Solar Heart: Keeping you warm in colder climates
The Solar Heart by Colorado’s Cool Energy Inc is a special generator that creates a lot of electricity in a very creative way. Using a special chambered system that creates energy when Hydrogen is heated and cooled. The system needs the controller (the brain), low heat solar panels on your roof or yard, and the SolarHeart engine in the house. Designed to work best in northern climates like Alaska and Canada, the SolarHeart can generate 80% of the electricity needed by a household, as well as 60% of the heat needed. All of this with ZERO emissions! The SolarHeart could drastically reduce the need for fossil fueled electricity and heat for the homes that need it the most. See more at Inhabitat.
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Portlands Bike Plan to 2030
From October 5th to November 8th drop by the Portland Bureau of Transportation to give your two cents on the bike plan for 2030. Portland started its bike plan in 1996 and has gone through several revisions. The plan paves the way for changes to the city to make it more walkable, bikable, and downright more livable. Mayor Sam Adams (@MayorSamAdams on Twitter) strongly believes in the bike community and the contribution that they make to green minded and healthy Portland. Because of his support and the forward thinking ways of the city, the original bike plan took the 30 miles of bike lanes and changed it into 300 miles of city bike lanes. The new plan will be completed at the end of this year and be used from now until the next revision as the master plan for the city’s direction. More bike lanes are planned, as well as the new buffered roads that provide room for the MAX light rail as well as bikers, pedestrians, and cars (both parked and moving). Click here to see more on the 2030 Bike Plan for Portland and make sure to bring your thoughts and concerns up to the city during the community review time.
While I am writing a pro-bike article, I should take this time to put in a quick personal and unrelated gripe to kindly request that Portland bikers please pay attention to your right of way. It might just ruin my afternoon if you run the stop sign just in time to pop in front of my car and get smeared all over the pavement. Your bad. Stop for the stop signs.)
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