Climate change will, as many expect, cause pain and suffering on a large scale, with hundreds of millions of people displaced, wars, and the erasure of trillions of dollars from the world economy. That’s the conclusion of a new report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to…
The nice thing about Standards Organizations is that there’s so many of them. If your standard gets rejected by one organization, such as the Society for Automotive Engineers, you can go to another standards committee, like the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), to get ratification. That’s what has just happened in…
In 2013 the OSU Buckeye Current team made their first trip to compete in the TT ZERO, and took third place overall. The team’s website currently says they are building a new bike, the RW-2, and are looking to ride their momentum and again take a podium spot. Mum is…
We’d love for MotoCzysz to be at TT ZERO 2014, and we completely understand why they won’t. It means that Mugen, which took a very close 2nd place in 2013, will possibly be a shoe-in to win. Except there are plenty of teams saying they’re planning to win a podium…
Earlier in the day I saw a Facebook posting saying, unconfirmed, that MotoCzysz was not going to participate in the TT ZERO 2014. Not wanting to publish something without confirmation, I sent an email to Michael Czysz asking for clarification. I haven’t received an answer from him, but halfway through…
For several years now Mark Miller has ridden with MotoCzysz for the TT ZERO. I just came across a Facebook posting by Mark Miller containing a press release saying he will be racing with Team Vercarmoto. In 2013 the team took fifth place with Chris McGahan riding. For 2014 the…
I found this picture, clearly taken above the Alberta Tar Sands, posted on Google+ and the comments below it talked about GREED and how GREED is destroying the planet and RESOURCE WAR’s. I tend to agree with the sentiment, but think we all have to be honest about this picture.…
On Saturday, the largest anti-fracking protest in California’s history took place in Sacramento. Organizers called on California Gov. Jerry Brown to ban fracking in California. The rally, which was organized by Californians Against Fracking and a long list of partner organizations, drew thousands of people who came from all over…
Tesla Motors’ is having trouble selling the Model S in various US States laws because of laws requiring that cars can only be sold through franchised dealerships. Events this week made the trouble even more obvious when NJ Gov. Chris Christie’s administration (apparently) went back on a promise made to…
California’s Oil and Gas industry may be on the verge of rapidly expanding unconventional oil and gas exploration, and because “unconventional” means fracking this immediately raises fears of earthquakes. On Thursday, Clean Water Action released a report (co-written with Earthworks and the Center for Biological Diversity), On Shaky Ground, discussing…
While coal-fired electricity lights homes around the world, the environmental side effects are huge and devastating. Switching to renewable energy sources, dumping the coal industry into the ash bin of history, is supposedly astronomically expensive. Or, is it? According to a new report published Tuesday, it would cost $50 billion…
Thanks to the political situation in Ukraine, American politics is discussing using America’s “glut” of natural gas as a political weapon. The idea is to undermine Russia’s strength in natural gas supplies, by selling America’s natural gas into the world market, especially to critical countries most vulnerable to Russia, in…
In some circles official denials of a theory are taken as proof the theory is true. On Tuesday, the 3rd anniversary of the Fukushima Daichi earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant disaster, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison M. Macfarlane wrote on the NRC’s blog that because of “the Pacific’s…
A team of scientists from University of East Anglia in England have found four new man-made chemicals that harm the ozone layer, according to a paper published on Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience. The findings identify three new CFC’s and one new HCFC (Hydrochlorofluorocarbons). The scientists analyzed samples collected…
Supposedly nuclear power plants are extremely clean – and certainly they don’t directly produce a “carbon” footprint, in the way that fossil fuels do. However, a few years ago we had Stanford Univ Professor Mark Jacobsen speak at the Electric Auto Association (Silicon Valley Chapter) about a study he wrote…
