This is about an article that is about the way in which oil production is going evolve. Will there be a sharp peak, or a long lasting plateau?

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Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is approaching the issue of selling fuel cells by developing small units meant for use on radio-controlled cars. This is an interesting approach because the RC vehicle community has proved itself to be a fertile proving ground for battery technology.

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The payoff for plug-in hybrids: 95 years?
http://www.google.org/recharge/
http://www.7gen.com/article-summary/plugin-hybrid-electric/23973-payoff-…

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At RechargeIT.org, a Google.org project, they have built a few plug-in hybrid Prius’s and now have several months data about real world fuel use. They have found an improved miles/gallon efficiency from 44.6, for a regular Prius, to 66.2 miles/gallon for their plugin Prius’s. This results in 0.4115 CO2e lbs/mile for the plugin […]

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It seems a biodiesel advocate has been arrested for siphoning 300 gallons of grease from a Burger King in Morgan Hill, CA. Among the charges is ‘Illegal transportation of inedible kitchen grease‘. This is a bit curious and clearly there are a lot of biodiesel advocates who are going around collecting used fryer […]

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Fossil fuels carry with them tremendous problems, many of which are not clearly obvious. The effects that come from burning fossil fuels are small, at the individual level. The exhaust coming out of a car is nigh-on invisible, for example. But it’s like the way snowflakes are individually small, but if there […]

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William Kemp is the V.P. Engineering for an energy sector corporation, a sustainable living and clean energy advocate, and a leading expert in renewable energy technologies. He has written a book exploring issues of climate change/carbon rationing, peak oil, urban sprawl and geopolitical and socio-economic disruption related to fossil fuel use. The second […]

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Apparently a woman, Mandi Hamlin, recently had an embarrassing incident in airport security screening. She has several body piercings, including nipple rings, which set off the metal detectors in the airport screening. The TSA officials forced her to remove the nipple rings so they could inspect them and determine that she isn’t a […]

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Damn Steve Novella.
Well, not really, but I always get annoyed when someone comes up with an analogy or description of a phenomenon that I should have thought of first. I don’t really get annoyed at the person who came up with such ideas, but rather at myself for not thinking of something so obvious or […]

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Sleepdoctor (Michael Rack) alerts us to a new pharmaceutical product in
development: BGC20-0166.  He doesn’t say a lot, except to
dismiss it out of hand.  That is appropriate, but I thought
I’d add a bit of explanation.  
His post:
Saturday, May 03, 2008 Pills
don’t cure Obstructive Sleep Apnea
The life sciences company BTG is developing a pill that will supposedly
treat […]

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