Repower America
How do we do it? By investing in three core areas – energy efficiency, renewable generation and a national unified smart grid. Repower America is an Al Gore-affiliated group. He’s quite right, we need clean energy and we need it…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Category Energy conservation
Outlet switch stops vampire energy
Excellent idea. Cut off the power at the wall, not at the power strips, thus easily and quickly stopping phantom power drain from everything plugged into the wall outlet. (And if the spaghetti of wires behind your computers looks like…
Fuel-sipping engine
A research project in the UK has developed a gasoline engine that it claims can reduce fuel consumption by 15 percent without losing power. It does so by releasing air and fuel into the cylinders in a new way. Developed…
Neil Young’s ’59 Lincoln electric hybrid conversion
CNet The engine is a 150-kilowatt electric motor that produces the equivalent of 500 horsepower. The car cruises at 80 mph and can reach speeds of 160 mph, Goodwin said. “It’s essentially like a train. We use one motor to…
The Google Clean Energy 2030 proposal
This was announced last night by Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a Commonwealth club meeting. Here are more details. Our proposal – “Clean Energy 2030” – provides a potential path to weaning the U.S. off of coal and oil for…