Saturday, 04 July 2009

Electronic Version Now Available!


Running On Empty is being offered in a downloadable e-Book Version, as a way for readers to obtain the book electronically.

This is also a way to get it prior to book publication in July, or to use as an immediately accessible form of the handbook once you have purchased it, while waiting for it to arrive.

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Here we go again. Sound like Ronald Reagan? He did come from California. California did help kill the electric car known as the EV (for electric vehicle) back in 1998. At that time California mandated that 5% of autos sold in California get zero emissions by 2001 and 10% by 2008. GM developed a little electric vehicle, (the EV). They obviously had no intention of really developing and selling them. They leased them and after a bad battery was replaced by a very effective one, and after a very negative "Sales" campaign, managed to convince California they didn't work (Read Who Killed the Electric car? in this blog site). They recalled all of the EVs and crushed them. Well it's happening again.....

There was an editorial in the local Arizona Daily Star on Sunday, June 7, that I missed. Fortunately my wife clipped it out for me. It was about transportation costs. It is also about energy, but that was not the thrust of it. The gist of the editorial was that developers don't build housing where the jobs are. They build housing where land is cheap, causing people to spend as much on transportation as on housing. In Pima County it was reported, transportation can cost 32 percent of the median income for the area....  

A post published at www.alternative-energy-news.info today  announced the development of a new type of washing machine that washes a load of clothes in a teacup. Well, not literally, but the machine uses only a cup of water...

A story on NPR today, presented by Richard Harris of NPR, told of a think tank that was lobbying against the Cap & Trade system of reducing carbon emissions. The contention of the think tank is that penalizing industry for carbon emissions is the wrong way to go about it.  Ever since I heard about the concept of Cap & Trade, that idea crept into my mind. Their idea is to spend stimulus money on R & D for new energy sources and systems to bring the cost of alternatives down....Making energy more expensive will certainly make people use less.....