Monthly Archives: October 2010

Trick or Treat? GM offers a real ECO car?

October 31, 2010

Did GM kill the VOLT???…for the $20,000 difference between this and the VOLT… any owner can buy a lifetime of gas even at 2012 prices of $5 per gallon. But, in 2011 Chevy Cruze Eco to start at $18,895 with 40 MPG is a BIG eco car with a ton of lux additions… AutoBlogGreen:...
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Three Charts That will Scare the $#^#$ out of tax payers

October 31, 2010

Staff members at the Congressional Joint Economic Committee “spent four months, night and day, and weekends” assembling this amazing graphic of our “Health Care Reform”… In addition to capturing the massive expansion of government and the overwhelming complexity of new regulations and taxes, the chart portrays: $569 billion in higher taxes; $529 billion in...
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Happy Halloween (Scary Quote ;-)

October 31, 2010

I was going to go Trick or Treating dressed as the Deficit, but when I got in costume I couldn’t move—too big. And it really scared the little kids. ~Bob.
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BOOOO! All your neighbors are drugged zombies

October 31, 2010

AutomaticEarth: It’s not like Japan has one and the US has the other: America has both zombie banks AND zombie homeowners. Plus a lot of zombie unemployed, Wal-Mart greeters and burgerflippers, and I’m not all that sure it doesn’t have a zombie government too. Why Are Distressed Homeowners Still Paying Their Mortgage? Japan struggled...
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Booooo!…. they run with your money.

October 31, 2010
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If you think kids costumes are scary this Halloween, look at your account statements in 6 months - Booooo! Todays Run Cash “Dash to the Crash” activistpost - If you’re a baby boomer who still believes in the stock market since the financial collapse of 2008, listen up. The floor of this Ponzi scheme is...
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Booooo!…. Oil $4 Per gallon

October 31, 2010

BloomBerg - For now, crude oil is holding at around $80 a barrel, but this will not last much longer. A dollar devaluation, even in the face of commodity market manipulation, would eventually lead to an oil spike. A trade war would exacerbate this scenario by reducing the steady flow of oil into the...
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Trick or Treat? Children Now Too Fat to Fit In Class Chairs

October 30, 2010

SlashDotA recent survey of 750 schools has revealed that on average children have grown too large for their chairs and desks. From the article: “The Education Department said schools were running healthy eating programs. ‘The department takes the issue of childhood obesity seriously and works with a number of agencies to address the issue,’...
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Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge

October 30, 2010
Daihatsu Mira EV - Photo by the Japan EV Club

SlashDot“We all know that battery packs are the weakest link in electric vehicles. Not only are they heavy and expensive, but they take a long time to recharge and on average can only provide around 100 miles per charge. A German-based company has changed all that with a new vehicle capable of driving up...
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Save energy like and engineer ;-)

October 30, 2010

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One EMP burst and the world goes dark

October 29, 2010

USA Today  Modern society relies on technologies vulnerable to electromagnetic pulse effects that, if strong enough, can induce currents that burn out wires and circuits.  The sky erupts. Cities darken, food spoils and homes fall silent. Civilization collapses. End-of-the-world novel? A video game? Or could such a scenario loom in America’s future? Electromagnetic pulses...
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NASA Solar Shield will likely get its chance soon enough.

October 29, 2010

They’re out there, biding their time. Waiting patiently. And when you least expect it, they’re going to plunge you and everyone you care about into total darkness.  Luckily, we can see solar storms coming from about 93 million miles away, and NASA is now in the process of creating a “Solar Shield” that should...
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World’s Fastest Supercomputer… Is Now In China

October 29, 2010

Nvidia- Tianhe-1A, a new supercomputer designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops, making it the fastest system in the world today.
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Sorry, it’s important… pooponomics

October 28, 2010
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Oil Could Hit $100 Barrel Soon – JPMorgan

October 28, 2010

Guardian – Chinese demand could push crude to $100 a barrel soon, according to JP Morgan, with the weaker dollar and restocking of French oil inventories once strikes end also helping to drive up oil prices. “The key risk is that we are being too cautious and that the threat of $100 per barrel...
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Fun with numbers by age…

October 28, 2010


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There is no such thing as a vegan…

October 27, 2010

GOOD - This awesome illustration shows us how amazingly (and disconcertingly) inescapable cow-derived products are, and comes to the hilarious conclusion that there is no such thing as a vegan. If you’re a vegan, do you go to pains to avoid the things listed here? Did you even know about most of this? From...
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Nissan Leaf goes 116miles on single charge – Test Drive

