[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Image source: Race Monday Night
What started with just an idea to get women back in to bicycle racing with monthly bicycle racing clinics for women has turned into a dozen women screaming at top speeds at the Portland International Raceway in 2009 - a 1.9 mile big and wide loop racetrack. The clinics, held the […]
What Honda’s Dedicated Hybrid Might Look Like
Jalopnik has asked KORSdesign to create a mockup of what Honda’s upcoming dedicated hybrid, planned for 2010, might look like. They obviously used the spy-shots (see below) that came out a few weeks ago as a foundation, and added some elements from the Honda FCX Hydrogen Fuel Cell car […]
“This is one of my favorite charts: A comparison of the distance a car can drive based on either of the following forms of energy, each produced on 100m x 100m of land (2.5 acres). How come that biofuel does not really cut it? Electric cars are about four times more energy efficient than fuel […]
2009 Honda Fit
The friendly people at AutoblogGreen had a chance to drive a new 2009 Honda Fit, one of the small cars that Americans suddenly can’t get enough of because of rising gasoline prices.
Honda Fit Hybrid Coming Around 2010
Even more interesting than the regular Fit is the hybrid version that Honda is working on […]
Geothermal energy is probably the greatest potential renewable energy source with the least amount of public awareness. It certainly spends much less time in the public gaze than wind, solar or biofuels. Recently the US Department of Ene…
When By Kids For Kids (BKFK) and The Weather Channel launched the Going Green Challenge to inspire kids to come up with neat inventions to help make an eco-difference there’s little doubt that the field was an open one. With a myriad of issues in need of resolution, the grand prize winner, Elizabeth Rintels, 12, […]
Proving that Big Coal’s nefarious influence knows no bounds, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that pollution from coal burning has contaminated the Arctic for the last 100 years. Measurements taken from an ice core in Greenland, dating from 1772 to 2003, showed that the levels […]
image: AGEA
Yesterday Google announced that it was getting into the geothermal power game, investing over million into researching Enhanced Geothermal Systems. It is estimated that using this technology, just 2% of the heat below North America would easily supply all of the United States’ current energy needs.
Now, a new report shows similarly large […]
In a letter to his son, Einstein wrote:
“Life is like a bicycle, to keep your balance your must keep on moving.”
::New Journalism via ::Swiss Miss
We noticed, he’s not wearing a helmet. Here is why he should:
A Brain Surgeon on Bicycle Helmets
Helmets - for whom? Cyclists or Motorists?
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Photo: Seth Joel/Getty Images
One of the exciting advances in renewable energy is solar thermal power. My colleague Jonathan G. Dorn writes in a recent Earth Policy Institute release, “Solar Thermal Power Coming to a Boil” that 100 megawatts of new capacity came online worldwide in 2007.
Escalating concerns about global climate change–and fresh economic incentives–are […]