Occasionally I like to write a short piece that offers my viewpoints on political philosophy as it applies to sustainability, examining the nature of our moral obligations to our fellow human beings. To what degree do our ethical sensibilities call …
Please check out this video by David Serada, a friend of a friend, offering a natural way to bioremediate the oil slick in the Gulf with waste fibers from cotton waste fibers.
Here’s a post I wrote on carbon capture and sequestration that I put on Renewable Energy World. I note that even the sites that cover the traditional energy markets — like Energy Central – are coming down hard on the …
My friend and always-welcomed guest blogger Kathy Heshelow has written a great deal on Peak Oil, and now has her own blog on the subject. I urge readers to check it out. In preparation, she asked me: Are you saying …
A reader in New Zealand wants to discuss his new generation internal combustion engine (ICE), designed to take full advantage of the high power density available with the two/stroke engine principle while overcoming the inherent limitations of the conventional design. …
I’m trying to learn about biomimicry, learning from and then emulating natural forms, processes, and ecosystems to create more sustainable and healthier human technologies and designs. And this learning process just led me to one of the most profound experiences …
The press office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced this week that a team of researchers has made a breakthrough on battery technology in the form of lightweight lithium-air batteries could have three times the energy density of current …
“…Because energy has become a focus for innovation, things will start to move faster…The most important thing we did is make energy an interesting area for Ph.D. students over the last five years,” said Vinod Khosla at the inaugural ARPA-E …
