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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 […]

Wall Street and Washington Are Failing Spectacularly — Where Do We Go?
By Joe Costello, AlterNet.
Posted April 15, 2008.
The U.S. political and economic systems are not equipped to deal with the looming problems of the 21st century.
I was 19 in October 1979, when I first stepped into a campaign office. It was the Draft Kennedy […]

I suspect this is the company that made the VERY polished and professional pro Obama video at DipDive.com
The Black Eyed Peas, former Kerry supporters, get credit for the music and the idea. See Will.i.am’s blog entry here.
It is VERY well done. And seemingly not covered by campaign finance laws as it was apparently […]

On November 24th, the Wall Street Journal ran a page one story called:
A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions
How a Computer for the Poor Got Stomped by Tech Giants
Cambridge, Mass.
In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled an idea for bridging the technology divide between rich nations and the developing world. It was captivating in its utter simplicity: design […]

Biofiber pellets are green coal: Stored solar energy, a useable form of recent sunlight. Coal is just ancient sunlight. This makes me think of steam as in engines. This leads to green coal powering steam engines for combined heat and power, perhaps even Micro-CHP.
A “2-cylinder, 3 horsepower steam […]

The promoters of poisonous black seeds from jatropha [and here and here] “weed” have, so far, yet to imagine, see, the cooking fuel before their very eyes: double pressed oil seed cake [the residual fibers after the oil has been extracted]. When run through the oil press a second or third time, the […]

This is a must watch hour of outstanding investigative journalism.
The Trouble with Touch Screens
It looks to be likely that the 2000 Florida vote was intentionally sabotaged by Sequoia, the single source for the ballots, by:
         1. Using sub-standard paper stock to make the ballets;
         2. Ordering the ballots be printed “short”, i.e. in clear variance with standard […]

If today’s candidates for President have a broadband strategy for rural America, it amounts to little more than bringing the inadequate and over priced broadband offered up to urban residents to their country cousins. This is hardly a path towards recapturing global communications leadership for America. More of the same old same […]

Over the last 40 years or so we have too often heard from the champions of unregulated free market capitalism that “the government can do no right”. Or that “the magic of the market is always the best and proper answer to every problem.” Or the so called ‘joke’ “I’m from the government and […]

My friend Peter Jones sent along a pointer to the work at Princeton on “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies.” See also the Carbon Mitigation Initiative site.
I think this is an interesting idea, but it is badly flawed for several reasons.
1] Nuclear power is a very bad […]