COOL GAME THAT COULD BE LIKE OUR FUTURE

Hey guy check out this cool game. It's called Mech Quest and could be exactly like our future! For example: (Without all the fighting alien shadowscythe) Regular space travel, energy swords, well you get it's awesome. So check it out! If you help the world with cleantech, this might be our future! ( As I said before, without all the alien invasions!)The link is below:

Mech Quest

DRIVING CARS ON TERMITE GUTS

Hi everyone,

Wow!!! From Termite guts to running our family cars. Tell your parents the future is near and maybe a bit weird.


http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23989/

HELPING WILLIE SMITS

Hi again Everyone,


The stuff in the link below (don't forget to scroll down) could really help Willie Smits with his rain forest activities in Borneo (see my earlier posts on Willie).


If anybody knows how to reach Prince Charles or the UK energy and climate change secretary, I hope they'll forward my posts about Willie, who I think is a great man,


http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=3a6f797067&view=att&th=12586123f7e7acb3&attid=0.1&disp=inline&zwhttp://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=3a6f797067&view=att&th=12586123f7e7acb3&attid=0.1&disp=inline&zwhttp://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=3a6f797067&view=att&th=12586123f7e7acb3&attid=0.1&disp=inline&zwhttp://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=3a6f797067&view=att&th=12586123f7e7acb3&attid=0.1&disp=inline&zw

A GREAT IDEA - GREEN MAPS BY YOUTH WORLDWIDE

Hi,

I just learned about these green maps kids have been making. Hope all kids who don't already know about them will show this link to their teachers, which I'm going to do this week. I think it's a terrific idea.

http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/home

CLEANTECH HOUSES IN NEW ORLEANS - LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Hi Everyone,

This guy, William McDonough, is an architect who wrote a book called Cradle to Cradle, which kids can easily read. About designing architectural stuff including houses so re-use or return to nature are part of the design from the beginning - work with nature instead of against it.

I went to New Orleans with my parents the year after Katrina and it was a mess. I just saw this picture (follow link) of a cradle to cradle house that he designed in New Orleans. It's great to build New Orlens for the future, not in the past.

William McDonough + Partners’ Flow House in New Orleans

EXCELLENT CLEANTECH WEBSITE!

Hi Everyone ,

Haven't posted for a couple of weeks. Very busy time. Good to be back!


Check out www.susty.com. This is a great site with lots of cleantech info and links, many of interest to kids.

OUR GOVERNMENT TRIES TO HELP GET CLEANTECH GOING THE WAY THEY HELPED THE INTERNET

Recently I heard about this government program called ARPA-E which might help cleantech get going the way something called DARPA helped get the internet going. So I emailed them and asked about it. Their answer (below) didn’t say much about how we kids could help. But they talk about some things we probably need to learn about like new batteries to make electricity more reliable and cleaner, bio-fuel to replace gas in cars, and CO2 capture (which there’s plenty of stuff about on the internet). I needed some help from my parents to understand what they said – maybe you will too. But it’s good our government is doing this!




Dear Dylan,

Thank you for your e-mail and interest in ARPA-E.

Our goal is to help develop flexible, creative and inventive approaches
that have the ability to transform the global energy landscape and
advance our Country's technological leadership.  ARPA-E projects not
only creates jobs, but can also help cut carbon pollution and lead to
the next Industrial Revolution in clean energy technologies.

In our recent selection process, a large number of small businesses and
educational institutions such as MIT, Stanford, University of Minnesota
and Arizona State University received funds to advance their research.
Here are just a few examples of the great work ARPA-E awardees are
doing:

*       Liquid Metal Grid-Scale Batteries: Created by Professor Don
Sadoway, a leading MIT battery scientist, this battery technology could
revolutionize the way electricity is used and produced on the grid,
enabling round-the-clock power from America's wind and solar power
resources, increasing the stability of the grid, and making blackouts a
thing of the past. And if deployed at homes, it could allow individuals
and families like yours the ability to be part of a future "smart energy
Internet," where they would have much greater control over their energy
usage.
*       Bacteria for Producing Direct Solar Hydrocarbon Biofuels:
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a bioreactor
that has the potential to produce a flow of gasoline directly from
sunlight and CO2 using a symbiotic system of two organisms. This
development has the potential to greatly increase U.S.-production of
clean fuel for our vehicles and end our reliance on foreign oil.
*       CO2 Capture using Artificial Enzymes: Funding will support an
effort by the United Technologies Research Center to develop new
synthetic enzymes that could make it easier and more affordable to
capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and factories.
Success of this project could substantially lower the cost of carbon
capture relative to current, state-of-the-art amine and ammonia based
processes. This would represent a major breakthrough that could make it
affordable to capture the carbon dioxide emissions from coal and natural
gas power plants around the world.
*       Low Cost Crystals for LED Lighting: Developed by Momentive
Performance Materials, this proposal for novel crystal growth technology
could dramatically lower the cost of developing light emitting diodes
(LEDs), which are 30 times more efficient than incandescent bulbs and
four times more efficient than compact fluorescents. This higher
quality, low-cost material would offer significant breakthroughs in
lowering costs of finished LED lighting, accelerating mass market use,
and dramatically decreasing U.S. lighting energy usage, which currently
accounts for 14 percent of U.S. electricity use.

ARPA-E plans on continuing these efforts to fund projects like this by
bringing together America's brightest energy innovators to pioneer a
low-cost, low-carbon energy future for our nation.  More information on
ARPA-E and our projects can be found on our Web site.

Best Regards,

ARPA-E