I enjoyed this retrospective from Popular Mechanics magazine and thought you would too. All these new ideas we have these days about energy are really not that new.

Check out this article and be sure to watch the time-lapse video of this 15-story building going up in China in just two days. And here I was getting all excited about the Empire State Building rebuilding all of their 6,500 windows this past summer. Oh, well.

Solar panels, that is, and Marburg is in Germany. Check out this story, and then try to imagine the government of any American town of 80,000 people passing legislation such as this. Why, we'd vote those bums out in a heartbeat!

Denver, Colorado residents are getting that enormous IKEA store, which will cool and heat itself geothermally, and now the Capital building is following suit by drilling 900-foot wells in to the aquifer. Here's the story. Geothermal is here to stay and I think it's going to play a large part in the future of hydronic heating.

Here's a 26-story housing project in the middle of Manhattan that's going off ConEd steam and onto geo. As the song says, if it can make it there, it can make it anywhere. Stay tuned.

Want an example of a conundrum that would never be up for consideration in New York City? Here you go. The new/old governor will have this straightened out in no time. You'll see.

What a great way to get off a long flight! Thanks to my daughter, Erin, for the heads up on this one (Erin designs and sends you this newsletter every Thursday). Sit back and enjoy. No instruments other than glorious voices. Have fun!

Hug your kids.