Sweden’s national energy company Vattenfall has come up with an ingenious process for reducing air pollution, which recently won a prestigious award for one of the best technology projects of 2008 by a US magazine. Vattenfall’s project is a way to supercharge a process known as “carbon capturing.” What is carbon capturing you ask? Well it’s kind of like putting a big balloon over the tailpipe of your car.
Category : Poverty & New Ideas to Combat Poverty
This story which happened three days ago, is unfortunately another all-too common occurrence in both the “developing” and “developed” worlds – kerosene ingestion. The online article can be found here.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency today released an advisory that air pollution levels in the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota have been rated as “unsafe for sensitive groups” according to an article from the Pioneer Press. But where did this pollution come from?
Bright New Ideas founder Patrick Delaney’s recent presentation at Nankai University in Tianjin, China was covered by local newspaper, “China Tribune.” The article can be viewed here.
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Bright New Ideas has been invited to attend “Strategies in Light,” a business conference and exhibition on high-brightness LEDs (HB LEDs) produced by Strategies Unlimited and PennWell Corporation. In its ninth year, it is both the longest-running and the largest conference in the HB LED industry. This event is the premier annual forum for presenting current commercial developments in high-brightness LED applications and providing unparalleled networking opportunities for component and equipment suppliers, manufacturers, and end-users of HB LED devices. In 2007, this event drew record attendance from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Bright New Ideas President Patrick Delaney will be attending this conference on February 11th through 13th, 2008 of this year to cover some of the events in this blog and to built additional partnerships for Bright New Ideas. It is our hope that we will be able to learn more about how HB LEDs can help those in need.
As was mentioned in the past, Bright New Ideas was featured on the talk radio show, “Considering Faith” this past month. Audio of this show has now been posted.
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Yesterday, President Bush signed a law mandating the phase out of incandescent lighting. “Incandescent” light bulbs are the “Thomas Edison” type of light bulb you probably grew up with around your house. New types of light bulbs include “compact florescent,” which are commonly sold now a days and use about 15-watts of energy for an equivalent 60-watt bulb and “light emitting diode,” or “LED” which is the type used by Bright New Ideas in its solar lighting project. Today an LED lighting system that uses about 12-watts puts out the equivalent amount of light as a 60-watt incandescent.
You can see the news reported online at Compound Semiconductors Online. Or view the article below…
It’s important to realize how lack of electricity affects those around the world, including those within our own country. Since an ice storm that has affected the lower Midwest earlier this year, power outages have kept more than 91,000 homes and businesses dark and cold. Bright New Ideas encourages those across our country to keep the thousands without electricity in the Midwest in your thoughts and prayers.
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Bright New Ideas, represented by President Patrick Delaney will appear on the 950AM radio show, “Considering Faith” on Sunday, December 16th from 2-3pm. Tune in to hear Bright New Idea’s latest perspectives.
Anoka-Hennepin County Schools has invited Patrick Delaney, President of Bright New Ideas to judge at the annual Students in Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Fair on January 12th, 2008. Delaney will judge students from grades 6-12 in the conference during the morning session.
The fair provides an opportunity for students to showcase their inquiry skills and creative genius in a wide variety of scientific and technological fields. This is the type of experience cannot be duplicated in the classroom and so provides great enrichment to science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs for young students, some of the core values of Bright New Ideas.
More information can be found at the Stemfair Website.
