Ghost of Dude

The new look of solar power

 

Who says solar energy has to be ugly and intrusive? Not these folks.

They’ve developed a new system of small photovoltaic cells that look more like ivy growing up the side of a building than giant blue panels. They’re also looking at incorporating wind power into them, which makes sense because the leaves will flutter just like the real thing. It’s functional, it’s creative, what’s not to like?

Innovations like this will drive the clean energy industry into the main stream.

 

Disclaimer: in case you couldn’t tell, the picture above is actual ivy. The pics from the site wouldn’t link right.

Olbermann and Matthews Axed

Apparently, nobody does what Fox News does better than Fox News – especially not MSNBC.

After on-air squabbles with each other and guests and continued poor ratings, David Gregory will now anchor political coverage.

It seems that liberal viewers, who were clearly the target audience for MSNBC’s coverage, prefer the dispassionate, boring, straight news to some blowhard telling them what he thinks of it all. Lesson learned. If you want to get people to watch your blowhards, social conservatives seem to be a more willing market – provided they agree with you.