In 2005, the University of Michigan took first prize in the American Solar Challenge. In second of the 17 entrants was the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a biodiesel electric hybrid. In 2006, the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team (HEVT) at Virginia Tech took first prize in the new Challenge X (cX) with their GM Equinox hybrid [...]
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Challenge X Win For Virginia Tech
Posted in ENERGY, GEEKDOM on June 10, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Science and Democracy
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, POLITICS, VIDEO DU JOUR on June 4, 2006 | Comments Off
Today is 4 June 2006, 17 years post the Tiananmen Square protests. The unknown rebel lives on in our collective mind, in the collective memory assembling at Youtube there’s a clip courtesy of a bit of basic science: From Wikipedia: Although the initial protests were made by students and intellectuals who believed that the Deng [...]
Inconvenient Truths
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, FILM, GEEKDOM, POLITICS on June 3, 2006 | Comments Off
Haven’t been posting much lately due to a busy calendar and I apologise for that. I did have time a few nights ago to hike over to the Sunshine to finally see Davis Guggenheim‘s An Inconvenient Truth, which I was going to review here the following morning. Needless to say, the free time to scribble [...]
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