October 2009
77 posts
“Plug-in hybrids could help stabilize the grid and make money for their owners.”
– Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in this article, suggesting that “grid operators and power companies could reimburse car owners for the battery storage offered by the roughly 22 hours a day that electric cars would be connected to the nation’s power...
“Electric Cars Hold Key To Green Planet: The new age of the electric vehicle...”
– Jeffrey D. Sachs,Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, in his article “Electric Cars Hold Key To Green Planet.”
September 2009
42 posts
Filling Station, a poem by Elizabeth Bishop
Oh, but it is dirty! —this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all black translucency. Be careful with that match! Father wears a dirty, oil-soaked monkey suit that cuts him under the arms, and several quick and saucy and greasy sons assist him (it’s a family filling station), all quite thoroughly dirty.
Do they live in the station? It has a cement porch behind...
“I like to feel the wheel. I like to feel the wheel. I like to feel the wheel.”
– Neil Young, in “Drifter”
“Drifter,” (Landing On Water), Neil...
“I like to drive my car if I’ve got someplace to go
I like to feel the...”
– My bff Neil Young, in “Drifter” (Well, come on, can you blame me if I’m partial to his car songs?)
And …
Dear Neil,
Me too ! Come on, let’s put me back together, put down the top and let it roll !
x LV
STOP! HEY WHAT'S THAT ... Oh wait. Never mind. I... →
Good Morning Dear Blog!
Well while my motor’s out there having all the fun with The Team, I’ve of course been reading. One can only play Solitaire or Bubble Wrap on one’s iPhone for so long. Here’s an interesting article in The Washington Post entitled “The Deadly Silence of The Electric Car,” which raises the concern that electric cars might be TOO quiet, and...
WatchUpdate on me, by N.
Check it! We’re going on a Test Run, like some kind of Vegas dream.
x LV
“Today I am The Linkin’ Lincoln, as well as The Thinking Lincoln. Check out...”
Electric Supercar! Check it. →
Goal of M.I.T. Electric Car Is 10-Minute Charge →
The Electric Car's Time Is Now ... →
Mileage Champs See the USA at 67.9 MPG →
Lithium-Air Battery: Solution To Electric Car... →
The Electric Car Is At The Starting Line And The... →
The One Intelligence Whose Potent Sway Has Ever...
All speaks of change: the renovated forms Of long-forgotten things arise again; The light of suns, the breath of angry storms, The everlasting motions of the main. These are but engines of the eternal will, The One intelligence whose potent sway Has ever acted, and is acting still While stars, and worlds and systems all obey. Without whose power, the whole of mortal beings Were dull,...
Song that I have on repeat on my iPod tonight....
“Curve. The loveliest distance between two points.”
– Mae West.
I like those long slow curves. (Uh … I think Mae meant different curves than the ones I am thinking of, but hey. We gals have to stick together.)
