Safran and Honeywell have designed an electric green taxiing system or EGTS that allows jets to taxi on the ground without having to use their engines.  Instead the planes would use electric motors attached to each wheel and run by the plane’s auxiliary power unit.  The electrical system should provide better maneuvering control to pilots when docking at a gate and should save four percent of energy costs.

When thinking of solar power most people envision either photovoltaic cells that turn sunlight to electricity or they might think of solar thermal where mirrors reflect solar heat onto a water filled tower, boiling the water which turns a turbine which creates electricity.  Enviromission uses hot air created by suns heat to turn turbines creating power.

One of the ways that Google fulfills its goal to be carbon neutral is with the purchase of carbon offsets.  Duke Energy and Duke University collaborated with Loyd Ray Farms near Yadkin, North Carolina, to build a prototype waste-to-energy system.  Google has agreed to pay for part of the system operations and maintenance costs for the next five years in exchange for a portion of the carbon offsets.

Carbonfund.org’s new web based software Carbon ExpressTrack was developed to make it easy for businesses to manage and track their carbon footprints.  The software is an easy to use method for carbon management and accounting.

The software uses “widely accepted protocols like the WRI/WBCSD Greenhouse Gas Protocol and EPA Climate Leaders Greenhouse Gas Inventory.”  Carbonfund.org lists it’s main features as follows:

SkyMine® technology reduces CO2, NO2, SO, mercury, and heavy metal emissions cutting down on greenhouse gases while producing a saleable byproduct, sodium bicarbonate or baking soda.  The technology uses a carbon mineralization process that captures smokestack emissions in a way that smokestack scrubbers can’t.

Utility company Entergy is launching its Double Your Difference initiative this Thursday.  The initiative allows people to purchase Carbon Offsets that Entergy will match dollar for dollar up to five tons of purchased offsets.

Mac-Gray Corporation, provides debit-card and coin-operated laundry equipment to various universities for student use.  Besides offering water and energy efficient equipment, Mac-Gray also provides green house gas (GHG) free equipment by partnering with Carbonfund.org.

Motorola’s newest environmentally friendly phone, the  MOTO™ W388 Renew+ has been certified CarbonFree® by the Carbonfund.org.  In order to be certified CarbonFree, products have to meet stiff requirements.  The product must be carbon neutral over its entire lifecycle from manufacturing through recycling.

The MOTO™ W388 Renew+ was manufactured using Motorola’s environmentally sound design factors:

• Venom is producing something they call a carbon neutral battery.  The company markets the batteries as Eco Alkaline.  How can Venom claim to be producing alkaline batteries that are carbon neutral when other battery makers don’t?  Why are Eco Alkalines carbon neutral?  Could other battery makers create carbon neutral batteries?  Could Venom produce Eco Lithiums or Eco Metal Hydrides?  Let’s look at how these batteries came to be carbon neutral.