This Wired article gives a peek into a major energy innovation project at MIT. Check out the list of things they’re working on: organic solar based on spinach proteins, cars that run on light, silicon superstrings. This is real egghead stuff. I’m glad the superbrains are on the job because it’s pretty obvious that the government isn’t.

Can I attach a wind mill to my suburban house? Should I?

My neighbors probably would say no! But people are starting to consider adding wind power to their homes. Find a wind map of your state (this is a commercial site with tons of good information, unfortunately it is built with ancient frame technology that doesn’t let me pick URLs for specific areas of the site- very bad SEO strategy guys!). It doesn’t show my area of NY (Rochester) being a good candidate for wind power.

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Malcom Gladwell offers a typically well-written piece on geothermal energy as used by his father in their family home in Ontario, Canada which is not far from here. Gladwell’s father offers a very clear explanation of how this clean technology works, including (fear not), some basic math.