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Posts from ‘August, 2008’

Big Oil’s Great Land Grab (Reprinted From Sierra Club)

Did you know that oil companies are already sitting on 68 million acres of leases that they aren’t even drilling? Which kind of makes you wonder: Why are Big Oil and its allies suddenly desperate to get their hands on the last few places that are still protected — our natural treasures, wildlife refuges, and [...]

Maryland Energy Administration Announces Loan Program

The Maryland Energy Adminstration has announced $ 1.5 million in loan funding to support projects that reduce energy use.
Conditions:
1) Participants have until November 2008 to apply for the loan;
2) The project must pay for itself in energy savings within 7 years.
The Baltimore Business Journal has complete details here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2008/08/25/daily3.html?f=et52&ana=e_du
Even better news: Maryland Green Power Co. sells [...]

Wind Turbine of the Future?

This inventor’s webpage has a great synopsis of why this technology beats single rotor wind turbines in power output, especially at low wind speeds, so we won’t rehash the arguments here.
I invite our readers to read about this innovative idea at the inventor’s site:
http://www.speakerfactory.net/wind_old.htm
I’ll just pose some questions here in the hope that what remains [...]

Cell Phone Radiation Popping Pop Corn!

You might have seen the video making its way around the internet of a group of people putting 3 or 4 cell phones down on a table around a kernel or two of pop corn. Then, they place calls to the cell phones and within seconds, the pop corn pops!

I have even noticed some people [...]