From http://citizentom.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/hummer-gas-prices_jpg_w300h300.jpgAnd yeah, it’s a “two-fer” – using all that gasoline to drive a few tons of metal around for one relatively tiny person by comparison not only cranks up demand for im…
From http://news.hjnews.com/news/article_b87ec744-d1ea-11e0-abad-001cc4c03286.htmlMany decades ago, natural gas (methane, fossil fuel form, alias Ngas) was proposed as the fossil fuel “bridge” between coal and a nuclear future. But then that nuclear fu…
An Enercon E126 x 7.5 MW wind turbine, installed and operating in Austria (one of a pair of them). Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockenbauer/6702504217/. Even though this turbine model is a few years old, it is still one of the most advance…
A PV system on the property of the US Energy lab at Brookhaven, on Long Island, NYfrom http://www.lipower.org/company/powering/solar-bp.htmlIntroductionAssemblyman Fred Thiele (Independent, AD2) who caucuses with the Democrats (used to be a Republican …
This is a picture of a big deployment of wind turbines in deep waters, sometime in the future. So far, just one of these units has been deployed off of the coast of Portugal, in deep waters. Despite the ungainly look, these floating platforms are very stable (it was designed by former US Navy captain and close associate of Admiral Rickover (US nuclear Navy fame), who also was instrumental in starting up the US wind industry with his MIT course in the 1970′s). It has been operational for about 2 months, and seems to have made it past this awesome and massive winter hurricane that slammed England with 165 mph winds. This foundation can be assembled in harbors, where the cost to do this is much less expensive than it is to assemble a wind turbine far offshore at the site where it will be used. The unit gets anchored to the ocean or lake bottom, wired up to the offshore substation/other turbines, and then its “sit back and make some money time”.
IntroductionIt now can be logically argued that we now have less freedom (= less rights) than even a decade ago – for example, via indefinite detention, “legal” assassination of Americans, (lack of) on-line privacy, the “death” of “habeus corpus” and w…
See http://www.principlepowerinc.com/products/windfloat.html for detailsThis is a picture of a big deployment of wind turbines in deep waters, sometime in the future. So far, just one of these units has been deployed off of the coast of Portugal, in de…
From http://www.city-data.com/city/Sheldon-New-York.html – after all, no city webpage is complete without a nifty picture of a wind turbine in town (you also can click on http://www.city-data.com/picfilesc/picc50574.php). This is one of the “Sheldon High Winds” 75 unit array (a GE 1.5 MW x 77 meter long …
Graph by Jerome Guillet, from Long Introduction Macroeconomics is so important, and generally so misunderstood, especially by right wing economists and associated business types. But rather than launch into the topic full tilt, there are a few important aspects of it that are relevant to …
Graph by Jerome Guillet, from http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2011/12/19/121933/16Long IntroductionMacroeconomics is so important, and generally so misunderstood, especially by right wing economists and associated business types. But rather than launch…
Introduction There are many famous sayings with respect to “too late”. A classic is “shutting the barn door after the horse has got out”. Or “better late than never”, even if “it’s all for naught but still for show”. And that brings us back …
from http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/windmaps/offshore_states.asp?stateab=ny – your tax dollars at workIntroductionThere are many famous sayings with respect to “too late”. A classic is “shutting the barn door after the horse has got out”. Or “bette…
