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| G.E. Is Building a Center for Research Near Detroit |  | | The center hopes to put former auto industry engineers and scientists to work in manufacturing research, including wind turbine technology.
| | | House passes sweeping energy, climate bill | | | The House approved a sweeping energy and climate bill Friday which could for the first time usher in widespread government restrictions on greenhouse gases and help renewable energy become cost competitive with fossil fuels. | | |
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| OutBack Power Systems` SmartRE Grid-Interactive Solution Now Shipping | | | OutBack Power Systems, Inc., (www.outbackpower.com) a manufacturer of reliable and durable power electronics products for renewable energy applications worldwide, is pleased to announce a new fully integrated renewable energy grid-tie system with battery back-up is now shipping. The company`s Smart Renewable Energy Solution, SmartRE, offers home owners and small businesses a revolutionary solution that allows installers to easily sell and install a grid-tied system that harnesses the sun`s rays to create energy, while simultaneously providing owners the peace of mind of battery back-up, always-on power. | | | Alternative Energy Policies a Boon For Inflatable Electric Car | | | Brian Stretch writes with a story about the Mini Utility Vehicle prototype from XP Vehicles, an electric car that is partly inflatable. The recent struggles of the auto industry and a political climate that supports the development of alternative energy vehicles have given the car a better chance at actually hitting the market. Quoting: "Building a car takes many years and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars traditionally. XP is able to cut a lot of the costs and timeframe because its car has 70 percent less parts than a regular car, and the company is using novel materials that require simpler factory devices, and production and manufacturing processes that lower the cost to deploy. ... The seat is inflatable, the dashboard is inflatable, and the internal structure and carrying racks are inflatable, or a mesh suspension. Instead of requiring six-axis robots, XP uses radio frequency welders that look like giant waffle irons. The factory equipment is much less expensive and the car simply has less parts that could fail. The motors are built into the rear wheels in most XP prototypes. The first cars to reach the market will have two rear hub motors and a motor controller, that`s it."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
| | | Domain-Name Wars, Rise of the Cybersquatters | | | CWmike writes "When FreeLegoPorn.com began publishing pornographic images created with Lego toys, Lego acted quickly. "The content available on the site consisted of animated mini-figures doing very explicit things. We were not amused," says Peter Kjaer, an attorney for Denmark-based Lego. Lego didn`t go to court. Instead it filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization, which ruled in its favor. The domain registrar for FreeLegoPorn.com, GoDaddy.com, eventually shut down the site and transferred the domain name to Lego under ICANN rules. But it`s not just Lego and Verizon that are suffering. Green energy is a hot topic, so cybersquatters have been targeting wind and solar energy start-ups. And malicious sites can create havoc with a brand`s reputation. Cybersquatting activity rose by 18% last year, with a documented 440,584 cybersquatting sites in the fourth quarter of last year alone, according to MarkMonitor`s annual Brandjacking Index report. And WIPO cited an 8% jump in dispute filings in 2008, to 2,329 complaints — a new record. Now, ICANN is preparing to open a potentially unlimited number of new top-level domains as early as the first quarter of 2010."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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