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11 July, 2008 (06:34) | automobiles, biofuels, energy, environment, oil, pollution | By: jrittenhouse

…here’s a way to have a way to buy a car you can fill up and run from your house system today,  With some caveats.

So how much does Biofuel take up…

4 July, 2008 (12:43) | biofuels, energy, food, oil | By: jrittenhouse

Three percent or seventy-five percent of global food inflation costs?

Projects: overview

3 July, 2008 (18:25) | AH, Eisenhower, FTL, Goldwater, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Suez_crisis, UK, X-craft, africa, animals, anthropology, astronomy, australia, austria-hungary, biofuels, brazil, canada, caves, china, climate, coal, computers, dinosaurs, dogs, dreams, dutch, environment, exclave_enclaves, france, gardening, gates, geography, geology, global_warming, goo_goos, great_auk, india, library, linguistics, linux, mammals_old, maps, marmots, masstransit, mongols, mysteries, nearstar, paleobiology, paleoclimatology, paleogeography, paleontology, pandemic, personal, pollution, prehistory, radio, religion, science_fiction, spaceflight, sudden_impact, television, thoughtful, trains, water, wind_energy, writing_projects | By: jrittenhouse

At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak. My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]

Steps to Mass Transit:

10 May, 2008 (09:14) | 2008_elections, GOP, USA, biofuels, bush, cheney, congress, corruption_govt, daoffice, democrats, energy, goo_goos, greed, highways, idiots, masstransit, oil, politics, sep_reality, taxes, transport | By: jrittenhouse

NYT reports that high gas prices are driving people towards higher use of mass transit.  (My office offers us a tax-free subsidy for using mass transit, to a ceiling of around $110 a month.  And yes, we use mass transit and the subsidy…)  However, there’s a problem: But meeting the greater demand for mass transit [...]

The new cars of the future?

11 September, 2007 (06:20) | biofuels, business, energy, environment, pollution, transport | By: jrittenhouse

From Autoblog Green, the Opel Flextreme versus the Chevy Volt. Essentially the only thing that changes as you go from one E-Flex type to another is the source of electricity for that motor. All of the versions have the ability to be plugged in to a local electrical outlet and draw power from the grid [...]

Brazil and renewable fuels article from the NYT:

10 April, 2006 (02:36) | biofuels, brazil, energy, environment | By: jrittenhouse

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/10/world/americas/10brazil.html?hp&ex=1144641600&en=3db8284d44379dca&ei=5094&partner=homepage