Category — green living

According to author Richard Kerr, writing in the journal Science in 2002, it would take about 10 years for the ice to part and the Northwest Passage to open up. An ice-free Northwest Passage would allow ships traveling between Europe and Asia to take over 4,000 miles off the route through the Panama Canal and save them fees. Kerr cited the work of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, which predicts that in as little as a decade ships would find ice-free passage in the summer months. More conservative estimates were around  the year 2080.

Well, well well, what do we have here now?! The PASSAGE IS NOW OPEN a decade earlier than expected.

Bad news for those who don’t believe in global warming, now we have clear evidence that things are progressing at a greater speed than expected.

Don’t take my word for it, do a google search of northwest passage and see for yourself. Only three years ago scientists expected it would take a decade to happen.

Now you can camp in style out of your little beemer.

Try a beemer inflatable tent.

Ted Sargent is a nontechnologist, boy wonder. Only 30 years old. One day he accidentally invents “quantam dots” which are tiny crystals, that can be used in solar panels, so tiny they can be painted onto things. Sargent imagines clothing that could be used to charge cell phones and laptops, solar building materials that could provide all the electricity needed in the home, and electric cars powered by a solar cell on the roof. Wow! This is cool stuff.

Essentially what it means is that instead of huge, expensive solar panels, we would actaully wear the clothing as we walk around charing our cell phones, or well, for that matter, how bout a cell phone that charges itself? Beam me up Scotty!

The Nomad 1500 which is priced at about $1300 can power you up for a while according to reviews of this product. The handy take along unit can be wheeled in, but you have to set the panels up in the right direction for it to get the most of the sun to power up. Basically it can run a few hours of solar power and then you’re on your own.

A great site to travel for great basic solar info is http://store.solar-electric.com/sodcwapu.html