Life on MarsConfessions of a mangalavid junkie.Energy Ownership- May 15, 2008 A recent post on Treehugger, Further Thoughts on Turning Road Traffic into Electricity, got me thinking. The article revists another Treehugger post on harnessing truck traffic to generate electricity by capturing kinetic energy of truck traffic through "special plates" set in the road: as big trucks drive over them (about 2,500 of them per day at the port), they compress a tank of hydraulic fluid under the road, which in turn creates a series of pumping actions that turns a generator to...http://kasei.us/archives/2008/05/15/energyownership Tulip Festival- May 12, 2008 I took some photos today while wandering around the Albany Tulip Festival: More photos on my Flickr 2008 Tulip Festival set.http://kasei.us/archives/2008/05/11/tulipfestival Rangeley Lake- May 6, 2008 Kat, Laurel, Stephen and I spent this past weekend in Rangeley, Maine at one of the L.L. Bean cabins on the shore of Rangeley Lake. Despite it being rather damp, cold and cloudy, it was a lot of fun and much needed time off after the spring semester. We spent quite a bit of time on Route 17 south of Rangeley, seeing quite a bit of wildlife. We saw something like 18 moose, 20 deer, a couple of rabbits and wild turkeys. Saturday evening was cold and windy, but after driving all the way from.http://kasei.us/archives/2008/05/05/rangeley |