TRANSPORTATION TUESDAY: The Chevy Volt Revealed!

Our friends at enterprise consulting and services company, Tibco, have created a fascinating tool that analyzes the trends of World Energy Consumption. Their World Energy Survey site visually depicts consumption and production trends for coal, gas, hydroelectric, nuclear and oil between the years 1965 and 2005. What is completely fascinating about this site is to look at production versus consumption metrics. For example, the United States is currently decreasing production of the diffe... more

According to MIT, more than half of the World’s population currently lives in urban areas and over 85% of the foreseeable growth will be in cities. It isn’t conceivable that any national policy will make a significant impact on energy reduction and CO2 levels without the buy-in from individual communities and neighborhoods world wide. The real tipping point for reductions in greenhouse gases will be when these communities totally embrace change and constitute policies that wil... more

What happens when 470 MM European’s decide to remove their crappy incandescent light bulbs by 2010. The earth is a better place. Kudos to Australia for setting a great trend and making the World think about the energy they are wasting by using Franklin’s technology. It will be really interesting to watch the CO2 levels after the change to see if our efforts make a change of if the plight of the planet is futile.  This project is in support of reducing Worldwide energy consump... more

Advanced Lumonics are boasting an incredible new EarthLED EvoLux R LED light bulb that uses a mere 13 Watts of energy, lasts 16 years and costs a whipping hundred bucks per bulb. Sounds expensive until you think about effing gas at $5 per gallon. When you average down the price ot the Advanced Lumonics bulb down to its yearly cost, its really just under $6 per year. So, 1 bulb for 1 gallon of gas. Seems like a fairly easy choice for me. ... more