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This is a really cool idea that is pretty impressive to be undertaken by an existing community. My friend lives in the Hawthorne District in Portland and let me know about the plans to put the whole community on a much more efficient [...]

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A while back we posted about our idea to do a solar farm.Now you have to understand that the idea was just that a little spark of inspiration but nothing more. All we did was get on here and post about how cool it would be to develop a solar farm. Thinking it was a [...]

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We got this article from a friend and I thought it was worth sharing as I really dig the energy stuff.  This shows how valuable localized power nodes and onsite generation will be in the future. I disagree with Suedeen Kelly when she says “We need an interstate transmission superhighway system” because I think it [...]

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Just a little tidbit on what we want to try to do sometime.
PG&E to buy power from solar farms on Calif. coast
August 14, 2008 
 
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Thursday it has signed contracts to buy electricity from two huge solar power plants to be built near the Central California coast.The utility [...]

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I have a question I need some help with…
In a former life LJ Urban was a whole different company with a whole different view on how the world went round. We contributed to the very thing we now understand to be so wrong, suburban tract development.
Anyway we still own a small stake in a piece [...]

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This is relatively new to me but worth listening to if you like the energy question.  Pickens is just comforting to listen to with the Texas drawl and all. Click on the link and watch the short video on the landing page.

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Typically a rubber tube filled with water will bulge locally when squeezed; and this bulge will propagate along the tube at a speed  c given by

Here E is the tensile modulus of the rubber, d the diameter of the tube, h its wall thickness and rho is the density of water. [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM

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Oil consumption per capita (darker colors represent more consumption).
How does it make you feel?  Kind of guilty huh? Me too.

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I found this article today about electric cars coupled with home solar panel systems. Four dollars per gallon gas makes you think a bit about this one.
I asked my 7 year old son a few nights ago if he would rather live in the city or in the country. He said, “I would live [...]

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