Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Let us remember a great man of the Faith today.

Nice Camera Work from Mod-Blog Friend Nick

 

Dahon Releases MP3 Charger for Your Bicycle

Most of my memories of bicycle generators from my youth are not fond ones.  They added considerable friction to your ride, made biking up a small hill difficult, and barely put out enough wattage to light up 10 feet in front of you.  But technology moves on and now Dahon has announced a new-and-improved bicycle generator capable of powering your MP3 player.  The key enhancement (besides what is hopefully a better overall generator) is a module between your generator and the MP3 player that smoothes out spikes and valleys in the generation of power on the ride.  It is unlikely to be enough to recharge your iPhone while biking to the market, but it may be enough to keep things running and not lose power on that hour-long ride.

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Obama Pushing Off-Shore Wind Farms

I'm skeptical of the push for green power generation for environmental sake. I do, however, see it as a good thing for us to not have such a dependence on oil given the general instability of our relationships with major oil countries. Obama is pushing for off-shore wind farms and ocean current generated electricity. Interesting thought, though I wonder how many that were against off-shore drilling because it would ruin the view will be for this. Or is this okay since it's "green"? The good news is that they estimate we can generate twice our current energy capacity.

Carbon Belch Day

In response to green earth alarmists, GrassFire.org has created "Carbon Belch Day". You can even calculate your carbon belch. While I am not a fan of forcing green actions on people, I don't see there being much good in purposefully emitting more carbon into the air. Even if it doesn't do anything harmful, it is a waste.

I think THIS is the real reason CRChair got an Escalade