-in electric drive trains the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota.We have so much available to us such as wind and solar. Let's spend some of those bail out billions and get busy harnessing this energy. Create cheap clean energy, badly needed new jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. What a win-win situation that would be for our nation at large! There is a really good new book out by Jeff Wilson called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. http://www.themanhattanprojectof2009.com Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:39:38 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1810 2009-03-16T18:39:38Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=888 AWESOME! Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:45:37 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=888 2009-03-05T21:45:37Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1175 you have really cool cars Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:45:10 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1175 2009-03-05T21:45:10Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1645 There could be no better investment in America than to invest in America becoming energy independent! We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources.Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. The cost of fuel effects every facet of consumer goods from production to shipping costs. After a brief reprieve gas is inching back up.OPEC will continue to cut production until they achieve their desired 80-100. per barrel.If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUV's instead had plug-in electric drive trainsthe amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota.There is a really good new book out by Jeff Wilson called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. http://www.themanhattanprojectof2009.com Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:57:39 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1645 2009-03-03T04:57:39Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1442 As an engineer that used to work in GM, I can say that your comments about them are very accurate. To me the biggest issue they have to date is that they are not doing any significant change to do things different and that is troublesome. If you can't recognize you have a problem you can't fix it. As of last week (My last week in GM) GM has not recongnized they have a problem, they still believe all that is happening is due to external fatcors not in control to GM, that they build great cars and trucks and that no significant changes are needed (besides laying off people and reducing the production). Another problem they have is that they are very reactive, they don't plan ahead and set a good vision of the future. So they are always one step behind. I don't know if they will pull out of this one, I hope they do. For the sake of many people that depend on them. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:47:02 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=1442 2009-02-19T17:47:02Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=737 Dear not Joe the plumber, maybe the first question should be if the government has to give money to private companies at all, but the answer i think about is the social responsability of those in charge of the macroeconomic desicisons, and for all of us the obligation to work for a better future in clean technologies, for example. As OECD and the World Economic Forum have established, innovation and technology are the greatest oportunities to get around this world economic crisis, and China, for example is doing its part, as so other countries do. Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:43:24 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=737 2009-02-10T11:43:24Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=603 Excelent!! we have to promote this green concrete around the world. Link that Australian company to other markets. Thank you! Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:07:03 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=603 2009-01-12T06:07:03Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=894 This is fantastic! Never saw anything like that before. Has this been completed or it is still being designed? Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:38:55 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=894 2008-12-27T03:38:55Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=60 Update: GreenGraffiti is now a stand alone business. With 16 campaigns under our belt and over 25 requests for partnership from around the world, GreenGraffiti has gone from being a novel idea to a very viable business. Since this post was written we have entered into an agreement to compensate our water usage by investing in a water harvesting project in Brazil that will provide on liter of clean drinking water for each liter we use to execute campaigns. It is not the perfect solution but one step closer to making our process as harmless as possible. We have recently won second place at the Dutch Sustainability Congress which hosts the young sustainable innovation awards at the end of November and Elle Magazine has been nominated for a Murcur award for their use of GreenGraffiti as a promotional tool. Jim Bowes Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:29:23 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=60 2008-12-08T03:29:23Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=737 Sorry, but I don´t understand why the US goverment have to give money to these companies if all of them have stockholders with a lot of cash (Cerberus is an example). Did they do the same lobby with VC firms or billionar people that could become a stakeholder? May be they did it, but nobody belived the promisses that now thay are making to the US Congress. Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:49:44 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=737 2008-12-07T20:49:44Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=514 I really liked your blog! The future sounds encouraging.. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:56:59 GMT http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=514 2008-11-13T20:56:59Z http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2835 La saqué de PRNewswire, hay que editarla http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=2835 http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=103 Gracias Carlos. http://www.greenmomentum.com/wb3/wb/gm/gm_content?id_content=103