Reps. Biggert, Markey, McNerney, & Eshoo Introduce Electric Drive Vehicle Deployment Act
Source: US House of Representatives
U.S. Representative Judy Biggert (R-IL-13) today joined Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-MA-7), Jerry McNerney (D-CA-11), and Anna Eshoo (D-CA-14) to introduce legislation designed to fast track the deployment of energy-saving electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid technologies. The Electric Drive Vehicle Deployment Act will provide grants to help regional communities establish themselves as models for the successful development, installation, and deployment of advanced electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure, including public charging stations. The bill also offers consumer incentives for the purchase of EVs, promotes utility modernization to accommodate EV deployment, provides assistance for the installation of charging infrastructure, and encourages domestic production of EV components.
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Boston College and M.I.T. Go Solar Thermal
Source: EcoSeed and the entire article
Researchers from Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to combine two technologies aimed at harnessing the sun’s energy effectively.
Employing nanostructuring methods, the team produced a “hybrid” by combining high-performance thermoelectric materials with spectrally-selective solar absorbers in a vacuum-sealed flat panel, boosting its energy conversion efficiency.
The solar-thermal flat panel yielded a new approach that can produce a cost-effective conversion of solar energy into electricity. It was able to perform eight times better than conventional solar-thermal technologiescurrently in the market.
Chris Paine of Who Killed the Electric Car? on his new film, his personal fleet, and why he thinks EVs are ready to rise from the dead.
Source: Mother Jones
Back in 2006, the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? revealed how various industry players—including petroleum companies and car manufacturers themselves—conspired to sabotage the launch of the first electric vehicles. But shortly after the film was released, its director, Chris Paine, began to hear rumblings of an electric car comeback. “I started an email correspondence with GM,” recalls Paine. “I said, ‘we thought you had a great car and we were upset that you killed it. But if you’re going to do it right, I’m going to tell the story, since it’s not often that companies change their minds on big decisions like that.'” Sure enough, a few years later the next wave of electric cars have hit the market—and Paine’s sequel, Revenge of the Electric Car, tells the story of what happened. I spoke to Paine shortly after his film’s Earth Day premiere.
Mother Jones: What’s changed since Who Killed the Electric Car?
Chris Paine: There was a lot of blowback after the first programs were killed. Consumers were saying, ‘If we have to have cars, why are only bad cars available? Why do we have to rely on the Middle East?’ So the right and the left came around—afor security reasons and environmental reasons—and then the car industry itself, which realized no one was buying cars when gas hit $4 a gallon in 2008. And here we are in 2011, with gas prices going nowhere but up, and there is a serious international consensus that you have to have higher miles-per-gallon cars.
Sir Thomas R. Moore helps Oceana save Belize reefs
New York lawyer and author makes six-figure contribution to save UNESCO World Heritage site, Mesoamerican Reef
Source: Oceana
As part of the Christie’s Green Auction on Tuesday, long-time Oceana supporter Sir Thomas Moore made a donation of $100,000 to help Oceana’s effort to completely end all forms of trawling in Belize. The ban will protect the Mesoamerican coral reef, a UNESCO world Heritage Site and the largest reef system in the western hemisphere, from the damaging effects of bottom trawling.
“If the oceans die, the economies and people of nations that depend on them will suffer terrible consequences,” said Sir Thomas R. Moore, a long-time New York litigator and author. “I wanted to help Oceana with this issue because it is aan organization that is uniquely qualified to save our oceans.”
