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25 million investment to help the agricultural sector reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the development and adoption of clean technologies. The Agricultural Clean Technology Program investment will be made over three years and was announced by Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay. In a release, the government said Canadian farmers were important drivers of the economy and were making important contributions in the fight against climate change. Provinces and territories are eligible to apply for federal funding through this program and are encouraged to work with industry on projects that focus on precision agriculture and/or bioproducts. "This investment will help Canadian farmers stay on the cutting edge of clean technology by targeting developments in bioproducts and precision agriculture. Our government has made both agriculture and clean technology a priority for growth in our economy," MacAulay said.
Only show results available in New York?youtube.com Decreasing the time to detect, contain and mitigate very low levels of Airborne Molecular Contamination (AMC) is critical for high tech manufacturers.youtube.com Costs associated with AMC-related quality issues and yield losses are well understood, and adequate reduction of AMC is critical for clean manufacturers to stay competitive. By Particle Measuring Systems based in Boulder, COLORADO (USA). By EPA Alliance Training Group (Baxter Communications Group) based in The Woodlands, TEXAS (USA). By American Filtration & Separations Society (AFS) based in Madison, TENNESSEE (USA). The Centre recognizes that effective training for practical skills must be, at least in part, hands-on.
To meet this need the Walkerton Clean Water Centre Research & Technology Institute, in collaboration with our Training Institute, is continuously working to increase the offering of courses using more elements of hands-on training. By Walkerton Clean Water Centre based in Walkerton, ONTARIO (CANADA). Clean Air Technologies have developed a range of workshops for Operatives and Managers of critical environments, harnessing the unique insight gained through the many years of experience as both Designers and front line Validators of such facilities. By Clean Air Technologies Ltd. Clean Planet's Certified Environmental Technician (CET) Program offers one-day certification training seminars for mechanics and technicians, shop managers, anyone who exchanges fluids in automotive, equipment, marine, or industrial-based settings.youtube.com By Clean Planet Mfg. Labs based in Stanton, VIRGINIA (USA).
John Doerr was crying. The billionaire venture capitalist had come to the end of his now-famous March 8, 2007, TED talk on climate change and renewable energy, and his emotions were getting the better of him. Doerr had begun by describing how his teenage daughter told him that it was up to his generation to fix global warming, since they had caused it. As usual, Doerr’s timing was perfect. Just weeks earlier, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth had won an Oscar for best documentary. Interest in climate change had never been higher. And as the economy recovered from the dual shocks of the Internet bubble and 9/11, Doerr’s fellow Silicon Valley VCs were already looking to clean technology as the next big thing. Never mind the fact that green technology had been struggling to achieve critical mass for decades.
"You had folks who came in with the hubris to say, ‘I know these guys have been working on this for 50 years,'" says Andrew Beebe, chief commercial officer for Suntech, the Chinese solar manufacturer. In 2005, VC investment in clean tech measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars. 1.75 billion, according to the National Venture Capital Association. 4.1 billion. And the federal government followed. 44.5 billion into the sector between late 2009 and late 2011. Avarice, altruism, and policy had aligned to fuel a spectacular boom. Anyone who has heard the name Solyndra knows how this all panned out. Doerr’s TED talk wasn’t the start of this VC-fueled drive for a new-energy economy. Rather, it was a product of a transformation that was sweeping Silicon Valley.
Many of the investors and entrepreneurs who had ridden the Internet bubble to various levels of success had already started pouring money and ideas into clean tech. One of the first to bet big was Martin Roscheisen. 450 million, and in 2002 he cofounded Nanosolar, a panel manufacturer. But that was just the beginning. Vinod Khosla, cofounder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems, moved his VC firm, Khosla Ventures, heavily into biofuels and other renewables. 96 million of his own money into the electric-car startup Tesla Motors and was joined by well-known VCs Steve Jurvetson and Nancy Pfund. These investors were drawn to clean tech by the same factors that had led them to the web, says Ricardo Reyes, vice president of communications at Tesla Motors. "You look at all disruptive technology in general, and there are some things that are common across the board," Reyes says.
The major energy bills that passed in 2005 and 2007—which provided tax credits and loan guarantees for clean tech—gave investors further confidence. 1.85 billion in 2008. Investment in battery tech rose more than 30-fold during the same period. One of these was Chris Gronet, a Stanford PhD in semiconductor processing who had been general manager of the thermal processing group at Applied Materials, a firm that provides equipment and software to semiconductor and solar companies. Conventional photovoltaics are tricky things to install. Under the best conditions—when their surfaces are clean and aimed directly into the sun—they generally operate at no better than 20 percent efficiency, meaning that they convert just a fifth of the energy striking them into electricity.
