Warming gases show worst jump
Warming gases show worst jump: Ouch!:-( This is the worst of the worst-case scenarios. Ugly, ugly, ugly. ‘via Blog this’
Halloween 2011: Global Population Growth and impact on the planet.
Halloween 2011. Wanna talk about something really, really scary!:-) No, it’s not Freddie. Or Fannie for that matter. Today, it seems, we have hit 7 billion population on the plant. Of the 150+ people born per minute, some 98% are borne in developing countries. This creates challenges for the already poor countries. At least 50 of them are born in India per minute. The world populations odometer rolls over about today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/world-population-not-only-grows-but-grows-old/2011/10/25/gIQAdt17VM_story.html Problem of a graying…
Energy ‘wedges’ – MIT News Office
Energy ‘wedges’ – MIT News Office Here’s a great visual. Wedges. Click on the symbol to see what happens if we get serious about solar, wind… and EE. Of course doing nothing is not a very good option.
MIT’s 5-part series on the energy & energy efficiency
MIT 5-part series on Energy scaling up (or scaling down in terms of energy efficiency). http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/energy-scale-part1-1024.html #1 http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/energy-scale-part5-1028.html # 5 Read part 1: “What can make a dent?“ Read part 2: “Where the wind blows“ Read part 3: “Shining brightly“ Read part 4: “Harnessing the Earth, the atom and the leaf“ Read part 5: ‘Conserve, conserve, conserve’ A megawatt saved is better than a megawatt made, and there are plenty of ways to save energy…
Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real – Yahoo! News
Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real – Yahoo! News: “Still, Muller said it makes sense to reduce the carbon dioxide created by fossil fuels.” So the long-term denier Muller has finally decided that there really is global worming. Duh. At least as important is that the funding is by Koch Foundation. It looks like they will stand behind the findings and push on for more research as to the cause of global…
The iPod’s Inventor: a far better Thermostat?!
The iPod’s Inventor Strikes Out On His Own, And Invents…A Thermostat?! | Co. Design: Oh, you are gonna like this. Programmable thermostats should, theoretically, save you a ton on your utilities. But you will love this. Only about 6% of programmable thermostates are actually — you guessed it — are actually programmed.:-( So maybe, just possibly, the answer is better training for the users. Nope. That will never do. How about something more intuitive and…