What will February bring?

Lots happening at the end of January. President Bush will make his State of the Union address for the first time in front of a Democratic controlled House and Senate. I'm looking forward to what he has to say about renewable energy.

I've been following the increase in wind energy, ethanol, and biodiesel on a couple different websites and blogs since leaving college. I know some of my interest in alternative energy was planted in college when we decided to power our Formula SAE racecar with E-85. My interst has been growing steadily since, and even fertilized by my current career in the energy service industry. Ethanol is a good direction, but not when it's competing for resources with our food industry. I hope that there is a large shift in the ethanol industry in the near future toward using feedstock for production. My hope is in the future of biodiesel. Diesel engines are much more efficienct than spark iginition fueled engines.

Secondly, Microsoft will be releasing to consumers both Windows Vista and Office 2007. Office 2007 has a new user interface that reveals a lot more of the features that are already available. Windows Vista is Microsoft's solution to the ever growing security problem. Let's see how many bugs Microsoft has fixed since Vista went RTM in November.