We agree with President Obama on wind and solar, however, his goals for wind power are not ambitious enough.
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February 2009
The National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue – leadquarters office located in Santa Barbara – seems to have lost phone service. Their front page has some good coverage of California fires, which have directly affected their members/staff.We hope they all come through this okay.
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PSEG Building windfarms, says you won't see them. And they are fighting climate change.
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Frederick County, Maryland, uses a very simple red/green system on its website. The only navigation buttons with a colored circle relate to emergency preparedness. In normal times – the button is green:(Non-emergency mode)But, for emergency – including dangerous weather – notifications – the same button will be red and flashing. From the Frederick County website:When [...]
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LED’s Good Housekeeping Seal, by Eric A. Taub, in the New York Times’ “Bits” technology blog – “Some LED products are only delivering 30 percent of the illumination that they claim,” said James Brodrick, the Department of Energy’s solid state lighting head. To stem the disaster of a potential consumer backlash against a technology that, [...]
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“Because their fuel is free, wind turbines undercut traditional generators that burn coal, natural gas, and oil.” And there are no radioactive fuels to mine, mill, ship, and manage.
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Going through Jeff Gill’s Bayesian text bookwhen I came across the line:From the Bayesian perspective, there are two types of quantities: known and unknown. (43)This seems to be from the pre-9/11 school of thought as Rumsfeld* has us living in a more complicated world:I guess technically I should exclude unknown knowns – that is, those [...]
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Clean Energy. Alternatives to fuel. Common sense for the common good. Johnny Appleseed would approve. It’s the law. Our future depends on it.
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Jennifer Bogo, Science Editor at Popular Mechanics, published Poop Power: U.S. Farms Save Big Turning Manure to Kilowatts (October 8, 2008; web only): If I’d driven up Kingwood Road here two years ago, there’s a very good chance that I would have smelled Hillcrest Saylor Dairy Farm long before I reached its gravel driveway. But [...]
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Methane from sewage used for energy – while currently in use and much under discussion as a green (or greener ) technology in fact is an early 20th century technology developed by the Scottish civil engineer John Duncan Watson. wake wood film download
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KBR, through negligence, kills Americans in Iraq. Why is an oil services company supporting military operation?
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What was once called “Shell Shock” is now called “PTSD.” But maybe we should call it “Shell Shock,” Provide treatment, and work to prevent it.
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“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.” Dylan.
Failure is a fact of life. Don't give up. Try something else.
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