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I have often wondered if the use of Electric Vehicles, cars and Scooter’,s would ever become viable. And I had a revelation about how they could be more integrated into a green lifestyle. Almost everyone knows that that an electric car needs to be recharged while at the home. But what if you stop thinking of the car as a separate object from the other household equipment. One of the biggest drawbacks from utilizing Solar electric, and wind power generators is their inconsistent output. Wind power only works in a stiff breeze and solar, only during the day. And to make matters worse, neither may happen when there is a peak requirement for the power. Power fluctuations are a bane to green power. Thus all these technologies still require power from a main grid to fill in the gaps....

A cardiac stimulator (shock box) is not a heart rhythm but you can’t restore one without the other when it gets out of kilter. But in this nitpicky article Do-gooder Gore has it all wrong Where the author uses cherry picking statistical plucks about CO2 levels that the Media have elevated to importance; Carbon dioxide forms only 0.04% of our atmosphere, so its molecules are widely dispersed. The space between them is almost 200 times their diameter. As altitude increases, air density decreases, which scatters them still further. Pah! Talk about the manmade pollution’s that cause increase cloud coverage that traps heat into the planet. Talk about the bulk consumption of finite oil and gas as a reason to create carbon taxes. Talk about the FACTS of weather, not the...

A fellow Blogger at A Networked World made the connection with another blogger. And Got me thinking about The Real, Next Big Question! He states; …the talking heads all talk about this recovery, but its always a recovery “from” the crash and never, ever, about what our lives and communities and economies will look like once we have “recovered”. What are we recovering TO? It can’t really be the same as it was before. We have to seek new things, new jobs, and a different way of life than that which was before. That world is gone! IT will NEVER return, or better yet, SHOULD NEVER be allowed to return. It’s unsustainable and WILL collapse again (for the worst) should we ever ‘Recover’ it. What’s needed is Vision and...

This is a mythical DYI home server that just might be in my house....

A posting from Bernie Goldbach Powering the Information Age reminded me about the nature of the Internet. The underlying structure of the Internet is distributed, fault tolerant networking, initially intended to continue operating after a nuclear war. In the current climate, it routes around ‘damages’ like ‘censorship’ firewalls, and corporate throttling of bandwidth. But one of the other things it’s good at is distributed computing, two nodes in the same domain can be geographically separated by an entire planet. This seems to escape the mindset of current datacenter deployment. While it might make sense to concentrate servers into small areas, in an energy constrained world perhaps powered by distributed power sources, it doesn’t. the loss or...

Have you ever looked for the perfect thing, and find that no one in Europe carry it, and no one will ship it to you. I have! I have been considering a low power, very green, server platform to use as a MySQL / Sybase / HTTP server system. My perfect system would have been this, Compaq Presario CQ2009F however nether Amazon.com Nor the HP Home Store will ship to Ireland, and neither sell it in Europe. In this Recession, would you think that anyone would give up a market opportunity, or give up revenue? In the end, I’ll probably end up with this thing Asus Eee Box and pay more for less computer! Rip off Ireland indeed!...

In this article Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches the Times On-Line quotes from an energy researcher who has no access to Google energy data to state “A Google search has a definite environmental impact.” Much like posting his article online. Perhaps he should reflect on the old adage Without Reliable Data, I’m Just another A__Ho_e with an......

What does a TV weatherman and the Republican Party have in common? A weatherman can incorrectly predict the weather every day and still have a job. The GOP politicians can be wrong about everything else and are still in the running to be......

Listening to RTE this morning I was struck by a fantasy spoken about Aer Lingus. It’s a fantasy repeated often with all the economic crisis issues going on, the fantasy; …when Oil prices go back down! Oil prices going down is a fantasy! There is no motovation, nor reason for oil prices to drop a significant amount to make a difference. Oil is a supply and demand issue, and will stay high, with MAYBE a minor drop in price in the near term. At least until the next price rise some where in the area of 150$ a barrel by next summer. The one thing that seems to be forgotten is that oil is a finite resource that has been subsidized to remain low, like heroin, we have become addicted and completely dependent. And when we seek to ween ourselves off it to renewables, the price is...

