So far, most of the attention on electric vehicle programs has focused on newcomers to the field. But electrics have a long history in industrial settings, and some of the companies that have been supporting them appear to be ready to hit the roads.

The Net-Zero Energy Now House is Really Boring. I mean, really. Except for the metal roof, the Now House looks just like every other sixty year old postwar veteran's house on the street in suburban Toronto. Everybody knows that a zero-energy house has to look all heliotropy and be covered in green gizmos. And everybody knows that these old 2x4 houses are not worth renovating. They're sieves, they're heat sinks. As Ruben said in an earlier post: Most old buildings merely slow the wind down. They are abysmally hard to heat, as any reading of period novels will tell you. Even though there are millions of them across North America, everybody knows they are just knockdowns. Net zero energy? Impossible. And the size? 1350 Square feet! nobody has lived in that since 1960. This has to be replaced or boxtopped (second floor added on) or it is uninhabitable. Everyone knows that a North American house has to be 2500 square feet. I mean, really. Not.

The Now House™ project will turn a 60-year-old WWII house into a near zero energy home—one that produces almost as much energy as it uses. The first Now House™ is located in Topham Park, Toronto. The home is a 1200 square foot, 1 1/2 storey, detached structure in a community of 200 similar homes. It was built in 1946 from plans provided by CMHC. The Now House™ project is a collaboration of designers, architects, engineers, homeowners and sustainable building experts led by Lorraine Gauthier of the design consultancy Work Worth Doing.

Plug In America advocates the use of plug-in vehicles powered by cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity to reduce our nation's dependence on petroleum and improve the global environment.

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PowerTOP has these four basic goals: Show how well your system is using the various hardware power-saving features. Show you the culprit software components that are preventing optimal usage of your hardware power savings. Help Linux developers test their

In this segment, we'll talk about the realities of offshore oil drilling. How much oil might there be? When would it be available? And what other consequences might offshore drilling have?

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