Armageddon Energy has a solar power system that takes just minutes to assemble

Watch the video on Greentech Media. FastCompany has more, and asks “Can IKEA-branded DIY panels be far behind?”

Station Fire. Worse than most

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times / August 30, 2009) Smoke from the Station fire billows as the moon glows over Soledad Canyon Road in Acton.

LA Fire department report 2:30pm PDT

- Containment: 5% – Acres:105,000 acres at this time. – Fire Behavior: Fire behavior is extremely active with rapid rates of [...]

Lockerbie bomber ‘set free for oil’

BP got oil leases in Libya in return.

And the difference between high finance and organized crime is?

Blood oaths and bribery. Allen Stanford’s top aide in plea deal

James Davis has admitted to helping run Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme. Among the revelations, “fictitious investment reports”, bribery, and a “blood oath ceremony” among the participants.

Phoenix councilmember calls gun-toter at Obama town hall meeting “knucklehead.”

“We’re an urban city, and there are individuals trying to hold on to the old ways of the Wild West,” said Phoenix Councilman Michael Nowakowski, himself a gun owner. “We’re going to lose a lot of conventions because of one knucklehead.”

If the left doesn’t organize them, the right will

This awesome rant howls about the cluelessness of liberals moaning about health care while wars rage and elites plunder the economy. This also, I must add, includes the maddeningly comatose behavior of the radical left who during this massive crisis of capitalism has been doing precisely nothing.

(I’m not sure who the author is, [...]

Wind powered car breaks speed record, goes 126 mph

The Ecotricity Greenbird just smashed the world speed record for wind-powered vehicles.

Ted Kennedy and transportation deregulation

According to just about everybody, Teddy Kennedy represented the “soul” of the Democratic party, which presumably refers to his long-professed concern the poor and the weak. Now that that soul is safely buried, the Dems can move on to the important stuff, like preserving Wall Street power and escalating the war in Afghanistan.

Left economist [...]

Hartford Courant continues downward spiral

From George Gombossy, who was recently fired from the Courant because he wanted to run a story about the Connecticut Attorney General investigating Sleepy’s, a big advertiser.

Scrappy JI accuses Courant of blatant, systematic plagiarism, joining other papers in blasting state’s largest news outlet

‘At best plagiarism, at worst outright theft,’ one newspaper publisher [...]

Toyko electric taxis testing battery swap

Project Better Place will test their automated two-minute battery swapping technology under deliberately arduous conditions with four Tokyo taxis.