Online Electric Vehicles
Frequent commenter Tim Kingston just sent me this piece on “Online Electric Vehicles,” i.e., EVs that use inductive charging built into the roads. He notes: “Here is an interesting idea. Good for city and school bus routes. I wonder if it would work on freeways for long haul trucks.”
My take on this is that inductive charging of EVs is a terrific idea in certain extremely specific circumstances, e.g., buses that take regular routes and stop for a few minutes at a few well-defined places. (more…)
Gardening Woes
Environmentally Sustainable solid wood flooring
In the summer months, water usage doubles. This is the season when people are outdoors watering their gardens and lawns. Due to this, it places stress on many water systems while increasing costs for water users and tax payers. With this, it is important for people to make their garden more water efficient.
Here’s an article that points to one of the many issues we face in our quest to integrate large amounts of solar energy into our grid-mix: 
Living green is something that every person can do in order to help lower human’s impact on the planet.
Insofar as it’s the birthday of U.S. President Barack Obama, I thought I’d write this short post, simply to state that the man remains an enigma to me. What bemuses me about Obama is that an intelligent, sensitive, and extremely powerful person is carrying on an unprecedented attack on civil liberties: in particular, the failure to close Guantanamo Bay, the support of the 