October 27, 2010

Sure the Chevy VOLT’s future looks bleak… Heck, GM doesnt even want the word Chevy anymore The electric Nissan Leaf will begin appearing in select U.S. markets by the end of this year, and will be available nationwide in 2011. Enlarge this image.Credit: Nissan Don’t worry Nissan & FORD to rescue! Both Nissan and...
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Ninety-Five Percent of “Green” Marketing Is Misleading

October 27, 2010

GOOD – We all know marketers try to mislead us into thinking their products are “eco-friendly” or whatever. But now we can quantify the phenomenon (it’s huge): More than 95% of consumer products marketed as “green,” including all toys surveyed, make misleading or inaccurate claims, says a report today. The number of products claiming...
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Scary Wage Data Suppressed from News (i.e. election time)

October 27, 2010

Now that a handful of companies own and control all of the news media (now NPR)… anything that can have a ‘negative’ impact on what they want voters/public to see is removed. Impossible? Not a single news organization reported this data below when it was released October 15, searches of Google and the Nexis...
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70 MPG Mazda is a VOLT / hybrid killer

October 26, 2010

SlashDot – The Mazda2 will return a fuel economy of 70 mpg — without the aid of any electric motors. This is because the car will feature Mazda’s next-generation of drivetrain, body and chassis technologies, dubbed SKYACTIV. The new Mazda 2 will come powered by a SKYACTIV-G engine, Mazda’s next-generation direct injection gasoline mill...
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U.S. Slips to 49th in Life Expectancy

October 26, 2010

You work longer, have less vacation, are less happy and die sooner No wonder everyone’s on medication … or is that the problem :-O Reuters: Americans die sooner than citizens of a dozen other developed nations and the usual suspects —They found that 15-year survival rates for men and women aged 45 to 65...
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1 Billion People have less than nothing….

October 24, 2010
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VOLT mpg rang erred by about 500%???

October 24, 2010

First of all, let’s talk about fuel economy… In August of last year, we heard GM’s then-CEO Fritz Henderson claimed with all the marketing might it could muster at a Detroit-area press event, that the Chevy Volt would get 230 MPG in city driving conditions. Now, as the Volt’s being tested by the auto...
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Ford – 100mile range electric charges on standard outlet

October 24, 2010
Ford – 100mile range electric charges on standard outlet

Ford anticipates owners of an electric version of its Focus hatchback can charge on a standard 120 Volt Outlet Sydney Morning Herald – Owners using the normal powerpoint 120 volt system will need to plug the car in several times a day to ensure they have enough reserves of electricity in the car’s batteries...
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Wikipedia has barred Global warming propagandist Connolley

October 24, 2010

FinancialPost:   William Connolley, arguably the world’s most influential global warming advocate after Al Gore, has lost his bully pulpit. Connolley did not wield his influence by the quality of his research or the force of his argument but through his administrative position at Wikipedia, the most popular reference source on the planet. Through his...
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary “Opts Out” of body Scan?

October 24, 2010

Airline passengers might want to consider a trip to the gym before heading to the airport now that high-tech body scanners have been unveiled at Kennedy Airport. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday hailed them as an important breakthrough for airport security and the fight against terrorism. FAIL – Going through one...
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NPR – GOP Victory May Be Defeat For Climate Change Policy

October 24, 2010

NPR (liberals, against conservations against free speech “The more carbon that gets released into the atmosphere, the higher the average temperature rises… yet the majority of Republicans running for House and Senate seats this year disagree.” Ken Buck, the GOP senate candidate in Colorado admits he’s a climate change denier. Ron Johnson, who leads...
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InfoGraphic: The Growing E-Waste Situation

October 23, 2010

GOOD – Click image for the big picture
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What if Solar Power had Fossil-Fuel-like subsidies?

October 23, 2010
What if Solar Power had Fossil Fuel Subsidies?

From One Block Off the Grid.
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California About to Fall Off Into Ocean (of Unpayable Debt)

October 22, 2010

Why California is About to Fall Off Into an Ocean of Unpayable Debt, We’re talking about a perfect storm: more state services needed for an aging population, a workforce that will spend more years in retirement than they did contributing to the funds, and a smaller ratio of working-age taxpayers and contributing state workers...
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Clean Cities Now – September Issue

October 22, 2010

Clean Cities Now is the official biannual publication of Clean Cities, an initiative designed to reduce petroleum consumption in the transportation sector by advancing the use of alternative fuel vehicles, idle reduction technologies, hybrid electric vehicles, fuel blends, and fuel economy. This issue contains articles about: Readying U.S. cities for the widespread deployment of...
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A little more salt and a lot higher I.Q.

