Tweet Nuclear power diminishes National Security and the stability of the electric grid. Consider the Brunswick, Fort Calhoun, Millstone, North Anna, and Oyster Creek nuclear power plants, and the Fukushima melt-downs. And consider the “Mobley Factor.” The Brunswick nuclear plants in North Carolina, and the Millstone nuclear power plants in Connecticut were brought to [...]
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Tweet In New Orleans, during Katrina – or rather prior to Katrina – school buses weren’t accounted for in planning, either as a resource to be protected, or as a tool to be used in evacuation. The result: insufficient resources for evacuation, and flood-damaged school buses requiring repair or replacement – and taxpayer funds.
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Latest Updates on Hurricane Irene By ROBERT MACKEY On Friday, The Lede is tracking preparations for the expected landfall of Hurricane Irene, a powerful storm heading for the Northeastern United States. Auto-refresh is: ONTurn ONTurn OFF Refresh nowUpdating…FeedTwitter 5:46 P.M. |Even if Storm Weakens, Flooding Could Be a Problem Jeff Masters, a founder of the [...]
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Tweet “Irene is especially worrisome … because of its uncommonly massive size. According to Ron Steve, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Wilmington Office, Irene covers an area of approximately 170,000 square miles, or about the size of California or Iraq.” Star News Online. The storm had a 400 miles north to south and [...]
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Tweet Andrew Restuccia and Ben German reported (here) on E2 Wire, “the Hill’s Energy & Environment Blog” that: Two nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station in Louisa County, Va., automatically shut down Tuesday shortly after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake shook the state and surrounding area. The plant lost offsite power and is now running [...]
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From Wikipedia’s article, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States. The shaded areas indicate percentage of population without health insurance coverage, with the darkest shading indicating the highest rates of population without insurance. 20–27% 16–20% 14–16% 10–14% 4–10%
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The BBC has reported that a Taliban attack on a British compound in Kabul has killed at least a dozen people. Attack on British Council compound in Kabul kills 12 . What’s particularly disturbing is the coordinated nature of the attack, which involved at least three elements: one force which staged a diversionary attack nearby, [...]
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Charis Michelsen, writing on GAS 2.0, reports that the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) has broken the distance record for electric vehicles: Electric vehicles records are dropping like flies these days, as more and more vehicles push the boundaries of what’s possible for electric cars, boats, and planes. The latest to fall: the record [...]
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Tweet The 18¢ per gallon tax on gasoline is scheduled to expire on Sept. 30, 2011. Will it expire? Will it be renewed? Will that immediately lower gasoline prices by 18¢? Will state or local governments add 18¢ to state or local taxes (or both)? Will gas station owners pocket some or all of the [...]
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Tweet Popular Logistics is a policy blog, not a politics blog. However, politicians make policy. The Honorable Rush D. Holt, NJ-12, said this on Monday, August 1, 2011, when casting a vote against the “Budget Control Act of 2011.” SPEECH OF HON. RUSH D. HOLT OF NEW JERSEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MONDAY AUGUST [...]
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Tweet I am presenting “Beyond Fuel: From Consuming Natural Resources to Harnessing Natural Processes,” a discussion of the hidden costs, or “economic externalities,” of nuclear power, coal, and oil, and the non-obvious benefits of wind, solar, marine hydro and efficiency at the Space Coast Green Living Festival, Cocoa Beach, Florida, Sept 17, 2011. The festival [...]
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Tweet The Washington Post reported, here, that John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and the “Young Guns,” their Republican comrades in the House of Representatives, PLANNED as far back as January, 2009 to use the debt ceiling to create a political crisis. It seems to have worked. The Republicans held fast, Obama and the Democrats [...]
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“Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes. Tweet Taxes fund Medicare and Medicaid so the poor and the elderly can see a physician and get treatment when they are sick. Taxes fund education for our children and our neighbors children so they can grow up to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, [...]
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Tweet I thought the market would crash in the wake of the Earthquake / Tsunami / Nuclear Meltdowns at Fukushima. It didn’t. However, something much less serious may be bringing the market – and the economy – to it’s knees. Politics. The Voice of America reported here that Standard & Poors downgraded US debt from AAA to AA+. [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.