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 [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
