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Natural gas: the fuel of the future
If you care about energy, energy independence, global warming, or the U.S. trade deficit, there is a must-read article on natural gas today in the Wall Street Journal. At Equipment World, we’ve been researching and writing about alternative fuels for a couple of years now, and as hard as I’ve looked for the bad news […]
January 10, 2010
Technology
Green jobs smackdown
Despite all the yada-yada about a new economy built on green jobs and environmental technology, the numbers are questionable. Thus quotes the National Review: Beyond these numbers, uncritically reported by the mainstream media, is the reality of a make-believe industry touted by environmental zealots, corporate freeloaders parading as entrepreneurs, and a president capable of staggering disingenuousness. […]
January 10, 2010
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New mini-nuke plants look promising
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a must-read article on the potential of the new small-scale nuclear power plants. Says author, Bob Metcalfe, they have solved all the problems of the old, control-rod style nuclear plants and the new reactors are small enough to fit on a large kitchen table. He likens them to “nuclear batteries.” There’s a lot to […]
January 10, 2010
Technology
Volvo’s electric/diesel car for 2012
Maddeningly short of details, is this announcement that Volvo (the car company, not the equipment company) has set up a joint venture to develop electric diesel cars in 2012 that will plug into ordinary household sockets. Stay tuned for more details. The race for electric car supremacy is getting interesting. Volvo, the equipment company, is well on […]
January 10, 2010
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Spain’s green jobs experiment a bust
And yet we’re heading down the same path. A report concludes that these “green” jobs require government subsidies to the tune of $800,000 to $1.4 million each and yet entail the loss of 2.2 million jobs in other industries due to the, and I love this phrase, “political allocations are sub-optimum in terms of economic […]
January 10, 2010
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