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Free Energy (video)

This video made me smile. The powershift is coming!

 

 

Dynamic folding of a paper solar cell circuit

Here's the video released by MIT along with their news that some MIT researchers have "cracked the code" for inexpensive printing of solar circuits on paper and fabric:

 

  

Barefoot Grandmother Solar Engineers

 

Solar Highways?

Why not?

 

Green Jobs: Portland Community Workforce Agreement

via www.youtube.com

Hawk's Notes: Lots of great things happening to get green jobs out of heart's desire and into the world. Green for All was involved in this particular project in Portland. They'll host a phone call on October 22nd with some folks from Portland who will talk about this. I'll post a link in an update later today.

I signed up for one of Green for All's recent calls that unpacked the Recovery Act in terms of socially just green jobs and was really impressed with all of the presenters.

UPDATE -- Here's some links for the Portland program and the upcoming national phone call:

Portland project web page

Growing Green Jobs Boom

October 22nd Phone Call Signup

A guide to the coming green geopolitical crises - By David J. Rothkopf | Foreign Policy

Greening the world will certainly eliminate some of the most serious risks we face, but it will also create new ones. A move to electric cars, for example, could set off a competition for lithium -- another limited, geographically concentrated resource. The sheer amount of water needed to create some kinds of alternative energy could suck certain regions dry, upping the odds of resource-based conflict. And as the world builds scores more emissions-free nuclear power plants, the risk that terrorists get their hands on dangerous atomic materials -- or that states launch nuclear-weapons programs -- goes up.

via www.foreignpolicy.com

An interesting survey of specific issues related to security and resource-based conflict. Rothkopf's conclusion:

"The bottom line: A shift away from dirty old fuels is the only path toward reducing several of the greatest security threats the planet faces, but we must step carefully and avoid letting our optimism run away with us. By acknowledging that a greener world will hardly be devoid of geopolitical challenges and preparing accordingly, we may find a path to defusing our threats today, while largely avoiding the inadvertent drawbacks of desperately needed innovation."

Watchdog Earth: Solar Roadways

Solar roads?

It's Labor Day weekend. A lot of people are going to be driving. What if all the roads doubled as solar collectors? Seems pie in the sky, but apparently one man has secured a grant to look into it.

Labels: solar power

posted by James Bruggers at 6:32 AM

via www.courier-journal.com

Hawk's Notes: I had a blast watching this. I've often thought that if Americans started to get it that fossil fuels are a dead end, we'd see all kinds of folks coming up with exciting new ideas for different sources of energy. Maybe just a few of the ideas will ever work, but so what? Even if only one does, it will be worth it to communities of people and nature that are suffering at the hands of corporate fossil fuel greed.

Many thanks to James Bruggers for posting this at KentuckianaGreen.