I'm forming an opinion about the recently proposed emissions trading scheme.

I'm beginning to think that it is far more than merely not good enough: it's a disaster, for both the economy, and the environment, and will have the worst possible outcome for both.

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Inspiring success story of a village and a couple of NGO workers making biofuel.

Here we were hoping to compete with the big oil producers in the back yard of a small village and using an untried collection of old car parts, old pipes and taps attached to a used chemical container, all put together in an image downloaded from the internet.

Via ( Read more... )

Hey all - no time for blogging it as yet! It's been nuts. Meanwhile you can check my photo log at my drbunsen user account on flickr.com. For some reason the photos are in reverse order by date, so start at the end and work back or use the tags.

More ASAP!!

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture ( Read more... )

Why geeks will save the earth has an interesting angle on the breakdown of compassion when dealing with large numbers of suffering people ( more than 8 ) and why those with a certain Aspergery outlook can engage with the concept of mass deprivation more constructively.

An interview with Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest: How the Largest ( Read more... )

A few energy related links:

Want a safe, cheap hydrogen source for your fuel-cell or conventional internal combustion engine car? How about making your H2 on the go from potato syrup? A tank full of enzymes does the trick ( Read more... )

Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future ( Read more... )

Well, I noticed the image disappeared from my previous entry about the Meraki Mini, a $50 WiFi access point the size of a playing card that can run a pretty complete unix. So I went to their site to look for a new image to link.

It seems they've morphed from a mere hardware seller into a project "to bring affordable Internet access to the next ( Read more... )

As some of you will know, I've been following the biodiesel and biofuels industry for some time. Recent developments using algae as the feedstock are exciting ( Read more... )

Interesting article about the human-power system for the MIT $100 laptop project. They've done away with the integrated handcrank and gone with a separate 20 watt string-pull system. The laptop uses 2 watts, so a minute of cranking gets you ten minutes of use.