October 22, 2010

Worldwide, about two billion people — a third of the globe — get too little iodine, including hundreds of millions in India and China. Studies show that iodine deficiency is the leading preventable cause of mental retardation. Even moderate deficiency, especially in pregnant women and infants, lowers intelligence by 10 to 15 I.Q. points,...
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SOH-CAH-TOA … first atomic test

October 22, 2010
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For my nuke eng./edu. buddies Have a good weekend!
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Can Goolges Geothermal Hit replace Virgina Coal?

October 21, 2010

VIA – PeakEnergy in West Virginia – Google Hits Geothermal Jackpot in West Virginia. Along with the great news that Google is investing a ton of money in an offshore wind energy superhighway, other recent Google energy news is that a Google-funded project has discovered enough geothermal potential under a rather infamous coal state...
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Federal Reserve Buying $100 Billion of Debt per Month

October 21, 2010

There will be no sustainable energy in a unsustainable economy…“The incremental borrower of funds in the U.S. capital markets is rapidly becoming the U.S. Treasury,” Boston-based Fuss said. “Do you really want to buy the debt of the biggest issuer?” Reuters – A string of Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday indicated the central bank...
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Federal scientists go public in face of restrictive media rules

October 21, 2010
Editorial Cartoon by  AnthonyJenkins | The Globe and Mail

The Canadian union that represents federal government scientists has created a website – PublicScience.ca – to give a voice to the work of its members. The move comes weeks after it was revealed that new restrictive rules have been placed on scientists at the Natural Resources department requiring them to clear a number of...
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Cost, price, wind & value of wind as wind drops

October 20, 2010

DailyKOS  …There was a conference on the subject last week in Atlantic City which I attended, and which generated a lot of attention (with over 1,500 attendees) and during which the federal lease for Cape Wind was signed. While no turbine has been built in the US yet*, there are high hopes that there...
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Owners & Reality Weigh in on Environmental Business Costs

October 20, 2010

A new report highlighting the economic benefits of the Clean Air Act. The report found over the past 4 decades that 1.3M jobs were created as a direct result of environmental standards. These regulations set the groundwork for the United States to be the global leader in environmental technology exports, generating 40 times the...
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Medieval Italian Town Powered By & Selling WindPower

October 20, 2010
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With renewable power, Tocco da Casauria, in central Italy, produces more electricity than it uses, making money off the surplus. It’s a remarkable story.  In central Italy, where ancient towns and villages are tucked into the mountainous landscape, suddenly giant wind turbines can be seen on the horizon.  Faced with sky-high electricity rates, small...
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Pollution Bill directly targeted at the consumers wallet

October 20, 2010

New Tactic in California for Paying Pollution …Faced with a fine of at least $29 million for exceeding federal ozone limits, the San Joaquin Valley’s air quality regulators are proposing an annual surcharge of $10 to $24 on registration fees for the region’s 2.7 million cars and trucks beginning next year. A decision is...
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Chavez in Russian & Iran for talks on boosting oil, gas and Nuke Deals

October 20, 2010
UPI POY 2009 - News and  Features.

HI, We are in control of your oil… and hate you. Chavez in Iran for talks on boosting oil, gas ties … nothing is going to stop us, we are free, sovereign and independent.” AP/FoxNews- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was holding talks Tuesday with Iranian leaders expected to focus on boosting cooperation between the...
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PeakChina – The Three Chinas

October 20, 2010
PeakChina – The Three Chinas

Watts Up With That-  The choices we make about energy, the environment and climate will be limited by The Three Chinas. The Real China - One of the Chinas is very real and familiar. It has a population of 1.4 billion. China is developing quickly, trying to do in 50 years what America did...
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Can effort & fitness add 8 years?

