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from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/science/earth/29fossil.html?hpw … But the growth of small renewable projects in towns like Tocco — not only in Italy, but also in other countries — highlights the way that shifting energy economics are often more important than national planning in promoting alternative energy. Tocco was motivated to become an early adapter because Italy already had [...]

November 2007.  From http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2007/11/09-01.html Top climate scientists have cautiously endorsed the need to study schemes to reverse global warming that involve directly tinkering with Earth’s climate. Their position on geoengineering, which will likely be controversial, was staked out at an invitation-only meeting that ended here today. It’s based on a growing concern about the rapid [...]

from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/business/energy-environment/13bprisk.html … Mr. Browne’s fall from grace really began on March 23, 2005, when 15 people died and more than 170 were injured in America’s worst industrial accident in a generation: a huge fire and explosion at Texas City. … the Texas City plant was America’s second-largest refinery, turning 460,000 barrels of crude oil a [...]

From http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/why-climate-stumps-even-the-brightest-scientists/ … The single biggest uncertainty identified by the 14 experts — and it was a unanimous judgment — was the role of clouds in the earth’s future climate. This may come as no surprise to anyone who has been following climate science closely; the cloud problem has been vexing researchers for decades. The [...]

from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/groundhog-day-for-oil/?hp Wish it weren’t so, but I fear my lasting memory of many trips to Prince William Sound will be of hunched-over workers with toothbrushes, trying to scrub black tar from shivering birds and sea-worn rocks in the Alaska spring of 1989.All the images were staggering: The birds looked lost and stunned, their coats [...]

Earth day is in 2 days. From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/science/20tier.html?hpw … You can never not do just one thing. Environmentalists of the 1970s liked to justify their resistance to new technologies by warning that you could never do just one thing. It was a nice mantra and also quite accurate. New technologies do indeed come with unexpected [...]

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/green-supercars-fight-to-be-fastest/ http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/4078/Italdesign-Namir-Concept.html 187 mph, zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds & 90 mpg. Fuel efficient and powerful.  Enough said.

From The New York Times: The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appears to have ended a slide, many millenniums in the making, toward cooler summer temperatures in the Arctic, the authors of a new study report. Scientists familiar with the work, to be published Friday in the journal Science, said it [...]

Climate change is not my main interest but “change” is.  The world is changing around us in many ways; climate, society, economics, science, medicine, technology.  If you chose not to acknowledge those changes, that is up to you.  But when you acknowledge the change, you can have a hand in shaping it; instead of just [...]

Big car companies originally built all electric cars.  There were tried in California in 1999 (see the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?“).  But battery technology wasn’t yet ready.  Lead acid batteries are too heavy.  Lithium ion batteries were and are still too expensive.  So big car companies have moved to hybrid cars (electric + batteries + [...]