By ADC | Published:
March 9, 2010
Imagine stopping at a gas station for coffee and walking out with a cup for yourself and a bag of grounds for your car. Sharing your love of java with your car is exactly what the people at ‘Bang Goes the Theory’ (a British TV show) had in mind when they designed the Car-puccino. This [...]
By ADC | Published:
February 5, 2010
I just saw this news story, and while I don’t have time to issue commentary on it today, I think it is a neat news item. Honda just opened a solar hydrogen fueling station in California. This design is small enough to fit in a person’s garage, which helps alleviate the problem of finding a [...]
By ADC | Published:
January 27, 2010
I read an article just recently that really impressed me. Many articles about renewable energy sources tend to gloss over the downsides of a particular technology and present a very simplified view of the overall environmental merit of the ‘renewable’ energy source. Perhaps simplifying the science behind new technology is the point of science review [...]
By ADC | Published:
September 14, 2009
To start off with, I will define the term “locavore”. A locavore is intent on purchasing only (or as much as possible) locally produced food believing that minimizing food-miles (the distance food has to travel to your table) will in turn reduce energy consumption and save the planet. This belief has caught on in eco-conscious [...]
By ADC | Published:
June 24, 2009
Lately it seems that the livestock industry, particularly cattle have been getting some negative publicity. One of the latest articles on this topic, Greening the Herds: A New Diet to Cap Gas from the New York Times highlights the contribution of cattle ranches to world greenhouse gas emissions and a new effort at US dairies [...]