Storing a gas Costs Money! While Moore’s Law does not apply to Carbon Dioxide or Carbon Sequestration, it should apply to PV Solar Modules.
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January 2009
Extreme How-To has an excellent piece by Monte Burch on solar tubes – essentially skylights without straight lines:A Tunnel for the Sun | Extreme How To, DIY – Do it Yourself, Home Improvement, Home Decorating . monsters-film
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The easiest, fastest strategy is to identify buildings that can and will be used as emergency shelters in the event of emergencies, and retrofit them with geothermal and passive solar heating and cooling and with photo voltaic solar electric and solat hot water systems.
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Nathan Yau, a doctoral candidate at UCLA in statistics, is the proprietor of Flowing Data, an excellent blog about data visualization. My guess is that it would be fair to say that there’s a greater emphasis on quantitative data viz, rather than instructional or other non-quantitative work. In any case – it’s excellent. Came across [...]
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The classic definition of Sustainability; providing the needs of today without compromising our ability to meet our needs tomorrow. And how do you do it? Harnessing processes; rather than consuming resources.
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A timeline of Doctors Without Borders , created in XTimeline, a chrono-information tool. watch megamind dvd rip online graphic tool Good use of the timeline graphic – and a good primer on doctors without borders. Via Social Source Commons.
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We would like to see a bilateral cease fire between Israel and the Palestinians. We feel the factories in Gaza would better serve the people of Gaza by building solar panels or wind turbines rather than Kassam rockets.
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Austhink, an Australian software firm, makes a package called Rationale, which makes it easy to create diagrams of rhetorical and decision-making processes. I downloaded a trial version last-night – and immediately started using it to map risk risks associated with energy production. I plan on using it in my work here at Popular Logistics and [...]
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Popular Logistics needs several laptops and laptop drives. We need Macs running OS X, Linux machines, or netbooks running Windows or Linux. Non-operational machines that can be used as spare parts are also of interest. If you would like to donate, e-mail Larry at “L Furman 97 ‘@’ gmail . com”. Donations to Popular Logistics are [...]
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Andrews S. Revkin reports on Dot Earth that Chinese energy use has declined more or less following economic activity. the how do you know Good news or bad? Depends on what’s happening with Chinese energy infrastructure while its economy contracts. Our guess – and it’s a guess – is that high energy prices provide an [...]
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A billion gallons of sludge covered 300 acres, and spilled into the Clinch River and the Tennessee River beginning Monday Dec. 22, 2008. Coal plants in the US produce 129 million tons of fly ash per year. Solar and wind farms produce zero grams of solid waste per year. Offshore wind farms produce artificial reefs, which are good for the environment.
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