Mad Like Tesla by Tyler Hamilton

Author:Tyler Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2011-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Notes:

1 “Challenges facing green business start-ups,” Mongabay.com. October 20, 2008.

2 Philip S. Callahan, Tuning In To Nature: Solar Energy, Infrared Radiation and the Insect Communication System (Old Greenwich, CT: Camelot, 1975), 94.

3 Janine Benyus, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 2.

4 The Biomimicry Institute has set up an online database called AskNature.org, which allows inventors (designers, engineers, architects, etc.) to better connect what they’re trying to do with what nature has to offer. For example, if you want to filter salt from water you type that in and the database will come up with examples showing how nature performs this trick. The goal is to encourage inventors to explore biomimicry and adapt natural mechanisms into their designs.

5 McKinsey & Company, “Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the U.S. Economy.” July 2009.

6 Julian F.V. Vincent, et al., “Biomimetics: It’s Practice and Theory,” Journal of the Royal Society. Paper accepted March 27, 2006. See also: “Copying Nature Could Save Us Energy, Study Shows,” press release, University of Bath. May 9, 2006.

7 A video showing this up-and-down motion can be seen at http://www.vortexhydroenergy.com.

8 Tyler Hamilton, “A New Twist on Hydropower,” Technology Review. December 3, 2008. http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21749/.

9 Tyler Hamilton, “A Whale of a Tale,” Toronto Star. May 14, 2007. See also Tyler Hamilton, “Whale-inspired Wind Turbines,” Technology Review. March 6, 2008. http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/20379/.

10 Tyler Hamilton, “Lots of Buzz Surrounding This Company,” Toronto Star. September 3, 2007.

11 Tyler Hamilton, “Electric Cars Are Coming, But Can California Take Charge?” Toronto Star. July 12, 2010.

12 Benyus and Hawken are both on PAX Scientific’s advisory board along with Amory Lovins.

13 Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada that has been under study for 32 years as the long-term storage site for radioactive waste from U.S. nuclear power plants and other sources. In 2009, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama announced his cancellation of the Yucca project, though discussion of the project remains very much alive.

14 “Peak Demand — U.S. Gasoline Demand Likely Peaked in 2007,” press release, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates. June 19, 2008.

15 Jeff Rubin, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2009), 23.

16 Steven Chu, “Energy Efficiency: Achieving the Potential, Realizing the Savings,” Huffington Post. March 16, 2010. (His commentary originally appeared in “Energy Vision 2010: Towards a More Energy Efficiency World,” a report by the World Economic Forum and IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates.)

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