October 20, 2010

The Associated Press reports it’s the latest evidence for an apparent Hispanic paradox. NPR – it turns out, Hispanics born recently can expect to live longer. How much longer? Well, a Hispanic person born in 2006 can expect to live to the ripe old age of about 80 years. For non-Hispanic the expected lifespan...
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China Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US

October 20, 2010

China, after putting at least a temporary stop to rare earth exports to Japan, is now doing the same with exports to the US; according to the linked article, this is in response to recent US promises to investigate certain Chinese trade practices. - SlashDot
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Disposable life…Life Expectency a Home’s Technology

October 20, 2010
Disposable life…Life Expectency a Home’s Technology

A HipHugger - …the National Association of Home Builders has released a new study detailing the lifespans of many of our home’s electronics. So…about how long can you expect to have that new fridge? The Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components lists everything from building materials to technology…Many of our major household appliances...
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Upper Mississippi River now a “Wetland of International Importance”

October 19, 2010
Upper Mississippi River now a “Wetland of International Importance”

WI -DNR: The floodplain forests along the Upper Mississippi River, including more than 130,000 acres in Wisconsin, are now officially recognized as a global treasure. “The designation is a recognition of just how critically important this is for a multitude of species,” says Jeff Janvrin, a Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist who has...
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BPA Declared Toxic In Canada

October 19, 2010

NY Times — The government of Canada formally declared bisphenol A, a chemical widely used to create clear, hard plastics, as well as food can liners, to be a toxic substance on Wednesday. The compound, commonly known as BPA, has been shown to disrupt the hormone systems of animals and is under review in...
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‘Humans will need two Earths by 2030′

October 19, 2010
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USA Today “The over-use and pollution of Earth’s natural resources have become so extreme that, at current rates, a second planet will be needed by 2030 to meet the world’s needs, a new report warns. The Living Planet Report tells that the demands on natural resources have doubled in the past 50 years and...
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MIT solar-powered water desalination system

October 19, 2010

Slash…“ team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Field and Space Robotic Laboratory has designed a new solar-powered water desalination system to provide drinking water to disaster zones and disadvantaged parts of the planet. Desalination systems often require a lot of energy and a large infrastructure to support them, but MIT’s compact system is...
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First National Geothermal Student Competition – DOE

October 19, 2010
First National Geothermal Student Competition – DOE

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the launch of its inaugural National Geothermal Student Competition. DOE, through its Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP), will provide up to $100,000 to fund as many as 10 collegiate teams that will participate in this competition. In this intercollegiate competition—the first ever to address geothermal education—student teams will...
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DOE Cut Energy Use by 50% in Commercial Buildings

October 19, 2010

Find out how to save Billion$ of our nations energy loss from this free DOE Webinar October 28, 2010LINK: Strategies to Cut Energy Use by 50 Percent in Commercial Buildings
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Boycott BP is community Boycott?

October 19, 2010

Socimages: a photograph of a public relations notice at a BP gas station explains that the owner of the BP gas station is a member of the community…  The notice is clearly an effort to smooth over the negative publicity BP has recieved as a result of the oil spill in the gulf.  On...
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First Aid – Do Something Get Trained!

October 19, 2010
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In France the Oil War is On!

October 18, 2010

Independent -  France’s oil industry association, said that if strikes continued at all 12 of France’s refineries, then national shortages would follow… the French oil company, said 350 to 400 petrol stations were suffering disrupted supplies. Shortages looked set to worsen as lorry drivers pledged to halt road transport of fuel to filling stations...
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Who Got Green Stimulus?

October 18, 2010

Of the Million$/Billion$ spent on “job and business creation” where did the “GreenBacks” go??? The $92million of stimulus funding was targeted at green jobs, only about $20million has been spent... of which 80% of funding for green programs, including $2.3billion in manufacturing tax credits, went to companies who employ their primary workforce in China,...
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Wisconsin’s Unsustainable education…kids to inherit our debt.

October 17, 2010

JS Online: West Bend, WI — After living beyond its means for decades and shifting its debt onto future generations, an entire society is seeing the bills come due earlier than expected. “This is definitely the worst economic situation that school districts have faced since the Depression,”  The consequences are upon us. Three years...
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Quote from “Keeping the Poor in Poverty”

October 17, 2010

“No one ever got a job from a poor man.” - Phil Gramm …We can’t expect to create more jobs if we punish the type of activity that creates jobs… if we wish to fight poverty, we must end those government policies — high taxes and regulatory excess — that inhibit growth and job...
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Mission is to empower public with health-care knowledge

October 17, 2010
Mission is to empower public with health-care knowledge

WashingtonPost  Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s board. If you’re not familiar with the PCORI board, you’re not alone. Created by the health-care overhaul law, it’s one of the newest and least known panels in government. But the work of its 21 members, if successful, could increase the public’s knowledge of medical treatments for everything...
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Marketing & Branding disease to sell cures

October 17, 2010

Carl Elliott, CNN - If you want to understand the way prescription drugs are marketed today, have a look at the 1928 book, “Propaganda,” by Edward Bernays, the father of public relations in America. For Bernays, the public relations business was less about selling things than about creating the conditions for things to sell...
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…There Is No “Plan B”?

