Los Angeles, CA, Monday, April 09, 2007: GoGreenSolar.com provides an innovative online marketplace for buyers and contractors to conduct trade. “Buyers post a Request for Proposal (RFP); renewable energy contractors compete, posting their bids and reducing their prices to win the auction,” explained Deep Patel, President/CEO of Go Green Solar, LLC.

“The contractors are responsible for a small commission on each awarded contract through the marketplace — 3 percent of the total invoice billed to the buyer.” With GoGreenSolar.com, it's the buyer's demand that drives down prices. Consumers decide the maximum amount they are willing to pay for a service. Then, essentially, they select the contractor who's willing to come down to their price level. This “reverse auction” format creates a revolutionary way for buyers to secure renewable energy services.

GoGreenSolar.com has created a unique new marketplace for both buyers and contractors. Its reverse online auctions service is a powerful tool that anyone can use to procure their renewable energy services.

Go Green Solar is the first company to offer such comprehensive access to online reverse auctions for renewable energy services, according to Patel. As a result, consumers and businesses can enjoy a variety of benefits which include:

• Buyers can upload pictures, blueprints, roofing diagrams to assist contractors to make accurate bids.
• Contractors have access to state of the art satellite and aerial surveying before bidding.
• Buyers can review contractor feedback and past projects before awarding a contract.
• Contractors have the ability to create branded portfolios, which showcase past projects.
• Marketplace conserves time for both buyers and contractors.

Although GoGreenSolar.com primarily caters to buyers, Patel emphasized, the site is not intended to undermine contractors. “Contractors have the power to determine how much they want to sell their service for,” he added. “Contractors are not forced to bid; they decide what their limit is.” GoGreenSolar.com offers valuable benefits to contractors wanting to take advantage of online auctions. There are no subscription, posting or fees to bid, so they can use it completely free. Contractors also can receive free email notifications when buyers post in their selected category.

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The Human Powered Car

HumanCar, Inc. has been creating human powered vehicles for over 30 years. Our current vehicle is the first four-passenger LMV (Low Mass Vehicle) car ready for production. The sketch of the red vehicle in the rendering is a human powered vehicle on a SyncGuideway, a concept ultra light rail. The Humancar fits onto the guideway and is also powered by it. What would the result be? The result would be healthy people, zero oil dependence and a lot less gridlock!

HumanCar has the Patent/Trademark IP and physical application prototype finished and the vehicle is ready for implementation. Learn how the HumanCar can be applied to all kinds of uses: HumanCar Applications

VIDEO: The HumanCar Explained

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Teenagers who toilet-papered and damaged a home now face felony vandalism charges because of a mother's extraordinary sleuthing. Katja Base, mother of six, was unwilling to let the teens get away with it, saying she tracked them down to teach her kids about accountability.

Base awoke one February morning to find her front lawn strewn in white two-ply toilet paper. She and husband Ken also found damaged landscaping and light fixtures as well as ruined finishes on two cars. Dog food and flour also covered the lawn. Realizing the sheriff's department has better things to do than track down teen pranksters, Katja Base decided to do some detective work. "There needs to be accountability," she said. "Mainly, I pursued this as a lesson for my daughters. I don't want them to ever come to me and ask why I didn't do anything about this."

Base persuaded supermarket managers to tally daily toilet-paper buys for the week and a Stater Bros. manager said there was a run on bathroom tissue two days before her home was vandalized. At 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17, someone bought 144 rolls of toilet paper, cheese, dog food, flour and plastic forks, the same items found on her lawn and house. It was a cash transaction, making it difficult to trace the purchaser, but the store had video surveillance. The video showed four teenagers making the purchase, one of them wearing a Norco High School letterman's jacket with a name stitched across the back. The store's parking lot surveillance camera showed the truck they were using.

Base then borrowed a Norco High yearbook and used online databases to get the name, phone numbers and addresses of the teens on the store tape. "Her work was instrumental in helping us to identify the suspects," said Lt. Ross Cooper of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. The information was eventually sent to the district attorney's office and prosecutors confirmed that about six youths were now facing vandalism charges. However, they would not release details of the case or names of the defendants because they are juveniles.

The maximum penalty for the adult would be three years in prison; the juveniles could face probation and restitution, district attorney's office spokeswoman Ingrid Wyatt said.

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Air Conditioned T-Shirt

When it comes to USB powered gadgets, this doesn't just take the cake, it takes the entire bakery and then burns it down for the insurance money. The USB shirt has two fans on the left and right sides of the back, taking in air to cleanse all the sweat off your spare tire. There's an external switch on the USB cable to adjust the fan speed, in case your sweat doesn't quite go up to eleven.

Dog Makes Cell Phone Call to Save Owner's Life

A 17-pound beagle named Belle is more than man’s best friend. She’s a lifesaver.Belle was in Washington, D.C., on Monday to receive an award for biting onto owner Kevin Weaver’s cell phone to call 911 after the diabetic man had a seizure and collapsed.

The dog periodically licks Weaver’s nose to take her own reading of his blood-sugar level. If something seems off to her, she will paw and whine at him.“Every time she paws at me like that I grab my meter and test myself,” Weaver said. “She’s never been wrong.”

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Professor Invents Ripeness Sticker

He said growers and grocers throw out thousands of bushels of fruit each year because it ripened faster than it could get to market or be sold.With no simple way to tell whether fruit that looks good on the outside will taste good on the inside, consumers often buy peaches, pears and melons they can't eat because they're under-ripe or overripe."Right now, picking fruit is more of an art than it is a science," Riley said.

A marker on Riley's RediRipe stickers detects a chemical called ethylene gas, which is released by fruit or vegetables as they ripen.As that happens, the sticker turns from white to blue.The more ethylene gas the fruit produces, the darker the blue, Riley said.

The color shift is not instantaneous once a sticker is attached. It takes about 24 to 48 hours, depending on how fast the fruit is ripening, Riley said.And there are still bugs to be worked out: The stickers do not change color to reflect an overripe or rotten piece of fruit. Also, not all fruit produces enough ethylene to be detected by the sticker, said Jim McFerson, manager of the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, a growers' research group that helped sponsor the research.

"There is still a lot of research to do," McFerson said.Each sticker is expected to cost growers and grocers about a penny, Riley said.There is a patent pending for the stickers through the UA. Riley said when RediRipe goes to market, the university will keep the patent and the company will license the product.Research on ethylene's use in fruit ripening began in the 1940s, and the gas is used to ripen fruits and vegetables in storage.

Riley has done multiple small field tests on his stickers — including at an apple orchard in Willcox — and plans a much larger field test this fall in Washington.

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Homemade Rocket Man

There is no subtle way to say this: Brian Walker plans to shoot himself nearly 20 miles into the air aboard a homemade rocket launched from what could be the world's largest crossbow. (Seriously.)

With no external power requirements or wires whatsoever, you can't find a simpler or more inexpensive way to illuminate dark walkways around your home or in your garden. Just replace standard bricks or pavers with our completely self-contained Sun Bricks.

Flush-to-the-ground, integral solar panels generate up to 8 hours of light each night. So guests can follow a cheerfully illuminated path to your door. Amber LED's provide a warm, welcoming glow, consume little power, and can't burn out.

Sun Bricks come on automatically when darkness falls, and incur no operating costs. Just recess them in your walkway, and forget them!