Friday, December 21, 2012

EV Fast Charging, whether standardized or not - Green Transportation

EV Fast Charging, whether standardized or not - Green Transportation: "As of this writing (early 2012) there is one fast charging standard in wide-spread use, CHAdeMO. This was developed in Japan and is available on electric cars from Nissan, Mitsubishi, and a couple other companies. Other car companies have ignored this standard, and in fact the SAE is moving strongly towards a different fast charging standard. It's a mess. "

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Portland’s prescription for cycling - Opinion - The Boston Globe

Portland’s prescription for cycling - Opinion - The Boston Globe: "Portland is America’s top large city for cycling, with 6.3 percent of all commutes being made by bike. No other city has yet cracked 4 percent and Boston is at 1.7 percent, according to 2011 data analyzed by the League of American Bicyclists."

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Waste Heat to Electricity Breakthrough - IEEE Spectrum

Waste Heat to Electricity Breakthrough - IEEE Spectrum: "erials has been way too low to yield a commercially viable device. This week, however, researchers at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill., report in Nature that they have smashed through the old efficiency record, and they claim that further improvement to efficiencies previously thought impossible are within reach."

Monday, July 30, 2012

ODOE: Renewable Energy Ocean Wave Energy Development

ODOE: Renewable Energy Ocean Wave Energy Development: "Oregon has been identified as an ideal location for wave energy conversion based primarily on its tremendous wave resource and coastline transmission capacity. This combination of factors, along with Oregon State University’s research facilities and the state’s long term commitment to renewable energy, positions Oregon to lead the U.S. in wave energy development.  "

Hybrid utterances - Sam Anders

Hybrid utterances - Battlestar Wiki: "Spins and turns, angles and curves. The shape of dreams, half remembered."

Friday, June 29, 2012

Labor Board issues employer social media guidlines. | Oregon Business News

Labor Board issues employer social media guidlines. | Oregon Business News: "General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a third report on social media with “specific examples of various employer policies and rules” that were deemed either lawful"

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Bookworm Room » Can someone explain electric cars to me? *UPDATED*

Bookworm Room » Can someone explain electric cars to me? *UPDATED*:

"I like this analogy of meat to electric cars. Here is how I see it: 
You are free to eat meat or not (assuming you can afford it)
You are free to drive an EV or not (assuming you can afford one) 
You are free to consider the source of the meat (local, free-range, grass feed, kosher) or just buy the cheapest.
You are free to consider the source of the electricity (wind, solar, geothermal,…) or just buy the cheapest.
Maybe we have very justifiable reasons for our decisions, or maybe we just make them because we feel like it. Either way they are our own to make and there is no need to justify them to anyone.   
“With that in mind, can someone explain to me cars that are entirely electric, … need to be plugged into an outlet, in exactly the same way as that energy sucking computer or electric dryer.”
Since you asked, as pointed out above electricity does not come from magic pixie dust and neither does gasoline. Both of these have sources that you are free to consider or not. Choice is a great thing. Do you attack people for using “energy sucking computers or electric dryers”, of course not; so why not allow them to use it for anything they want? Assuming they pay for it, I don’t see why it would upset anyone."

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Welcome to the Anthropocene - YouTube

Welcome to the Anthropocene - YouTube: "A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes."

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Study rates intellectual property value by state | Oregon Business News

Study rates intellectual property value by state | Oregon Business News: "the study found that IP-intensive industries power 55.7 million direct and indirect jobs, over $5 trillion in national GDP, and 74 % of total exports."

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Road Pricing: Mileage based usage fees - distance based charging - vehicle mileage tax - a future?

Road Pricing: Mileage based usage fees - distance based charging - vehicle mileage tax - a future?: "MBUF is the latest acronym applying to something that is also called VMT (Vehicle Mileage Tax).   What is common with all references is that it is a form of road pricing based on distance travelled.  At its simplest, it means a vehicle pays on a per kilometre (or mile) as distinguished from traditional tolling which I describe as "point based" charging"

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Use of geothermal heat-exchange systems is rising – North Bay Business Journal - North San Francisco Bay Area, Sonoma, Marin, Napa counties - Archive

Use of geothermal heat-exchange systems is rising – North Bay Business Journal - North San Francisco Bay Area, Sonoma, Marin, Napa counties - Archive: "There are some 15,000 to 20,000 operating geothermal systems in Pacific Northwest service areas and perhaps half as many more in California. Some 1.5 million heat pumps are operating in the U.S. today and more than 1 million homes have geothermal heat-exchange systems."

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Alacrity - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Alacrity - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary: "Surely one of the most striking features of human dynamics is the alacrity with which those who have been oppressed will oppress whomever they can once the opportunity presents itself. —Randall Kennedy, Atlantic, May 1997"

Friday, March 2, 2012

Truth-Telling Snopes Site Goes To Bat Over Chevy Volt E-Mail

Truth-Telling Snopes Site Goes To Bat Over Chevy Volt E-Mail: "Chelsea Sexton said at the time, it's remarkable that a news segment "could trash a car for working exactly as advertised.""

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Max Planck - Wikiquote

Max Planck - Wikiquote: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Paraphrased variants:
Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out.
Science advances one funeral at a time."

Sunday, February 5, 2012

CODES FOR FACEBOOK CHAT: [[171108522930776]] = Troll Face [[164413893600463] - Pastebin.com

CODES FOR FACEBOOK CHAT: [[171108522930776]] = Troll Face [[164413893600463] - Pastebin.com: "CODES FOR FACEBOOK CHAT:"

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