Could you do this Green Job?
Check out this video airing on our main site titled: Inside a Wind Turbine
http://greenenergytv.com/Watch.aspx?v=cdd0b951c829cfec
Innovate or Die - Water Filtration for 3rd world
The video talks about how 1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to clean water.
The green inventions highlighted are the Novel bicycle based mobile water filtration system design.
It was submitted for the MIT 'Innovate or Die' appropriate technology.
Click the video titled: Innovate or Die- Water Filtration for 3rd world
What car did Jack Nicholson drive in 1978?
Green energy and clean tech has been around for awhile, and Jack was green before green was just a color. Check out the video airing on our main site:
Green Energy Opportunities between US & China
Gary Locke is leading the Obama Administration's first cabinet-level trade mission through China and Indonesia to promote US green energy technology.
Link to video titled: US Commerce Secretary & Green Technology in Asia
Stanford University Team wins the $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize
- #1. C3Nano, Inc. of Stanford University - a cross-cutting technology that will effectively increase the efficiency and thereby affordability of thin film solar photo-voltaic systems.
Check out the video of C3Nano and the winning Pitch:
Congratulations to all the teams and we look forward to seeing your green inventions, eco friendly products and energy innovations put into place!
Finalists of MIT Clean Energy Prize to Compete for $200,000
The five finalists are representing the following schools:
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Stanford University
- MIT
- Harvard
- University of Maryland
- ViaCycle -- an advanced bicycle sharing technology that allows easy deployment of affordable, sustainable bicycle transportation in cities, resorts and universities.
- C3Nano, Inc. -- a cross-cutting technology that will effectively increase the efficiency and thereby affordability of thin film solar photo-voltaic systems.
- OsComp Systems -- a revolutionary new compression technology that significantly reduces the cost of natural gas production.
- C-Crete Technologies -- a "nanoengineered" concrete that reduces CO2 emissions from the production of concrete. The most widely used manufactured material in the world.
- Enertaq -- a system to manage energy use in large commercial buildings to balance the electrical grid minute-to-minute by adjusting electricity demand.
Green Energy Investments
Green Energy investments continue to be on the rise in Silicon Valley. Draper Fisher Jurvetson have been investing in green energy and clean technology since 2001.
On their site, you can see their Portfolio of Companies they have funded and how they are having a positive impact and changing the world.
DFJ Portfolioo http://www.dfj.com/portfolio/index.shtml Keep up the great work and Stay Green!
Why are our homes so dumb?


Blueprint for affordable clean energy
Below are some highlights about Applied’s solar fab2farm model:

- The fab2farm model is a solar deployment model that links the complete utility-scale solar ecosystem—from the manufacturing of the panels, to the building of the solar farm, to the local community—to drive down the cost of solar electricity, while generating billions of dollars in economic development.
- Fab2farm would locate an Applied Materials SunFab™ manufacturing factory in communities across the U.S., with the intent of placing the panels produced by that factory directly into utility-owned projects.
This approach has many broader benefits - a self-sustaining economic engine that delivers affordable solar to the rate payer, jobs for the community, R&D opportunities for local universities, increment tax base for local government, progress toward meeting RPS goals. Check out the interactive model that captures how these benefits can be realized at http://www.fab2farm.com/
Entrepreneurship in Michigan
Currently, 8 Teams have advanced to the Semi-finals, and according to a press release from DTE Energy, the new business ideas range from:
- A system to enhance electric vehicle batteries
- A new method to produce a gas used in solar cell production
- Plans for turning food waste into fuel and more!
How much $ is at stake? 1st Prize $50,000 2nd Place gets $25,000 3rd Place - $10,000 and 4th Place $7,000.
Below is what each of the 8 Teams are doing:
- Advanced Battery Control: offers a proprietary smart battery management system, which will radically enhance battery utilization in electric vehicles.
- Carbon Perks: a service that motivates people to incorporate energy efficient practices into their lifestyles while helping utilities reduce the costs of providing peak power.
- Enertia: brings to market a multiple patent-pending innovation that will harness ambient kinetic energy and extend the lifetime of wireless electronic devices tenfold, while at the same time replacing toxic electrochemical batteries.
- Food Waste Energy: manufactures and installs anaerobic biodigestors that help restaurants save energy and waste disposal costs by producing natural gas from food waste on site.
