I just read the following in an old book. “The Great Western, which startled the world in 1838 by steaming from Bristol to New York in fifteen days and ten hours, was a ship of 1378 tons, 212 feet long, and had an indicated horsepower of...
Category - Energy efficiency
I’ve been keeping my thermostat low. 63 degrees low while I am at work and in the evenings. I am getting used to it. But I really haven’t been living at 63 since there has been enough sunlight during the day to keep my house at around...
The first of a three-part report produced by researchers at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research concerning key design issues of proposed ‘cap-and-trade‘ programs that are under consideration in the United...
I love lurking around EcoModder.com. It is all about how people modify their cars to increase their miles per gallon. They make cars more aerodynamic, they change how their cruise control works, they even invent cool truck caps. But should it...
Last week I walked around a mall, a Wal-Mart and a grocery store counting McCain and Obama bumper stickers So the other day as gas dropped to $2.50 a gallon and now under $2 a gallon here in Richmond, VA, I got to thinking about how people drive and...