This article highlights a danger for Ireland Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization. Ireland is an Island! Almost everyone I’ve met in Ireland never think of Ireland as an Island (the center of the universe maybe, just not an Island). We have become so complacent about the availability of foreign goods and produce, we have forgotten that without cheap oil, we will have to live within our own agricultural means. Something the Lisbon “Yes” folks don’t seem to get yet. They believe that the mobile economy will balance the trade products and that putting fishermen and farmers out of business will not harm Ireland as a whole. Cheap oil has made this possible, and is no more. No more cheap fruit, and beef, no more massive highways and individual car ownership....

I’ve been talking quite a bit recently to Phoebe Bright who is based down in Drinagh. She wears many hats but is incredibly passionate and knowledgeable about energy. She writes some absolutely brilliant stuff in this area on her blog and I highly recommend you subscribe to it. She is no happy clappy, let’s wear hemp shirts and cycle 40 miles to work every day person. The blog talks about fundamental issues around energy supply and managing energy demand. It’s about how it directly affects you. We were talking about this general topic on the way back from OpenCoffee BBQ recently and I expressed the opinion that the Green Party are letting themselves down very badly. They should be providing a grand vision backed by simple steps and milestones to help us get our energy...

Irish Snake Oil Ireland will soon overtake the Middle East in providing all the worlds energy needs and we have the video to prove it. We’re doing some playing around with video reviews right now and what better thing to try it out on than the saviour of the Irish tech industry. Rated 5/5 on Jul 07 2007 by Argolon Solutions Team LouderVoice Review Tags: energy, orbo, physics, snake oil, steorn, video, video review Vote on this review or write your own at LouderVoice...

Steorn Orbo This super device which breaks fundamental laws of physics is sure to be a huge success with those who give their bank details to strangers I was thrilled and delighted to get the only surviving video footage of the Steorn Orbo machine. This incredible machine can generate energy out of nothing and just goes to show what those whith no knowledge can achieve when they put their minds to it.   Rated 5/5 on Jul 07 2007 by Conor O’Neill LouderVoice Review Tags: energy, orbo, physics, snake oil, steorn, video, video review Vote on this review or write your own at LouderVoice...

It looks like George’s and Dick’s Co-Conspirators are leaving town before the fall of the Bush regime as Halliburton will move HQ to Dubai. Anyone get the feeling of rat’s deserting a sinking ship? Does the U.S. have an extradition treaty with Dubai?...

In this age when oil and gas, nuclear and coal and turf are being pushed as the ‘Only realistic’ source of energy for the future. The real issue is not that solar and wind power can’t supply the current and future energy requirements. It’s that it can’t supply the energy needs in the same way as is currently provided, centralized! Centralized, controlled and profited by a central authority or business. Solar and wind are distributed power sources. Shoe horning solar and wind into the monopoly energy scheme is impractical. This is an example in miniature of what wind energy represents, independence; Handheld windmills. Now I not claiming that we need to carry iPods with little windmills attached. What this presents is that this device is independent of the...

What? huh? where? when? Via Breakingnews The ESB has indicated its interest in entering the nuclear power market.The company's chairman told the Sunday Business Post newpaper that he would consider a joint venture with one of the bigger European energy companies.The Government is currently opposed to nuclear power, however Tadhg O'Donoghue says he believes their stance will have to change over the next number of years.Can't really see any government sanctioning this considering the Irish opposition to Sellafield. Stupid ESB. Consider away, it wont happen. Christy will get the guitar out...

Dia Duit! Conas atá sibh? An nuacht ar an maidin seo! (Thats the end of the Gaeilge!)Breakingnews.ie reports on the IDA and ESB warnings on power cuts. There is also a good post over on Irish Election on thisIt also reports that the Vatican is against giving Saddam the death penaltyCNN reports on a 'significant' earthquake in Scotland!CNN also is running a report on predictions for future Tsunami's in AsiaFrance 24 reports on the fighting in SomaliaAl-Jazeera has a report showing the difficulties faced by immigrants attempting to enter SpainThats it for...

Mark Hurst notes that while energy company BP “has everything: a nice, new, clean logo; a brief but intelligent tag line; and a global advertising and marketing campaign to spread it to customers worldwide. The same brand promise is being shouted everywhere, globally, by BP.“ their “brand promise” is probably not the deciding factor when people choose where to buy their petrol (gas). It’s great to have a strong brand, but low price or a well stocked mini-market are more likely to influence customers. As Mark says “The executive-only, top-down approach is going at it backwards. To really understand - let alone lead - any established business, you have to include the customers.” BP rival Chevron Texaco, with their www.willyoujoinus.com campaign...