If you were watching airplanes take off from Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston today, you probably wouldn’t notice anything odd about Continental Flight No. 9990. But during its planned two-hour flight, the aircraft will be burning a fuel made of algae and jatropha, a plant that grows in arid lands.
A-1, this is good news because [...]

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  The Lilypad is where rich, smart people will live after we all drown. It’s basically a self-sufficient, artificial, floating island capable of supporting about 50,000 people. The point is that when water levels rise and everything’s drowning, these self-contained buoyant cities will float happily and peacefully until, I dunno, people start having babies and [...]

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(I like to post news and thoughts on alternative energy, but I’m not the smartest guy when it comes to the hows and whats of practical applications. Mostly I just read, say, “that’s neat” or “that’s stupid”, and write about it like I know what I’m talking about. Luckily, I have very smart friends who [...]

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