The Impact of U.S. Offshore Drilling

Chicago and Climate Change

An interesting MSNBC article on Chicago’s efforts to reduce global warming gases.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26790637/

Ben Bernanke…and America’s New Fund

Will America’s new $700 B fund take a bath?
Remember, housing prices are still falling….so it’s questionable whether this attempt at a resolution trust really has legs…..and we have little insight on where specifically the problems are with these illiquid bank assets. If the housing market stabilizes, will the Fed be able to sell much of [...]

GM’s Bob Lutz on the Chevy Volt…and Global Warming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVtfpYgoLcc

What do we do now?

Given all the financial panic of the last week (or should I say year?) what should we do?
I read John Phipp’s blog this morning and his first thought is to reserve the right to panic. He’s tired of the financial commentators telling us to stay calm…and asks the very reasonable question “when is the time [...]

EPA Nanotechnology Press Release

I received this EPA Press Release today…and noted the Duke University effort to “develop 32 tightly controlled and monitored ecosystems in Duke Forest in Durham, N.C. Known as “mesocosms,” these living laboratories provide areas where researchers can add nanoparticles and study the resulting interactions and effects on plants, fish, bacteria and other [...]

Google and GE

From an article by Matthew McDermott:
Expanding and improving the United States’ electrical transmission grid would be a major building block in creating an electrical supply that is reliable, efficient and clean. The move to make that happen got a new ally today: Google. The internet giant has announced that it will be partnering with GE [...]

Joseph Stiglitz on the Banking Situation

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/stiglitz.crisis/index.html

The Problem with Ethanol

John Phipps posted this interesting graph.

0 to 60 in 28 Seconds

In 1969, GM introduced a hybrid car.

Chuck Squatriglia in Wired describes it: “The heart of the car was a 35 cubic inch (573 cc) two-cylinder engine — small enough to be exempt from the emissions rules of the day — coupled with a DC motor powered by six lead-acid batteries just like the one under [...]