The EV-1 was the first battery-powered electric car made by General Motors, in production from 1996 through 1999, although only available in California and Arizona under a lease program. Despite positive feedback from customers, the EV-1 program was cancelled in 2003 under somewhat mysterious circumstances, documented in the 2006 film “Who Killed the Electric Car?“. [...]

“Come gather round people, wherever you roam, and admit that the waters around you have grown, and accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth saving, then you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changin’…” Bob Dylan

Presidential hopefuls are treading lightly on Social Security, but it’s shaping up to be an important issue in the 2008 general election. Meanwhile, the first baby boomer applies for Social Security… Boomers read on. This is our chance to right the wrongs of Social Security and to realize the dignity in retirement that we’ve earned.

A quantum mechanical phenomenon, superconductivity occurs in certain materials when cooled to extremely low temperatures. In this state, current flows in bound pairs of electrons that constitute a superfluid, which can move without power dissipation. With exactly zero resistance, current can circulate forever in superconducting circuits, an oddity that is being exploited in the latest [...]

In the U.S., about 1.2 billion gallons of fuel are wasted every year from driving on underinflated tires, according to this government report. With oil prices soon to reach $100 a barrel, lack of basic auto maintenance is costly and will increase harmful exhaust emissions. Just in time, a new innovation from Michelin will make [...]

An emerging field of research is challenging former assumptions about our genetic code and inheritance. Known as epigenetics, it is the discovery, supported by clinical research, that a network of chemical switches controls the expression of our DNA. In other words, our DNA is not etched in stone, but selectively enabled or disabled by interaction [...]

OSU’s Electrical Engineers created this presentation just for you. The pdf, ‘Wave Energy Opportunities and Developments‘, outlines not only the technology but also the environmental protocol being followed in the assessment of wave energy. Scientists are quite aware of the potential effects of electromagnetism and mechanics on marine ecosystems. Data is now being collected that [...]

The US Department of Energy has released statistics showing that the total consumption of renewable energy increased almost 7% in 2006. Solar power was in the lead with an increase of 45%, followed by biofuels at 27.6%. In the DOE Newsletter, it’s reported that Solar Thermal Power Plants of 200-300 MW are planned for Florida [...]

As an example of how insidious the dependence on fossil fuel is, let’s go back to the turn of the century, when farm animals were used for crop cultivation. If you had horses or oxen, so much land was needed just to graze the animals. So before the advent of fossil fuel, farmland had to [...]

As you may be aware, the green lifestyle encompasses many different forms and philosophies, to the extent that the movement has become somewhat fragmented. What it loses in focus it makes up for in the diversity of the approaches that are evolving to heal our environment. In this blog I’ve attempted to gather this information [...]