Fold your tent and move on GM, you have officially lost. This announcement of the Prius triumph combined with soaring gas prices, makes your autopsy iminent and also completely boring. Good riddance to lobbyist trash.   more »

Incredible new statistics in this article, coinciding with a local news report of thousands of dollars per year in energy savings foer homeowners who install geo heat exchange heating/cooling systems. I have been using the 36% figure for percentage of GHG from building heating/cooling, the 48% firgure must be for lighting, water heating, cooking as well? 76% of electricity? Incredible.   more »

If only I had a real PHD now, maybe someone would listen to my pleas to subsidize farm biogas, hehey. It is looking better and better as a central part of ag and energy policy reform. Biodigestion not only takes care of the methane released by manure and fertilizer run off (organic fertilizer a byproduct of biodigestion, tends not to run off, as chemical fertilizer does), but also the nitrogen. 296 times the GHG effect of CO2.    more »