- Green Silane: produces silane gas for customers on-site in a manner that is flexible, low-cost, and environmentally benign, revolutionizing the supply chain for this critical input to semiconductor, flat-screen display and photovoltaic panel production.
- Ice Mitigating Systems: developed a two-fold approach to counter the effects of ice on offshore wind turbines. The solution, which addresses the turbine blades and its structural foundation, will be licensed to manufacturers and the company will provide the necessary consulting services to implement these systems.
- ReGenerate: manufactures and leases modular anaerobic digestors to institutional food service operators, transforming food waste discards into on-site renewable energy as well as nutrient-rich fertilizer products that will be cobranded and sold through retail outlets.
- Smart Energy Inc.: providing the bridge between the Smart Grid and consumers, empowering consumers with control over their energy usage and appliances.
MIT Clean Energy Prize - 2010 Deadline
Forbes Magazine recently named this "The Biggest Small Business Competitions".
The winner gets $200,000 and there has been millions of dollars in follow up funding and investments to past winners.
Who Can Apply? This is open to all U.S. university graduate and undergraduate students, over 100 teams are expected to compete in five energy tracks:
- energy efficiency and infrastructure
- renewables
- clean non-renewables
- transportation
- deployment (clean energy services or processes).
Green Stock Picks for 2010
If you are reading this, you are interested in the benefits of alternative energy. But there is one benefit that you may have overlooked...profit! Why not invest in the companies whose energy innovations we use? The PickShares betaONE portfolio now includes an alternative energy component in its energy sector holdings.
Uncertainty dominated the last few months of the year as markets traded in a range amid speculation about interest rates and healthcare reform. In 2010 I have begun to look into an area with great potential for growth; alternative energy. This is a difficult sector but there is plenty of upside to be found if you know where to look. Recently this capital intensive sector has been a victim of the credit crunch.
As credit becomes available again investment in alternative energy will return, its comeback being fueled in part by rising oil prices and government funding. Geothermal and biomass are marginal, the biggest contributions will come from solar, wind and hydroelectric energy which will be the focus of my investment research.
To enter the alternative energy arena, I have chosen the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Portfolio (PBW) as my vehicle. This fund offers great diversification including 25% international stocks amid a mix of market caps.
Visit www.pickshares.com to learn more about the alternative energy ETFs and other funds that are heating up in 2010. - Scott Frye, Guest Blogger for Green Energy TV
Green Energy prize winner is Eigg
According to The Guardian, Eigg has shared the £1m Big Green Challenge prize from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts with two other winners, who were also given £300,000 by Labour peer Lord Puttnam, chairman of the judging panel.
The 95 residents on this island won because they installed a combined wind, solar and hydro-powered electricity supply to power their homes and they are working toward clean energy Independence.
Their efforts to move towards green energy have enabled them to be more self-sufficient in electricity and heavily cut their use of coal and gas, and no longer needing the coal, gas to be brought to their island via boat.
Check out the photo below and see how this Scottish Island can lead by an example for small communities around the world: - Caleb, Guest Blogger for Green Energy TV

Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Green Energy - Stimulus created 51,700 green jobs
"This employment impact is expected to increase substantially over time," the CEA says. Measuring them in "job-years" -- one job for one year, it projects 719,000 new clean energy "job years" by end end of 2012.
The Recovery Act help support green energy and green jobs in the follow sectors:
- Promotes renewable energy such as solar and wind
- Energy efficiency
- Grid modernization
- High-speed rail, vehicles with advanced fuel technologies
- Green jobs training
Using Paper waste as Fuel
There are many alternative fuel ideas and a variety of alternative fuels program.
A video was uploaded to our main site Green Energy TV that shows how how a Danish company is taking a waste product from making paper and turning it into an alternative fuels program.
The company is named Haldor Topsøe, and they are a an energy innovation technology which can transform black liquor (a waste product from paper production) into DME (DiMethyl Ether).
DME is a clean fuel, but can also be used for cars. Volvo, one of the project partners, has tested DME and named it 'the preferred fuel' among the green fuels available. The project taking place in Sweden, uses the entire technology chain: from the paper mill supplying black liquor via gas stations for fueling DME to trucks actually running on DME.
