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Gas prices and world car and bicycle production

Friday, October 3, 2008

(This is a re-post from last week. The original post disappeared in the server change.)
I saw a graph of car and bicycle production in The Economist. The article was On your bike: Obesity and high oil prices are good news for the world’s biggest bikemaker. This was one of the many recent stories on the [...]

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“Free from foreign oil”

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

I’m sick of the phrase “free from foreign oil.” I’ve heard this phrase a lot with the party conventions the last couple weeks. People who use this phrase are missing the point. The correct phrase is “free from oil.”

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Who Killed the Electric Car?

Thursday, June 12, 2008

I finally got around to watching Who Killed the Electric Car?. It is a very good documentary. I have been reading about electric vehicles the past few months, and the movie inspired me to start looking again.

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Electric airplanes

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

This is really cool. I thought of doing this myself, but it is too expensive for now. Randall Fishman built an electric ultralight. He is now selling them as the ElectraFlyer. Depending on the battery pack and propeller installed, it can fly for up to two hours. Instead of the short noisy propellers on most [...]

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Wind power in Allen County?

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Acording to a News-Sentinel story, there is a possibility of some windmills being installed in the eastern part of Allen County. There is no good reason that a wind farm hasn’t been installed there yet. Even a few windmills will help lower Fort Wayne’s use of coal power.

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