I read an article yesterday on John Waylon, a.k.a. Plasma Boy, a tinkerer who fitted 1972 Datsun body with not one but two electric engines — forklift engines — powered by battery packs. His team takes the car racing on public tracks and with its instant acceleration, the car does wonders on the quarter-mile drag [...]
Posts Tagged ‘energy’
White Zombie: the electric car that leaves Corvettes in the dust
Posted in environment, technology, tagged electric car, energy, media, technology, transportation on 27 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Greening I-5 from Mexico to Canada?
Posted in current events, environment, local, technology, tagged california, energy, oregon, puget sound, transportation, washington on 11 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to recent articles in the Seattle Times and EcoGeek, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington are considering a plan that would allow motorists travelling along U.S. Interstate 5 to charge or change electric-vehicle batteries, or to fill fuel tanks with biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen or compressed natural gas when they stop at rest stops [...]
New hybrid tugboat
Posted in technology, tagged california, energy, puget sound, transportation on 9 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Reprinted from EcoGeek.] When one considers the myriad of things becoming hybrid, tugboats are not one of those which immediately come to mind. But in southern California (where else?) the world’s first true hybrid tug was recently unveiled. The Carolyn Dorothy, displayed before a large crowd in the Long Beach, California area on January 23, [...]
Bad CARB?
Posted in current events, markets, technology, tagged air quality, california, energy, transportation on 20 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to last week’s East Bay Express, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is preparing to place emissions testing requirements for hybrid cars that will make it financially impractical for anyone but the big auto industry to develop and market “plug-in” technology. The decision is expected to be adopted at this week CARB meeting, January [...]
Stop that drill!
Posted in current events, environment, technology, tagged california, energy, local, natural resources, oil, politics on 8 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I talked last week about last-ditch efforts of the current federal administration to open U.S. coastal waters to oil and natural gas drilling. In Wednesday’s Times-Standard, John Driscoll’s article “Thompson floats no-drill bill” discusses Rep. Mike Thompson’s attempt to protect the California North Coast from this threat. The most immediate threat generally perceived about offshore [...]
California coast threat: oil drilling
Posted in current events, environment, technology, tagged california, energy, environment, habitat, impacts, natural resources, oil on 29 December, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Department of the Interior, headed by industry-friendly, environmentally-challenged Dirk Kempthorne, is moving to open some or all of the U.S. coastal waters outside state control to offshore oil exploration starting in 2010. Planned assault The Bush administration has been gunning for this for a long time. Back in [...]
Mixed greens
Posted in current events, local, tagged birds, energy, environment, humboldt, natural resources, planning, politics on 15 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A tossed salad of environmental topics from the Times-Standard: Report: Wave energy begins in rough waters — A white paper, prepared for the California Energy Commission and the Ocean Protection Council to evaluate the possible socioeconomic and environmental effects of harnessing wave energy, showed mixed blessings from these energy project. The report suggests that commercial [...]
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