By Robert Fryer on July 21, 2010
Dubbed the “Electric Razor”, The Strata Tower is another first for London Architecture. It’s a residential building, with below-market-rate units mixed with market-rate units. It is linked with mass transit, too. By the way, it’s in Elephant & Castle, Southwark, London. You can read more here. Will this be a new trend in green architecture? [...]
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By Chris Pastore on July 13, 2010
The ERA – and what it means I like baseball, and very much enjoy the statistics that can derive from so many events. During today’s game they were talking about the Earned Run Average of pitchers over the past few decades. (For those who don’t follow baseball, this is a measure of how many runs [...]
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By Chris Pastore on June 29, 2010
Abiotic Oil The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought up a renewed interest in “abiotic oil” (or “abiogenic oil”). Most of us learned in high school that oil is a “fossil fuel.” It is the result of extremely long pressure and heat changing biological life into petroleum. We think in terms of [...]
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By Rob Fleming on June 15, 2010
Now is the time for going green . . . at least as far as your house is concerned. There has never been and, perhaps, never will be a better federal incentive programs than right now. The window, though, is closing fast (pardon the pun). The federal government will offset your costs for home improvements [...]
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By Robert Fryer on June 7, 2010
This is Andrew Sullivan’s take on the BP Oil Spill: Oil companies failed to report fully what they were planning, and permits were approved with almost absurd speed. In the Deepwater Horizon case, a permit was approved a mere 10 minutes after it was submitted. Obama did nothing to stop this syndrome when he came [...]
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By Robert Fryer on June 5, 2010
Visualizing the current extent of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – check it out Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan Share on Facebook var button = document.getElementById(‘facebook_share_link_547′) || document.getElementById(‘facebook_share_icon_547′) || document.getElementById(‘facebook_share_both_547′) || document.getElementById(‘facebook_share_button_547′); if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) { var url = this.href.replace(/share\.php/, ‘sharer.php’); window.open(url,’sharer’,'toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436′); return false; } if (button.id === ‘facebook_share_button_547′) [...]
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By Robert Fryer on June 5, 2010
The U.S.’s best computer modeling is showing what the summer along the East Cost U.S. might be. Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan Share on Facebook var button = document.getElementById(‘facebook_share_link_544′) || document.getElementById(‘facebook_share_icon_544′) || document.getElementById(‘facebook_share_both_544′) || document.getElementById(‘facebook_share_button_544′); if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) { var url = this.href.replace(/share\.php/, ‘sharer.php’); window.open(url,’sharer’,'toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436′); return false; } if (button.id === ‘facebook_share_button_544′) { [...]
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By Rob Fleming on May 18, 2010
For many, the idea of buying solar panels as a way to generate electricity and reduce energy bills seems pretty straightforward. But upon deeper reflection, and experience, it’s not so simple. But first let’s start with the great news – our suburban family of four just received its April electricity bill. It was 11 dollars, [...]
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By Robert Fryer on March 7, 2010
It sounds like the beginning of a piece of fiction: A man who changed the world once is a given the opportunity to make One Wish for the future . . . But, it’s a piece of non-fiction. Surprisingly, at least to me, he doesn’t choose the vaccines that his philanthropic foundation is know for. [...]
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By Chris Pastore on February 23, 2010
The Bloom Box promises a low cost electrical service to the individual home-owner in the next 5 to 10 years. It is described as a $3,000 “grapefruit-sized” device that can be installed in the home. Skeptical? I don’t know about you, but when new technologies are promised but the under-pinning details are kept hush-hush, I [...]
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