Day December 18, 2006

West Maui road trip

We drove today around the northern tip of Maui on route 340, skirting the West Maui mountains. The road for at least ten miles is one lane, cliffs on one side and a sheer drop on the other. The views…

Bolivia boiling over?

From reader Joe Hartley Bolivia is boiling over. The prosperous east and south are resisting the probably unconstitutional attempts by Evo Morales to take over the state governments. (Think of George Bush deciding to remove the Democratic governors who were…

“Sugar in the Raw”

The sugar in those little brown packets of “Sugar in the Raw” at Starbucks are processed here at Hawaii’s largest operating sugar mill in Maui. It is surrounded by thousands of acres of sugar cane. Next door is the Alexander…

Wind power creates hydrogen from water

It “uses electricity from wind turbines to produce and store pure hydrogen, offering what may become an important new template for future energy production.” If hydrogen-powered cars become viable, this could become an important source of renewable energy for them.…