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With as much bitching and moaning as you hear about gas prices these days, it’s refreshing to see a price comparison versus other liquids most of us buy. A gallon of gas is still a good bit cheaper than milk, for instance. “But still,” you might say, “I don’t use 10 gallons of […]

An old friend emailed me the following quotation, which I found pretty fascinating:
“A vegan driving a Hummer produces less greenhouse gases than an omnivore riding a bicycle.” –Howard Lyman
This is especially interesting to me, because my reasons for being vegan mostly have to do with personal choice, not some sort of political imperative, but I […]

I may be overly obsessed with illumination technologies, but a couple of weeks ago when I was driving to Philadelphia, it was all I could think about. I was staring at this skyline covered in skyscrapers and industrial building, and they were all glowin’ like the frickin’ sun, and it struck me how much […]

Rob Carlson and I got into a discussion the other day about the practicality of having illuminated street signs at night. I said it’s something that we’ll see in the next 5-10 years because of the increasing practicality of solar power for low-energy applications. He disagreed.
Thanks to a recent breakthrough in Spray-On Solar-Power […]