Jul
31
Global Warming From Muckraking to Scam
July 31, 2007 | 3 Comments
Global Warming, is it a scam, scandal, swindle or muckraking?
Ah, is there a trail for a story in that list? When the “global warming” thing first entered into my awareness I was being bombarded by politicians and their followers clamoring for attention about what they were selling as a “catastrophe in progress.”
You know, politicians [...]
Jul
30
Will More Ethanol Damage the Environment?
July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Will there be more environmental damage from more ethanol production?
For the US biomass effort, corn is the new and major player.
The view for soil conservation is – maybe - as more land that would be in the government’s soil conservation program will come out for corn production. But not much when looks at the [...]
Jul
26
Driving For Fuel Economy
July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Here is the link, an introduction to and a summary about Jim Chiodo who I mentioned some days ago. Jim Chiodo is the author of “More MPG, an Unconventional Approach” that has been on the net for years. Jim uses his nearly 50 years of driving experience to share the best tips, advice and [...]
Jul
25
What Is Carbon Dioxide Doing To Us?
July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The news and opinion pieces are packed with the ongoing carbon dioxide disaster. Desperate measures are suggested with astonishing estimates for as much as $4500 per year in costs to each American family by 2015, just eight years out. Estimates of costs for drilling into the earth to bury CO2 run to $7.2 [...]
Jul
24
Learning to Choose Wisely
July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
“If you don’t want to win, no one will stop you.”
Go to any Hooter’s restaurant, there’s a guy in there who thinks the waitress is attracted to him. Did ya see that? Did you see how she was looking at me? I’m gonna get her phone number, just watch!
Sure, uh huh.
Reality is no [...]
Jul
23
Wind Power Today
July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Windmills are one of the leading growth sectors in alternative energy. Europe can boast a premiere position as they have a long windy coastline.
But now the rush to wind power has come up to the wall of limited supply of windmills. The Wall Street Journal reports, “improved technology has made it possible to [...]
Jul
19
Fusion - Where Its At Today
July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Lets get straight on powering the stars, at least once. In the media and even when competent scientists talk about it they almost always leave out the energy source that makes it work.
Gravity: its one of the four nuclear forces. Mankind has done superb job at using the electromagnetic force in a [...]
Jul
18
The Best Spark Plugs
July 18, 2007 | 6 Comments
Spark plugs are the single most important part of your tune up.
The leading questions over the past few days ask about tune-ups. Whether it’s for an older or newer car the task is the same, getting the gasoline fuel’s energy into moving the car efficiently. Most of us know that the tune up [...]
Jul
17
Hypermilers!
July 17, 2007 | 3 Comments
Hypermilers? That new word is meaningful, as it seems to be mainly a hybrid car owner’s effort to wring every cents worth of distance from their money. It’s moving into conventional cars, too.
It looks like Wayne Gerdes at cleanmpg.com has the credit for the new word. His article http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/articles/t-beating-the-epa-the-whys-and
-how-to-hypermile-1510.html looks to be [...]
Jul
16
The Problem Is US?
July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Looking at the future for new energy and fuels I’m struck by the obvious problem. It is us. It must make each of us wonder when American Idol gets more viewers than people who show up to vote. Scarier yet is the mentality of the mob. Masses of people take a [...]
