Energy Efficiency: Trains and Trucks

“A range of separate studies undertaken in the early 1990s suggested that a rail freight train might typically consume around 0.6 Megajoules per tonne km (MJ/tkm), compared to a range of 1.2 - 8 MJ/tkm for road goods vehicles.”
Source:
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/freight/about/issues/energy.htm
This translates to rail freight being from 2 to 13 times more energy efficient than [...]

Bush’s full comments about America’s oil addiction

I disagreed with President Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq. And I think I disagree with some comments in his recent State of the Union Address. But that doesn’t mean I disagree with him about **everything** (and that’s an important principle: don’t demonize people, don’t seem them as all good [...]

Flourescent lights, worker psychology and cultural alienation

I was in a huge department store today and noticed the fluorescent lights. Really wretched. Must be hard and stressful to work under those for 40 hours a week.
See, that’s the problem. We’ve got a country—or more like a world, now—full of people working under fluorescent lights, and maybe in cubicles, too. [...]