Yesterday’s Energy of Tomorrow…and more

Peak Oil, 1925. In 2000, 20% of new buildings will be solar equipped. By the late 1990s, 90% of the world’s energy will be nuclear-generated. These and other erroneous projections are being collected as part of the Forecast Project on the website Inventing Green: The Lost History of Alternative Energy in America.

That is a pretty awesome blog. I love the article about making jet fuel from algae. Growing up in Newfoundland, we’d always looked as pond scum as something of a gross nuisance. It’s cool to see some people making better use of it.