America’s oldest Net Zero Energy residential restoration  
Michigan’s first Net Zero Energy house   
America’s first Net Zero home restoration in a historic district

Kelly and Nate set out to create a net zero energy house i.e. a home that produces as much or more energy than the occupants consume. And they succeeded...in a historic district.

"Find out how much energy your devices really use—including, the cost of operation, the amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) produced in generating the electricity consumed, and watts. See at a glance the true impact to your wallet—and the environment."

Given their emphasis on cold, hard numbers, it’s noteworthy that Levitt and Dubner ignore what are, by now, whole libraries’ worth of data on global warming. Indeed, just about everything they have to say on the topic is, factually speaking, wrong. Among the many matters they misrepresent are: the significance of carbon emissions as a climate-forcing agent, the mechanics of climate modelling, the temperature record of the past decade, and the climate history of the past several hundred thousand years.

a Massachusetts company, WiTricity, says it will have just such a system on the market in about 18 months

The biggest fan of India on the NYT Columnist Team

This can keep your laptop going in rural parts of the world where you won’t look silly at all foot pumping your laptop

Individual Americans Cause -- and Could Cure -- Most of U.S. Emissions Problem

there are a number of fuel-saving alternatives that are easy, inexpensive and completely idiotic.

Revetec may be on to something huge: they’ve created an engine that is 50% smaller, 50% lighter, has 50% lower emissions and is cheaper to manufacture than a conventional internal combustion engine of the same horsepower.

United States rising consumption of oil in face of rising prices.

Probably a slew of such buildings can sell power back to the grid and bring down energy costs.

Guess they have never heard of gobar gas?

and it can be mass-produced. Any reason to stay addicted to oil?