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		<title>Combined-Source Energy Farms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We see more wind and solar farms popping up every day. What we don&#8217;t see (or at least I haven&#8217;t seen) are the two being built in the same place. Think about it: the only times that solar panels don&#8217;t generate electricity are at night, and when it&#8217;s cloudy. Generally it gets cloudy as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkblogonline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12310954&amp;post=101&amp;subd=thinkblogonline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Flaw With Fusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fusion power is currently the undisputed ideal form of energy production. It is similar to the current widespread nuclear fission power, but instead of using enriched radioactive fuel, it works by focusing intense energy on a single point, causing several atoms to fuse into a single, larger atom. This is the same kind of energy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkblogonline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12310954&amp;post=94&amp;subd=thinkblogonline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Early To Retire The Shuttles?</title>
		<link>http://thinkblogonline.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/too-early-to-retire-the-shuttles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the shuttle debate is back on. Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, of Texas, has introduced a bill in congress to postpone retirement of the space shuttle program, as mentioned in an article in InformationWeek today. Bailey claims that ending the shuttle program would cause the U.S. to take a back seat to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkblogonline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12310954&amp;post=88&amp;subd=thinkblogonline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sudden Acceleration Problem May Not Be Limited To Toyota Vehicles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[8 million Toyota vehicles have been recalled due to issues relating to the gas pedal, as mentioned in CNNMoney today. Dr. David Gilbert of Southern Illinois University appeared on ABCNews demonstrating how, he claims, accelerator pedal units on certain Toyota vehicles are failing. Toyota mentioned in their Statement on Rebuttal of Professor Gilbert’s &#8216;Unintended Acceleration&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkblogonline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12310954&amp;post=78&amp;subd=thinkblogonline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Energy Finally Gaining Steam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, somebody said what I&#8217;ve been waiting to hear, &#8220;&#8230; no member of the public has ever been injured by a nuclear power plant in the United States, nor has any nuclear worker died of a radiation-related incident&#8230;&#8221;, a statement made by Patrick Moore today in the LA Times. This is exactly what I&#8217;ve been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkblogonline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12310954&amp;post=68&amp;subd=thinkblogonline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Waste May End Up In Our Backyards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Energy Department filed to withdraw an application for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain Wednesday in an attempt to reverse a policy set and invested in by the Bush administration (source: Wall Street Journal). A new panel was created by the Energy Department and the Obama administration hopes to develop a new plan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkblogonline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12310954&amp;post=64&amp;subd=thinkblogonline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Geneva Motor Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the photographers and journalists, the 2010 Geneva Motor show opened up to display the usual hot rods and wildly designed concepts by high-end motor companies. Lamborghini, Bentley, Lotus, Jaguar, and Maserati were among the many to display their latest high-performance automotive artwork. Yet there was another breed of vehicles on display today: the average-Joe&#8217;s, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkblogonline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12310954&amp;post=58&amp;subd=thinkblogonline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Two-Cylinder Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I&#8217;d like to discuss a technology used in some vehicles called cylinder deactivation, or variable displacement. It&#8217;s a system used in some reciprocating engines that selectively deactivates some of the cylinders to improve efficiency and save fuel. This is generally accomplished by incorporating actuators that hold the intake and exhaust valves open so as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkblogonline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12310954&amp;post=47&amp;subd=thinkblogonline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe I Was Wrong About Hybrids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think that hybrid vehicles were a waste of time and energy. It made sense to me that a car that used an electric motor directly inline with the engine would never be efficient and would pretty much always be limited to the efficiency of the engine. If you&#8217;re new to the workings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkblogonline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12310954&amp;post=42&amp;subd=thinkblogonline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home Bi-generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a known fact that the modern internal combustion engines in automobiles have a fuel-to-wheels efficiency of only about 25%, maybe a little more in the newer hybrid vehicles. In fact, if you are interested in the physics of this I found this article very interesting. The main opponent here is friction. It&#8217;s been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkblogonline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12310954&amp;post=30&amp;subd=thinkblogonline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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