What you find when you dig in your closet -

The virtual world's access and immediacy puts information at our fingertips. That being said, so often it's easy to overlook those points of interest located in physical proximity to the keyboard that brings us the larger world.

Such is the case again this morning. Trolling around the i-net, exploring job opportunities that might need a creative writer, I stumbled upon Momentum Dynamics of Malvern, Pa. Here is a start up company whose product, wireless recharing technology, seems to have been lifted from the pages of an Isaac Asimov sci-fi novel or Space 1999.

We all know EV - electonic vehicles of which Chevy's Volt has created the latest buzz. We all know that like anything else battery-packed, recharging is necessary. We also know that time is ALWAYS of the essence and that "juicing up the jalopy" with electricity is not now nearly as quick as guzzling the gas down the tank. But Momentum Dynamics has a proprietary hardware/software product that establishes a wireless transfer of electric charges. Think powering up your iphone in its holder or recharging your electric toothbrush. Just increase that holder size and voila! Your Chevy Volt or future, full-sized, slot-car racer is ready to head on down the road. Put this technology out there at every McDonalds parking lot and you can cruise emission free from one Happy Meal to the next.

This is definitely cool. "Highly resonant magnetic coupling" transfers power over distances - both short and long. MD hopes that its technology will accelerate acceptance of EV's, and extend EV vehicle driving range and battery life (by minizming deep recharging). Check out MD's website and ponder its technology and the green-emissions beauty of EV's and the "freedom to move."

People in Glass Houses Should Throw Parties

I had done some research and pasted to my virtual vision board a green, pre-fab home where I want to retire in comfort and with a clear conscience that I've done a small, anonymous part in sustaining life on this tiny rock for the next generation. I found the modularity, greenness, and affordability of blu homes products like the Element to be particularity fetching. But that was a month ago. Earth Techling presents David Fanchon's eco-friendly pearl-dome home. Check this domicile out! Some kind of passive solar collector/deflector showplace. Some kind of style. Some kind of bragging rights. The bay windows beckon the lower winter sun, the shielded, insulated roof dampens the summer sun. It's geometric. It's scientific. It's green and it's cool. I'm sitting here in the rainy, cold Northeast, fervently waving my hand in case Fanchon deigns to choose a passel of bloggers to see his eco-friendly, aesthetically-stunning piece of practical architecture. "Ooo, ooo, ooo, Pick me. Pick me, Please!" Enjoy the tour at the link.

Clean Energy Investment Race: China Repeats Gold

The Pew Charitable Trust's Environment Group released its latest Clean Energy Investment report today. Not surprising, China remains at the fore, contributing more than $54 billion in 2010 to clean energy technology. Germany took silver with more than $41 billion invested, and the US dropped to third, even though its clean energy investments increased 50% to more than $34 billion. Italy, the first country to achieve grid parity between traditional fossil fuel and renewable fuels, followed in fourth place, just under $14 billion, just out of (but very much in) the "money." It seems the green business trend is alive and well, especially in those countries that promote an environment of cooperation via national policy. Because European countries - for the most part - have national policies that embrace green energy technologies, investors put their money where it is less likely to encounter political ambivalence which tends to produce development (and subsequently, ROI) delay. The Pew Charitable Trusts Environment Group website has posted a summary of report (with a fun, interactive world map) and a download of the entire report. The report is a curious aggregate of statistics, issues, and international motivation. It's conclusions are reassuring. Take a read.

Elcriton - Food for Fuel, Food for Thought

A rousing Ignite Newark #1 presented some great ideas tonight. Among them, Elcriton.

I was fortunate to make the acquaintance of Bryan P. Tracy, Ph.D, CEO of Elcriton, a biofuel start up that "develops microbial catalysts and industrial bioprocesses that generate next-generation biofuels and petrochemical replacements through the conversion of renewable, non-food biomass."

That mouthful may sound like it was scripted by Ed Wood for Christopher Lee to declare as a demented scientist in a SciFi film, but in actuality it means Elcriton creates/engineers the ingredients and refining processes that drive production of or result in green-fuel products.

Currently, biobutanol, a vegetable-based biofuel that appears to have higher energy content, is less volatile, and is less hygroscopic (moisture loving) than ethanol, stands as Elcriton's incipient improved, green, and sustainable gasoline alternative.

With fossil fuels nearly depleted, greenhouse gases wreaking ecological havoc, and battles for limited energy resources always imminent, efforts like Elcriton's have seemed almost Quixotic: well-intentioned moralistic imperatives, but ultimately feckless. I mean, a fuel that is renewable, doesn't pollute, and provides similar energy bang as gasoline has been stuff more of science fiction. Elcriton has made it stuff of science.

Check out the company's website and see if you agree that smart, scientific stuff is happening at Elcriton. The Green Write will keep you posted on the bio-tech firm's latest.

Here's the website: http://elcriton.com/Home_Page.html

The Green Write Re-commences

After an 8-month hiatus because I was handling the social media marketing for Vitalize Consulting Solutions, Inc., I renew my intent to deliver insight, information, and a wow-factor or two here on The Green Write.

Topics will attain orbit around green initiatives, ideas, practices, but, hey, it's a blog and I can go off on tangents when I want, right?

So, as I begin my second half century on this planet, and AARP begins regular, frequent delivery to my mail box, I'm hopeful that I can provide some value, humor, & poignance for those who tarry here momentarily.

For example, consider the insidious effect on a couch potato's ticker from both sex and exercise as reported here.

Or check out my new (local) favorite green business - Tangent Energy Solutions. This company helps commercial and industrial enterprises use less energy and even create energy to give back to the grid by tapping a company's own "behind the meter grid." Kinda cool and quite forward thinking.

Til next post, remember Frost's immortal words " Nature's first green is gold -"