$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better

scaling their costs,”

“Each one of these farms will specialize in something. One might be tomatoes, one might be peppers, I’m sure several of them would grow all sorts of greens.”

There are more than twice as many garbage trucks, 179,000, in the United States as there are urban transit buses. These refuse-hauling monsters get an average of 2.8 miles per gallon. 7 Garbage trucks move at an average speed of 10 mph, an incredibly inefficient pace for a combustion engine, but one that’s necessary because of the garbage truck’s d

The power of localized generation is enormous. The reason is simple: Heat doesn’t travel well.

by a series of farms that go from ten acres to a hundred acres, maybe even to five hundred acres. Not nearly as big as the biggest farms today, but big enough to take advantage of

Since 1956, the federal government has sunk $3.5 trillion of our wealth into asphalt.

In the future, hothouses on most farms will not run on hot compost, but on passive solar heating that keeps warm water flowing through pipes buried beneath the greenhouse.

As a result, these companies spent only $11 billion on exploration in 2007, while spending $58 billion on share buybacks, five times what they spent on exploration.

The use of electrolysis and water in making ammonia all but stopped with the advent of cheap and bountiful natural gas in the 1930s. That’s because it takes far less energy to simply strip the hydrogen out of natural gas (CH4) than to split water molecules.