Creative Greenius

MARCH 25, 2010

That’s your friendly, neighborhood Creative Greenius volunteering his time for the South Bay Environmental Services Center at the 2009 Torrance Environmental Fair. Joe Galliani, the Creative Greenius at the 2009 Torrance Environmental Fair. Check out the roster of speakers after the jump.

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Wallbox

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This innovation can reduce the demand on the national power grid, and in return save money as you take energy that’s already been paid for back from the Electric cars. Then overnight the electric car will charge, benefiting from cheaper power rates due to lower energy demand and making this friendly to the environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Clean Manufacturing – Further reducing the environmental footprint of Ford’s operations through renewable energy, sustainable water and wastewater management, waste management, and energy-efficient buildings.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

In the document, the commission argued that the existing net energy metering tariff “negatively impacts non-participating customers; is not cost-effective; and disproportionately harms low-income ratepayers” since homeowners without solar are being shouldered with the price of maintaining the grid. Supporters of NEM 3.0

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Jefferson County will learn more about the truck’s energy efficiency as a snowplow as it begins to use it this winter. The snowplow is part of County Commissioners’ Renewable Energy Initiative, which aims to save energy, sustain the environment and save taxpayers money.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

As your friendly neighborhood Greenius continues with his efforts to help Hermosa Beach become the first carbon neutral city in the South Bay, it might help some of you to get up to speed on what we already know is coming our way here in California from climate change and global weirding.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 12, 2010

After all, I AM Spartacus… Tags: Environmental Politics News Media Saving Energy Sustainability Yes We Can! You say you’d like to see that presentation? Here it is as presented to the Green Task Force.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Screen shot of a Grid Command Distribution “heatmap” analysis for a neighborhood. The software is a front-end for the open-source GridLAB-D , a distribution system simulation and analysis tool developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a Department of Energy (DOE) lab managed by Battelle. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Driivz

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This is great news for the environment, but the US needs the infrastructure in place to keep all those EVs charged. In many areas, the country’s infrastructure cannot deliver any more energy for consumption or accept any more energy for infeeding back to the grid. By Q1, 2021, 5% of all new car sales in the US were EVs.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

It’s rare when consumer karma actually works out for any buyer of any product made today, but then again, your friendly neighborhood Greenius is not your usual consumer. Now we were an all EV family charging our cars on the free solar energy falling like money from the sky. Let me tell you about it.

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Charging infrastructure software is key to operations, billing, energy management and beyond. Energy Management – optimal EV charging through advanced algorithms, smart grid access, use of local renewables, and demand-side response. EV charging software manages much more than just topping up the battery in an electric vehicle.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

This initiative is taking place in an environment where everyday citizens want to travel without causing emissions and are increasingly aware of the value of renewables and energy security. “We In the United States in 2011, the University of Delaware and the New Jersey–based utility NRG Energy signed a.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. It solves the storage problems faced by the electric utility companies in absorbing and adapting to the highly variable power and energy generated by solar and wind. Conclusions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The effectiveness of solar power generation and other renewable energy sources in helping to realize a low-carbon mobility society. Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. 6 kWh Li-ion, Blue Energy. Electric scooter (EV-neo). same as in FCX Clarity). Two-motor system. DC brushless.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 13, 2012

But time has afterburners when the holidays roll around especially when your friendly neighborhood Greenius is in such demand locally. After the tree was planted other student volunteers pounded in six foot high heavy wooden stakes to tie the tree to and give it support while it grows.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 29, 2022

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) notes that, globally, transportation accounts for 64% of oil consumption , 27% of energy use and 23% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. These numbers aren’t merely abstract realities, either. Are You Ready To Drive Your City Forward?

