Posted by Eyes Wide Open International on March 13, 2009 at 6:54pm
From the folks who brought you the madcap alt-fuel "Escape From Berkeley" race to Vegas comes a Progressive Automotive X-Prize contender with a twist — a 1980 diesel Volkswagen Rabbit pickup converted to to run on discarded X-Prize promotional materials.
In an alt-fuel paraphrase of Marshall McLuhan, the fuel source is the contest. How meta.
Jess Hobbs of The Shipyard told Wired.com the gasification gurus there are "really ser…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on March 13, 2009 at 3:59pm —
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*Annotation: This was actually thought of way back in the 70s, but suddenly scrubbed...hmmm. Nearly all waist products are Bio-Fuel, and we've been waisting...waist for decades! Don't tell me we're "waking up"!!
Ron G.
Cornell Unveils Campus Renewable Bioenergy Initiative
March 11, 2009
In a new Cornell University campus initiative, vegetable oil from dining hall fryers, animal bedding from campus barns, farm waste from university research, and other sources of biotrash will be transformed i…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on March 12, 2009 at 11:05pm —
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The End of Cheap Oil
You wouldn't think so. After all, oil prices just plummeted.
But the fundamentals are clear as day. Oil is destined to get a lot more expensive.
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Even if these advanced economies - throw in Japan too - remain moribund, the price and supply prospects for oil look ominous. My own guess is that the price of oil has overshot on the low end just as it overshot on the high end, and that, when all is said and done, we'll still see an upwardly tren…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on January 3, 2009 at 12:13pm —
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Air cars
Here, there. everywhere
GO HERE: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/489.html
Ready for market now
The BBC reported on the French version of this technology.
This report from Australia goes into more depth and also covers an Australian version.
How many billions of dollars in research and development funds would the big auto makers claim they need to get this far?
Yet, the technology is here now, ready to exploit - and it is not being used.
What's the hang up?
Why are we still:
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on December 7, 2008 at 2:55pm —
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No news is good news > http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/456.html
Odds are you've never heard of this car.
Why not?
Why is a French company developing it with zero help from the high rolling US-UK dominated global financial system which until recently had money for every loony scheme imaginable?
Answer: The banking system and the oil industry are closely intertwined and they want to protect their investment in the gasoline infrastructure at all costs.
Fortunately, France doesn't have the…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on December 7, 2008 at 1:56pm —
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In September, we wrote to ask for your help in protecting Coal River Mountain in West Virginia -- ground zero in the effort to end mountaintop removal coal mining.
The question at hand is whether Coal River Mountain will become a model for a sustainable energy future, through the construction of a clean energy wind farm -- or whether the state of West Virginia will follow the policies of the past and allow Massey Energy to destroy Coal River Mountain with a massive mountaintop removal coal min…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on November 29, 2008 at 2:46pm —
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Industry and EPA Collaborated to Hide the Truth about How Natural Gas Drilling Is Threatening Drinking Water
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. Posted November 20, 2008.
One of the greatest threats to our water and our health may come from a process involved in natural gas drilling. But EPA is keeping mum.
In July, a hydrologist dropped a plastic sampling pipe 300 feet down a water well in rural Sublette County, Wyo., and pulled up a load of brown oily water with a foul smell. Tests showed it…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on November 23, 2008 at 10:30pm —
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Oil Prices Down… for Now!
Along with the market decline, the price of oil has fallen. It’s down 50% within three months. Back when oil hit $147 per barrel in July, I said that the price “ought” to be in the range of $100-110, with the possibility of a drop into the $90s. That’s what the fundamentals told me back then.
Most of the decline in oil price from $147 down to about $100 was directly related to the strengthening of the dollar. So the oil price slide in July, August and the first part o…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on November 14, 2008 at 1:54pm —
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The Big Difference in Obama's and McCain's Plans for Our Energy Future
By David Morris, AlterNet. Posted October 23, 2008.
It's not so much about their goals as the tools they would use to reach those goals.
A few weeks ago I was at Iowa State University addressing 500 students and faculty at its engineering school. I was sharing a platform with former CIA Director Jim Woolsey. At one point, a student asked our views on the presidential candidates' energy programs.
I responded that the ess…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on October 24, 2008 at 10:15am —
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Next January, a new president will take office, confronting a multitude of serious issues, including rising fuel costs, energy security, climate change, and rising unemployment.
When you evaluate the candidates based on their proposed solutions for reinventing the way America produces its energy, do you know what to look for?
