CNet News.com:
Citi: solar prices to sink rapidly in looming shakeout. “… Citi said it believes that the silicon shortage will become a silicon over-supply, which will start to push down prices next year and then accelerate further in 2010.”
Reuters:
Oil over $126, new peak for 5th straight day. “I’m not particularly surprised by the speed of the rise in crude. There are many market bulls hoping for prices to rise heading into the summer.” Oligopolistic capitalism is beggaring us, while the government sits and watches.
NY Times:
Aid Supplies Arrive in Myanmar. Every time I run the tap for a glass of clean water, I think of Myanmar. Noone has clean water there right now. Cholera and other water-borne diseases will explode, if the government won’t permit more aid.
TED:
Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. View other videos there, too. Thanks, Jeremiah.
NY Times:
Gas Prices Expected to Peak in June. Oh, the optimism. Premium’s $3.89 down the way ... I’m sure the yearly Memorial Day summer-driving increase in cost will put us over $4.00. I somehow doubt only June will see the highest prices.
CNN:
“A survey of bee health released Tuesday revealed a grim picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation’s commercially managed hives lost since last year.” I’ve heard tell that organic bee farms are not affected. Only hearsay, however. Grim news, considering the food and grain crisis that is upon us.
Gas 2.0:
The Cleanest Cars on Earth: Honda Civic GX and Other Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs).
Bloomberg:
More Than 200 Economists Denounce Clinton, McCain Gas-Tax Plans. “Obama calls the idea a ‘gimmick,’ rejecting it on similar grounds as the economists.”
Gas 2.0:
GM Announces New Cellulosic Ethanol Partnership with Mascoma Corp.
Enviro car camping …
Westfalia VERDIER solar-powered/hybrid VW van.
NY Times Business:
Good news, though ... As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Flock to Small Cars. The Fit’s a particularly practical car (room + economy).
NY Times Home & Garden:
In Wyoming, the Dark Side of America’s Thirst for Energy. “Teton County has a huge carbon footprint with heated driveways, roofs and huge houses heated all winter long with no one in them. [snip] I don’t see this as something the roughnecks or the oil companies or the administration alone is doing. It’s something we’re all doing.”
This is a flavor of what awaits SF County. The Grand Teton area is a place that has no equivalent for sheer beauty IMHO; even Kauai’s Na Pali coast - gorgeous as it was - couldn’t stir my heart like the Tetons. To think of oil and gas drilling going on in proximity ... the media’s silence over the desecration of the Wind River range ...
CNN:
Planes slow down to save fuel. I wonder if there’s a comprehensive mpg list for aircraft?
Later: AskMeFi had a thread on efficiency of commercial airliners.
Telegraph.UK:
Global warming may ‘stop’, scientists predict. “Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a “lull” for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.” So, warming may happen in fits and starts?
Guardian.UK:
Turning over an old leaf. Just don’t be fooled that reading online is more ‘green’ than a paper book. Trees can be grown renewably and sustainably; power generation ain’t there yet.
SF New Mexican:
County brings in outside firm for drilling ordinance. With such a generic name, it’s hard to craft an internet search to find out about the firm.
Scientific American:
Nuclear Fuel Recycling: More Trouble Than It’s Worth. “In 1974 India, one of the countries that the U.S. assisted in acquiring reprocessing capabilities, used its first separated plutonium to build a nuclear weapon. At about this time, the late Theodore B. Taylor, a former U.S. nuclear weapons designer, was raising an alarm about the possibility that the planned separation and recycling of thousands of tons of plutonium every year would allow terrorists to steal enough of this material to make one or more nuclear bombs.”
I saw this
in the RealGoods catalog that arrived the other day. They don’t have it in their online catalog, but I found it in another place: SolarSheat. Self-contained forced-air solar heating, can be mounted on wall or roof. Great option to heat a garage or other space.
NY Times Autos:
Do hybrids generate dangerous levels of EMF?
Telegraph.UK:
Lehman warns that oil boom will deflate. And we’ll all go back to the way we were, ignoring the lessons learned. For a few more years.
NY Times Environment:
Levels of Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere Increase.
SF New Mexican:
A lighter footprint: The debate over buying carbon credits. I remain skeptical, certainly.
Times Online.UK:
“I don’t do underwear. I never do the washing. How would I know whether my clothes stink? I throw them away.”
NY Times Europe:
Europe Turns to Coal Again, Raising Alarms on Climate. Jeez, what a picture.
Washington Post:
Isabella Rossellini playing bugs having sex to raise environmental awareness. I kid you not.
