Scientific American's David Biello, a sharp observer of clean (and less-clean) energy, posted this piece on peak oil yesterday. The long and short of it is peak oil (the moment when we've collectively burned as much oil -- about a trillion barrels -- as is left in the ground) actually happened in 2005.
Peak oil is important…
My external keyboard, a Microsoft thing, seems to aspire to being an IBM Selectric, clacking so loudly phone-interview sources get self-conscious. So I went online and found this HP Wireless Elite Keyboard on Amazon for $29.
The HP Wireless Elite Keyboard, so flat it disappears into the horizon
It was more or less what I was looking…
Elon Musk and Alan Stern teamed up for a public event sponsored by University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) 10 days ago (April 29). With the caveat that I'm not as versed in New Space as I am "old space" (what do you call the space program as we know it…
The CU Center for Environmental Journalism forwarded a note with this link this morning, to a Wired.com article about how Al Gore and Push Up Press are aiming to "blow up the book." As someone who recently wrote a book and then converted it into Kindle and ePub formats, this caught my attention. Push Up…
I checked the output of our rooftop solar panels just now, at 11:28 a.m. On a sunny, brisk Denver day (briskness doesn't affect solar output), our 13 east-facing 220-watt panels were cranking out 2,476 watts, according to the inverter in the garage. Wife's got the dryer running, but I'd assume we're still feeding power back…