Comments on: Today’s Five Green Technologies that Could Change Our World Tomorrow

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:45:49 +0000

Besides having state rebates and federal tax credits, solar power also grants freedom from increasing electricity rates, freedom from interrupted utility service and freedom from foreign energy dependency that provides a great motivation for people to turn to green energy, there’s also that awareness that the world could be a bad place to live in if we continue to “not care”.

By: Nina Dumont

Nina Dumont — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:56:20 +0000

Hi Tom,

Unhappily until now, energy saving light bulbs not only contain mercury (cf. Minimata) but also emit radiofrequency magnetic fields 80 à 380 V/m (compare with generally admitted 0,3 V/m for mobile phones – from a french-spanish study : http://www.criirem.ouvaton.org/spip.php?article251)
Only go to the Wikipedia..
These look more like Charybdis and Scylla :(
Something else must be found.

By: Anne Marie Richard

Anne Marie Richard — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:49:55 +0000

This was very interesting. I wish we had solar on our home; we have friends who do, who are selling electricity to the electric company even here in northern Vermont, USA. I have replaced all our lights bulbs, and I have, this winter, decided to use less electricity–I don’t use the lights as much unless absolutely necessary. We live in an area where farmers are working on cow power to use manure to make energy. I will try this next week to hang my clothes up in the basement; we have too much snow to go outside, but I hang them up outside in good weather. Thanks for your information. Lets hope we can make energy from waste, and from waves. Our elementary school has a wind turbine and that helps with the electricity they use.

By: Janet Kilpatrick

Janet Kilpatrick — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:14:07 +0000

Hi Tom

Great to see energy from waste and Energos featured in your top five. Please note that Energos is a now a UK owned business, part of ENER-G.