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Brickbats over bricks

This is an IT Tech site, Mr. Fuller.ntCodes as gatekeepers?As an architect, I have never once consulted a building code to determine which product I should use for a building, especially considering that neither clay brick or fly ash brick is likely to be used in a structural capacity. ...

Tags: Performance management, CalStar

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Fly ash fan sent me this email

Two more, Harry. Your daily fart-quote is 3.nt

Tags: ash, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Fly ash fan sent me this email

"K.C. Missouri put down on a heavy traffic street [poured] fly ash 30+ years ago. Was still in great shape, but city tore it up this summer. My next house will be fly ash. If any humans are left in 4000, my house will probably still be standing... "Lasts...

Tags: Ash, E-mail, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-20

What's a brick?

CinderblockMany years ago a product called cinderblock was made from coal fire residue. It was similar to standard concrete block. In many cases, over time, it proved far less satisfactory. One big problem was degradation in a wet environment. It would get sort of mushy and...

Tags: ash, fly ash

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Could you green the world brick by brick?

It's a brick."Well, the mainstream bricks boys do not like CalStar and want to prevent from the use of the very word 'brick.'"Oh, puh-lease. Even when people in third world countries put mud in molds on the ground and use sunlight to bake it, we still call them bricks.Yes, it's...

Tags: CalStar, Oak Creek, ash, fly ash, Oak

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc power

Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc powerI love it when senatorsact as innocent bystanders to the problems they create.Total Socialist Control.......Socialist Government is going to take over Healthcare, GM, Chrysler, Energy, Taxing you for everything.Yet destroy the entire economic infrastructure knowing it will cause massive unemployment and continue to print fake money by...

Tags: Socialist Government, coal, ash, socialist, coal ash

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

This ain't no movie: Erin Brockovich blogs TVA's coal ash

The country's most famous anti-pollution lawyer writes about the Tennessee coal ash spill. Here's TVA's front page, with its latest company updates onthe runaway coal ash. Here's TVA's aerial map of where they're testing air samples, also shows the extent of the ash coverage. The air pollutioln...

Tags: Tennessee, Ash, Movie, Blog, Pollution, Coal Ash, TVA, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Is it time to haul ash? Maybe kick a little ash, too?

Is it time to haul ash? Maybe kick a little ash, too?What to do with Coal WasteEr, isn't this the country of innovation? In other parts of the world, namely the UK, they use the coal waste to make their Interstates. Is this to obvious to us in the...

Tags: Leadership, Obama, ash

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

Is it time to haul ash? Maybe kick a little ash, too?

Today the bloviation moves to the U.S. Senate, where it feels right at home. It's about the runaway Tennessee coal ash. The committee chairwoman calls for federal regulation. The head of TVA, whose ash got spread around so mercilessly by nature, cannot give a time for the...

Tags: Tennessee, Ash, Coal Ash, Utility Industry, Regulations, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-08

What should we do with Tennessee and West Virginia when we're done?

I've blogged on the recent coal ash flood around a TVA power plant. No body died and a few homes got wrecked from waste after decades of cheap coal-fired electricity. So what's the big deal? Besides it was in Tennessee which is not your big media center...

Tags: Cement, Ash, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Why "cheap" energy is really costly in the long run

The TVA coal sludge mess is like most disaster stories. In the first days estimates get continually worse until something close to realistic appraisal is reached. Then the lawsuits and finger-pointing begin. We've just hit that stage. TVA is now facing lawsuits. ...

Tags: Ash, Coal, TVA, Coal Ash, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Mount St. Helens spews steam, ash

Mount St. Helens spews steam, ashIts really too badthat the eruption wasn't more intense - and spewed tons of ash - say, 100 miles north - and given M$ a "proper dusting". ;)Mt RainerIs near Redmond. It is larger and far more dangerous. Ash flows and mud flows will be...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, ash, Mount St. Helens

Discussion threads 2005-03-09

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Brickbats over bricks

Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....

Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-21

News to know: Nook; Yahoo; Sun; Net Neutrality; Apple; Windows 7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Burnette: Meet Nook: Barnes and Noble's sexy new book reader Matthew Miller: B&N Nook ebook reader revolutionizes...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-10-21

What's a brick?

Shortly after I posted my blog on CalStar making building materials from coal ash, I heard from the American Brick Industry Association BIA. They feel CalStar is ripping off centuries of brick brand equity. Here is the email with BIA's side of the brick business: "I...

Tags: Brick, CalStar, ASTM STANDARDS Here, Branding, Blogging, Manufacturing, Marketing, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Could you green the world brick by brick?

One California-based company is going to try. And they're going to make those "green" bricks in Wisconsin, not ship them in from China. The new-fangled brick has been pioneered by CalStar Products. A basic ingredient of the CalStar brick is coal ash, residue from burning coal. There...

Tags: Brick, CalStar Products, Coal Ash, Michael Kane, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-19

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...

Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

Are we acting like silly fuels?

Hmm.Nah. Not today. :)What is this topic doing on ZDnet???If you're going to cover topics such as natural gas and coal ash, I'm eagerly looking forward to the relative merits of Golden Delicious apples versus Pippens. Or maybe a hot-off-the-press comparison of the latest front-loading washing machines.*gasp*o.OUh, coal ash...

Tags: coal ash

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Are we acting like silly fuels?

There is a steady flow of news these days about the drawbacks of our energy "system." The bad news seems to flow like...greenhouse gas, or even coal ash during a downpour. America's natural gas reserves are increasing as more and more deposits are found. The catch: fracking...

Tags: Coal Ash, Telecom & Utilities, Wiki, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Mastersoft Chess 1.0 (Mobile)

Easy to play but difficult to beat, Mastersoft Chess is pick up and play chess at its best. Various levels, boards and chess sets combine with an impressive chess engine to offer you an ever increasing challenge. Mastersoft Chess features a very strong chess engine and plays interesting and sometimes...

Tags: Mastersoft Mobile Solutions, Mobile, Chess, Mastersoft Chess, Corporate Governance, Games, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-09-24