But an immobile flat surface faces the sun head-on for only a brief period each day, at best. And simple dust can reduce the efficiency by 5 to 10 percent. Furthermore, flat panels’ vulnerability to wind poses numerous structural challenges—from mounting hardware to rooftop integrity. Solar firms routinely employ aeronautical engineers to deal with this issue, and VCs looking to get into the sector sometimes brought these experts on board to help judge whether a startup’s product could withstand intense wind patterns. Gronet’s design called for a grate made of rows of cylindrical cells rather than a single panel of flat cells.
The sun tracking across a cylinder will always be shining directly on part of it. That meant Gronet’s modules could be mounted parallel to a roof and out of the wind, rather than angled up into it. As an added bonus, the tubular cells would gather not just direct sunlight but also ambient light reflected off of the rooftops on which they were mounted.youtube.com At around this time, investors were searching for an alternative to the crystalline silicon used in photovoltaics, which was skyrocketing in price. 300 by 2008. When the higher production costs were factored in, the price of electricity from solar firms was 17 to 23 cents per kilowatt-hour, even after subsidies. That was about twice the average price of conventionally produced electricity at the time. Gronet’s design called for a mix of copper, indium, gallium, and selenium, or CIGS, instead of crystalline silicon.
Though slightly less efficient than silicon in direct sunlight, CIGS performs better under cloud cover and in variable light. The technology had been around for several years but was too expensive to be practical. 200 per kilogram. Suddenly CIGS could compete.youtube.com With his cylindrical module and exotic coating, Gronet had a model for transforming the solar industry. He incorporated his company in 2005, first calling it Gronet Technologies but quickly changing the name to Solyndra. Gronet and his chief financial officer, Jonathan Michael, set out to raise capital for a factory. 99 million from sources including RockPort Capital Partners and Argonaut Private Equity and were busy renovating an old Hitachi building in Fremont, California.
In 2008, Virgin Green Fund, an investment arm of British business icon Richard Branson, chose Solyndra as the only solar company that it would put money into, out of more than 100 that applied for funding. 681 million from a German company called Phoenix Solar. "Everyone was pretty optimistic," recalls Lindsey Eastburn, who was designing factory-automation software for Solyndra.youtube.com Just as Solyndra was starting to take off and needed more money for expansion, the venture capital climate began to cool. The 2008 financial collapse erased a quarter of the gains VC firms had made between 2003 and 2007, and the sudden paucity of capital—combined with the difficulty of taking smaller companies public—hit renewable startups particularly hard.
There was an additional factor at work: impatience. Venture capitalists tend to work on three- to five-year horizons. As they were quickly finding out, energy companies don’t operate on those timelines. Consider a recent analysis by Matthew Nordan, a venture capitalist who specializes in energy and environmental technology. Of all the energy startups that received their first VC funds between 1995 and 2007, only 1.8 percent achieved what he calls "unambiguous success," meaning an initial public offering on a major exchange. The average time from founding to IPO was 8.3 years. The truth is that starting a company on the supply side of the energy business requires an investment in heavy industry that the VC firms didn’t fully reckon with.
The only way to find out if a new idea in this sector will work at scale is to build a factory and see what happens.youtube.com Ethan Zindler, head of policy analysis for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, says the VC community simply assumed that the formula for success in the Internet world would translate to the clean-tech arena. "What a lot of them didn’t bargain for, and, frankly, didn’t really understand," he says, "is that it’s almost never going to be five guys in a garage. Luckily for the clean-tech industry, a much larger investor stepped in to replace the retreating VCs—the federal government. Promise: Enough sunlight hits Earth in one hour to power the world for a year. Outlook: China’s 54 percent share of the global panel-making market will grow, and we’ll remain locked into older technology.
But cheap panels mean more of them on rooftops, which is good. Promise: The US has the potential to generate enough wind energy to meet the nation’s total consumption 12 times over. 30 by 2009, eliminating wind’s financial edge. Also, NIMBY protests have made getting approval for a wind farm in the US as difficult as getting it for a coal-fired plant. Promise: Algae is, by some measures, up to 30 times more energy-dense than other biofuel crops. It ought to yield cheaper fuel, saving huge swaths of arable land. Reality: A recent Department of Energy road map includes a 33-item list of R&D challenges—from assessing environmental risks to creating efficient conversion methods—that must be overcome for algae to be viable.
