Author: Aldon Hynes
Everyone is talking about ways to bail out the auto industry now, so I thought I would share my socialist plan.
First, I would not lend the automakers $50 billion, or $25 billion, or what they are currently asking for. It just sounds a little bit too much like the No Income, [...]

Posted by: Jock Gill
To do what? To help us get where?
A very long time ago, on the internet scale, 1992 to be exact, I serendipitously became the first ever presidential campaign staffer assigned to the internet — which meant, in those days, email. This led to my becoming the first White House staffer [...]

Author: Aldon Hynes
Over the past week, financial markets have been in turmoil as one firm after another faces difficulties. Everyone has opinions about how this has happened and what should be done about this. I have my opinions as well and have been writing about this in various venues. This post [...]

Posted by: Jock Gill
A great interview on NPR with Thom Friedman. Highly recommended.
Fresh Air from WHYY, September 8, 2008
Thomas Friedman is a man bent on revolution. In his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist writes about the need for a green revolution — and calls upon Americans to [...]

Author: Jock Gill
As Thom Friedman correctly points out, innovation powers “Change”. So if our candidates for president are serious about change, let’s ask them if they are willing to support an innovation agenda. How? And When?
A good place to start, if we are serious about change and about the energy efficiency [...]

Thermoelectric Advances Could Increase Car, Truck, Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Efficiency by 15%
Industrial waste heat is 7 quads in the USA. There is more waste heat from power plants and from cars. Capturing 20% of that waste heat is 1.4 quads every year. 1.4 quads is double all of the wind energy generated in [...]

When you really stop to think about it, Bush & Co. have spent over 1 trillion dollars in pursuit of a poison we know is killing us. They have squandered 1 trillion dollars seeking a poison that would be much better for the conditions of spaceship earth if it were left securely sequestered [...]

Towards a Distributed, Peer-to-Peer, Near Zero Net Energy Strategy
With today’s materials, tools, and crafts we can build houses in Vermont, and the rest of the North East, that do not need central heating systems. Should we encourage the building of such housing? There is no longer any excuse for building a [...]

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Corner swamp 671, originally uploaded by Jock Gill.

What do you see in the photograph above?

I suggest we primarily “act” on what we “see”. Errol Morris posits that what we “see” is largely informed by [...]

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KWB-micro-CHP, originally uploaded by Jock Gill.

Wood pellet powered Stirling engine micro-CHP is now a commercial product in Europe! This very strategic product is made by KWB of Austria, who currently refuse to sell into [...]