When will the promise of electric cars be realized?  As Larry Burns, VP of R&D for General Motors has patiently reminded the auto-bloggers, innovation isn’t sustainable until you can manufacture a vehicle not by the hundreds, but by the hundreds of thousands.  So when will GM’s “Volt” hit the showrooms?  And what does it mean that we have so [...]

Ever since an incendiary interview with Czech President Vaclav Klaus was translated into English back in February 2007, he’s been on the radar.  Quite simply, there is no head of state on earth who is as outspoken on the global warming scare as Mr. Klaus.  Others may agree with him, but as he puts it, [...]

We find Steven Milloy at JunkScience.com to be consistently entertaining, and almost always right.  So it’s our duty to critique his critique of Jim Manzi’s (of the partisan publication National Review) shocking leap onto the stop-industrial-CO2 (at any cost) bandwagon.  Here’s what Manzi wrote:  ”It is no longer possible, scientifically or politically, to deny that human activities have very [...]

Well it had to happen.  Just as we reported with delight back in 2006 on the imminent arrival of the Tesla Roadster, an all-electric car we estimate can top out somewhere north of 180 mph, last week we learned of a Dodge Viper that’s been modified to run on E85, a fuel blend that is 85% ethanol.

Karl [...]

Just over 100 years ago, on May 27th, 1907, Rachel Carson was born.  Her book “Silent Spring,” published in 1962, is considered by many to have launched the modern environmental movement.  Inspired by concerns over misuse of the chemical DDT, the book had the specific effect of leading to the banning of DDT use in [...]

An arcane but instructive way to evaluate corn ethanol, along with all biofuels, may not just be to audit their “net energy balance,” but also their “net water balance.”  Evaluating whether or not a biofuel crop could be “water positive” is even more subjective to calculate than whether or not that crop is energy positive, but here goes:
Corn is one [...]