In fact, researchers still aren’t able to cultivate the stuff on a large scale. Promise: Zero-emission energy for everything from laptops to cars to power stations, all fueled by the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen. 49. Also, there are only about 60 hydrogen refueling stations in the country, serving around 200 small vehicles and 15 buses. 56.3 million in 2010 and has never turned a profit. Outlook: Even if fuel cells become cheaper and more reliable, a workable hydrogen infrastructure is still decades away. Promise: Zero-emission vehicles (assuming that the power for recharging the batteries comes from zero-emission sources). 2.4 billion into the battery industry in 2009, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, with the stated goal of getting more electric cars on the road.
650 per kilowatt-hour of usable energy. At that level, the 24-kWh battery pack for a Nissan Leaf costs more than some cars. 300 per kWh over the next decade. Promise: Biodiesel derived from stalks, trunks, stems, and leaves—rather than plant oils or the edible parts of crops—would supply cheap renewable energy without hitting the food supply. Reality: In 2010, the US produced 88 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel—less than a year’s output from a single corn ethanol plant. Large-scale commercialization is still not viable, because the sugars in biomass are harder to tease out than those in corn. Building a cellulosic ethanol plant costs up to four times as much as building a first-gen biofuel plant.
Outlook: In 2007, the government set a target of 100 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel reaching pumps annually. In 2010, that target was revised down to just 6.6 million gallons. Promise: Replace analog meters with digital devices that provide real-time feedback to both customers and utilities, which would help build more efficiency and stability into the grid. Reality: Smart meters are being widely deployed. But fringe groups have voiced concerns about privacy and health that have slowed or canceled rollouts in several communities. And faulty meters that led to higher bills have caused several local governments to require independent reviews of the systems. Outlook: Smart meters are the linchpin of the smart grid—computer-based automation of electricity delivery. None of these early glitches are likely to get in the way for long. Promise: A network of 240- and 480-volt charging-station kiosks could dot roadsides and parking lots, like ATMs for electric cars. Reality: The fastest charge for a Nissan Leaf takes about 30 minutes at 480 volts. Unless we could suddenly install enough stations to guarantee no waiting (there are currently only 1,800 nationwide), the time commitment means that recharging on the go just isn’t feasible. For the most part, electric-car owners are limited to as much driving as they can get from a single at-home charge.
The force of disruptive technology is quite interesting to explore according to Thornburg ( Walden, 2014a). This power is used to examine the evolutionary path of technology and its functionality of the previous technology. What technology or innovation is displaced by Google Glass? It represents the next stage in mobile computing and is the most hotly- anticipated gadget in that space. Just imagine sitting in a Diner with an enemy wearing a Google Glass? Such environment would automatically become uncomfortable from dining, because of the functionality of the device. Hence, it raised the issue of privacy and security among users ( fig 2). This experience users should consider about Google Glass.
Hust ( 2013) said, " The most significant Google Glass experience is not the user experience - it’s the experience of everyone else" ( p.3). Any significant breakthrough by investors should give rise to a better wearable than Google Glass. But, to be "economically disruptive"( McKinsey Global Institute, 2013 ) the technology must have the perspective to transform the lives of many intensely also create new opportunities for the next generation. Examining the trends in technology, I am positive that Google Glass would be around for a long time, but inventors will add more features such as a projector to enhance the device. Brin, S.(2013) : Why Google Glass? Christensen, C. ( 2015) Disruptive Innovation. Hurst, M.(2013) The Google Glass feature no one is talking about.
I researched this for a little bit and if you really want state of the art cleaning Cryo is the best way to go. Otherwise, I'd follow Pete's tips and (and did) bought some P21S and use some faux wheel woolies to probe around underneath. You definitely want to cover your eyes with good googles during this and maybe your full face (like a dentist) if you're sloppy. The Cryo Clean technology is definitely the winning process for sparkling clean show room engine and road worn under carriage - but also expensive and in limited supply. The joy of doing your own work and admiring ened results for me is a satisfying experience and time well worth it. My engine cleaning with spray on Tuff Stuff, a hot bucket of water and a nylon wheel brush with rags and paper towels took a most satisfying hour and no one to take the credit.
In his book Wave 4 Network Marketing in the 21st Century, best selling author Richard Poe quotes Barry Carter, a successful manager of a Fortune 100 company, in regard to corporate leadership. Carter observes "Both are designed to squash initiative" (68). Not only is initiative squashed, but so is individuality. Moreover, corporate bureaucracies are constantly battling employee morale problems, most of which are of their own making. The problem is far worse, however, than just corporate leaders who are themselves trapped. Corporations are legal entities and are therefore, by nature, impersonal. A corporate entity does not care if you have a job tomorrow.
