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New lean, mean, green machine

I just want to ride on my motorcycle. And now I can do it without buying gasoline. Today, CNET's Michael Kanellos looks at the progress being made in building and marketing electric motorcycles in the U.S. The photo here shows him tooling around on a Zero.Vectrix also...

Tags: green tech, energy, cars &, traffic, Blogroll, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-08-02

A matter of degree

If you have any doubts that some folks are rushing to get in position to get rich off climate change and high energy prices, I gotta bridge I'll sell ya.Perhaps no finer proof of the gold rush around energy: a new university training program in "carbon management." The University...

Tags: global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Hard cheese for hard coal

They may stop mining hard coal in Germany. The energy source that literally fueled Germany's manufacturing in the 19th and 20th Centuries will no longer come from German mines in the Ruhr Valley. The Washington Post article today points out how heavily the German underground coal mines have...

Tags: renewable energy, nuclear power, global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-29

Your computer's making you sick

A new study from Britain's Imperial University says your computer and other electronics could be making you sick. A London newspaper says the study's going to be published in August. The research will blame electrical charges from computers, TVs, stoves and other electrical appliances for giving people asthma,...

Tags: research, green tech, Blogroll, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-28

Ozone revisited

There's a detailed, delightful (if you're a chemist) explication of the recent ozone research over on the realclimate blog. It's helpful to follow the realclimate blog's explanation of the vast difference between ozone's behavior on the earth's surface, and in the stratosphere.I early blogged the original research publication right...

Tags: research, global warming, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-27

Good news for the future

Airplanes are a cursed blessing. They make travel over long distances possible in less time than anybody could have imagined 120 years ago. A week to take a steamer from New York to Liverpool. Sound like fun?But the curse comes with all that crud jets spew into...

Tags: research, green tech, global warming, fossil fuel, federal government, energy, climate change, Blogroll, aviation &, aeronautics, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-27

Ozone: too much here, too little there

Hey folks, can we just get our ozone in balance? Seems like crystals and mantras aren't gonna do it. There's no political stigma on climate change research in Britain so they're regularly coming with up new findings.Today comes a study saying there are chmicals in the Antarctic that...

Tags: research, green tech, global warming, climate change, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-26

Finding fault in Japan

The July 16th earthquake that hit Japan's Niigata prefecture has left the country shaken: sesimically, politically, economically. There are elections for the nation's upper house on July 29.The elections could be affected by public anger and fear after the quake badly damaged the world's largest nuclear power plant, measured...

Tags: nuclear power, green tech, global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, air pollution

Blog posts 2007-07-25

Why bloggers may live longer

Blogging fronm home could be good for your health, 'cause that commute's a killer. And now "Forbes" had done some figurin' to find out which of the 25 largest metro areas in America have the deadliest commute.The study compared three major factors to find which urban commutes by car...

Tags: air pollution, cars &, traffic, federal government, fossil fuel, mass transit

Blog posts 2007-07-24

Additional Resources

Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, burger, PCB, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

News to know: Ruiz, Moffat resign; Microsoft; Psystar; Smartphones

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ruiz resigns as GlobalFoundries chairman; no mention of insider trading scandal Moffat no longer with IBM as...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, CBS Interactive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Smartphone, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mainframes, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Servers, Hardware, Sales

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday

That is just the bipartisanship ........ President Obama campaigned on. Not!!!Harry leaves and we're all better offWhy don't you go somewhere else to blow off all this hot air and perhaps the U.S. emissions will be cut in half? :-)Harry's blogs: e-pollution on this IT tech site.ntLeveling the playing field...The...

Tags: Blogging, Arctic

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Science boycotts over envirnomental issues?

bad ideaSo, like, back in 1933, boycott Einstein and other scientists in Germany because you didn't like Nazi laws as of 1933?Probably not a good idea.Let's just boycott all other countries because they are all full of foreigners.Eco-worshippers are a bunch of crybabiesSure... let's boycott everyone that doesn't agree with...

Tags: boycott

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Will there be a new energy and air pollution law?

NOIf we the People have anything to say about it this legislation will die a quick death."cap and trade" = the economic destruction of the US based on junk science.This is the largest fraud ever perpetrated against the people of the World.It's not about the environment. It's about power, money,...

Tags: Litigation, pollution

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Will there be a new energy and air pollution law?

Senate commitee battle over energy and emissions bill. by Harry Fuller

Tags: Pollution, Energy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Copenhagen countdown

"climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, sea surface temperature, wealth transfer, tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe

Harry, cut the BS. Write about tech some time.or get a job.Stop Preaching...and writing in a condescending tone. You and Blanchenwhatshisname should start your own site and stop posting this junk to a TECH site. Throwing in a line at the end about Green Jobs doesn't mean your...

Tags: Gender and diversity, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Environmental Formulator for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Environmental Formulator for iPhone is the perfect tool for any environmental engineering Formulator or engineering student. Our environmental engineer app contains 50 important formulas needed by environmental engineers. Environmental Formulator for iPhone will grow to over 100 formulas in the next few months, as we add more formulas and charts...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Formula, Pollution

Software downloads 2009-10-20

UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?

Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...

Tags: Landfill, Computer, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Government, Hardware, Components, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-18