By now everyone must be fed up with the Sarah Palin terror media assault and I use terror because that’s what I feel when I see a woman who goes about advocating hunting, gun possession and all sorts of nasty things. Besides, she is a climate change denier as Earth First reports, based on an [...]

So if you have been reading my recent blogs, you know that I am trying to ride my bike for all the short trips I make. Yesterday was my first day. Here is what I have learned: 1. Make sure your backpack fits properly for riding. You will have to loosen the straps a bit [...]

So far, I have not ridden my bike at all. I got the tires filled up today when I went to get my car’s tires rotated. They couldn’t rotate my tires because the front ones were too worn. And as everyone remembers from my last blog, I am looking for work. I do not [...]

Renewable Energy World has a very informative article about the latest developments in the hydrogen arena. Apparently, “projects that cut across a wide spectrum of applications are managing to find enough ramp-up funding from government, industrial, private and academic sources such that several technologies are already breaking in to the commercial space, and others should [...]

I have just been laid off of my consulting job. I figure something else will come up and I have my resume everywhere. But if you know of something let me know…. So my new plan is to see how long I can go without my car. I have a bike and a lock [...]

Last week I wrote about the growth of geothermal energy, an area I personally hadn’t heard much about until then. As chance would have it, a few days later Green Wombat (Fortune magazine’s energy blog) reported that “Google.org is investing nearly $11 million in technology to expand the nation’s geothermal reserves. That’s more than [...]

The dream of turning everyday waste into gasoline could become a reality within two years, thanks to a process that converts biomass into high-octane gasoline. The technology was developed through a joint venture between Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and Byogy Renewables Inc.

You can read all three paragraphs of Bob Barr’s energy policy here. His policy has nothing about alternative fuels, conservation, or transportation. His policy is “Get rid of the regulations and drill.”

Ever hear the expression “it’s so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk”? That may be a colorful way to describe the temperature but scientists aren’t taking the concept lightly. A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is close to commercializing a means of using that heat-soaking property of road-asphalt for [...]

For those who want to catch up with some of the latest developments in solar power technology and at the same time contribute to the strengthening of the industry , Solar Power International will be the place to be in October (13-16). The event is presented by the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) and the [...]