Learn more about their eco friendly inventions in the video below:
Aspen Skiing Company - Two Green Thumbs Up Award
Here are just some of the things they are doing to be green and why we gave them the Two Green Thumbs Up:
1. Renewable Fuels - For seven years, they have used clean, renewable fuels such as Biodiesel in their snowcats.
2. Employee Commitment - Almost half of Aspen/Snowmass employees contribute a dollar a week to the Environment Foundation. Their contributions are matched by the Aspen Community Foundation and again by the Aspen Skiing Company Family Fund, and donations--$1.2 million to date, that go to local environmental causes like clean air and water, trail maintenance and energy efficiency.
3. ISO certified as a "Green" company - the first of only two ski resorts in the country to achieve this recognition. ISO 14001 certification is the most widely known and respected environmental stamp of approval, which demonstrates responsible management of our environmental impacts.4. Leed Building - Aspen/Snowmass has the only green building policy in the snow sports industry. It has resulted in projects like the Snowmass Golf Clubhouse, which is LEED Silver Level certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, is heated and cooled using the pond on the 18th hole, and is one of the most energy efficient commercial buildings in the state.

Keep up the great work and continue to lead the way for companies going green in your industry!
A Brief Statement on the Irrelevance of Global Warming
“Global warming is an absolute fairy tale.”
“Global warming is the most important issue facing humanity today.”
You have almost certainly heard these exact statements, or words to that effect, spewing out of the mouths of any number of sources: scientists and politicians, commentators and business leaders, mailmen and grocery store clerks. Many of these sources are highly respected in their field. Or completely full of crap, depending on whom you believe. To exacerbate the problem, these factions spend as much time trying to prove their own credibility, while damaging that of the opposition, as they do trying prove the validity of their own argument. Glenn Beck told me that it is my right as an American to drive any vehicle I want. Alec Baldwin told me that Glen Beck is an idiot and that every time I start up my SUV, a baby polar bear dies. The volume and frequency is so great that it has almost become like white noise. White noise that should be ignored at our own peril…or just ignored.
Let’s imagine for the moment that we all agree on the existence of global warming. Ahhh. Doesn’t that feel good? There is plenty of evidence from very reputable sources that would seem to prove its reality. This is actually the easiest part of the whole conundrum on which to reach an accord. Now that we are all holding hands and singing “Kumbaya” in three part harmony, I really hate to break up our virtual drum circle with the fact that there is another issue that must be addressed. This one is much more complex than the first: If global warming does in fact exist, what is the cause? Is it all part of an eons long cycle of global cooling and warming? Is it because Americans are the most prolific consumers of natural resources in the world? Is it because I forgot to turn out the lights in my living room when I left the house this morning?
On one hand, the ridiculously oversized charts in “An Inconvenient Truth” clearly demonstrate the correlation between carbon dioxide and temperature increase. On the other, MIT climate researchers have demonstrated that carbon dioxide levels increase following temperature increases, not preceding them. One argument states that the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have risen since the Industrial Revolution. Others say that nothing puts more carbon dioxide into the air than volcanic explosions and that the global temperature has decreased following most major volcanic events. My liberal friend Ivan, who wears only free-range, fair trade, locally produced, organic hemp clothing, says that this is a black and white issue and that you are either with us or against us. My conservative friend Chip, who drives a monster truck powered by an engine that runs solely on the tears of the downtrodden, says that this is a leftist plot to help create a one world government. Seriously??? I feel like Vizinni from “The Princess Bride” trying to figure out which goblet contains the iocaine powder.
Allow me to present you with a third option that will simultaneously blow your minds, expand your horizons and free your souls. Global warming is irrelevant. Forget about it. It does not matter. There, I said it. Now before you string me up from the nearest wind turbine, hear me out. It does not really matter whether or not global warming exists because you do not need to believe in global warming to believe in being environmentally responsible. Our environment is a nonrenewable resource. It is the only one that we have and I am pretty sure that it is the only one that will be available to our grandchildren. Being environmentally conscious is good for all of us regardless of our beliefs or political affiliations. We all benefit from clean air and clean water. No one gains when a species becomes extinct. The long term harm caused by clear cutting an old growth forest certainly outweighs the short term profits. And, believe it or not, we can benefit financially from sound environmental practice as well.
