Listening to: The Paradigm Shift - Rhian Sheehan

I attended the Aquaflow Bionomic test drive this afternoon - a world first running of a vehicle on bio-diesel derived from wild algae. The car was running on a standard B5 blend.

Oh yes! Work it does!

UPDATE: World first wild algae bio-diesel test drive

The world’s first wild algae bio-diesel, produced in New Zealand by Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, was successfully test driven in Wellington today by the Minister for Energy and Climate Change Issues, David Parker.

Listening to: Wild Boys - Duran Duran

A Telsa owner has been issued a ticket… a baptism of sorts I guess.

Listening to: Mercado Nuevo [2006] - John Murphy

As part of the LA Auto Show a number of concept designs were submitted as entrants to the Design Challenge. The most interesting, for me, is the Toyota RLV:

It uses a pedal/electric power train.

src: Treehugger

Listening to: Lush 3.2 - Orbital

For my own notes: Google TechTalks: Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Biofuels.

• Stanford Experts on Climate Change and Carbon Trading - Thomas C. Heller and Stephen H. Schneider
• Biofuels: Think Outside the Barrel - Vinod Khosla

Listening to: Cosmology (Gasoline Cowboy Remake) - Rhian Sheehan

Repeat after me. Massive Structural Change. From Treehugger:

In another sign of the country’s shift from red to green, its wealthiest man (by some estimates) is making a windfall on solar energy. While Shi Zhengrong, the founder and CEO of Wuxi-based Suntech Power, is known as the richest man on the mainland or just China’s wealthiest energy magnate, his Australian citizenship means he cannot hold the title of the richest Chinese man according to Forbes (that just went to Huang Guangyu, an electronics entrepreneur). But that’s a technicality, and who’s counting anyway?

Listening to: Halcyon + On + On - Orbital

Here’s a bunch of Treehugger links that I have been sitting on:

• Liquid Chimney Could Reduce Global Warming
• Flexlight: Innovative LED Lighting
• “Global Carbon Project” Reports Accelerating Carbon Dioxide Emissions
• Bill McDonough’s Tower of Tomorrow
• Direct FuelCell-Energy Recovery Generation™ For Natural Gas Pipelines
• Sir Nicholas Stern Explains Himself Directly To Financial Professionals

Listening to: Plan - The Kleptones

Over at Interactive Architecture dot Org they posted a story about the Power Aware Cord:

The Power Aware Cord is a project by STATIC!… and is one of many imaginative ways of changing peoples perception of energy use:

• Appearing Pattern Wallpaper
• Disappearing Pattern Tiles
• Flower Lamp
• … and a bunch of others

Listening to: Into The Sun - Weekend Players

The Celsias blog is now up and running. It’s a tiny example of all the exciting and hard work that is underway.

Listening to: Guardian Angel - Concord dawn

From NY Times:

LONDON, Nov. 6 — China will surpass the United States in 2009, nearly a decade ahead of previous predictions, as the biggest emitter of the main gas linked to global warming, the International Energy Agency has concluded in a report to be released Tuesday.

China’s rise, fueled heavily by coal, is particularly troubling to climate scientists because as a developing country, China is exempt from the Kyoto Protocol’s requirements for reductions in emissions of global warming gases. Unregulated emissions from China, India and other developing countries are likely to account for most of the global increase in carbon dioxide emissions over the next quarter-century.

Listening to: No One Like You - Strawpeople

I found this over at Treehugger… the Cannondale Jacknife.

Lots of foldy goodness and a hydraulic drive (which is something I have never seen before on a bike… but makes perfect sense and offers some really exciting possibilities).