Here’s technology doing something useful. Who wouldn’t like tires with better mileage? It comes from a new chemical additive, shown below. I chuckled when I saw the chemical structure, which…
Category: Technology
No longer the ENVI of the green revolution, Chrysler drops electric vehicle plan
The ENVI line can be seen here. This is rather sad really, I like electric cars. I drive one myself. From Reuters: Chrysler dismantles electric car plans under Fiat By…
Semi-truck Boat Tail Improves Fuel Efficiency 7.5%
I’m always for energy saving ideas when they payback the effort. Here’s one that would be an advantage for our long haul American Interstate trucking companies. This semi has both…
Oh, the tree huggers won't like this…exploiting trees for electricity
Electrical circuit runs entirely off power in trees From the University of Washington by Hannah Hickey hickeyh@u.washington.edu University of Washington Electrical engineers Babak Parviz and Brian Otis and undergraduate student…
Met Office supercomputer: A megawatt, here, a megawatt there, and pretty soon we're talking real carbon pollution
Weather supercomputer used to predict climate change is one of Britain’s worst polluters Excerpts from the story by the Daily Mail See WUWT’s original story on this The Met Office…
The Great Windfarm -vs- Lesser Prairie Chicken Fight
Just when the green energy movement thinks they have it all worked out, along comes a snail-darteresque moment that throws a monkey wrench in green plans. These are the big…
Antarctica to get surface based space weather monitoring network
Of course the big question is, will they be able to keep the stations from becoming buried in snow like weather stations in the flawed Steig et al paper that…
NASA powers up for the next UN IPCC
From NASA, new fossil fuel powered toys for the boys. Related: “Giant sucking sound” heard in Greenbelt, MD when the switch was thrown. Remember the day you got a brand-new…
Burt Rutan: engineer, aviation/space pioneer, and now, active climate skeptic
Recently after some conversations with a former chemical engineer who provided me with some insight, I’ve come to the conclusion that many engineers have difficulty with many of the premises…
Open hardware handheld computing platform for custom applications
I haven’t blogged on technology in quite awhile, so this is past due. My friend and regular WUWT and Climate Audit commenter Steve Mosher has started out on an open-source/open…
A few thoughts on the "climate change lowers wind speeds" study
By now you’ve probably read about Wind speed trends over the contiguous USA by Pryor et al. (2009, in press, JGR) There is also an Associated Press story which cites…
Energy Availability Is Almost Infinite
By Steven Goddard Energy Shortage? A favorite excuse to push the AGW agenda is that “energy is limited, so we have to preserve it for future generations.” But nothing could…
New Honda Hybrid: "to get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer"
Don’t get me wrong, I like new technology, and improved fuel economy too, but I just had to show this auto review excerpt from the Sunday Times because, well, it’s…
Britain’s only wind turbine plant to close
Who would have thunk? Maybe it had something to do with this video of a Vestas wind turbine: I wonder if it used “Lucas” electronic parts? I owned an Austin…
NSIDC's Dr. Walt Meier on Catlin and Ice Survey Techniques
Walt sent me this essay unsolicited, and I think it is very useful for establishing some baseline techniques. There’s more useful information on techniques here than in the entire Catlin…
Bzzt! Welcome to the dark ages
Guest post by Steven Goddard The Effects of One Nuclear Bomb at High Altitude From Wikipedia Yesterday’s missile launch from nuclear power North Korea raised particular concern in the military,…
Canadian mini-satellite may solve carbon puzzle
from the Calgary Herald: Canadian mini-satellite may solve carbon puzzle (h/t to WUWT reader “Freezedried”) Tom Spears Canwestnews Service Friday, February 27, 2009 While NASA lost a $285-million US satellite…
Bad week for hardware: Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite burns up
Satellite to Study Global-Warming Gases Lost in Space By Alex Morales, Bloomberg News Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — A satellite launched from California failed to reach orbit today, crashing into the…
Cold Weather + Green Fuel = Yellow Bus Failure
UPDATE: Lab tests show the problem was may be caused by paraffin wax – a derivative of Diesel Fuel. See this report: http://nbb.grassroots.com/resources/BloomingtonBusReport.pdf This bus design does not allow for…
Another promise of a flying car – sigh
All thorough my childhood and adolescence I was a keen fan of all sorts of science magazines including Scientific American (the Amateur Scientist was my favorite SciAm column because it…
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