In more exciting news on the front of green innovation, the New York Times reports on Envion, a company that has developed a $5 million plant in Maryland that can convert low-value recycled plastic, like the type used in planters and margarine containers, into a low-grade fuel.
Envion’s chief executive, Michael Han, says the fuel could be used in [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 18th, 2009 @ 11:00 am
Tagged with: cheap fuel, Envion, Green inc., innovation, Maryland, Michael Han, New York Times, plastic waste, recycling, Starbucks, sustainability, Technology, Washington D.C., waste management
IBM announced yesterday that it planned to lend much of its “hardware and systems design expertise” towards research seeking to improve the efficiency of battery technology within the realm of the electric car market. The goal, according to an article in the New York Times, will be to achieve a “tenfold improvement in battery storage, with hopes [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 16th, 2009 @ 11:00 am
Tagged with: battery efficiency, CARS, consumer, efficiency, electric vehicle, IBM, innovation, Lithium-Air, Lithium-Ion, Lithium-Sulfur, markets, New York Times, research, sustainability, Technology, Tesla Roadster, vehicle
Recovery has been a huge buzzword for economic news in the past month. While many experts have said it is too soon to make any hard and fast assumptions either way, others have described the current financial climate as the beginning stages of an end to the longest global recession since the end of World [...]
Over the last two weeks, earnings reports from some of the major “too-big-to-fail” financial institutions beat many expectations, fueling discussion that the greatest economic recession of our time is beginning to come to a close. The fundamentals of the economy have ticked upward, the stock market has begun to achieve consistency, and even though unemployment [...]
Filed under: Business, News on July 21st, 2009 @ 1:03 pm
Tagged with: ben bernanke, economy, housing, inflation, interest rates, Marketwatch, New York Times, the Fed, Treasury bills
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.