When frequent commenter Cameron Atwood sent me this alarming article this afternoon on climate change, I wrote back, “Scary stuff!” and I considered at the time not to formulate it into a blog post. Even though it is scary in the extreme (see excerpted timeline below), I think carefully about how pessimistic/alarmist I really want to be on this subject. (more…)
If you watched a time-lapse video of major cities over the past few centuries, you’d think that construction was the enemy of the environment. You’d see major factories being built, massive concrete conurbations coming together, skyscrapers springing from the ground. There would be a lot less green space at the end of the video than there was at the start. (more…)
I’m getting ready to make my first round of attempts to locate a few business partners for my client PlexiSun, a unique approach to solar thermal hot water heating. Linked above is our online brochure.
My first task is to build a smallish database of the companies that would make the best potential candidates; I’ve been working on this over the last few days. My tack here is to cast as wide a net as possible: (more…)
Jill Buck responded to my recent accolades on her abilities as a host on her fabulous show: Go Green Radio. She wrote: “Wow, thank you, Craig! I’ll share your post via my social media network in the morning– very kind!”
I responded:
What I wrote was not about kindness; but rather about truth. Not that any of the other 50 hosts were idiots (wait — scratch that; a few of them were Class-A idiots) but almost all of them were very bright people. (more…)
Linked here is the hour-long radio show I did last week with Jill Buck, the charming and extremely knowledgeable host of “Go Green Radio” – along with her email to me just now. It’s quite the mutual admiration society we have going on here. (more…)
You might have often heard people complaining over their huge electricity bills and why not! Traditional lighting costs more than expected and consume lot of energy. To simplify your problems modern technology brings innovative alternatives to you in the form LED lights. Besides being cost-effective they are energy efficient and provide high quality of light.
Led strip light controllers are devices used to control a wide range of LED light capabilities from dimming to illumination and mixing/changing the colors of the light being emitted by the LED lights. (more…)
Here’s an article from some contributors to GreenTechMedia that argues for a “new” way to look at energy. The authors write, for example:
“Much of that “plentiful” natural gas is being extracted from deep underground pockets through hydraulic “fracking,” a water- and chemical-intensive process that involves fracturing the earth to reach gas deposits. (more…)
A reader just sent me an email describing a “new development in energy” – one called …
“The MAFG is an electromechanical device that uses a diverse phenomenon known as Angular Momentum that conserves the energy produced during a cycle of compression. This compression and conservation of energy accelerates the displacement that gravity intensifies producing energy that can be easily captured. (more…)
Today is the 113th anniversary of the publication of a paper that revolutionized science and ushered in the age of electronics. On this day in 1900 Max Planck published his paper on quantum mechanics, in which he explained that light had a dual nature: in certain ways it behaved like a wave, in other ways it behaved like a stream of tiny massless particles which (later) were called “photons.” (more…)
I look forward to PBS’s wonderful program “Ask This Old House” on Saturday mornings, not because I’m a do-it-yourselfer, but because I love knowing how things work, and I appreciate all the thought that goes into sustainable ways of building our modern, energy-efficient homes. (more…)
