Uncategorized
All Stories
-
Or at least the Virgos therein
Reading my local alt-weekly The Stranger the other day, I happened to notice my horoscope for the week, courtesy of Free Will Astrology: Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of the Orthodox […]
-
Young bucks make cool bikes
I am always biking past interesting characters like David and his dog Odin. Dave had welded up a sidecar so his dog (who extends his paw at the mention of the word cookie) wouldn't feel lonely being dragged around in a trailer. He has carried everything from a cat to a 190-pound guy in it. This is what the entrepreneurial spirit is all about. If you can't buy what you want, build your own and sell it. -
Opportunity costs redux
The Bush administration is working on plans to spend $100 billion on new nuclear weapons. Tell me again how fighting global warming is too expensive.
-
Naked, warm, angry dudes hold silent protest of global warming
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club staged a silent protest on Saturday, huddled (but not shivering) on the beach in Brooklyn as record temperatures were recorded in New York City […]
-
What is this ‘good news’ you speak of?
Oh hell yes: Opponents of oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge are going on the offense after playing defense for a quarter of a century. They want the new […]
-
-
Watch at your own risk
As I mentioned a while back, last month I appeared on The Climate Code, a weekly half-hour show on the Weather Channel. It covers issues related to climate change and […]
-
Tidal power in the East River
Check out this short video on two tidal power turbines recently installed in the East River off Manhattan.
These are test units. It is unknown as of yet how their operations will be affected by cement-booted former snitches.
-
We need to get started
You have probably noticed that I tend to focus a lot on today's technology rather the big breakthrough around the corner.
Part of this is for obvious reasons: I want to show we can get off fossil fuel even with conservative assumptions. Also, while we know what is possible, and even have good guesses as to what can be cheaper, we can't know the timing.
But there is another reason.
-
Some are really, really big
This post meshes pretty well with Dave's here. I spotted a yellow Hummer parked next to a yellow Cherokee (the original SUV) the other day. The contrast was startling. Status seeking has a natural tendency to escalate. You know the end of a fad is near when it finally spawns a ridiculous monstrosity like the Hummer. Insects have their own version of this phenomenon.
