A number of start ups are seeking to replace your trip to the gas station with the tap of an app. Much in the same fashion you would use a ride share service, or a mobile glass replacement service, these apps would allow you to request a fill up via smartphone from your home, office, or wherever is convenient.
Topics: Oil & Energy Magazine, Technology
Self-Driving vehicles (or AV's - autonomous vehicles) are the undisputed next frontier in consumer transport technology. Automakers, it appears, are anxious for Federal Guidelines to be put in place in order to tailor their roll outs, and be assured that they are in compliance with safety expectations, as well as in order to circumvent the mess of State's adopting their own patchwork regulations in leiu of uniform federal regulations.
Topics: Safety, Technology, AVs
This past October, a Volvo 18 wheeler delivered 2,000 cases of Budweiser in Colorado - with no driver at the wheel!
Topics: Safety, Oil & Energy Magazine, AVs
The Sterling Municipal Light Department in Sterling MA is building the first utility scale battery storage system project in Massachusetts. It's not only the first in Mass, its also the largest in New England -a 2-megawatt, 3.9 megawatt-hour battery storage system to be exact. Its kind of a big deal!
Topics: Mass DOER, renewable energy, battery
Let's face it - innovation is often driven by either a desire to control costs, or a refusal to accept inefficiency. Often, it is both. Its hard to beat smart solutions that both control costs and allow for greater efficiency and productivity at the same time. In our unending quest to make things as efficient as possible, we've tried out and expanded tons of different systems for everything from financial data, to e-logs, to payroll, to website visits.
Topics: Cell Phone Policy, Oil & Energy Magazine, Technology, tablets
Scientists at MIT have published findings that the "first fingerprints of healing" are evident in the ozone layer over the Antarctic. In the published paper they show that the hole in the ozone (first discovered in 1985) has shrunk over 4 millon square kilometers since its peak in 2000.
Topics: MIT, CFCs, ozone, alternative energy
Solar Power has seen a huge growth in installations - from residential neighborhood rooftops to large installations along highways throughout the country.
Topics: Solar, MIT, photovoltaic
Tesla's Model 3 launch saw unprecedented and unpredicted preorders come in around 400,000 - for a car that isnt even out for about 2 more years!
Topics: electric vehicles, tesla
Batteries had a great year in 2015 - with costs going down and large scale installations occuring, primarily in the utility sector. The United States energy storage capacity grew by 221 megawatts in 2015, which is triple the capacity added in 2014.
Topics: Solar, renewable energy, energy storage
