TC/Gadgets Webcast: Live From Disrupt NYC

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 22:14; Written by John Biggs

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This week we recorded live from the show floor at Disrupt NYC. We sat through 24 hours straight of hot-rod hacking at the Hackathon and now we’re preparing for the main show and, most important, the brand new Hardware Alley...

New Project, Roominate, Offers A Fully-Wired Dollhouse For Kids

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 17:29; Written by John Biggs

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Teaching kids – especially little girls – about electronics is a hard job. First, there’s the electricity. Then there’s the sense that soldering, wiring, and lining up LEDs is considerably less fun than watching Tangled . This project, called Roominate,...

How Much Can You Save Biking to Work? (New Calculator)

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 17:00; Written by Zachary Shahan

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If you’re in one of the most bikeable cities in the U.S. , or even if you’re not, and you’re thinking about biking more for transportation purposes, you might get a boost from a new calculator that helps you...

SpaceX To Attempt A Second Launch On Tuesday, May 22

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 16:13; Written by Matt Burns

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SpaceX and Elon Musk will not be held from the history books. Last night the company announced that engineers were currently replacing a faulty valve on engine #5, and if successful pending a data review today, the company would attempt...

Smart Bike Wins “Best of Best” Red Dot Award, Rolling Out in Europe

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 14:30; Written by Zachary Shahan

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Jo Borras wrote about the Smart Bike back in August (yep, same company as the eScooter I posted about yesterday and the more well known Smart Car). The Smart Bike is an electric bike with what many think is...

Japanese Retail Investors Fund ADB Clean Energy Projects

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 14:03; Written by Andrew

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Hokusai's "Great Wave"

Looming expiration of key renewable energy production and investment tax credits in the U.S. and reduction of Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) in leading European markets has industry participants searching for alternative means of financing clean, renewable energy projects...

Power Play — German Energy Revolution Video

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 14:00; Written by Zachary Shahan

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The German village Schönau forced the grid operator to sell its local grid to them decades ago. Now, that village has become a renewable energy leader. As you can see in the video below, it’s a major producer of renewable energy....

10 Most Bikeable Cities in the US… Probably

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 12:30; Written by Zachary Shahan

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WalkScore, at least within city planning circles, is famous. It developed a system for ranking the walkability of cities, neighborhoods, and streets, and gave access to countless people to evaluate their area and work to improve it. WalkScore later...

Solar iPad Case from Wireless NRG (Actually Powers Your iPad)

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 12:00; Written by Zachary Shahan

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I just wrote about a solar-powered iPad case and keyboard from Logitech on Friday. But, apparently, Logitech isn’t the only one entering this market. Wireless NRG has also released a solar-powered iPad case — the KudoCase . However, one important...

1,000 MW of Wind Farm Projects Acquired in BC

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 11:30; Written by Jake Richardson

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Four sites in coastal British Columbia with early-stage wind development assets have been acquired by Alterra Power Corp , a renewable energy firm. The four sites are located on Banks Island, Porcher Island, McCauley Island, and north Vancouver Island....

Wind Energy Rocks, But at an Important Crossroads (VIDEO)

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 11:00; Written by Zachary Shahan

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Wind energy is a big economic driver, as our readers know. It’s also a huge and growing source of electricity in many places now, as you know. But it’s under serious threat from an extreme branch of one political...

Global Atlas for Wind Solar Energy

Details: Created on Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:28; Written by Zachary Shahan

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The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have launched a new online solar and wind atlas project — the Global Atlas for Solar and Wind Energy project.

Screenshot of Global Atlas for Wind and Solar

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Climate Bill Idea? Polled GOP Voters OK Carbon Tax Swap

Details: Created on Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:47; Written by Susan Kraemer

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image via Shutterstock

Comment sections of sites like ours are strewn with the kneejerk response of Republicans when asked to confront and help fix climate change. No! No! Hoax! Lalala! It’s all about tax! Big Government! Conspiracy! UN control!

So you...

SB843 Lets California Utility Customers Share Solar Projects

Details: Created on Saturday, 19 May 2012 17:57; Written by Susan Kraemer

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image via Shutterstock

A revolutionary renewable energy bill could become law in California as soon as this September.

It will allow customers of the big three utilities in California to buy power directly from renewable energy projects developed in their...

Entrepreneurship and Dragon’s Den with Gabriel Chan of NoteWagon

Details: Created on Saturday, 19 May 2012 16:40; Written by XConnect

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notewagon

note wagon In this interview Karim Kanji meets with Gabriel Chan who is the Co Founder and Chief Ninja Officer of NoteWagon. NoteWagon is an online educational community and portal where students can publish their independently-created educational course and revision work to...

Kickstarter: Meet CordLite, The Light-Up iPhone Cable For Night Owls

Details: Created on Saturday, 19 May 2012 16:36; Written by Chris Velazco

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My set ritual before going to bed each night is as follows — turn out the lights, plug in my iPhone, take off my glasses and attempt vainly to nod off. Step two in that process can be a bit...

Electric Scooter from Smart — eScooter (Ooooh, Yeah!)

Details: Created on Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:30; Written by Zachary Shahan

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I’ve got a confession to make — I’m increasingly falling for scooters, especially electric ones (of course). I’ve even been getting into electric motorcycles (running into a previous student of mine the other day who now has two motorcycles...

Porsche 918 Hybrid Snapped Testing (PICS)

Details: Created on Saturday, 19 May 2012 14:56; Written by Zachary Shahan

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Battery Swapping for Electric Bikes Scooters

Details: Created on Saturday, 19 May 2012 14:52; Written by Zachary Shahan

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Help a Reader Out — Short Survey

Details: Created on Saturday, 19 May 2012 14:43; Written by Zachary Shahan

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