Blue Sky Limousine

A few days ago I watched a news story about a minivan or SUV that was a gas-electric hybrid which had been modified to get 150 miles to the gallon. What they did wasn’t that new; I’d seen the technique before. You take a normal hybrid, and add as many batteries as is [...]

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I saw a commercial on TV today advocating changing your light bulbs from the old kind to the new, more efficient kind. There were a few different semi-famous people there. One of them was the actor who plays Sylar on “Heroes.”
I already knew that taking that step was a good idea. At [...]

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Sure, sounds like a meltdown, but what I really mean is an explosive growth in the nuclear power industry.
I am pretty sure that I heard we’re at the point now where our technology is advanced and safe. So what if we take all that tech and build a new nuclear reactor for every state. [...]

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I don’t really know how much it will cost, but I recently realized that it won’t be free!
Seriously, how dumb of me to overlook that.
I had been dreaming of getting a car with a super high MPG. Hybrid, pure electric, hydrogen fuel cell?? Ideally I think I’d go for the Hydrogen one. [...]

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I was thinking about my car and getting the oil changed. I realized that when Big Oil dies, we’ll have to have cars that don’t use oil.
Previously I had acknowledged the fact that we’re slowly moving towards alternate energy sources like hydrogen and electricity. So no more gas. But I hadn’t thought [...]

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It’s like looking at a dream.

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Today I saw on the news a guy had decked out his house to be essentially covered in Christmas lights. His house was incredibly bright at night. The focus of the story was how the traffic nearby was affected by it, and whether or not that made traffic cops necessary. There was [...]

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I read in USA Today that the government might soon establish a policy under which stores would be forced to stop selling the old light bulbs in favor of more expensive, energy efficient ones. This would force us all to use them, but help eliminate a sizable chunk of wasted energy.
Sounds like a good [...]

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Read this on Yahoo: “Handing a major defeat to the auto industry, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that California can regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.”
Yes! This means that finally the auto industry will have to get on board and “Go Green.” After all these years, we’re finally starting to see what [...]

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I just found out that newer gasoline, engineered to be better for the environment, is more easily separated when unused for long periods, especially if it’s the cheap stuff.
Apparently there’s water in there, and the cheaper gas you buy, and the longer you let your car, lawnmower, snow blower, or whatever sit without being run, [...]

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