October 17, 2010

The hard news is that there is no “Plan B.” (cMartenson’s Blog) The future is likely to be more chaotic than you probably think…The impact of Peak Oil on markets, lifestyles, and even national solvency deserves our very highest attention – but, it turns out, some important players seem to be paying no attention...
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The next oil shock?

October 16, 2010

VIA the BigGav – Oil is “the lifeblood of modern civilisation”. This paper provides an overview of the global oil market. In particular, it examines the outlook for oil supply and demand over the next five years, and the economic consequences. Low-cost reserves of oil are being rapidly exhausted, forcing oil companies to turn...
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Transport Policy at Its Worst

October 16, 2010

BigGav – New York Times has a column on the inability of the United States to build new transport infrastructure “The Chinese could build it. The Turks could build it. We can’t build it. “ We are the mightiest nation mankind has ever seen. But we can’t seem to build a railroad tunnel to...
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China 150 to 253 gigawatts of wind power by 2020

October 16, 2010

physorg – China’s wind power capacity will increase more than five-fold over the next decade from 2009, , as the country steps up its drive to develop clean energy. “It can choose between the dirty, dangerous world of coal and fossil fuels, or the new, clean future promised by wind. The answer is obvious.”...
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Is the US Already Past the Point of Peak Water?

October 16, 2010

Hugger – Peak water has been a concern for several years now, with many nations already experiencing extreme water shortages, even to the point of violence. But here in the US, it seems that water will continue to flow from faucets indefinitely. If only that were the case… In the southwest where it is...
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Economy Puts US Nuclear Reactors Back In Doubt

October 15, 2010

“Remember those 30 new nuclear reactors the US was slated to build?   Those plans have been halted. A few years ago, it seemed like a really good idea to build a bunch of nuclear reactors. The environmental impacts of other energy production methods were becoming well known and the economy was tanking. Well,...
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WooHooo! IT Security Salaries To Rise In 2011

October 15, 2010

I wouldn’t hold my breath but /. is reporting“IT security professionals in the United States can expect starting salaries to increase in 2011, according to a new salary report released today. The guide suggests larger increases in base compensation expected in high-demand segments including information security related positions. According to the report, companies are...
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EIA Energy projections… taking hits while we’re down..

October 15, 2010

The average household winter heating fuel expenditures will continue to increase 4-12%EIA – Projected Winter Fuel Expenditures by Fuel and Region Natural Gas - EIA expects households heating with natural gas to increase 4 % this winter …residential prices had 6-% increase in average household. Heating Oil – EIA expects households heating with heating...
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Wastewater… an endless resource.

October 15, 2010
Wastewater… an endless resource.

AlterNet – “Clean Energy from Wastewater On the Rise” Producing biofuel from wastewater seems like a natural equation: take a resource that is produced incessantly, and is an environmental pollutant, and turn it into energy—and, in turn, reduce fossil fuel consumption. Doing this on a large scale is much easier said than done, so...
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Freezing out grandma & kicking her to the curb

October 15, 2010

“Facing the prospect of no cost-of-living adjustment for a second consecutive year, disabled, poor and and senior advocates said they were doing the math this week to figure out where to pinch their daily budgets. “That doesn’t go up, but everything else does,” said Ma ry Huffer, a Lafayette resident who is on disability...
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Size of Africa -Information Is Beautiful

October 14, 2010


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Climate change is a bit of a standing joke in the science community.

