Tag Archives: Calera

Tom Friedman’s latest column, Dreaming the Possible Dream, touches on some companies and their promising technologies that we’ve seen here, namely Calera (cement) and Bloomenergy (fuel cells.)  Everybody has seen the hype for Bloomenergy.  I sincerely hope they live long and prosper. I quoted Bill McKibben here a while ago in his review of a […]

Computers – This is, as you might suspect, an area where lots of energy gets consumed.  According to Emerson, at their “Energy Logic” webpage:  “Data centers in the United States alone soaked up about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), or $4.5 billion worth of electricity in 2006. If current energy usage trends continue, a U.S. Environmental […]