Doing All We Can To Salvage Our Environment

Below is part of a story about the environment from LOS ANGELES TIMES where you can get the rest of the scoop.

Environment-oriented people are gathering around Southern California and throughout the state today to press for tough federal legislation and an international treaty to curb global warning.

The participants are part of "an international day of action," with about 4,000 events in 170 countries at places including the Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tower, according to 350.org, a group started by environmentalist Bill McKibben.

Energy from waste! Drink water from see water! Members of 30 Santa Barbara and Los Angeles-area environmental groups and their supporters will gather at 3 p.m. on the Manhattan Beach Pier for the "Amazing Waving Human Tide Line" to highlight the sea rise expected from climate change. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted last month to endorse the International Day of Climate Action. (Click here to download a description of the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group.)

In Orange County, the Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center will feature an International Day of Climate Action Festival from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., highlighted by an aerial photo of attendees gathered to form the number 350 on a field. Other activities will include a nature hike, a 5K walk, tree planting and talks by Orange County environmental and religious leaders. The United Methodist Church in Costa Mesa will host a lecture on "creation care," a movement to protect the Earth from climate-related threats.




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Next Stop: Ultracapacitor Buses

This news item is from the Technology review website. Looks like strides in mass transportation is surging. The rest of the news item can be read a at TR


Municipal transit agencies have tried to reduce the carbon footprint of their bus fleets using a range of options over the years, from biofuels and hydrogen to batteries and hybrid-electric diesel. Now a Chinese company and its U.S. partner say that ultracapacitors could offer the greenest and most economical way of powering inner-city buses.
Fast charger: A bus that runs entirely on ultracapacitors charges up at a bus stop in Shanghai. The buses can only travel three to five miles between charges, but the ultracapacitors allow for fast recharging at designated bus stops.
Credit: Sinautec Automobile Technologies


There's just one catch: the best ultracapacitors can only store about 5 percent of the energy that lithium-ion batteries hold, limiting them to a couple of miles per charge. This makes them ineffective as an energy storage medium for passenger vehicles. But what ultracapacitors lack in range they make up in their ability to rapidly charge and discharge. So in vehicles that have to stop frequently and predictably as part of normal operation, energy storage based exclusively on ultracapacitors begins to make sense.



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Ultracapacitors are definitely not batteries. They are much more enhanced and larger versions of ordinary capacitors. They were most definitely made out of some exotic materials, with a higher number of plates and dielectrics and the plates having a larger surface area. Capacitors are charge storage devices found in virtually all electronic devices. Method of releasing their charge can be regulated by means of variable resistors.