Interesting things from treehugger.com

[unixronin]

Found by cymrullewes, Treehugger posts teasers on:

• Multipurpose broad-spectrum OLED panels -- It's a window!  It's a light panel!  It's a HD TV!  The article -- or the USC researcher quoted in the article -- tosses around a claim of "100 percent efficiency out of a single, broad spectrum light source."  I'll believe THAT when I see it.
• "Zero footprint energy" in Ontario -- or, lease-to-own your own ground-source heating/cooling plant.  US power utilities would probably hate it enough to buy a Congressman or six to pass a law making it illegal.

Comments

[smandal.livejournal.com]

I like the vision, but I'm skeptical that you can avoid centralized, high-energy-density tech for population-dense areas (which is most of the United States). And nuclear is a good option. It is true that the nuclear industry in the US has been rather byzantine, with competing interests between hawks who want to elevate our general nuclear tech, environmentalists who want to run it into the ground, and bureaucrats who like being in the middle of the whole mess.

Three Mile Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island) and Shoreham Nuclear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreham_nuclear) are wonderful examples of this brain-clog -- working technology with bad PR and opportunistic regulation.