I have been out of touch with my own blog for far too long. Sorry folks, a crush of work and other un-pleasantries has caused me to go into a writing drought combined with writer’s block. With so much bad news and an election down in Dixie/Yankee land that in my mind [...]
To paraphrase the clever line “it’s the economy, stupid” I would boil down the whole argument about climate change to one simple statement, if for no other reason than pollution we should get really serious about cleaning up this beautiful but scarred planet. Most of the same things that one side says contributes to [...]
The first consumer ethanol pump in Iceland was turned on recently. I assume that the ethanol is imported but would burn cleaner than gasoline. They also pump methane that is produced locally at the city garbage dump. For years they have been powering the garbage trucks from that methane and now [...]
Why is it that Iceland is frequently ahead of the curve when it comes to sensible solutions to an ever more troubling planet? Geothermal and district heating systems starting from the 1940’s, sustainable quota systems for the limited resources, alternative fuel research and application, innovative tax restructuring, and general long term thinking in all [...]
