Jobs has to be relocated out of high density communities to the boonies where jobs are scarce ad real estate is cheap ! how does Alturas , California sound to you ? Nice location out in the boonies!

I think it makes more sense to rig a solar trailer to your bicycle . Use the lid of the trailer to place your solar panel on vertically or horizontally. or place double solar panel sides in a A frame manner so that either way you go , you will always get a perpendicular exposure [...]

You can buy common stock iin Solar 3D for 3 cents each. The CEO is sellilng more new shares commission free now. Who knows .. you may get rich !

Me , too! I found a online store called http://www.utahtrikes.com that carry a wide variety of trikes and even quadcycles. Interesting site to browse!!

Also, I feel that the future of EVs will rest entirely on quadcycles or tricycles utilizing bicycle frame designs.. Attempts to mimic the traditional automotive manufacturing technologies will probably attains the lightweightness necessary to make successful EVs.. Moreover, the streets has to be revamped and lanes repainted to keep traditional automoitve dinosaurs apart from the [...]

http://planetforward.org/idea/hybrid-car-without-first-and-second-gears/#comment-74083 I always thought that less torque and horsepower is required to push a car from stop at very low speed up to , say 15-20mph unless you are going uphill from stop like cable cars in San Francisco, for instance. Regenerative braking could give short instaneous boost using huge electrolytic capactiors with oodles of [...]

Al Capp’s satirical American comic strip “Li’l Abner ” once described similar car that runs on smog.

I have no quarrel with the high priority of economy and unemployment , but people tend to forget that our economy was disrupted by soaring energy prices that climaxed in 2008 . Everything else like real estate values collapsed with banks suddenly following with foreclosures and toxic assets.. We cannot address economy without addressing energy [...]

I am really disturbed about remodelers destroying and recycling perfectly good sliding glass doors simply because they are single pane and energy inefficient . The old slidiing glass doors in good condition can be reused as components for building greenhouses. All you need to do is plop them down the appropriate wood frame work you [...]

Can we still breath easily? If so, it will then still be business as usual!

Why is everyone running away from the most simple, cheapest, most efficient way of harnessing solar energy? It is just simple mirror for direct home heating by reflection. We harness the sun to make electricity, heat water but not home heating ? Direct home heating by sun is similar to having a solar fireplace without [...]

Electricans snipped off a lot of copper wiring bits as they install wiring.. I once collected 60 pounds of copper wires lying around the floors at a site.. Money, money money !!

What home builders need to have at construction sites are two seperate containers with one for trash and antoher for recycling much like what homeowners already use (brown and blue) Same thing only bigger containers!

Solarman, you are right about harnessing more photons, but photons is a source of light or (heat). Using materials to convert photons into electrons is less effective than harnessing it directly through concentration with reflective materials is the preferred way to go. We are still fooling around with photovoltaics or (photoelectrons, in my own word) [...]

The biggest threat to coal is popular firewood which is far dirtier than coal itself… it is a great irony !! Firewood smoke sometimes smells good but nto always… Some firewood smells so bitter that nieghobrs use them to annoy neighobrs!!

I always feel that all storm water should never be released in any bodies of water except to man made “storm lakes” or “basins” apart from the natural bodies of water. There we can reuse the storm water for watering golf courses or fire fighting whatever.

We are unable to move away fast enough from hydrocarbons because trillons of dollars are still invested in those hydrocarbon assets. Investors are counting on continued growth of hydrocarbon production regardlessly to maintain their profitable investments there. They are not about to allow cooler clean energy to offset hydrocarbon produceers at all. Trillons of dollars [...]

I think scientists miss the real big cause of global warming.. It is probably not the carbon dioxide as the biggest cause .. It is probably the constant combustion of hydrocarbons that releases ponderous amount of waste heat that raise the global temperature itself.. This is what clean energy really mean by definition. I would [...]

What about installing giant sprinklers like those used at farms on top of some skyscrapers with flat roofs . So it will look like rain down on the street level during blistering hot summer days…

Ira, even if my concept cannot beat Prius, I am sure that my concept can be applied to those far less efficient models that people still craves but also wish to see much improved fuel mileage without too great a sacrifice in performance. . I believe that my concept can help boost fuel efficiency much [...]