Posts tagged with "Technology"
RSS
LED bulbs are ready to light your home – 7 tips you should know
By Eartheasy.com, Posted August 25th, 2011The future in home lighting is LED, and the future is now.
» Read More
New Technology to Lower the Cost of Hybrid Cars
By Eartheasy.com, Posted May 9th, 2011Adding a second clutch improves efficiency without the need for a second electric motor…
» Read More
Wireless Advances Could Mean No More Cell Towers
By Peter Svensson, Associated Press, Posted April 4th, 2011Small cellular antennas, about the size of a Rubik’s cube, could be placed indoors or out and be easily hidden from view. And the smaller cells can boost a network’s capacity tenfold…
» Read More
How Plug-In Hybrid Cars Could Be Game Changers
By Venkat Srinivasan, Posted April 1st, 2011Maybe the focus of all our efforts should be on getting a PHEV on the road at an economical price…
» Read More
6 Tips for Safer Cell Phone Use
By Eartheasy.com, Posted March 23rd, 2011“I can’t tell you that cell phones are dangerous, but I can tell you that I’m not sure they’re safe.” – Devra Davis
» Read More
Ford Unveils its First Electric Car
By Agence France Presse, Posted January 10th, 2011Ford said the range of Focus Electric will be enough to “cover the majority of daily driving habits of Americans.”
» Read More
Supersize ships being built to feed our consumer appetites
By Eartheasy.com, Posted November 22nd, 2010Walmart commissions fleet of giant ships to speed consumer goods from China.
» Read More
The Doomsday Machine and the Race to Save the World
By Jeff Conant, Posted November 11th, 2010How close are we to space sunshades, mountaintop painting, ‘fertilizing’ the oceans with iron, and redirecting hurricanes? Closer than you might imagine.
» Read More
Solar power from water-based ‘artificial leaves’
By Eartheasy, Posted October 20th, 2010“Natural” solar cells have the potential to be less expensive and more environmentally friendly than current silicon-based solar cells…
» Read More
Google hits the road with a self-driving Prius
By Eartheasy, Posted October 19th, 2010Self-driving technology may reduce accidents while increasing transportation capacity on major roads.
» Read More
Human-electric hybrid car available in 2011
By Eartheasy.com, Posted September 22nd, 2010The “Imagine PS,” capable of 100 kph (60 mph) on the flat and 50 kph uphill, is street legal and expected to be commercially available next year.
» Read More
Wind Farm ‘Mega Project’ Underway in Mojave Desert
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times, Posted August 12th, 2010The Alta Wind Energy Center — with plans for thousands of acres of turbines to generate electricity for 600,000 Southern California homes — officially broke ground.
» Read More
Giant laser to be used in quest for limitless energy
By Eartheasy, Posted May 13th, 2010Scientists hope to solve the global energy crisis by harnessing the energy generated by a fusion-generated ‘mini-star’.
» Read More
Are LED Fluorescent Tubes Ready for Prime Time?
By Houston Neal, Softwareadvice.com, Posted May 6th, 2010LED light technology has progressed to the point where it may be ready to replace traditional fluorescent light tubes in commercial buildings.
» Read More
The amazing iPhone blazes the trail … to waste?
By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy, Posted April 29th, 2010If one in three of the iPhone 1Gs are still ticking, what happened to the remaining 4 million units sold?
» Read More
More, Better, Faster – living at digital hyperspeed
By David Bollier, On the Commons, Posted June 30th, 2009Fast-time activities absolutely crowd out slow-time alternatives. The now eclipses the timeless. And we are becoming diminished creatures in the process.
» Read More
LED Lighting Update
By Greg Seaman, Posted April 29th, 2009Latest developments in producing low-cost LED bulbs
» Read More
Geoengineering: Time to get serious?
By Marc Gunther, Posted March 18th, 2009Imagine a fleet of 1,500 remote-controlled, wind-powered ships, sailing the world’s oceans, spewing salt water into the air to whiten clouds, so they block more of the sun…
» Read More
The Real Cost of ‘Virtual Nature’
By Brenda Scott Royce, Posted March 11th, 2009Can robotic replicas and digital imagery inspire children to a love of nature?
» Read More
LED breakthrough may revolutionize lighting
By Science Daily, Posted January 27th, 2009Purdue researchers achieve LED production breakthrough which clears the way for low-cost, high-efficiency lighting
» Read More








