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Oops, seems we're trashing our own seacoast, still

The U.S. Geological Survey could be accused of piling on. Just as NOAA was warnign us of climatic and climactic disasters in our future, USGS reminds us we're destroying life in the Gulf of Mexico. Isn't there a greentech solution to trapping all that fertlizier washing off the...

Tags: Gulf Of Mexico, Nutrient, USGS, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Forget local fracking, let's drill, baby, drill

There's a sandpile full of natural gas under the Gulf of Mexico. Does that signal the next energy bubble or what? This would get around any complaints of fracking on land, no humans live out there. Today the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed findings that there is considerable...

Tags: U.S., Gulf Of Mexico, Natural Gas, USGS, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Biofuel massacre: ethanol's zone of death

We Americans want our gasoline, or ethanol. That means Midwestern farmers are raising the most corn in sixty years. And that, unnaturally, means more fertilizer is being used. That means more nitrogen-rich run-off from the corn fields. That run-off goes into the Mississippi and thence into...

Tags: Gulf Of Mexico, Corn, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Additional Resources

Senate climate bill must lure more support to pass

That's not my conclusion, BTW, but the main sponsor of the newly proposed Senate bill on energy and climate change, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) admits she does not have the needed votes to pass her bill. But she's working on it. That could mean weeks or months of...

Tags: Bill, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-02

iBird Explorer South 1.7 (Mobile)

iBird Explorer South is an innovative field guide to 679 birds of the southern states of North America. A self-contained ebook for the iPhone and iPod touch, iBird South puts thousands of pages of expert birding information at your fingertips, and offers hand drawn illustrations, professional photographs, range maps, playable...

Tags: Mobile, iBird Explorer South, E-books, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Tropical Satellites 1.0.3 (Mobile)

Tropical Satellites is an application that allows you to access Atlantic and Pacific Ocean animated infrared satellites. Keep tabs on tropical activity and storms. All satellites loop data that is updated every 15 minutes. It includes nine different satellites like Caribbean, Central Atlantic, Eastern Atlantic, Western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico,...

Tags: Mobile, Satellite, Steve Parker, Tropical Satellites, Network Technology, Networking

Software downloads 2009-08-24

Baryonyx to build largest offshore wind farms in U.S., power Tier 4 data centers

Baryonyx to build largest offshore wind farms in U.S., power Tier 4 data centersGreat Location not ...Has Baryonyx never heard of huricanes? Offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, right in hurricane alley! This I've got to see.

Tags: Outsourcing, Baryonyx, offshore wind farm

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Baryonyx to build largest offshore wind farms in U.S., power Tier 4 data centers

Energy start-up Baryonyx has won bids for three land leases from Texas to build Tier 4 data centers powered primarily by wind farms. The company's leases include two offshore sites in the Gulf of Mexico and one on land...

Tags: Data Center, Texas, Lease, Wind Farm, Baryonyx, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Hurricane Radars 1.0 (Mobile)

Hurricane Radars gives you animated radar coverage for the entire United States coast so that you can track tropical storms/hurricanes as they approach the U.S. coastline. This is a great app to have if you live in a region prone to these monster storms or if you just like to...

Tags: Mobile, Radar, Steve Parker, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2009-06-04

Will greentech investors discover food?

The first known death in the U.S. from the current round of infulenza has been reported. This swine flu bruhaha adds ammunition to arguments of those who favor more humane farming methods. The poor pigs may be getting a bad rap on "swine flu." There's no evidence...

Tags: Food, Investor, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Don't even imagine the oil age is over

Don't even imagine the oil age is overSo lets just keep poluting our own environment?Oh sure we can try to drill for oil out at sea, but we still can't ship this stuff around without spilling it, and there are people that want to punch a hole in the ocean...

Tags: oil, barrel

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

Don't even imagine the oil age is over

A new report by the U.S. Interior Department gives great support to those who say, "Drill, baby, drill." The report shows how little we really know about how much oil is, or isn't, under the oceans within 200 miles of the U.S. mainland. That would be the Atlantic,...

Tags: U.S., Coast, Energy, Wind Energy, Offshore Wind, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Oil isn't over

One Texas oil company is finding ever more oil in the deep sea. Andarko announced another successful test well southwest of New Orleans under nearly a mile of water. Here's Andarko's press release on the find in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil, itself is another four miles...

Tags: Oil, Barrel, Canada, Andarko, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Navionics USA Central 1.0 (Mobile)

This is Navionics renowned Gold XL9 USA Central navigation chart, now available for your iPhone. Most popular with both recreational navigators and professional fisherman alike because of its clear, seamless chart detail, comprehensive port plans and port service guides including phone numbers, tides & currents where available, and huge coverage...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Navionics S.p.A, Navionics USA Central, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-17

Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?

Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?administrationya u need a new job since you continue to work writing stupid stuff and implying the wrong info "Palin administration" But i understand whom you work for is nothing more then liars.GET A REAL JOB - EARN honest moneyIke Relief Tack...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, job, Democratic leadership, Palin, tax, oil company

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

The real life cost of trying to ignore nature

Down along the Texas Gulf Coast this week, man's arrogance has been hard hit by Ike. Even the Texas land commissioner is now muttering about things like zoning and building restrictions. I hope that guy has secret service level protection. Them's fightin' words down in the Lone...

Tags: Texas, Beach, State Legislature, Land Guy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-16

A gasoline quiz--where is this image from?

A gasoline quiz--where is this image from?This was an easy guess.The language is Spanish.Puerto Rico is definitely out of the question, because they are seriously corrupt over there.Being that it's in South America, that petroleum is coming from Venezuela.Makes you wonder why we are paying so much for it?Clue;Crooked &...

Tags: gasoline, image, petroleum, oil, pinch

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...

Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

BP Tracks Hurricanes With Visual Mapping Solution That Saves Time and Aids Decisions

Energy company BP is investing billions of dollars in offshore oil production assets in the Gulf of Mexico region and spends nearly half of each year monitoring the safety of employees and equipment during hurricane season. BP's Houston-based Severe Weather Team used to spend hours each day tracking storms during...

Tags: Asset, Asset Management, BP Plc, Business Operations, Crisis Management, Operational Planning

Case studies 2008-07-01

Alabama's Broadband Tide

BROADBAND INITIATIVE â€" If you really want anywhere access to the Internet, you understand the value and you’ll pay for it. A DirecWay dish on an RV at Gulf State Park, on the so-called “Redneck Riviera,” at Orange Beach, Alabama. ORANGE BEACH, Ala. â€" No more...

Tags: Initiative, Broadband, Alabama, DirecWay, RV, Johnson, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, TVs, Telecommunications, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-18