If you are reading this I am at the NESEA Conference right now learning all I can about green building, renewable energy, and anything else I can wrap my brain around. Through the magic of wordpress and the schedule entry for later post feature I am not communicating with you from BEYOND THE KEYBOARD! (insert scary ghost sounds here).

Instead of write something new I scanned through the archives from a year ago and found these gems that deserve a second look, enjoy.

This still makes me laugh April 28 2006.

More here.

Its not new anymore, but it was then. Mass Maritime has a new wind turbine. April 15 2006

Cape Cod has its newest wind turbine. On April 14Th 2006 at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy a 660kw turbine was put up. I was lucky enough to be there for the whole thing, see the pictures below it was really neat watching the thing go up. Once the cranes were hooked up the whole thing only took about 20 minutes. Simply amazing.

Check out the pictures.

The oil we eat. Interesting article about how much oil goes into making your food. March 28, 2006

A crude menu
A lot of fossil-fuel energy goes into the production of food:

– Bowl of oatmeal porridge: 4 ounces of crude oil.

– Serving of red raspberries: 1 ounce of crude oil.

– Butter, milk and salt: 1 ounce of crude oil.

– That cup of java: 2 ounces of crude oil.

– Energy required to produce 1 pound of coffee: a quart of crude oil, 30 cubic feet of natural gas, or about 2 1/2 pounds of coal.

– Energy required to produce one week’s worth of breakfast for one person: More than 2 quarts of crude oil.