Here are three real solutions that are more than just good suggestions. They are essential components of a successful energy policy, which, when deployed together, create…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on October 20, 2008 at 5:06pm —
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Are Solar's Problems Solved?
By Eoin O'Carroll, Christian Science Monitor.
MIT researches have come up with a discovery that may help to get over one of solar power's biggest drawbacks: storing energy.
A big drawback of solar power is that it doesn't work at night or on cloudy days. But researchers at MIT say they now have an inexpensive way to store solar energy when the sun isn't out.
Daniel Nocera, a chemistry professor at MIT, and Matthew Kanan, a postdoctoral fellow in Mr. Nocera's la…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on October 13, 2008 at 10:10pm —
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Friends- GOOD NEWS!
Big things are happening in the solar world, and we are pleased to share several new papers and tools to help harness the momentum.
Utility Involvement in Distributed Generation Markets
First, there's a new phenomenon afoot--across the US, utilities are getting involved in distributed generation solar markets like never before. Boon or threat? We just published an article in Renewable Energy World with our friend Kevin Fox (of Keyes and Fox, LLC) with an answer, and our tho…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on October 12, 2008 at 9:42pm —
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Federal Solar ITC Campaign
10/03/08 BIG UPDATE!
It is finally time to celebrate. Congress just passed a long-term extension of the solar investment tax credit. An 8-year extension of both the commercial solar tax credit and the residential solar tax credit (with removal of the monetary cap), passed the Senate (74-24) on Thursday and the House (263-171) this afternoon. The ITC, and other clean energy tax incentives, were rolled into the economic stabilization package. The President is set to sig…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on October 12, 2008 at 9:39pm —
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Tips for Entering the World of Social Media.
Source: http://content.opportunityknocks.org/info~se-entering-social-media.php
Navigating through social networks is a whole lot more than setting up a profile on a social network or writing a blog post. Here are a few things to consider when entering the world of social media.
I. Social Networks - Giving the Community a Voice, Listening, Interacting and Engaging
Success within Social Media relies on the same concepts of any good relationship. Th…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on October 4, 2008 at 5:32pm —
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This country faces many serious problems in the financial market, in the stock market, in our economy. We must act, but we must act in a way that improves the situation. We can do better than the legislation now before Congress.
This bill does not effectively address the issue of what the taxpayers of our country will actually own after they invest hundreds of billions of dollars in toxic assets. This bill does not effectively address the issue of oversight because the oversight board members h…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on October 2, 2008 at 8:58am —
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Everyone said the bill would pass. The masters of the universe were already making celebratory dinner reservations at Manhattan's finest restaurants. Personal shoppers in Dallas and Atlanta were dispatched to do the early Christmas gifting. Mad Men of Chicago and Miami were popping corks and toasting each other long before the morning latte run.
But what they didn't know was that hundreds of thousands of Americans woke up yesterday morning and decided it was time for revolt. The politicians nev…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on September 30, 2008 at 12:40pm —
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President Bush's proposed $700 billion bailout of financial institutions is a no-strings-attached giveaway to those who brought us this crisis. If Congress is going to throw a taxpayer-funded life jacket to financial elites, the nation is going to have to get much more in return.
I am asking you to write your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators now and demand that they oppose the no-strings Bush bailout and ensure that any package that is passed includes these three most basic principles:
Th…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on September 29, 2008 at 10:14pm —
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Friends,
Let me cut to the chase. The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken. Make no mistake about it: After stealing a half trillion dollars to line the pockets of their war-profiteering backers for the past five years, after lining the pockets of their fellow oilmen to the tune of over a hundred billion dollars in just the last two years, Bush and his cronies -- who must soon vacate…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on September 29, 2008 at 1:31pm —
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Drilling or Shilling for Oil?
The Senate is poised to consider legislation that gives away too much to big energy interests to produce dirty power at the expense of clean energy, which will get us off fossil fuels and help combat global warming.
House Democrats pushed weak legislation days ago that capitulated to Republican demands for more offshore drilling, and now the Senate is looking at legislation with similar rewards for the same old energy gang: coal and oil.
Take Action: http://actio…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on September 25, 2008 at 1:14pm —
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In 2006, we won a big victory when California set a goal of cutting global warming pollution 25% by 2020. Now we're in the final throes as Gov. Schwarzenegger chooses how we will meet that goal.
From my perspective it could go two ways. One way would allow the state's biggest polluters to create windfall profits by selling pollution "credits" they get for free (which is what happened in Europe). The other way: make polluters pay for their pollution, and funnel that money into wind and solar pow…
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Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on September 25, 2008 at 12:51pm —
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