October 14, 2010

Telegraph, you put up a post you imagine is fairly routine – and suddenly the internet goes mental. US physics professor: “Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudo scientific fraud I have seen in my long life” definitely belonged in the latter category. I claim no credit for it. All I did...
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China overtakes U.S. as biggest energy consumer: IEA

October 14, 2010

Reuters China has become the world’s largest energy user, having overtaken the United States, the head of the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday. “China is now the largest energy consumer by our definition,” the executive director of IEA, Nobuo Tanaka “Probably half of the oil demand increase comes from China. Nobody knows when...
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Super Soaking solar power costs

October 14, 2010

The Atlantic is covering a Lonnie Johnson’s idea I mentioned n 2008: “Super Soaker Inventor Develops Efficient Solid-Sate Heat Engine“In March 2003, the independent inventor Lonnie Johnson faced a roomful of high-level military scientists at the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Virginia. Johnson had traveled there from his home in Atlanta, seeking research...
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GreenGov Symposium

October 14, 2010

Nancy Sutley – The first annual GreenGov Symposium kicked off at George Washington University with more than 1,000 attendees, and keynotes from U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Janine Benyus, president of The Biomimicry Institute and co-founder of the Biomimicry Guild.  Secretary Chu and Nancy...
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Record Poor… Record Rich

October 13, 2010

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” – John F. Kennedy Wall Street and GOV pay and income hit an all time record this year…. as did the number of poor, unemployed, price of food,  debt to their childrens, children and basic...
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When a Sea Disappears from irrigation

October 13, 2010
When a Sea Disappears (12  pics)

The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest saline body of water. It has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. And now it’s almost gone leaving a dessert full of old shipwrecks. See all twelve pictures here
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China Stakes Claim to South Texas Oil, Gas

October 13, 2010
China Stakes Claim to South Texas Oil, Gas

Houston Chronicle State-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields, potentially testing the political waters for further expansion into U.S. energy reserves. With the announcement Monday that it would pay up to $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets,...
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Pumping Water a Path to a Cleaner Grid

October 12, 2010

Next100 An iPhone or Blackberry without a battery is just a dead lump of metal and silicon. In much the same way, many experts believe that an electrical grid without energy storage will forever be just a bunch of dumb wires. That’s why PG&E on Friday filed a request with state regulators for funding to study...
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A VERY big nuclear plan to replace coal….

October 12, 2010
A VERY big nuclear plan to replace coal….

Repowering Taichung, Taiwan Part 1 “coal2nuclear” The Chinese 4,200 MWe (5.6 million horsepower), would be the world’s biggest repowering project would be like taking 13 MILLION cars off the world’s roads.. Hope to make money off Norway’s $50 per ton carbon tax, that’s $2,065,000,000 per year! The plan:  Replace Taichung’s eight coal-burning boilers with eight...
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Doomsday garden has become a thriving business

October 12, 2010

Leonard Pense never planned to grow his garden into a business…Ten years ago, the former engineer and military consultant bought 21 secluded acres on top of a hill south of Strafford –”high ground with only one way in and out,” he says. It was a place his extended family could retreat to if the...
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Racing against finite petroleum supply

October 12, 2010

We hear that there are huge reserves of oil, so we assume that the oil will be available when we want it. That is not necessarily true. Even if we know the oil is there, if it takes more than one barrel of previously-extracted oil to extract a new barrel of oil, the fact...
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Energy use answers can be found in a cubic mile of oil

October 12, 2010

Hard, cold and inarguable facts about the energy in  one cubic mile of oil…. One cubic mile of oil (CMO) equals the oil that the world consumes every year. Three CMOs equal ALL the energy that the world consumes every year. Cited in cubic miles of oil, energy consumption can be expressed without reference...
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Alaska To Export Billions of Gallons of Water

October 11, 2010

“Newsweek reports on a company called True Alaska Bottling that has purchased the rights to transfer 3 billion gallons of water a year from Sitka, Alaska’s bountiful reserves. If all goes according to plan, 80 million gallons of Blue Lake water will soon be siphoned into the kind of tankers normally reserved for oil...
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California’s AB23 – a litmus test for climate law

October 11, 2010

WashingtonExaminer …The ballot initiative also has the power to reverse one of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signature environmental accomplishments. In 2006, he signed the Global Warming Solutions Act, a Democratic bill that requires reduction of greenhouse gas emissions statewide to 1990 levels over the next decade. The law, AB32, is a cornerstone of the environmental...
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Science & Facts no longer welcome in global warming religion…

October 11, 2010

Hal Lewis…It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who...
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NASA – SolarMax will bring “change” to world in 2012

October 10, 2010

“If another White House stimulus program does not wipe us out first, then look to the sun. Things promise to be hot in 2012.”TheDC - …SolarMax (NASA 2006) will have an impact on the earth’s core, that roiling sphere of liquid iron that generates the planet’s magnetic field. If that is true, the coming...
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The Fear and Greed of GREEN – preying on children…

