Jeremy shared this article with me today about a company’s biodiesel technology has made some great progress.
This give us great hope about the environment and our RV dream! This bio diesel is not only affordable to make, it is environmentally friendly and can easily be distributed through existing fuel infrastructure.
Solazyme, a California-base company in South San Francisco is making some headway with algae-based bio diesel.
Per their news release today: Read the rest of this entry »
I came across michelle kaufmann’s blog today and saw her entry about their 2007 water usage. Made me wonder how much water we use.
Her annual daily household water usage was averaging 86 gallons per day for 2007, while the typical household was using 355 gallons per day! That was awesome!
So I went and looked at our May water usage…
I am pretty proud of ourselves! based on their report. Month of May was 30 days and that put us to 99.74 gallons per day for the month of May.
So I looked back further… in April we used about 72 gallons per day!
Between never watering our lawn and tree… carefully use water to hand wash dishes… I think we are doing really well in the water use footprint area~ 
Now, we just need to figure out a way to cut back even more so when we live in the RV, it will be even better than when we are in the house. Especially our RV hot water heater’s capacity is only 6 gallons, compared to our house water heater that is 40 gallons.
This year’s Popular Science Innovation of the Year award goes to Nanosolar Powersheet!
Based on their website, the powersheet will pay for it self after one month of use. This new solar technology is printable, flexible, and affordable. Came in time for our full time RV dream! Just think about printing a layer of it on the roof of our future rig.
From PopSci.
Nanosolar’s cells use no silicon, and the company’s manufacturing process allows it to create cells that are as efficient as most commercial cells for as little as 30 cents a watt. “You’re talking about printing rolls of the stuff – printing it on the roofs of 18-wheeler trailers, printing it on garages, printing it wherever you want it,” says Dan Kammen, founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. “It really is quite a big deal in terms of altering the way we think about solar and in inherently altering the economics of solar.”
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