Ronin of the Spirt
A lone ronin, truth in hand, wandering the plains of Academia

Posts Tagged ‘fuel’

World Food Crisis

April 28, 2008

You might be aware of the impending world food crisis. People in the less affluent world are going to start dropping dead like flies, apparently, because food is too hard to get or too expensive.

There are a number of micro-explanations for this, but pretty much everyone agrees that the macro-explanation is a causal chain [...]

One bazillion miles per gallon

April 18, 2008

So, I really don’t have much to say tonight, but I don’t want to blog tomorrow, because I have spent the whole evening answering emails tonight and I need to spend some time with my daughter tomorrow.
So, here is the Aptera

Its a slippery little car made by a composites company.  It gets 300 mpg.  (Actually [...]