Last week EcoWorld posted a lengthy explanation as to why we endorse John McCain for President. We were so careful and so reasoned that some commenters actually thought we’d endorsed Obama. We tried to acknowlege Obama’s strengths, and we criticized McCain’s weaknesses, and from it all emerged a tepid endorsement of McCain. [...]

Are the Studies We Rely On Reliable?

We discovered “The Antiplanner,” Randall O’Toole, a few months ago, and ever since we have been publishing selected works by this prolific author and researcher. His findings, carefully documented, contradict important pillars of the conventional wisdom that informs modern urban planning – transportation options in particular. O’Toole’s work deserves [...]

Rackable Systems, Inc., a leading provider of servers and storage products for large-scale data centers, today announced the availability of the C2005 server, which is designed for greater flexibility and configurability. The innovative C2005 couples the company’s popular half-depth design and highly-efficient power supplies with a large variety of Intel and AMD-based board options, low-voltage processors and low-power hard drives (including Solid-State Disks) for what is believed to be one of the most versatile server platforms in the industry.

In addition to being highly configurable, the C2005 provides one of the industry’s most feature-rich x86 server designs to date. Equivalent to an industry-standard 1U rackmount server in density, the C2005’s modular design enables build-to-order, Eco-Logical™ configurations featuring a wide variety of local storage capabilities and the ability to support up to five expansion slots – unheard of at this density level. Such expansion capabilities are well suited for enterprise configurations such as database and application servers that frequently require expansion cards such as RAID controllers, 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs, InfiniBand HCAs or fibre-channel HBAs.

It is always interesting to read the ballot in California when there are a dozen or more citizen’s initiatives. Californians, despite being social liberals, still tend to vote against any new taxes of any sort. During the internet boom and the housing boom there was so much revenue flowing into the state and [...]

Concentrated acid hydrolysis will transform virtually any cellulosic feed into fermentable sugars. BlueFire Ethanol, located in Irvine, California, has developed an advanced, proprietary version of this process which they believe could make them the first company to deploy a commercial scale cellulose to ethanol refinery that generates a return to its investors.
The process relies on [...]