Smith says he believes that six years from now, electric vehicles will be in wide commercial use, transporting everything from FedEx packages to plumbers and pizza.
...Smith says the discovery and unlocking of the vast amounts of natural gas in shale formations is a game changer.
"For the United States, it's been near providential," he says. "I think it offers us an opportunity to deal with a lot of issues that have been very difficult."
Gardeners should end their love affair with peat | Craig Sams | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Peat use emits 400,000 tonnes of carbon every year.
Lord Nicholas Stern, the economist, author of the Stern Review and government adviser on climate change, put a cost of £150 per tonne in the future for every tonne of carbon we emit today. So peat's contribution is £60m – every year. That's the price our grandchildren will pay just so that we can garden on the cheap today.
Olbermann sues Current TV for $50M, cites glitches - Business - msnbc.com
"Current's dysfunction permeated all levels of the organization," the lawsuit states. "After being on the air for nearly eight months — long after all 'growing pains' should have ceased — Current still couldn't manage to, literally, keep the lights on." [Do we all still trust Al Gore to keep the world's lights on using generators powered by unicorn farts?]
The complaint describes a litany of technical issues, including shoddy equipment that wouldn't work if it rained, "terrible sound and filming" of the show, guests who were abruptly dropped from the air, busted teleprompters and an earpiece that malfunctioned.
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