Review: Who Killed the Electric Car?

I recently reviewed Who Killed the Electric Car? for Spectrum Magazine. North Americans love murder-mysteries. Evidence Exhibit 1: an episode of CSI airs almost every night of the week. Whodunit? What was the motive? Will the perpetrator be apprehended? Was there a cover-up or conspiracy? And most importantly, was it Colonel Mustard in the kitchen [...]

That’s an energy policy?

Senator John McCain has advocated some rather gimmicky fixes to the high cost of fuel that not only WOULDN’T provide a real benefit to the average American household, but would also be very detrimental to the environment. A “gas tax holiday” and offshore drilling would not appreciably reduce the cost at the pump, according to [...]

So you think drilling is the answer?

Energy Independence Day – A Good Idea

Energy crisis. There’s a phrase that’s being thrown around a lot in the media these days. You’ve heard it, probably said it. Everyone is talking. About the high cost of gas. About the rising cost of crude. About the need to drill or the need to prevent drilling. About oil and coal and alternatives. Independence [...]

Cartoonists take on energy crisis

A Walk on the Wild Side(walk)

Worldwide, there were some 200 million automobiles in 1970; by 1990 the number had grown to 500 million. If current population and buying trends continue, it is estimated that by 2030 there could be more than 1 trillion cars rumbling down our highways and byways (Hypertextbook.com). While the auto industry provides thousands of jobs for [...]

The Power of Community

Tonight some friends invited us over to watch The Power of Community, a short documentary about how Cuba responded to the collapse of the Soviet Union during the Special Period. Because Cuba had to re-invent itself after losing cheap oil imports, it is an example for the rest of the world of how to cope [...]

Brawn and Brain combine to create clean energy

A team of 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cyclists used bicycles to power a supercomputer conducting research on nuclear fusion Tuesday in order to complete the largest human-powered computation in history. Riding bicycles attached to electrical generators, the students not only saved energy by using human power to run the SiCortex SC648 supercomputer, they [...]

Greening Adventist Universities

Southwestern Adventist University’s SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) team produced this video on energy conservation.