Archive for May, 2006
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
MTV Comes Through Again
Just when I think that all hope is lost, MTV always starts up a new responsible campaign. (Ok, I didn’t really think all hope was lost, but it seemed like a snappy way to start this post.) As with Live Aid and Rock the Vote, MTV is once again fighting the good fight, but this [...]
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Better Mileage (and cool tricks) From Your Toyota Prius
There is a new breed of hot rodders sprouting up these days: techies. All kinds of people are finding new ways to hack and modify their Priuses to make them have incredible mileage (100+ mpg) or do cool tricks (like maintain your 12V battery with a solar panel).
Read the CNET News.com article here.
Get your [...]
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Myth Busters Tries Biodiesel… sort of.
The Discovery Channel’s Myth Busters, one of the best shows ever made, recently used Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) in episode #53 “Exploding Pants”. It’s a great episode where in addition to trying to replicate the myth of the exploding pants from 1930s New Zealand, they investigate the spectacular claims of mile-per-gallon boosters that they find [...]
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Willie Nelson is into Biodiesel… who knew?
Not only is Willie Nelson into Biodiesel, but he has an entire webiste and business devoted to it. One of their selling points is that biodiesel is fuel that is a fully renewable enrgy source, it is grown right here in America, and it supports our farmers. I think this is a great way of [...]
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
New Solar
There is a lot of exciting stuff going on with solar power these days. Solar Concentrators are becoming a big deal lately as a way to reduce the amount of silicon used, since there is a worldwide silicon shortage at the moment. Here are two articles that offer hope on the affordability and long-term practicality [...]
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Dung Power
I was talking to my friend Harish at the dog park today, and he asked me if I had heard of the people in India who use dung to produce energy. He didn’t have any specifics for me, but when I looked around for “Dung Power” this is what I found.
The next energy [...]
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
This is Awesome… and what we should all be doing.
The San Diego Unified School District has just worked out a great deal with Solar Integrated Technologies to get new roofs on many of their schools that are integral solar panels! So each school not only gets a new roof for free, but they also get to buy the power from that roof for less [...]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
BioTown, USA
I would not have thought of Indiana as being a leader on the frontier of environmentalism. But lo and behold, Govenor Mitch Daniels declared Reynolds IN as BioTown, USA on Sept 13th 2005.
The newspaper INtake published an article last week that seems almost too good to be true. Not only is it about [...]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Anything Into Oil… Even Turkey Guts
I have to admit that I was skeptical when I first heard about people running their cars on french fry grease. Run your car on a waste product, and have it smell good at the same time? Too good to be true.
Now though, it seems that quite a few people are actually doing [...]
