It is amazing how low some people can get. Coal boss Robert E. Murray is using the media visibility granted to him because six of his employees are trapped, or dead, inside Crandall Canyon Mine (Utah) since Monday, to advocate the use of coal, the...
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Nothing like some piece of good news on Monday morning. The International Herald Tribune wrote that “the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a wide-ranging energy bill that will require most utilities to produce 15 percent of their...
When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book. Kamkwamba keeps a blog about his energy adventure and he...
I recently read where there is a Japanese study about the resources needed to grow beef. It is located here. And being all science-y it talks about the energy needed to get a kilo of beef. I do not usually eat a kilo of beef at a time. I go for...
