the curious monkey » Environment http://www.thecuriousmonkey.com curiosity killed the cat. it's a good thing i'm NOT a cat Fri, 14 May 2010 18:56:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 the empire state building goes green… really? http://www.thecuriousmonkey.com/2009/04/06/the-empire-state-building-goes-green-really/ http://www.thecuriousmonkey.com/2009/04/06/the-empire-state-building-goes-green-really/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:21:16 +0000 the curious monkey http://www.thecuriousmonkey.com/?p=154 today’s news stated that the empire state building is going to go green. its going to save millions each year.  blah blah blah…  if your interested in reading the whole articles here it is.

this is all good and dandy.. but the bottom line is that they are going to spend USD $500 million to “make the building green” and only save USD $4.4 million a year. so that’s going to take about 113 years to cover up the USD $500 million. these are all very rough calculations. the article does not talk about the cost of disposing of all the old appliances and fittings etc… that will come out of the building.

this just looks like a HUGE publicity stunt to use the buzz word of going green. i mean if you really want to do somethign to benifit the environment, why dont you take that USD $500, 000, 000 and do something meaningful, like plant a rain forest, or help save an animal speciece that is going extinct, or something like that. Feed some starving children in Africa and Asia.

]]> http://www.thecuriousmonkey.com/2009/04/06/the-empire-state-building-goes-green-really/feed/ 0 Floating on air… Powered by air… It’s almost the same thing right? http://www.thecuriousmonkey.com/2008/02/14/floating-on-air%e2%80%a6-powered-by-air-it%e2%80%99s-almost-the-same-thing-right/ http://www.thecuriousmonkey.com/2008/02/14/floating-on-air%e2%80%a6-powered-by-air-it%e2%80%99s-almost-the-same-thing-right/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:47:07 +0000 the curious monkey http://www.thecuriousmonkey.com/2008/02/14/floating-on-air%e2%80%a6-powered-by-air-it%e2%80%99s-almost-the-same-thing-right/ Blow blow harder old chap, the tank is almost full. This might be in our near future if a certain French engineer is allowed to have his way; I really do hope he is allowed free reign. Former F1 engineer has developed a car that runs on air… that’s right. AIR. Taking about 3 minutes to pump a full tank and supposed to reach a top speed of over 80 mph, this sounds absolutely fantastic.

You obviously cannot blow your way to a full tank. That was a complete dramatization of course, but I must say I am excited. Big guns TATA is funding him and he is hoping to get the first few cars out of the production gate by the end of this year. Woo hoo..

I hope the big oil companies don’t try to stop this innovation out of existence.  Enjoy the video after the jump.


Link to the video

]]> http://www.thecuriousmonkey.com/2008/02/14/floating-on-air%e2%80%a6-powered-by-air-it%e2%80%99s-almost-the-same-thing-right/feed/ 0