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Surface Tension - The Environment & Technology Blog
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SurfaceTension is all about seperating the signal from the noise when it comes to renewable energy, climate change debate, protecting the environment, and embracing green, environmentally friendly technology and energy alternatives.
- Added on: Jan 17th, 2008
- Country: South Africa
- Language: English
- Author: Conrad
- Listed in: Environmental Activism Technology
- Tags: oil environment solar globalwarming
Recent Posts
Book Review: The End of Oil
You may recognize author Paul Roberts from the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? (I did, at least ) I have just finished reading his excellent book, The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World, which will now be added to our book list...
EVs: A detailed analysis
Rei at Daily Kos is currently running an interesting series analyzing the economics and feasibility, as well as current state and future outlooks of electric vehicles. Rei possesses considerable technical knowledge on the subject, and is confident th...
The Curse of Suburbia
In the past couple of weeks, I coincidentally came across some related pieces about a major shaping force of the relatively affluent population groups in the world today: suburban living. With the recent oil price hike, it turns out that the trend is...
Wasteful Ethernet
Did you know that in 2005 alone, all the network controllers (in computers, switches, routers, etc.) in the United States consumed 5.3 terawatt-hours of energy, sufficient to keep 6 billion 100-watt lightbulbs shining for a full year? As the May issu...
Dubai’s Shape-shifting Green Buildings
The BBC reports that Dubai is to build towers that rotate continuously, so they will “never look the same, not even in a lifetime”. The towers consist of 80 floors, and each floor is a seperate apartment. Obviously, this will only be the ...
Bugs that excrete oil?
It was widely reported that LS9, a startup company in Silicon Valley, claims to have genetically modified E.coli to excrete crude oil, and they further claim the process is carbon negative: LS9’s bugs are single-cell organisms, each a fraction of a...
