Fuel-cell Powered PDAs? They?re Coming This week is National Energy Education Week, and I would like to celebrate by highlighting some fascinating, and potentially incredibly useful, research being done on ways to use hydrogen fuel cells for mobile electronic devices. Electronics companies including Toshiba, Intel, Motorola, and 3M have been investing in research to replace …
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Fuel-cell Powered PDAs? They?re Coming This week is National Energy Education Week, and I would like to celebrate by highlighting some fascinating, and potentially incredibly useful, research being done on ways to use hydrogen fuel cells for mobile electronic devices. Electronics companies including Toshiba, Intel, Motorola, and 3M have been investing in research to replace …
Fuel-cell Powered PDAs? They?re Coming This week is National Energy Education Week, and I would like to celebrate by highlighting some fascinating, and potentially incredibly useful, research being done on ways to use hydrogen fuel cells for mobile electronic devices. Electronics companies including Toshiba, Intel, Motorola, and 3M have been investing in research to replace …
The “Day Of Truth” Effect In Oil Markets
Not surprisingly, London crude oil prices rose today. There are two interesting things to observe here. First, the FT article states that In London IPE Brent crude prices for May delivery were trading up 42 cents at $30.55 per barrel at 1115 GMT having been as high as $31.65 per barrel earlier in the day. …
Here’s The Fruit Of My Weekend Labor
A new and improved Northwestern webpage for me! Computer programming is not my comparative advantage, so this tried my patience. But it worked! Unlike my other page, I will update this page frequently with new course syllabi, links to my research and other publications, and random fun stuff. I also have posted there something that …
Oil Prices Plummet
According to MSNBC world oil prices today are falling because of a combination of factors: US firmness in the face of oppostion implies swifter resolution and has contributed to expectations of increased oil supplies in the nearer future; US reiteration that releases from the strategic petroleum reserve could very well happen (and that’s about two …
Seasonal Gasoline Reformulation and Prices
And that doesn’t even address the reforumlated gasoline switch from winter fuel to summer fuel, which is starting right now at refiners and is causing fuel prices to increase more quickly in the usual tight spots, California and the Midwest. In addition to that, California is beginning to phase out MTBE as its oxygenate and …
More Oil Sources
MSNBC has a special report on oil in Iraq with some good information. Furthermore, this front-page article from today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) discusses in some detail the reasons for the tight oil supply chain. There’s less spare capacity and lower inventories.
Hot Lanes Have “Amazing Promise”
According to Washington Post writer Neal Peirce, Reason’s HOT lanes proposals are very good ideas that will use technology and market incentives (read: prices) to reduce congestion, time spent driving, and fuel use in the 21st century.
Why Do People Name Their Cars?
In a conversation with Will Wilkinson about naming his car Bucephalus, we got into a discussion in a group of folks about what motivates people to name their cars. New Scientist has provided an answer: Men who are fanatical about cars identify vehicles using the same brain circuitry used to recognise faces, new research shows