Articles by Adam Browning

I prefer to fly

I changed my mind. I no longer want a plug-in hybrid car. Them's for punks.

Now I want a solar/plug-in airplane. Video below the fold.

Takeaway message: battery technology is the roadblock. That and rain.

Fuel-efficient vehicles could save you several times over

A proposed new California law would take from the guzzlers and give to the sippers:

Call it the Robin Hood approach to global warming. California drivers who buy new Hummers, Ford Expeditions, and other big vehicles that emit high levels of greenhouse gases would pay a fee of up to $2,500.

And drivers who buy more fuel-efficient cars -- like the Toyota Prius or Ford Focus -- would receive rebates of up to $2,500, straight from the gas-guzzlers' pockets.

Act nowor forever hold your pleas

The battle over the TXU coal plants has been well chronicled on these pages.

As an elegant companion to the efforts to shut down coal, there's a proposal in the Texas Legislature -- sitting in committee right now -- that would develop a world-class solar energy program for Texas.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes

Let's hope, anyway.