Month February 2009

Wave Treader. Offshore wind / wave power

Green Ocean Energy is testing Wave Treader, a wave / wind hybrid that will generate power offshore. I am constantly struck by the difference between the optimistic, fast-moving world of clean power vs. the gloomy, wheels-falling-off financial world. Cleantech is…

The unstoppable Australian fires

The fire melted alloy wheels Australian Dave Riley comments on our post about the fires there. And they will stop them in Australia too. No they won’t. And they haven’t. The fires will subside when they run out of fuel/wind/and…

Obama and political rope-a-dope

Obama is something of a robust self-contradiction, if not a living oxymoron: He is, it seems, a kind of delicate but thunderingly hardass Illinois pol. Hillary Clinton and John McCain learned this the hard way. Now Republicans and obstructionists in…