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One Bullroarer at TOD ANZ a week or two ago featured an article from the ABC on the possibility of mining low grade Australian platinum reserves to supply rising demand for catalytic converters and hydrogen fuel cells - World 'needs Australia's platinum to build cleaner cars'.

TransMaterial has a post on Thallium-Doped Lead Telluride - the most efficient thermoelectric material yet found. The post talks about capturing waste heat from car engines, but presumably it could be applied to cogeneration schemes as well. Thermoelectric materials convert waste heat to electricity without pollution.

Cleantech gets a boost in Canada July 29, 2008 - Exclusive - Nineteen projects across the country are sharing $57 million in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada. Full Story » Stories we're working U.S.

An absorption chiller, also known as an absorption refrigerator, is a cooling system that uses a heat source, in lieu of electricity and a compressor, to drive the device. The systems are commonly used where excess heat is available and are considered a type of heat recovery device.

Tremendous amounts of energy are being wasted everyday in the US. Thermal power electric utilities typically vent 2/3 of potential energy capture into the atmosphere via cooling towers while gasoline engines have an efficiency of only 15%.

MIT Thermoelectric Device Could Revolutionize Home Heating [Hot Stuff] Posted on July 26th, 2008 by . Filed in Green, Mit, prototype, heat, thermoelectric, Hot Stuff, Cogeneration, Furnaces, Home heating. No comments yet.

With gas prices approaching "damn, I'm going to have to start walking more" levels here in the States, everyone's doing their part to increase efficiency and reduce energy consumption, and that includes the genius farm MIT.

The price of a new car could jump by more than $1,000 but consumers would actually save big money because they'd pay less to operate the more efficient vehicles, concurs a new document just released by California officials that provides a glimpse into the expected economic impact of the state's anti-global warming efforts.

I’ve been reading the big speech that Al Gore made this past week. Bless him! (See photo.) He’s a wonderful man and without his leadership we’d really be facing almost certain catastrophe. This week he issued a huge new challenge, but without making it clear what would be involved.

Cleantech gets a boost in Canada July 29, 2008 - Exclusive - Nineteen projects across the country are sharing $57 million in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada.