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For the lion's share of urgent posts here - reports about contemporaneous threats - I;m lucky to have good acccess to a number of physicians, medical personnel epidemiologists and other informants. But the single most useful resource is the blog The Pump Handle What's more, Liz Borkowski and Celeste Monforton, two of the Pump Handle [...]
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French police found a package of explosives at the Printemps department store complex in central Paris on Tuesday, a spokeswoman at Paris police headquarters said.The spokeswoman, Mélanie Leprettre, said a warning about the explosives had been sent Tuesday morning to the French news agency Agence France-Presse, which alerted the police.A previously unknown group demanding the [...]
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The Gore Energy Challenge- 100% clean, renewable, sustainable electricity in 10 years, can be described in 3 words. Reasonable, Achievable, Visionary. Here's how:download Young Guns40% Land Based Wind = 100 GW: $200 Billion. 40% Offshore Wind = 100 GW: $300 Billion. 20% Solar = 50 GW: $325 Billion.The Cowboys [...]
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The Gore Energy Challenge: Clean and Green by 2018. Visionary, Reasonable, Achievable. Ask T. Boone Pickens at The Pickens Plan, and Peter Mandelstam at Blue Water Wind. We could meet the electric power requirements of the United States, estimated at 250 Gigawatts, GW, of generating capacity with wind turbines and photovoltaic solar arrays, for about [...]
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Back in May, Rebecca Smith reported in the Wall St. Journal( click here for Popular Logistics posting ) that Florida Power & Light wants to spend $12 to $18 Billion to build a 2.2 GW or 3.0 GW nuclear plant at the aptly named "Turkey Point" facility. At about the same time, Reuters reported that [...]
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