Reality-Based Engineering

Monday, September 15, 2008

Green Future: Thermodepolymerization

Labels: energy policy, engineering, global warming, green

Thursday, April 24, 2008

More On Green Cleaners...

Yahoo! is getting in on the act...maybe they need to clean up before Steve Ballmer and Rupert Murdoch come walking through with white gloves to see how much dust there is??

As an aside, here's our previous green posts and to a local paper's article on green cleaners...

And here's another yahoo article about smarter, "I shoulda thought of that" engineering...

Labels: chemicals, effluvia, engineering, green

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

A few things [bumped]

I dig Obama. Loved his speech on Wright and racial wrongs.

I feel like Hillary would make a thoroughly capable president, in a political and organizational kind of way, but I feel that we need today the kind of inspirational president that we would have in Obama to stimulate the public's engagement in the coming years of transformational projects.

I've been interested to see how much the people working on Green Jobs initiatives entwine their Green with so much of what they call social justice and pathways out of poverty. They lobby not only to create programs to put the skills needed to solve regional energy challenges into the hands of local workers, but to make sure that those would-be workers have the support they're going to need, given their often troubled circumstances.

[RBE note - I added tags on Apr 1]

Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, economy, energy policy, engineering, ethanol, green, Hillary Clinton, peace, Spending

Friday, March 14, 2008

Friday Quick Hits

Olbermann's happy that his Special Comment blast was no permanent damage done
What is this about Obama and some sort of issue that Jewish Americans have with him? Dont get it...
Obama releases all his earmarks for his entire Senate career...he had previously given out his FY2008 earmarks on his senate site...in 2007!
Happy PI day!
Dubya strips a Ford-era oversight committee of much of its independence and power. Dink.
I had thought for sure that I posted something about ethanol, specifically how it's only got about 2/3 of the available energy per gallon as compared to gasoline, but I cannot find it (I did, however, find these posts on being green in general). Anyways, two posts about using methanol as a fuel alternative, and a respectable person who knows chemistry who debunks that possibility
If you really like baseball minutae, check this out!