Google.org gives electric cars a push, with investments in Aptera and ActaCell Google.org is Google’s not-exactly-charity arm of their operations. Since Google believes in not being evil I suppose they want to use Google.org to do some good things for the world.
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A bunch of people have posted video’s about their own electric motorcycle projects …
Here are a few:-
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Electric Motorcycles (websites blog postings) are fun smooth riding machines. They let you ride around town at far less energy expenditure than driving a car, even an electric car. Just like gas motorcycles are more fuel efficient than gas cars, so are electric motorcycles more energy efficient than electric cars. In terms of converting a vehicle to electric drive, it is easier to accomplish a motorcycle conversion than a car conversion.
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The folks at bloggingheads.tv whoring for some link love sent me an interesting link. They had a talking heads session (”diavlog”—damn, that’s hard to say) between John Horgan and some other guy (sorry, “Some Other Guy”). Horgan is the guy who brought us The End of Science, a book which was more widely criticized than read. I haven’t read it either, but after watching him, I think I need to do a little reading. He’s a bright guy, and interesting to listen to, but as live chats often go, there were some errors that deserve parsing, not just because they are errors of fact, but because they reveal a certain disappointing line of thought.
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DROP YOUR CELL PHONE NOW!!!!111!
(don’t send me the bill for the replacement)
I’m sure others will cover more of the scientific details, but science aside, we should examine why today’s statement on cell phones out of Pittsburgh is so ridiculous. Setting aside the lack of data connecting cell phones and health problems, this is horribly irresponsible.
Here’s the thumbnail: an alarmist report was released by the UP Cancer Institute’s Center for Environmental Oncology. It was apparently targeted at the university community, and stated that despite lack of current evidence, the community should worry about cell phones this instant.
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A world renowned coral reef scientist Dr. Charlie Veron joined Greenpeace activists underwater to make a bold statement against the shale oil industry and for the protection of the Great Barrier Reef from climate change. Full Story…
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Conveniently just in time for the Plug-In 2008 conference in San Jose, Coulomb Technologies is unveiling an electric car charging station. “The company’s products include 110-volt outlets that can be outfitted in public and mounted on poles, such as streetlights.” Pardon me while I yawn (a bit). The NEMA standards includes a 120 volt power outlet that is safe to use outdoors and is perfect for charging electric vehicles. I use outdoor charging all the time with my electric vehicles.
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I’ve been wanting to install a solar power system for years. Actually during my high school years I wanted to work in solar power research, but when I got to college the computer room distracted me enough to become a software engineer instead. At the moment it doesn’t seem practical to install a solar power system because I live in a rented house. But the last few days I pondered how to set up a small scale solar power system, enough to perform charging for my electric motorcycle, maybe drive the laundry machines, etc.
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In my post on the interactive map of US prescription opiate use trends provided by the Las Vegas Sun I initially missed the association with a three-part series on “The New Addiction”. This explains why the Sun came up with the map in the first place which I should have thought about a bit more. Bad DM!
At any rate there’s all kinds of interesting stuff in here such as a reader poll with only 53% of respondents (as of 7/22/08) saying it is “difficult” to persuade a doctor to provide a prescription for narcotics:
Jennifer Hilton says that after she had a tooth filled, her dentist handed her a prescription for Vicodin even though she was not complaining about pain. She bristled at the unsolicited prescription because she’s a program coordinator for an inpatient drug addiction program for adolescent girls that’s run by Westcare, a Las Vegas nonprofit that specializes in substance abuse treatment.
and a suggestion that the rising trend is all the fault of the American Pain Society in cahoots with BigPharma.
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At the urging of my colleague Abel, who liveblogged his own vasectomy, I’m documenting my first mammogram. Given that I had pretty much no idea what to expect going into this, I’m hopeful that this post will demystify the experience a little for those who know they probably should get mammograms but have been putting it off.
Let me preface this by saying that there was no special reason that my primary care physician ordered a mammogram for me aside from my being 40. As such, there’s no special cause to be worried for my health as I wait for the results.
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