Quick Development of Nuclear Power Wanted in China
The world's speed and nuclear power do not belong in the same sentence, but sure enough China is doing its darnedest to build as many nuclear power plants as it can, using OLD technology. Their target is 4 new generators each year, through 2015. However, the nuclear plants are going to be just a partial answer for its mounting pollution, ...
Kenya’s Renewable Energy Blueprint – KEEP
I am not pretending for a moment that Kenya is the kid and the U. S. or any other 'developed' nation is the adult. It's the other way around. Kenyans have been here much longer than we 'Westerners'. However, the fact that the Kenyan government has a blue print for renewable energy - Kenya Energy Sector Environment Program (KEEP) ...
The Donald and His $2B Golf Course
The Donald as they like to call Donald Trump wants to create a $2 billion playground golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland, home of golf. He got environmentalists and one very stubborn farmer, to stand in his way. Trump wants to bring his New York style development plans to an environmentally sensitive stretch of coastline, a legally protected site of scientific interest ...
Wind-Powered Rotating Skyscraper in Dubai
Dubai continues to set standards and, why not with all the money the little kingdom has in the bank. Oil money. Our money. Dr. David Fisher is the designer of this Dynamic Architecture - a wind-powered rotating skyscraper, 420 meters high and with 80 floors that rotate independently. A total of 48 wind turbines will be installed between each floor ...
Drunk on Cough Syrup
Talk about disrupting the environment. Yesterday I wrote about a guy who fell off a cliff into a beehive and was a whole lot worse for it. There's another couple that was killed when they fell off a cliff in PA. Are these folks the kind that Obama was talking about? The couple was loaded up on cough syrup. The cops investigated their deaths ...
A2B Bicycle – Ultra Motor’s Light Electric Vehicle (LEV)
India and China are showing the rest of the world how to do things with electric bikes. On the heels of success in those to developing countries Ultra Motor's Light Electric Vehicle (LEV) is coming to the U. S. and Europe this summer. The eco-friendly and economical urban transporter, the A2B Bicycle, goes for $2,200 and can reach a top speed ...
Xeros – Waterless Washing Machine
Who's a thunk? A waterless washing machine. Well, almost waterless. The machine uses just one cup of water per cycle. A Leeds University research team headed by Prof Burkinshaw has developed the Xeros washing machine that uses thousands of reusable plastic chips to remove and absorb dirt. The little plastics buggers clean clothes by pounding the dirt out of them. Some 20kg ...
How Not to Lower Gas Prices (part 2)
Everybody wants to lower gas prices. And everybody has an idea of how to do it. Yesterday I wrote How Not to Lower Gas Prices. Today...part 2. A couple in Dartmouth decided they would beat the system by hoarding some gasoline in their apartment. Fumes ignited from the gasoline that was stored in a utility closet and sent residents from eight units fleeing for ...
M-112 the (Eco) Urban Concept Car
Looking at the new M-112, a compact economical car that recently participated in the Shell Eco Marathon 2008 in France, I'm pretty sure there are big chances it will be an inspiration for cars we're going to drive in 5 - 10 years. Large cities will get even more crowded and I don't even want to think what those traffic ...
Animal Rights, even for Bees?
Apparently this guy didn't read my instructions on how not to get rid of bees. Some knucklehead, in his 40s maybe, fell 85 feet off a cliff and landed in a bee hive. Talk about crashing a party, or dropping in unexpectedly. The bees didn't take to the invasion. They used him for a pin cushion. The swarm was strong enough to knock him ...
