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Not surprised: This has been thought of before. If electric cars have a limited range, why not be able to pick up recharged batteries as you drive? Swap ‘em like tanks for gas grills. Freshcreation.com has a post, including a neat video of how electric car battery exchanges could work.

we’ve have more to go around.

Turn carbon-dioxide back into gasoline. The trick is that this climate-saving energy-source idea includes a road map to its achievement.

During the Live Earth concert, it was hard to take the trooping celebrities seriously. “I turn off lights!” “I drive a hybrid!” Today, after hearing more of this, I wondered how much of this really makes a difference. I half-expect to hear next: “I turn off a light before I blow-dry my hair for an hour!” Or: “On my […]

Well, there is now. If nutrients are chemicals good for you body, then what are substances that make you sick? How about pollutrients? Popped into my head driving yesterday. Has a certain ring, yes? Reminds me of a cartoon I once did that I’ll have to find, scan and post later. 
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They’re bikes made entirely of recycled parts. Metal cans, plastic jugs, car tires.

Label reveals: “Energy used to make this product.” If A and B cost the same, would you buy the one that wasted less energy? Side benefit for jingoists: It’s probably the product made abroad that consumed the most energy, because of shipping. So home-made, local products would probably score the best. Of course, cynics might say: […]

When you write Part 1, you’re supposed to write Part 2. So here goes: A golf club you can’t destroy — it’s rubber-coated wire like those posable toys. Whack, smack, hurl, throw in the lake. It doesn’t break. (Plus, it’s got a string for reeling it in?) … Or how about the enviro-friendly disposable club? Stomp it, […]

OK, OK, OK, maybe the physics here won’t work. And the scale might be impossible, too. But if sea levels will rise because of melting ice sheets, how about creating some new ones? Put snow machines all over Greenland, and maybe Alaska and Siberia, too. Maybe even on icebergs at the North Pole. Pile up […]

Suppose you’re in a hurry to make your icy sidewalks less dangerous. The stuff is way too hard to chop and shovel. What if you had an “ice rougher”? It wouldn’t remove the ice, it would just rough it up so it wasn’t so slippery. Wouldn’t have to be a separate tool. Option 1: Could be […]

Microwaves heat things, right? So what if you could melt snow and ice with a Microwaving Truck? Maybe add something to the roads, like capsules or metal particles, to make the microwaves more effective. Suppose, in snow country, all vehicles had them. Then, after melting their own driveways, all the cars would help with the melting. Adding particles to […]

We’re so bombarded with ads, news, messages, airplane and traffic noise, rudeness, and tempting sights and smells, here’s a prediction: Someday we’ll have personal high-tech force fields that selectively screen out undesired sensory experiences. No, not some combo earplug-blindfold-noseplug deal. But a kind of programmable Sensory Sentry or Filter Field – a Globe of Obliviosity? — that lets you have peace and […]

As the world changes more and more rapidly, why should buildings be so fixed and permanent? I already see ]perfectly good houses and office buildings get torn down to make way for some new and improved and more profitable endeavor. So why not buildings that can easily be dismantled, altered, modified, moved or otherwise rebuilt? Maybe […]

Wonder what the top causes of death would be if listed according to ultimate responsibility. Might be something like:
1. Failure to heed advice or pay attention.
2. Reckless or careless behavior of others.
3. Enviro-social dangers and afflictions.
4. Genetic or inherently human shortcoming or weakness.
5. Malevolence and/or greed of others.
6. Plain dumb luck.

There’s a National Smoke-Out Day, where people try not to smoke. How about one for driving cars? Sure it’s impossibly impractical (not enough mass transit to handle the crowds). But just the call for considering the sacrifice might help us all realize how demoralizingly dependent we all are on cars … and foster creative efforts […]