October 10, 2010

Partially funded by taxpayers of course… A film produced by Green Supremacists to manipulate children uses graphic violence and killing to promote reducing carbon footprint? While the original video by greenpeace still haunts me, the 10:10 makes it look like a disney film. “In EcoNutJob News” from the Guardian… Richard Curtis film for the...
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Green Jobs Promises Dwindle As Policies Backfire

October 10, 2010

Excerpt: more than 11 percent—of Obama’s original $814 billion stimulus package, enacted in early 2009, went to an assortment of renewable energy projects. But the jobs that were supposed to be created never materialized—at least not in the United States. According to the White House, last year’s stimulus created 190,700 green jobs, but the...
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Wiretapping the Internet – To tech with IT all!

October 10, 2010
Wiretapping the Internet – To tech with IT all!

SCHNEIER On Monday, The New York Times reported that President Obama will seek sweeping laws enabling law enforcement to more easily eavesdrop on the internet. Technologies are changing, the administration argues, and modern digital systems aren’t as easy to monitor as traditional telephones. …Formerly reserved for totalitarian countries, this wholesale surveillance of citizens has...
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VW Passat BlueMotion goes 1,527 Miles Without Refueling

October 10, 2010

A Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled by a standard production passenger car on a single tank of fuel. Powered by a 1.6-liter common rail TDI engine with stop-start technology and equipped with low-rolling resistance tires, longer gearing and aerodynamics modifications, the Passat BlueMotion is...
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…we’re printing money to buy it.

October 10, 2010

#1: The US Fed is now the second largest owner of US Treasuries. …this week we overtook Japan, leaving China as the only country with greater ownership of US Debt. And we’re printing money to buy it. Setting aside the fact that this is abject lunacy, this policy is trashing our currency which has...
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Light Pollution

October 10, 2010

Light Pollution, GOOD
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Hungary: Toxic sludge flood kills, causes chemical burns, wipes out entire towns

October 10, 2010

“Here in Hungary we’re undergoing one of the worst ecological catastrophes to have hit Europe in the past 20-30 years: a flood of deadly toxic sludge. This AlJazeera video sums up the awful situation. Many people have received chemical burns from the chemical slurry; some have died. Now it seems that three inundated towns...
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DOE Report on Offshore Wind Power in the United States

October 7, 2010

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the release of a report from the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which comprehensively analyzes the key factors impacting the deployment of offshore wind power in the United States. The report, “Large-Scale Offshore Wind Power in the United States: Assessment of Opportunities and Barriers,”...
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Gas plant buries CO2 and billion dollar debt with fed gov’t

October 7, 2010

BuisnessWeek A western North Dakota synthetic gas plant that injects more than half of its carbon dioxide emissions underground also has buried its debt with the federal government. “This is the final, final payment,” said Hill, who likened it to a mortgage-burning party. “We’re good to go. We’re done.” ….Energy Department officials have said...
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About 26,000 U.S. dams pose a high or significant hazard to life and property if a failure occurs

October 7, 2010

NBF – more than 80,000 dams in the U.S., about a third pose a “high” or “significant” hazard to life and property if a failure occurs, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). What are the chief causes of dam failures in North America? Overtopping is the highest and seepage and piping is...
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Reaction to another $20 Billion in Noookular funding ;-)

October 7, 2010

Always awesome at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily)
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U.S. Military Aims to Use 50 Percent Renewable Energy Within Ten Years

October 6, 2010

PopSci  -  Of all places, the U.S. military has proven one of the fiercest proponents of renewable energy, and for totally practical reasons — most importantly cost and safety. Now, military higher-ups plan to rely on renewable energy sources for 50 percent of their power by 2020, which could help the worldwide advancement of...
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History of a solar White House

October 6, 2010

White House goes green with solar panels - again, again and again  It is the year two thousand and ten… and President Barack Obama orders installation of additional solar panels and a solar hot water heater at the White House Guardian ” The move by Obama’s administration follows lobbying by green campaigners, who called...
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West Virginia Is Geothermically Active

October 5, 2010

/. “Researchers have uncovered the largest geothermal hot spot in the eastern United States. According to a unique collaboration between Google and academic geologists, West Virginia sits atop several hot patches of Earth, some as warm as 200C and as shallow as 5 kilometers. If engineers are able to tap the heat, the state...
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