private vehicles, mass transit and energy loads; and other various posts
September 8, 2008
Clearing up a backlog of old links, here is a very thought provoking article on mass transit and its energy cost.
Please don’t read this and think the EnerGeoPolitics is anti-mass transit. Just an informative post – we need all available information to make correct policy choices. Simply buying into an ideology will not suffice.
A post from last month at AutoBlogGreen that I never got around to linking on Mazda’s hydrogen powered RX-9.
The Heritage Foundation provides a good summary of the alternative vs. fossil fuels debate in electricity generation. Yes, Heritage is a right wing think tank, but that doesn’t discount their numbers. I also link to left leaning organizations like Brookings. Raw information has no ideology, ideology is merely how you use it.
I suggest you add the R-Squared Energy Blog to your list of personal links.
Science Daily asked this summer if pond scum could help fight Global Warming.
Digital Diatribes of a Random Idiot has the September 2008 global temperature update posted. August was the 12th consecutive month that posted cooler temps than the year previous. This is a continuation of (at least) a 60 month trend. However, note that the (almost) 30 year trend in the data is still toward an increased global temperature.
