Part 1 – Incoming! Email has come from people who warn about, threaten, accuse and belittle any talk of global warming that doesn’t fit some ideal. The ideal it seems is a little vague. As I’m suspected of being a “denier” of something (global warming, or is it CO2’s role?) its apparent that some very […]

The Weekend Link List

December 7, 2007 | 2 Comments

Lets start with Al Fin and his post of December 7, 2007 “Understanding Solar Wind.” Al discusses and quotes about data derived from the Japanese satellite Hinode. The satellite was launched to look at the basic mechanisms of solar structure and the wind of particles that the sun expels at a varying rates. While most […]

Storing The Wind

December 6, 2007 | 2 Comments

Sometime my excitement just gets away from me. I sense that there is a turning point rushing at us. It’s the wind and now I can list two technologies that are quite similar and offer power generation a big, and I mean big increase from wind power. With the wind being a fickle thing, blowing […]

It’s the SUN, Stupid!

December 5, 2007 | 3 Comments

I’m old enough to remember when Bill Clinton was running for president and the advisors (of particular note – James Carville) kept saying, “it’s the economy, stupid!”  So today I find the tongue in cheek reminder just as apt now as then when applied to “Global Warming.” Monday night Al Fin posted a piece about […]

Previous readers will know I’m not much of an ethanol supporter. The characteristics of the 2-carbon ethanol are just to weak to be a first a choice. Being corrosive, and having a rather low energy density short-circuit the prospects of really large adoption. The idea in political circles to look into the feasibility of special […]

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