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Well, that’s encouraging.
Japanese researchers are claiming that they’ve developed a water-powered car–that is, a car engine capable of extracting the hydrogen from ordinary water and driving an engine on it. The idea of a water-powered car has been on humanity’s mental backburner since we realized that (a) fossil fuels have nasty byproducts like carbon emissions and...
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Do you own an oil company?
I saw this ingenious ad campaign by EnergyTomorrow in the Capitol South metro station (obviously aimed at lawmakers). It features a pie chart showing who “owns” oil companies, that is, who has stock in them- the beauty of publicly traded companies. Pension funds, mutual funds and IRAs own 70.5% of oil companies and individual...
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Don’t Believe the Hype.
So, according to my facebook events today is the day that no one is supposed to buy gas today, and that it will somehow cause gas prices to drop:“Don’t pump gas on may 15!! April 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a...
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