The bureaucracy of a corporation is driven to serve the corporation and its survival. Current trends indicate that what our parent's generation thought about finding a good company and staying with that company does not hold true anymore. This writer knows personally many people, Information Technology (IT) professionals included, who have experienced their jobs moving to India and China. If this happens to you, what are you going to do? First on the chopping block are low level and mid level management jobs. Then full time employees are replaced with temporary workers from local day labor pools, thus saving the corporation money on sky rocketing benefit plans and state mandated worker's compensation programs. Another contributing factor to the loss or death of corporate jobs is taxes and regulations, which are at an all time high.
If you are next, where are you going to go? Many of your management brethren are already at McDonalds and Wal-Mart trying to stave off bankruptcy. You need to think outside the box, plan for the future and then take appropriate action. The information that follows will help you to do this. Today, the American worker is faced with the grim reality of "Layoffs Ahead" and the "Death of Jobs." Yet, there is hope! In spite of the exodus of manufacturing and high tech jobs, the economy still has strength, resiliency and open opportunities. For those people with vision and who are willing to think outside the box, there are exciting opportunities, such as never seen before, providing the way to financial freedom. There are companies right now that are plugged into the "global economy" that are increasing their sales year after year and growing into billion-dollar a year companies.
They are doing this by utilizing the most powerful business model known to man. Have you heard about this economic trend? This article is about hope. It is about reawakening of the entrepreneurial spirit. It is about a business model that is ethical, innovative and levels the playing field so that everyday people have an opportunity to realize their hopes and dreams. It is about an industry that has created more millionaires than any other industry in American history. It is about an industry that has found a way to do an end run around the shackles of corporate America. It is about an industry that has matured into a major marketing force that is changing the way goods and services are moved through out our economy.
It is about a marketing system that pays you to talk about and share products with others. It is about a marketing model so powerful that many Fortune 500 companies have begun trying to harness its power. This article is about an industry and way of life that allows you to dream your dreams and how, combined with an entrepreneurial spirit, provides hope that your dreams can be realized. Solomon in Proverbs 29:18. The immediate context of this passage is about God's redemptive covenantal purposes in history and His people losing sight of this. There is also a general principle that can be deduced from this passage that is timeless. Without hope, people give in to what has trapped them many times, even unto death. Do you need a vision and hope? Do you want to dream your dreams again? Your life can be exciting again!
The short title of this article is E-commerce and the Future. What do e-commerce and the future mean for you? In the Fifteenth Century, Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized the world with his invention of the movable type printing press. This allowed for a free flow of information printed in books, pamphlets, and tracts such as the world had never before seen. This free flow of information had profound consequences, influencing every avenue of life, including commerce. Additionally, Gutenberg's printing press contributed to the advancement of the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation that could not have been sustained without it. In a similar manner, near the close of the twentieth century, the inventions of the personal computer and the Internet started a new information revolution that promises to be no less profound in its implications than Gutenberg's printing press.
This cyber revolution has the potential to connect people from all over the world, giving them the ability to engage in commerce (especially network marketing, a people business) and information sharing in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. With the technological advances in computers and the development of the Internet, this is now a reality. What has occurred is nothing short of a disruptive technology. A disruptive technology is something, not seen coming by the masses or powers that be, that literally puts existing technologies out of business and spawns whole new industries. An example is what happened to the typewriter manufacturers when the personal computer was introduced. Another example would be the impact of digital cameras, made possible through computer technology, on companies such as Polaroid.
The cyber revolution is still in its infancy and shows no sign of abating. This means the possibility for personal financial freedom is still a ground floor opportunity and is truly limitless. Many of you who are web savvy know the possibilities are there but are not sure how to take advantage of them. What follows briefly describes an incredible opportunity for average web users who want to share in and profit from this incredible new economic revolution. Many network marketing companies now use the Internet and are not limited to the U.S. Canada. In fact, the biggest growth for some network marketing companies has been in the international markets.
This means that you can truly join forces with international entrepreneurs. Building networks with other entrepreneurs is the road to financial freedom. Additionally, being leveraged into international markets can protect you from downturns in the local or national economy. If you realize the potential that the Internet and computers offers and do not want to be left behind, consider the following. Many network marketing companies allow you to set up your own personal web page from which you can market products and educate prospective customers. In addition to Internet marketing strategies, a good company will have a team business building system in place that offers many support tools.
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