Happy New Year!

Today I picked up an article from The Energy Blog (which I enjoy reading regularly), it’s about an article in the January 2008 issue of Scientific American called “A Solar Grand Slam” which explains a plan that could eliminate US dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

It’s amazing the advances solar technology has made over the past decade and the potential it has for the future. Whether or not this plan becomes a reality, we can’t predict. As we all know we can’t rely on fossil fuels forever, and personally I’m not fond of nuclear energy. I truly hope that something along the lines of this plan gets put in motion.

Click here for the original article.

Campus Bike took a break to gather itself in this world concerned with a major changing of the guard.

With New Year’s coming up and many new changes taking place in 2008, we need to understand where we may go someday. With fossil fuels proving too slow for any sort of massive advancements in cleanliness and huge advances in science happening almost every year, we as a race are merely a step away from a Mars landing.

Which begs the question, if we can put a man on the moon or even Mars, can we change the way we power our machines?

Certain entities declared guns, iPod, illegal drugs, video games, TV, radio, and the Internet as “something that’ll never catch on”. iPod sales are at an all time high, the video game industry eclipses Hollywood’s earnings in America alone, etc. Every innovation that challenges the status quo deserves a little bit of enmity.

The oil companies know that oil won’t be around forever, but electricity will. It’s renewable. It is neither created nor destroyed; you can’t argue with the laws of physics.

We here at Campus Bike wish to induce an electrical charge in your brain that gives you the incentive to view the alternatives to petroleum based fuels as viable and not just a pipe-dream. We would also like to wish you well in these times of festivity and cheer. Whatever the nationality, oil is a necessary evil but only for now. Whatever effect we are having on the climate can be modified and lessened just by consuming fewer materials. Since electricity is just a charge of energy, nothing is really burnt or polluted.

Enjoy yourself this season and keep us at Campus Bike in mind should the need for affordable and efficient transport be desirable. We wish the world the best!

Campus Bike LLC, owned and operated out of Iowa, hopes to establish itself as a burgeoning example of the bright future in electric transport and strives to fulfill the vision of a more environmentally friendly vehicle.