Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing Penn State’s solar decathalon house. These guys are brilliant, not insofar as the solutions they propose are all that novel or even so well executed (I’m hoping their design is fully realized, i.e., done, a few short weeks away when the house gets carted off to the National Mall in Washington DC.) The thing that is great is Read the rest of this entry »
Today the power went out in four buildings on campus. Not my building. And almost instantly, people were poking their heads out of their offices and cubicles gopher hole style all over my building. Why? Because we are so dependent on a completely centralized functioning grid. Read the rest of this entry »
Apologies–I started this post almost two months ago, and now I finish it. But it works because I was just going to post something related anyhow.
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So, this week I was trying to do something about my household energy consumption.
As some may have read, the governor of Pennsylvania is currently locked in a budget stalemate with the legislature because he wants state support for reducing reliance on fossil fuels. But in general, there are no resources here to help those who want to reduce their energy consumption. Read the rest of this entry »
ok, here’s a silly idea. We print things on dead tree pulp, then shred the stuff back into pulp and start over, calling it recycling. Except every time the fibers get shorter and the stuff is less useful. Also dirtier. Read the rest of this entry »