Energy

Tame Bear on November 20th, 2010

Is Chevrolet ashamed of their new plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle? Their marketing slogan is “More car than electric.” It seems an odd way to sell a car to people interested in buying an electric vehicle. The Chevy Volt is a powerful, stylish sports car. Clearly they opted for performance over energy efficiency. “More muscle than milage.” […]

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Tame Bear on August 29th, 2010

The world’s largest independent ebook store, Diesel Books is now the latest place to carry “Oceans of Light: A Users Guide to the Multiverse,” the definitive treatise on Multiverse Wave Theory (aka MW-Theory) by Peter Oakley. Understand how our repetitive personal habits contribute to the larger repeating waves of history and provide clues to guide our […]

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Tame Bear on May 10th, 2010

Oil Rig Burning It is the worst man-made ecological disaster since the Exxon Valdez Alaskan oil spill of 1989. When British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform ignited, burned, and sank, it left in its fiery wake an uncontrollable gusher of crude oil beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Even now — three weeks […]

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Tame Bear on April 21st, 2010

Treesh and I went shopping for a freezer last summer. You know, one of those chest freezers you keep in the basement to store everything that won’t fit in the refrigerator freezer in the kitchen. We did a lot of canning and freezing from the garden last year and needed a place to put it […]

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Tame Bear on February 24th, 2010

Electricity from a box in your backyard? Bloom Energy is making them for commercial businesses — they’re about the size of a parking space. The first ones (definitely business-sized) cost about $750,000 and can generate 100Kwh of electricity. But within a decade we may be able to buy these for our home. Bloom Energy CEO […]

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