Bookmarks for December 20th

by Ryan Kawailani Ozawa · Published December 20, 2010 · Updated December 22, 2010

When I’m not blogging, I’m browsing. Here are sites and pages that I bookmarked on December 20th:

Chromium-6 Is Widespread in US Tap Water: The highest levels were in Norman, Okla.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Riverside, Calif. In all, water samples from 25 cities contained the toxic metal at concentrations above the safe maximum recently proposed by California regulators.
State green tech survey sees growth: A state survey backed by federal stimulus funds predicts that â€œgreen jobsâ€ will grow by over 25 percent in the next two years.
Makai Ocean gets an extra $1M grant: Lockheed Martin has awarded an additional $1 million to Makai Ocean Engineering to continue developing and designing an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion pilot plant in Hawaii.
How Lockheed Martin is using tropical waters to create clean energy: I recently spoke with Chris Myers, vice president for Energy and Government Programs for Lockheed Martin, about the benefits of OTEC and how it works.
Military signals advanced biofuels demand: This week in Honolulu, Chris Tindal of the US Navy joined Jason Pyle and Jonathan Wolfson to discuss providing the US Navy annually with 336 million gallons of drop-in advanced biofuels by 2020.
Red shrimp, unique habitats disappearing: Their habitats occur very close to the shoreline. This ecosystem shares a connection to the ocean as well as groundwater. There are only about 1,000 known in the world; 600 of which are in the Hawaiian Islands.
Maui student among few chosen to participate in science competition: Kihei resident Michael Flynn, 17, was one of five students from Hawaii selected to represent the Pacific region at the 49th National Junior Science & Humanities Symposium in San Diego.
Explosion detection technology could come to Hawaii: The ShotSpotter is used in nearly 70 cities including Oakland, Minneapolis and Washington D.C. Officials from the Honolulu Police and Fire Departments have met with the vendor.
Sopogy signs MOU for China Solar Project: Sopogy, Inc. signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Yu Hao Long Corporation, the developer of a patented Stirling energy generator for the installation of a 200MW concentrating solar plant for the China National Utility.