When asked by an interviewer how he would make his first billion if he were once again a young man in his 20’s, Ted Turner replied without hesitation that he would invest in renewable energy. T. Boone Pickens and Warren Buffett have made similar statements. Renewable energy is one of the fastest growing market segments in the world and there is no reason why we as Americans cannot and should not reap the rewards of leading the world in a renewable energy revolution. There are billions to be made in R&D and manufacturing. Renewable energy can be the new US Steel or GM. And don’t think for a minute that if we don’t assume the mantle of leadership that other countries won’t. China would love to control that market as would India. Environmental responsibility is the economic future. Also, there is absolutely nothing wrong with turning a profit, but it should not be done at the expense of the natural environment.
Environmental stewardship should not be the fierce partisan political issue that it has become, but a jointly pursued goal that produces quantifiable economic results and corresponding increases in the quality of life. Responsible environmental stewardship is not dependent upon whether or not I carry a card from the ACLU or the NRA. It is not Right. It is not Left. It is not Communism. It is not an Autocracy. It is American and it is good for all of us. And that is something that we should all agree on.
Please do not email me with scientific data proving or disproving global warming; or things like, “Internal combustion engines can’t actually run on human misery.” If you do feel the need to send out such correspondence, you have missed the entire point of my article. Please delay sending any pending hate mail until you have had a chance to carefully reread the article. Then the next time someone asks where you stand on global warming, simply turn to them with a small, patient smile and proudly say, “It doesn’t matter.” Guest Blogger, Scot Loveland, Renewable Energy Manager with TCT Renewable Energy www.tctre.com
Waste powers 650,000 Homes
We hear a lot of news about Solar Energy, Wind Power and alternative fuels program, etc. but not too often do we hear about waste being used as energy.
A video was uploaded to our main site Green Energy TV showing how Waste Management takes landfill waste and converts it into energy.
The energy converted from waste can power 650,000 homes EVERY day. How do they do it? They use technology called Wheelabrator.
Wheelabrator - is a waste-to-energy technology that converts solid waste into clean, renewable electric power. Since the 1970s, Wheelabrator facilities have turned over 145 million tons of municipal solid waste into 75 billion kilowatt-hours of energy.
Here's link to the video airing on our main site: greenenergytv.com/Watch.aspx
2010 New Year's Resolution - Green ideas
Below are 7 of the 2010 Green New Year's Resolution Ideas:
- Go on a Green Diet - In the New Year, many people go on a diet. This means, you can start eating certified organic foods that do not contain the food toxins or chemical toxins that are in most of our foods. You can also start to buy more of your food locally as well and get food that is fresh and support the local economy and help create more green jobs as a direct result of your purchases.
- Do the Green Diet Exercise - One of our Guest Bloggers wrote about how he lost over 70 pounds by pedaling his bike to power his TV. Here's a link to that blog post if you are looking to power your TV while you watch it and save electricity and lose a lot of weight in the process blog.greenenergytv.com/blog/wind-power-technology/0/0/new-green-diet-pedal-and-watch
- Say good-bye to Household Toxins - You can have an environment friendly home by eliminating the chemical toxins. Most of the store bought cleaners contain very harmful chemical toxins, however, you can switch to safer cleaners from companies such as Shaklee or Seventh Generation. There are many new green and safer cleaning products out there right now that do a great job without exposing your family to chemical toxins in your home.
- Green your Lawn - Most of the chemicals in fertilizers used on the lawns in the US are banned in Europe because of the dangerous chemical toxins they contain and they seep back into our drinking water and affect fish and other wildlife as well. There are more options for this year with chemical free lawn care and organic lawn care. You can use bone meal and other organic lawn care products that prevent weeds and still give you a green lawn without the chemicals. Check out your local nursery and read the labels!
- Get Green Jobs & Get Certified- There is an increase in green jobs, whether you decide to become a solar installer, energy rater, get involved in Sustainability Programs, etc. We have green jobs posted on our main site, and there are many other major outlets advertising green jobs on Indeed.com and Monster.com
- Get a Green Degree - There are more schools and independent organizations offering classes on Sustainability Programs, certifications for LEED, Energy Raters, Solar and Wind Installers and more. Many of the top green universities are also offering green educational classes and degrees now and this can help you land green jobs and prepare you for the future blog.greenenergytv.com/blog/green-jobs
- Start a Green Business - There are many areas in green that are fast growing and opportunities increasing daily. We did a post a while back that talked about the growth areas of green and here's a link to some of the hottest and upcoming areas that deal with organic natural foods, eco friendly products, solar installation to geothermal energy, energy efficiency and green building.