An idea that never occurred to me is that we could utilise petrol engines more effectively by using electric propulsion. The dutch company e-traction has developed a diesel-electric drive train that brings down diesel consumption and pollution for buses quite significantly. A diesel engine charges the batteries that drive the bus with electric engines. Because [...]
Somehow it’s odd that I seem to be blogging more about political and environmental issues than anything else these days. I have never really considdered myself a political person. Politics was something better left to polititians. I think most people of this world nowadays think like that. The past 2 years have brought about a [...]
We read a lot about how datacenters need to be more energy efficient. PCs are becoming more and more energy efficient. That is true and is happening but what’s alarming is that we use ever more of the energy efficient stuff. Where we had single core systems in the past we now have quad/eight-core systems. [...]
IKEA is a household name all across the World. All the World? No. Two small islands in the Pacific resist the trend. New Zealand has NO IKEA! Here in NZ we live without the cheap but quality goods. Especially Europeans miss their favourite furniture store. There are hundreds of rumours around the so-called Auckland-IKEA. It’s [...]
While blogging and thinking about those electric scooters I’ve finally thought my way back to the power source (again). I’m still terribly angry at the present government for going back on the whole coal for energy thing but that’s a separate rant. So what are we supposed to do?! The effective energy sources destroy the [...]
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I just got sent a link that set me off again. http://tinyurl.com/5laabm Make a long story short this is another case of scientists saying Global Warming is a myth. What I hate about the whole f*****g Global Warming discussion is that nobody seems to have gotten the point. I couldn’t care less about the official [...]
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A few months ago I discovered BetterPlace and they have changed my view on electric vehicles and the future of personal transport. After Israel and Denmark getting into the race Australia, California and Hawaii are lining up nicely too. I’m still waiting on what New Zealand will be doing. BetterPlace has contacts but nothing has [...]