Category Archives: Energy

A Car That Needs a Caffeine Fix As Much As You Do

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 [...]

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Climate Change Hoax? Hardly.

“I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion.” – Al Gore. Me too buddy. I wish that I could wake up tomorrow and the facts were different. I wish climate change was a lie.
Unfortunately, it’s not. “The overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.”
“Companies whose business plans are dependent on unrestrained [...]

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How the GOP goes green

“We are more dependent on foreign oil today than after 9/11. That is political malpractice, and every member of Congress is responsible” says Lindsey Graham (Republican Senator, South Carolina) in a recent NYTimes article: How the GOP goes green. “We can’t be a nation that always tries and fails,” Graham concludes. “We have to eventually [...]

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Honda’s new solar hydrogen fueling station

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 [...]

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Kudos are in order

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 [...]

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