Month March 2008

Cow-powered homes

Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California’s most alternative new energy. The Vintage Dairy Biogas Project believes it can produce enough methane from cow manure to power…

Bubble coming in skyscrapers?

Inhabitat calls this building plan for Azerbaijan the “Death Star Lunar Hotel.” Me, I think these grandiose plans for New Architecture are getting just a teensy bit overblown and predict that half of them won’t ever get built.

Obama may beat Clinton in TX delegates

Obama could pick up a net gain of three delegates [in Texas], after all the dust settles. Hey, I favor Obama over Clinton but this is nuts. Primaries should be on straight votes on the people. Nothing more, nothing less.…