Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens
Billionaire hedge-fund manager T. Boone Pickens testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday to outline his new wind-power plan, but it's a water pipeline initiative that could reshape the landscape of Texas' drought ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Animate Earth - Science, Intuition and Gaia
 a remarkable book: This book offers a brilliant new approach - at once rigorous, experiential, and intuitive - to the most up-to-date research within planetary ecology. Harding is a close associate of James Lovelock, the polymathic scientist who [... more]
$0.49
Amazon.com |
Lock It in Saline Vaults
Sponsored by the Department of Energy, the Electric Power Research Institute and a host of public and private partners, this experiment is one of several designed to bury carbon dioxide (CO2)-the climate-changing byproduct of burning fossil ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Designer Hydrocarbons
Sir Richard Branson poses in front of a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 before it embarks on the first test flight using bio-fuel made from coconut oil. (Photograph by Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images) The U.S. sits on some of the largest coal reserves ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
* PLUS: Treasure Hunters Break Scuba Rules for $50 Million
Video by Doug Weinstein (surface) and Richard Bailey (underwater) A while back, I reported here on rebreather technology, but for most divers, traditional open-circuit scuba is still the way to go. Modern scuba gear is relatively cheap, rugged ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Support Tech Education
You haven't found any takers on eBay? Well, some retailers offer discounts on new equipment if you trade in your old stuff for recycling. For example, Apple retail stores accept broken iPods; shoppers receive a 10 percent discount on a new ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Ideal Seat:
Sunlight Direct Hybrid Solar Lighting, Solatube Daylighting System TerraMai wood floors, GigaCrete Panels, Amazon Environmental paint Learn more about green design with our Solar Decathlon round-up! Milliken Carpeting, Smith & Fong's ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Wildlife CSI: Inside the Case of the Poisoned Meatballs
Frost clings to Idaho's Salmon-Challis National Forest when, one February morning, Tony Latham and Scott Bragonier follow a trail of boot prints through the snow. Latham kneels and examines a small hole-one of many that run parallel to the ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Full Moon Feast
Author: Jessica Prentice Binding: Digital Number Of Pages: 31 Publication Date: 2007-03-30 Release Date: 2007-03-30 [... more]
$0.49
Amazon.com |
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook
Author: Greg Pahl Binding: Digital Number Of Pages: 24 Publication Date: 2007-03-30 Release Date: 2007-03-30 [... more]
$0.49
Amazon.com |
Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America's New ...
Just three years ago, Colorado-based inventor Jim Sears shuttered himself in his garage and began tinkering with a design to mass-produce biofuel. His reactor (plastic bags) and his feedstock (algae) may have struck soybean farmers as a laughable ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Switch Your Light Bulb and Save $30 on the Power Bill
The ultra-efficient Quantum dot LED lights that earned one of our 2006 Breakthrough Awards aren't widely available yet, but you can still save energy - and help the environment in the process - by participating in Energy Star's "Change a Light, ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