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 26, 2009

So while Javier was there to tell people about why the electric company wants people to go solar to relieve pressure on the grid and to help green it, he was too intimidated by his fear of global warming denier objections to factor greenhouse gasses and climate change into the need for people to use renewable energy.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

Our neighborhood is called the “Hollywood Riviera&# because of its beautiful hillside homes with idyllic ocean views framed by palm trees. I now devote my full time to working on environmental and energy issues. I’ve been blogging on the environment since October of 2007.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2009

And what it takes is a week of reviewing the six hours of taped presentations and all the PowerPoints and related links from the April 29 California Energy Commission’s AB 811 Staff Workshop. All the more reason you should be going solar and produce your own clean, green energy instead of paying the electric company.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 13, 2012

But time has afterburners when the holidays roll around especially when your friendly neighborhood Greenius is in such demand locally. Man, I can’t believe it’s been over a month now since I wrote in this space about the vandals who destroyed the trees and native plants at Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park over Thanksgiving.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2009

Or maybe they were working on their legal case against the solar installer who has been stopped by city from PV panels on a home here in my Hollywood Riviera neighborhood for what can only be called ANTI-environmental reasons. Tags: environment. I’ll see you at the Fiesta Hermosa amigos!

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, IT’S ABOUT SPINNING THINGS FAST.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

Like an A-list celebrity stepping onto the red carpet, the arrival of Royal Caribbean’s 250,800-ton ship has captured the world’s attention, with some marveling over its cutting-edge features, like the largest water park at sea, while others criticize the gigantic ship’s potential to damage the environment. 27 — is the size of a small city.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 37 energy research projects for $151 million in funding through the recently formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: Energy Storage (6 projects). Biomass Energy (5 projects). Renewable Power (4 projects).

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid. is trying to put together driven by Howard Choy the County’s Energy Services Manager. County the national leader in solar energy it has the power to make that happen.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 21, 2017

Ladies and gentlemen your friendly neighborhood Greenius has hit the wall. I began writing my Creative Greenius blog and soon earned press credentials for topics like electric vehicles and financing of renewable energy projects. Filed under: environment. I am dog tired. I need a break, right now, before I snap.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

it would bring down the neighborhood. consumer electronics the battery is in the same environment as people and automatically temperature controlled. ” Because what we call end of life is maybe a 25% loss of power or energy but it is still 3x more than what you get from lead acid. Mini-cells” Source: LG Chem, ALBAA 2008.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

Or upgrading our early 1990’s energy hogging alarm system with our new, more modern, more sophisticated security system that uses a fraction of the electricity. But in the meanwhile, I’m getting the most bang for my energy buck by being more energy efficient. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2012

For those of you wondering what your friendly neighborhood Greenius does when he’s not blogging or hanging out with 999 other climate activists at Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps training , the answer is he works for a living.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. Susan oversees the development and implementation of the City’s energy and green building programs and policies.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2012

For those of you wondering what your friendly neighborhood Greenius does when he’s not blogging or hanging out with 999 other climate activists at Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps training , the answer is he works for a living.

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Setec Powerr

APRIL 26, 2022

There are 116,000 public charging ports in the country, according to the Energy Department — mostly lower-speed “Level 2” chargers that are heavily concentrated in California. You have to drive through strange neighborhoods and try to locate chargers in vast parking lots where GPS is known to drop out of service.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The same way they wouldn’t listen to Steven Chu after they picked him to be their energy expert. He doesn’t see any signs that we’re going to go Fossil Free and 100% Renewable Energy in time to prevent a 2+ degree rise in global temperatures and the destiny that brings with it. And I’m all in.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Scientists and engineers have extended the range of EVs by cramming ever more energy into their batteries, and vehicle charging networks have expanded in many countries. For EVs, much of the environmental burden centers on the production of batteries, the most energy- and resource-intensive component of the vehicle. AFP/Getty Images.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The three leading new options to re-supply our autos with energy are charging at home, battery swap stations and fast charge stations. Well take a look at these three different energy resupply methods and outline some of their strengths as well as weaknesses. The main benefit associated with the swapping model is speed.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 30, 2009

And when I say “we&# I mean GRID Alternatives the non-profit whose mission is to empower communities in need by providing renewable energy and energy efficiency services, equipment and training. citizen volunteer environment green building renewable energy solar power GRID Alternatives President Barack Obama.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 21, 2014

But this election season in my own South Bay of Los Angeles just keeps getting curious and curiouser – and it’s impossible for your friendly neighborhood Greenius not to note and comment on these curiosities. Doesn’t Oxy Oil know that Amy Howorth helped launch a 100% renewable energy goal in Manhattan Beach in March?

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