Green Arch Design

3. Store Power in Super Batteries!

Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now! is an article in the 17.04 issue of Wired Magazine. Click HERE for more information on all seven. The illustrations above are from the article.

That represents 2 days worth of household CO2 production!

(321/150 = 2.14 days of household CO2 production)

1 Day = 150 lbs of CO2 per U.S. household – excerpt from the March 2009 issue of National Geographic Magazine titled Saving Energy – It Starts at Home. The images above are from the article. You can also get them at National Geographic Wallpapers.

“Yet to imagine a planet where you could not drink the water…” – quote from Wyland Ocean Wisdom. The incredible image above came from National Geographic Wallpapers.

“Colorado bus maker Proterra Thursday officially announced they plan to build a state of the art research and manufacturing facility at the Clemson University ICAR campus, an investment of $68 million that should create 1,300 jobs over the next seven years.” – excerpt from journalwatchdog.com. Click HERE for more information. The image above is from the article.

Did you see the Feb 13, 2009 post about Shai Agassi’s Project Better Place? Project Better Place aims to build a national infrastructure of battery swapping and charging stations. “Agassi contends that the clustered populations on the west and east coasts make it easy to deploy… charging stations.” – excerpt from earth2tech.com June 13, 2009 post. Turning this well funded startup into a future industry powered by green electricity will require what has been called smart grid technology. Click HERE for more information.

4. Monitor the Electrons in Real Time!

Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now! is an article in the 17.04 issue of Wired Magazine. Click HERE for more information on all seven. The illustrations above are from the article.

That represents 79 days worth of household CO2 production!

(11,903/150 = 79.35 days of household CO2 production)

1 Day = 150 lbs of CO2 per U.S. household – excerpt from the March 2009 issue of National Geographic Magazine titled Saving Energy – It Starts at Home. The images above are from the article. You can also get them at National Geographic Wallpapers.

“When we care enough we begin to take action…” – excerpt from Wyland Ocean Wisdom.

5. Trade Electricity Like Pork Bellies!

Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now! is an article in the 17.04 issue of Wired Magazine. Click HERE for more information on all seven. The illustrations above are from the article.

“…the very struggle to reach agreement at Copenhagen, and the tougher talks to come, demonstrate that climate diplomacy has finally come of age.” [Indeed], “the onset of a kind of climate realpolitik, which eschews hot air for real action, signals is a sign that global climate talks have moved beyond symbolic rhetoric.” – excerpts from Time Magazine article. Click HERE for more info.

“This is the biggest peacetime mobilization of global effort on anything”. “If you think back a year or so, imagine the U.S., Brazil, China, India, Australia, and Russia all turning up and making definitive national commitments to significant reductions… It would have been inconceivable a year ago.” – excerpts from Bloomberg BusinessWeek article. Click HERE for more info.

“Clean energy may be the greatest opportunity of this century”. – excerpt from Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Click HERE for more info.

“The largest and most important U.N. Climate Change conference in history opened Monday… the last best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.” – excerpt from the Associated Press. Click HERE to read entire article.

That represents 4 days worth of household CO2 production!

(599/150 = 3.99 days of household CO2 production)

1 Day = 150 lbs of CO2 per U.S. household – excerpt from the March 2009 issue of National Geographic Magazine titled Saving Energy – It Starts at Home. The images above are from the article. You can also get them at National Geographic Wallpapers.