Dog Poop, Methane and Alternative Energy
Here’s something you don’t hear about every day: alternate, somwhat green small-scale energy from from dog poop. Funnycool in a slightly disgusting way. Dogs are great–until their poop gets all over...
View ArticleMore Biogas
Along the same lines as dog-poop into methane posted earlier, here’s a story from Popular Mechanics about turning cow manure and food waste into biogas through an anaerobic digester process. COWS TO...
View ArticleGerman Windmills
I recently took a short trip to Germany and Luxembourg. We drove from Lux to Krefeld, a small town in northwestern Germany near Dusseldorf. It was just a great drive through the beautiful German...
View ArticleEmperor-For-A-Month Proclaims This Week’s Good Idea (and links)
I once wrote about being King-for-a-Week. Not King-for-a-Day, as in the deep world-problem-solving discussions we’ve all had with friends and relatives, along the lines of “Why, if I were...
View ArticleHow to Profit From Pond Scum… Or Not
Green crude sure sounds sexy enough, in a renewable energy kind of way. What’s not to love about it? Grow a bunch of algae from sunlight and CO2, harvest it, and presto-change-O, you’ve got “green”...
View ArticleThe Stock Market Is Stupid and Irrational
The stock market is just a reflection of people. And since people have a seemingly infinite capacity to be stupid and irrational, there you go. Cellulosic ethanol is a case in point. As helpfully...
View ArticleSunday Morning Fish Wrap: So Thirsty!
The Fish Wrap: a spasmodic caboodle of captivating bits and bobs, loosely grouped by subject matter around personal finance, investing, news, and maybe the odd rant or recipe. “Whiskey is for drinkin’,...
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