Air power is becoming a more common investment. Huge turbines line coasts and hills where constant winds whip through to spin the massive blades. Wind farms comprised of these towering blades are constantly expanding. But why focus on building turbines on such a massive scale, rather than focusing on the alternative; less intrusive smaller turbines [...]

WHAT IS IT, CAN WE MAKE IT COST EFFECTIVELY, AND WHEN?

The pace car for the 2008 Indianapolis 500 ran
on E85; the race cars burned 100% ethanol fuel.

Last month, for the first time in history, the cars racing in the Indianapolis 500 were fueled by pure ethanol. This should put to rest any concerns about ethanol [...]

Getting fruits and vegetables onto the kitchen table is a stressful affair. Farmers constantly deal with pests, weather changes, pesticides, droughts, increased costs of running equipment and crop diseases. For example, the moth, Helicoverpa armigera, causes crop damage in excess of 5 billion dollars worldwide per year, while the 2008 floods in the U.S Midwest [...]

For the last few weeks it’s tomatos, those wonderful fruits. Over 300 cases of salmonella poisoning from eating tomatoes (maybe) were reported all over the U.S., a country of 300 million people.
Were you afraid to eat a tomato? You do the math of your odds of getting sick from eating one (hint: odds similiar [...]

One of the most useful ways to measure how efficiently we use energy is to calculate how many units of energy are required to produce a unit of wealth – this is known as energy intensity. In theory energy intensity can be measured in a variety of ways, but a useful convention is to [...]