“Up to this point, there has been very little information about how an EV battery will perform in heavily used, real-world, taxi conditions. This program has provided us with critical insights into the battery performance in a switch model and switch station performance for the toughest customers – taxi drivers,” said Kiyotaka Fujii, President of Better Place Japan. “By extending this program, we hope to gain further insights into the battery performance and durability of the switch station itself, which will be invaluable as we move towards commercial launch later next year in Israel and Denmark.”

Read more of this landmark story….

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Zero Waste Certification Workshop

Introducing a new opportunity for those attending The World Congress on Zero Emissions Initiatives: Become certified at the CRRA Zero Waste Community Planning Class conducted by Gary Liss on September 17-18, 2010. For more details and to register, visit: http://zerowasteclass.eventbrite.com/

Aloha no kakou!

We are only 32 days away from the opening of The World Congress on Zero Emissions Initiatives. As participants, I am asking you to kindly share the attached information with your network, to encourage those that you wish to see attend, register on line…

We thank you for the giving of your time and the sharing of your mana’o at The World Congress.

Mahalo
Mark

Join us at The World Congress on Zero Emissions Initiatives, September 13-17, 2010, Hawaii Convention Center: http://www.zeroemissionshawaii.org/

Here’s a video that helps to frame our perspectives and objectives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN0V3J6q37c&

We are giving away an Electric Car!

Attend The World Congress on Zero Emissions Initiatives and you can drive away with a brand new Electric Vehicle from the world’s largest EV Manufacturer CT&T.

(The vehicle may be different from the one in the photo)

Mark McGuffie
Managing Director
mmcguffie@enterprisehonolulu.com
www.enterprisehonolulu.com

735 Bishop Street, Suite 412, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
(808) 521-3611| Fax: (808) 536-2281 | Cellular: (808) 756-4420
Gary Liss & Associates
916-652-7850
Fax: 916-652-0485
www.garyliss.com

Gary Liss   
916-652-7850
Fax: 916-652-0485
www.garyliss.com

]]> http://blog.hawaii.edu/malamahonua/2010/08/27/zero-waste-certification-workshop/feed/ 0 http://blog.hawaii.edu/malamahonua/2010/08/27/bicycle-facility-design-workshop/ http://blog.hawaii.edu/malamahonua/2010/08/27/bicycle-facility-design-workshop/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:59:24 +0000 malamahonua http://blog.hawaii.edu/malamahonua/2010/08/27/bicycle-facility-design-workshop/ PATH and the Hawaii LTAP present:

“Bicycle Facility Design Workshop”

Monday, September 20th 8:30am – 4:30pm

East-West Center, Jefferson Hall, Keoni Auditorium – 1777 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848

$30, includes a delicious lunch and refreshments

This full-day workshop at the beautiful Keoni Auditorium at the famous East-West Center is for leaders interested in understanding the planning and design of bicycle facilities, and includes an on-bike tour of Manoa Valley and the UH Campus. The presenters are John LaPlante of T.Y. Lin International and Fred Rank of the Federal Highway Administration, in partnership with the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Highway Research Center.

Participants will:

• Understand key principles and concepts in bikeway design for on-road and off-road facilities.

• Participate in a casual bicycle ride with stops to analyze various types of on-road facilities.

• Gain new insights into how to best incorporate bicycle facilities into the existing transportation system.

The Workshop is offered in partnership by PATH, Peoples Advocacy for Trails Hawaii and the Hawaii Local Technical Assistance Program (Hawaii LTAP) in cooperation with the Hawaii State Department of Transportation, the University of Hawaii’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Federal Highway Administration, with support from the Department of Health Injury Prevention and Control Branch. A special thank you to Cycle Manoa for donating 10 bicycles for the on-bike tour. For more information visit:www.pathhawaii.org or email laura@pathhawaii.org. Register for the Workshop by calling Gail Yamamoto at 808-956-8367 orgikeda@hawaii.edu by Tuesday, September 7th, 2010.

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Laura Dierenfield
Executive Director
PATH ~ Peoples Advocacy for Trails Hawaii
laura@pathhawaii.org
http://www.pathhawaii.org
808/936-4653
P.O. Box 62 * Kailua-Kona, HI * 96745

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Build a better future for Hawaii! Join PATH and help connect people with trails, pathways and bikeways

]]> http://blog.hawaii.edu/malamahonua/2010/08/27/bicycle-facility-design-workshop/feed/ 0 http://blog.hawaii.edu/malamahonua/2009/08/27/soest-is-renovating-their-data-centers/ http://blog.hawaii.edu/malamahonua/2009/08/27/soest-is-renovating-their-data-centers/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:31:26 +0000 malamahonua http://blog.hawaii.edu/malamahonua/2009/08/27/soest-is-renovating-their-data-centers/ With data center computers running 24x7x365, even a small increase in efficiency can really add up. Conceptually “hot aisle containment” is one of the simplest to envision and one of the hardest to implement since it normally involves a large amount of moving of the equipment racks. The concept here is to prevent the hot and cold air from mixing allowing the data center cooling devices to get better efficiency. The gains are large enough that power utilities in California are now doing rebates, with the University of California at San Diego partially funding their new data center with energy rebates.

This is an example of a product by American Power Conversion (APC) that has equipment racks backed up to each other to create an enclosed area that contains the hot air. This hot aisle is then evacuated by the data center cooling units allowing for efficiency increases worthy of rebates from the power companies. This example can be used to retrofit an existing data center that has a bit of spare room. However, there are some other solutions that give you dramatic increases without the need to lose quite so much space.

In this case short curtains are hung over the tops of the equipment racks to seal them off and longer curtains are hung at the ends of further contain the hot air. In addition, this solution is hung from the existing drop ceilings on fusable links that work just like the fire sprinklers in the ceiling. These links melt and drop the curtains so that in case of a fire the curtains won’t block the spray of water.

The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) is currently retrofitting their data centers to take advantage of these energy saving methods and have even gone as far as implementing a new computer room airconditioning system that places the cold air right at the heat load (as opposed to pumping cold air into the raised floor). These two technologies combined together will allow SOEST to increase the number of computing clusters in the data centers without the need for massive increases in cooling water or power consumption.