Made in 1964, ‘The Incredible Mr. Limpet‘, a film set during World War II is about a man named Henry Limpet, who would rather be a fish than human. One day his dream comes true suddenly when he falls off the pier at Coney Island and transforms into a fish. From this point Henry finds his destiny, finding true love and working for the US Navy to help defeat Nazis submarines with a super-sonic roar. I loved this movie when I was a kid. Don Knotts looked astonishingly like his animated fish character, Mr. Limpet.

So, what’s this got to do with an environmental blog, you ask? Well, a school of mechanical, battery-powered robots in the shape of fish, that look surprisingly like a bunch of Mr. Limpets (without the glasses), will be released into the waters in the northern Spanish port of Gijon to help monitor pollution. Chosen because port authorities there had expressed an interest in the technology, and assisted with a 2.5-million-pound ($3.6 million) grant from the European Union, allows the robotic fish to patrol the harbor. (more…)

Hi Everyone!  Thanks for all of your thoughts and humor!  It is greatly
appreciated.  So here is the latest.

IKE will be coming in between Freeport and Houston.  These two cities are
only 50 miles apart.  So, in essence, Houston is going to get hit hard for
being on the dirty end of it.

The surge in Galveston Bay will push floodwaters into Houston, damaging areas
that include the nation’s biggest refineries and NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
The Ship Channel will also get a huge part of the surge.  So I am sure that
those big ships will be anchored pretty well.  With the surge being predicted (more…)

GreenHunter Energy, Inc. began operations at it’s Houston, Texas,
biodiesel refinery, which can produce 105 million gallons per year
(mgpy). That capacity narrowly beats out the Imperium Renewables’
biodiesel refinery in Washington State, making it the largest
biodiesel plant in the United States.

The new facility is able to produce biodiesel from animal fats, (more…)