Articles Archive for 17 October 2007
Berkeley »
UC Berkeley on YouTube. My alma mater.
Now you can virtually attend many of the lectures and events at UC Berkeley. I will miss Berkeley a little less because of this.
Here’s a video on “Energy Self-sufficiency in the 21st Century.” A bunch of Nobel Prize winning guys discussing that issue.
Tata Nano, Transportation »
I have been reading about the Rs 1 Lakh (about US$2,500) car that Tata Motors is planning on selling soon.
It scares me witless. These days, oil is selling for around US$85 a barrel. India imports most of its fossil fuel requirements. It is a poor country and cannot afford high priced oil — and oil is going to become increasingly costly because demand will continue to rise and supply will continue to fall. That is Econ101. India is also a very small country relative to its population. With 17 …



