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. Let’s put it this way, if you’ve already paid to charge your vehicle, why not use the left-over power to run your home too? Better management on local power needs.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. Those arguments are not yet settled.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2017

Utilizing a hydrogen station that is to be built in May 2017, Toyota will conduct a complete range of driving and refueling tests under extreme heat, dust, and other conditions unique to the local environment.

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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

campaign citizen volunteer climate change energy efficiency environment environmental legislation fossil fuels green building green education green jobs plug-in cars politics recycling renewable energy sea-level rise solar power 350.org You say you’d like to see that presentation?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The specifics of the testing program, testing vehicles, and solar-powered charging stations made their public debut in Japan. Solar-powered charging station for the test vehicles. The Saitama program will focus on motorcycles, automobiles and power products. Honda Motor Co., Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 26, 2009

I attended the Southern California Edison’s free Solar session for homeowners last night. Overall it was a good workshop with lots of solid basic information for people who don’t know much about solar but are considering a solar electric system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Screen shot of a Grid Command Distribution “heatmap” analysis for a neighborhood. The last piece of what we’ve done is to build a powerful post-processing capability in the tool. the addition of solar panels, batteries, volt/VAR. Source: Battelle and AEP (data). Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2009

Larry Sutton, the Account Executive from Southern California Edison, did the perfect job teeing up my solar financing presentation by sharing with all of us just how much SCE’s electric rates will be going up this year. County Solar Map. Each red dot contains information on that zip code's solar installations.

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Driivz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Agencies want to ensure broad coverage to serve all EV driver populations, including residents of underserved neighborhoods. Projecting where to place new charging infrastructure requires a deep understanding of today’s population and physical environs as well as the ability to predict future EV charging-related trends.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2009

Solar Homes Tour A Big Hit. Creative Greenius at Nelson Solar house with their RAV4 Electric Car at 2009 Solar Homes Tour. But Torrance has earned no such reputation and the home of the Exxon/Mobil refinery is not likely to without a major change in priorities. Tough Talk in Torrance Town.

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Understanding EV Charging Stations Charging stations vary by connector type, use cases and locale, their power rating, and whether they are AC or DC. Level 2 – Standard Public Charging Stations Level 2 chargers are found at most public charging stations and also use AC power (208/240V in the US, 230/400 VAC in Europe).

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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. We both know that 20% of California’s electric power is used just to move water from the North down here to the South and all the other places it goes.

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Setec Powerr

APRIL 26, 2022

Aiming to boost confidence in battery-powered cars by ensuring drivers can always find somewhere to plug in, grants included in the infrastructure law will help states build a charging network designed to reach highways in almost every corner of the country. Solar mobile charging stations along highways make Long-Haul Journeys possible.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. 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.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

It’s not sexy and it doesn’t make a bunch of old school, balding, white, male, carbon collaborators stinking filthy rich, so it’s no wonder they’ve done every evil and despicable thing in their power to keep this weapon from being aimed at them. And that kind of vision makes us powerful.

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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.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 29, 2009

I’ve been up on roofs installing solar… among other things. In this case for GRID Alternatives at a low income home in my old neighborhood in Long Beach, California. Like these guys above securing the solar panels to the rack of the Long Beach house we worked on. Ralph is in the middle and Jose is on the far right.

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EV Connect

MARCH 4, 2024

That added value feature can be enough to draw an EV-driving customer away from a rival store, or into a neighborhood they might otherwise have ignored. That’s because gas-powered car drivers pay for time, whereas EV drivers are paying for power. They are also more likely to plan their route around EV charging facilities.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

And the work they’re doing brings California’s leading edge fight against global warming right into my neighborhood and into my home. With my interest in installing solar on my roof I’ve been closely watching their approach and frankly wishing my own city of Torrance was following their lead. Talk about a dichotomy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Renewable Power (4 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Biomass Energy (5 projects). ENERGY STORAGE.

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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

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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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2021

Everyone wants to be young we want to look young, feel young, but what is the best way to be younger than to ride a cycle I don’t see any other answer the fun would multiply if it’s an electric-powered cycle. The motor is powered by a battery that is recharged through the electrical grid, though a solar panel can be used as well.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

For instance, they may have solar panels on their roof or could, via their utility, opt for energy from renewable sources. Although charging infrastructure is beginning to find its way into cities, it may be awhile until they are available in residential neighborhoods en masse. One of the main drawbacks to charge stations is speed.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Driving an EV pushes these problems upstream, to the factory where the vehicle is made and beyond, as well as to the power plant where the electricity is generated. Then there is the fuel cycle—the activities associated with producing and using the fuel or electricity to power the vehicle through its working life. AFP/Getty Images.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 30, 2009

April 14, 2009 GRID Alternative solar install for Habitat for Humanity. That’s your Creative Greenius in the orange hardhat, and my buddy the Reverend Ron giving the Hang Loose salute, atop the roof of a Habitat for Humanity home we successfully installed a Solar PV system on. From left, Asm.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The solar market, for example, has been around for some time, but it has been a fringe technology in commercial terms. But with Japan mandating that 70 percent of the countrys new houses will be powered by photovoltaic solar energy by 2020, "that creates a market," McCabe notes. (It

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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. It’s a damn good thing I read plenty of Lewis B. ” What laughable hypocrisy. Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun.

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