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Archive for June, 2008

My Most Remote Visitor

Check out the location of this visitor:

If you zoom in, repeatedly, there is still nothing there but a bunch of water.  No matter what map I look at, there’s nothing there.  All that leads me to wonder if it’s not someone on a boat with GPS or something.  That’s not really how the internet works, [...]

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That is a typical underwater volcano.  I love to watch them.  Something eerie looking, kinda alien.  So, I finally found a story that gives me the opportunity to show at least a picture of one.  Here’s today’s story:
Volcanoes Erupt Beneath Arctic Ice
New evidence deep beneath the Arctic ice suggests a series of underwater volcanoes have [...]

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Biomass making gains

I have been running a poll for a while asking people what they think the future of energy is.  So far, biomass is coming in dead last at 9% or so.  Quite frankly, I tended to be one of those that felt like biomass was the least likely.  The efforts in biomass so far have yielded [...]

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Volkswagon’s hydrogen cars?

Here is Volkswagon’s vision of the future:

Now, this is pretty cool.  More along the lines of appearing pretty normal.  Now, according to Cnet, Volkswagon is expecting a consumer version of this car in 7 to 10 years.  What they are waiting on is for some semblence of a hydrogen infrastructure to be in place.
I don’t think that’s going to happen in [...]

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Aptera Typ-1

Watch out GM, there’s a new competitor in the hybrid market:

Actually, that’s the rear of the Aptera.  Pretty spacey lookin huh?  Might explain some of the UFO sightings in California of late.  Now, on a more serious note, this things gets something like 230 miles per gallon.

That’s the front of the Typ-1.  Looks like  a [...]

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GM ditching gas guzzlers

A while back I did a little piece on the future of cars.  Namely I was writing about the Chevy Volt.  Well, actually it was more than a little while back.  It was actually January 2007.  Eighteen months later I see these headlines:
General Motors announced plans Tuesday to shut four truck and SUV plants that [...]

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