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Bit-by-bit, when Americans hear “Jim Hansen“, they think Global Warming and not the Muppets (Jim Henson).  While Henson cared about warming our hearts and getting smiles from kids while educating them, Hansen hopes to educated us so that we’ll act forcefully enough when it comes to Global Warming so that tomorrow’s kids will have reasons to smile […]

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One of the top students of predictions of peak oil predictions is Robert L. Hirsch, formerlay of DOE and now at SAIC.   He gained fame for the Hirsch Report, Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management.   Well, Hirsch has a new article in World Oil Magazine entitled Peaking of world oil production: […]

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In The Case for a Global Carbon Tax, Newsweek contributing editor Fareed Zakaria gets some basic facts wrong when it comes to energy. And, by doing so, he drives some wrong conclusions. 

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At times, we wonder who is reading over our shoulders. A discussion re Mike Strizki is followed a few days later by a Christian Science Monitor article.  A discussion here on plug-in hybrid school buses a little while ago and, well, the Christian Science Monitor publishes It’s a plug-in hybrid — and a school bus.  Hmmm …

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Austin’s Mayor, Will Wynn, is a serious plug-in hybrid vehicle supporter.  And, he has been a strong advocate of PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) from Austin to Washington, DC. “We have made our intentions clear that we want to pave the way for the plug-in hybrid …”

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Boeing has announced that it will be conducting tests this year of a manned aircraft powered with a fuel cell and “lightweight” batteries. “The Boeing Fuel Cell Demonstrator Airplane uses a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell/lithium-ion battery hybrid system to power an electric motor, which is coupled to a conventional propeller. The fuel cell […]

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If you’re here, checking this out, chances are that you live to a certain extent in the blogosphere, in the virtual world of the World Wide Web. But, you probably don’t read only on the computer screen but also curl up with a good book from time to time. This is part of a series […]

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At the Climate Crisis Action Day, Vegans were out in force trying to influence the crowd (even providing free vegetable sandwiches). If you weren’t aware, PETA is glad to let you know that there is research asserting that animals raised for food cause more GHG emissions than all trucks and cars combined.  Animal gas is, […]

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Whether it is plug-in hybrid school buses in Florida or the Ecotality Hydrogen-Powered Ecobus bus in Arizona, new bus options are emerging all over …  Now, we have news that London’s double-decker buses will start going hybrid with Volvo technology in 2008.

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In Science turns sun, surf into green energy, The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that a University of New South Wales professor, Leigh Sheppard, believes he is developing a path for combining solar power systems with sea water to be able to make hydrogen on millions of Australian rooftops by 2020.

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