environment
Moving on…
Its kind of fun and kind of scary when you start down a new path in life. This branch takes me out of the media world (Gazette Communications – soon to be or maybe now called SourceMedia Group) and into the world of ecommerce. Old Job: Media I’ve been working for Gazette for almost 7 [...]
Spray-On Solar Cells, Printed Like a Newspaper Being Developed by Univ. of Texas Researchers : TreeHugger
Spray-On Solar Cells, Printed Like a Newspaper Being Developed by Univ. of Texas Researchers : TreeHugger. Can we turn our newspaper press into a solar printer?
LA To Retrofit 140K Lights
Los Angeles California To Retrofit 140,000 Street Lights With LED Bulbs : TreeHugger. LED are so cool. I tired to replace the lights in my laundry room with some – but they were the cheap and I think I should have ponied up for the better ones.
38 MPG in a minivan, factory VW minivan.
Image via Wikipedia You know I love my volkswagens. And I really do not like minivan. But I may be convinced to get one of these seriously ugly vehicles. The little grocery getter hauls 7 and gets upper 30′s for MPG. Now I know it’s using a diesel, but seriously…can someone in Detroit at one [...]
Honda Insight Modification Gives 180 Miles Per Gallon
I love these kind of people – taking things apart and making them better. Production on the Honda Insight stopped in 2006, but Mr. Dabrowski has been hard at work making the 57mpg car even more fuel efficient. The first solution, called Manual Integrated Motor Assist System, gives the driver the ability to manually adjust [...]
Souped Down 1959 Opel T-1 Gets 376.59 mpg
Yea – 1959…Opel of all things – 376 MPG!!! Could you believe that the car above made the 1975 Guiness World Record book? Its claim to fame is getting an amazing 376.59 miles per gallon of gasoline, and that in a 1973 contest sponsored by Shell Oil (now Royal Dutch Shell). Check it out. Granted [...]
An underwater lake?
Yea – check out this video which talks about an underwater lake in the Gulf of Mexico. Unreal…we know so little about this earth we live on! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/Gf1TIicid3E&rel=1]
Could you go paperless – I mean no paper at all?
This was an article from the NYT about a family going virtually paperless. Mr. Uhlik, an engineering director at Google, and his family live a practically paper-free life. The children are home-schooled on computers. Other sources of household paper — lists, letters, calendars — have become entirely digital. I really like the image/graphic they added [...]
What do super soakers and solar energy have in common?
It’s pretty cool – I guess the guy who invented the super soaker is a really smart guy: So when the guy who invented to Super Soaker water gun said he was looking at a 60% efficient solar engine…His project is featured in this month’s Popular Mechanics and it has received funding from the NSF, [...]
The Invisible Ingredient in Every Kitchen
In the “Dining & Wine” section of the New York Times, I found a post called “The invisible ingredient in every kitchen” the other day. It goes on to talk about how heat is this invisible ingredient. Every cook relies every day on the power of heat to transform food, but heat doesn’t always work [...]
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