15
Jul
2008
You have to love Jim Rogers and the interviews he gives Bloomberg. He’s a wise man that comes across as a cranky at times but we should listen carefully to what he has to say.
“I don’t know where these guys get the audacity to take our money, taxpayer money, and buy stock in Fannie [...]
10
Mar
2008
Once again DST snuck up on me and once again its screwing with me. Every year I go through the same hassle of re-adjusting my body clock just as it gets into the Spring rhythm.
Long time readers will note that I post either very late in the mornings or not at all during the [...]
21
Feb
2008
Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Gasoline
Posted by Tom as Energy
The NYT had a great article about how Scientists have figured out a way to turn CO2 into gasoline. They would suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, put it through a chemical process, and create gasoline. This sounds like the cure for our greenhouse gas and energy problem, right? Wrong, it takes [...]
11
Feb
2008
Just as I suspected, Biofuels aren’t the panacea that everyone thought they would be. When you factor in the operations of clearing trees from the land and planting all those biofuels, you get an increase greenhouse gas emissions rather than reductions.
The destruction of natural ecosystems — whether rain forest in the tropics or grasslands [...]
25
Nov
2007
I live in a semi-rural area of NJ with lots of trees, open space, and great neighbors. My wife has gotten into gardening over the past few years and learned that you can “trade” plants instead of buying them at Lowes and Home Depot. She met this old German couple on the other [...]
