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- NIMBY, but I still want the electricity
- NIMBY, but I still want the electricityPower for what? no punPower for what? More data transmission? The U.S. has been systematically transferring its manufacturing capability overseas for decades and that is now increasing exponentially. In many industries a U.S. company wanting to produce a product has no choice but to...
- Tags: manufacturing, NIMBY, Young People, Clothing Manufacturing
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- Things that Retard
- Things that RetardHumans, what a crockWarning, personality discussion using Myers-Briggs MBTI terminology follows:Let me put this in Personality perspective. J-types (50% of the general population) ABHOR change! These people invest too much time in their box to destroy it and start over. OTOH, SP-types could care less and don't think...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NIMBY, general population
- Discussion threads 2006-06-19
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- Windmills stir up opposition
- In many parts of the U.S. you can't simply put up a windmill to generate electricity for your own use. Grandpa may have used one to pump water out on the farm, but now it's NIMBY time. After all, one of them might topple over and kill the...
- Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- NIMBY 1.0 (Mobile)
- NIMBY stands for No Intoxicated Messaging By You. After you enter your message within the interface and press the send button you are asked to complete one of three tests to determine your state of mind. The filter consists of either a basic algebra question with three possible answers, a...
- Tags: Message, Mobile, Spada, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-04-16
- Ethanol, our trash and our economy
- This story has everything: suspense, victory, tragedy and a cliff-hanger. We still can't be sure how it's going to turn out. It all turns on Blue Fire, a California company aiming to build commercial-scale ethanol production plants, turning trash into sugars which can be fermented thence into ethanol....
- Tags: Southern California, Biofuel, Trash, Landfill, Plant, Blue Fire, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- More precious than platinum
- More precious than platinumTry out the following More than half the nation's fruit, nuts, and vegetables come from here.California is the nation's number one dairy state.California's leading commodity is milk and cream. Grapes are second.California's leading export crop is almonds.Nationally, products exclusively grown (99% or more) in California include almonds,...
- Tags: Climate Change, Grape
- Discussion threads 2009-02-04
- Forget red or blue, is Washington turning green?
- Forget red or blue, is Washington turning green?Wind farm?So let me get this right, they are going to put in a Wind farm when the electrical grid cannot use it?What a WASTE of money and the entire deal is just stupid.The wind farm is a environment eye sore and it...
- Tags: wind farm
- Discussion threads 2009-01-26
- Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia
- Fired up for new coal plant in VirginiaCoal in Tampa BayWe've got coal here as well. Since moving here, they've put scrubbers on it and other sort of things to clean the exhaust. It's not my favorite type of power generation, but it has the benefit of buffering...
- Tags: Middle Eastern Oil, coal
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- No nuces is good nucs? Blogosphere begs to differ with this blogger, as usual
- No nuces is good nucs? Blogosphere begs to differ with this blogger, as usualNuclear water useAs a pro-nuclear blogger working at Idaho Samizdat http://djysrv.blogspot.com, I get the question all the time about water use. It's important to note you walked into a current controversy over water use by...
- Tags: Blogging, NEI, blogosphere, nuclear plant, fission
- Discussion threads 2008-01-26
- Brace yourself: here's some hopeful news
- Map showing Foula's location, courtesy of UK's Joint Nature Conservation Commission. First, there's a proposal from scientists that more gardening globally and more farming could help with the problem of carbon emissions and greenhouse gases. Planting beans to save life as we've known it....
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Plant, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- NIMBY, but I still want the electricity
- There are some modern tehcnologies that can be wireless, especially digital tech from radio and TV to data and Internet. Not so with electricity. There are those damned wires. Almost as bad as all that plumbing needed to move water around. Here's the Wiki piece on...
- Tags: Electricity, Federal Government, Radio, Transmission Line, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Plastic is good for our environment (and computers)
- Plastic is good for our environment and computersPlastic Good??What you seem to be forgetting is that you can grow more trees, rear more cows. I haven't heard of anyone yet that has been able to grow more oil??? As we move more towards renewable and sustainable energy sources such as...
- Tags: Plastic Good?, carbon dioxide, environment, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-12-01
- Deals on climate change face good old American girdlock
- Some people think we humans should be doing something about climate change. Many nations are trying to live up to their promises under the Kyoto Protocol. The Earth's league leaders in greenhouse gas emission are China and the U.S. in that order. Neither signed the...
- Tags: U.S., Leader, Greenhouse Gas, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Is using less energy actually green?
- Is using less energy actually green?It's counter-intuitivebut sounds about right. Any time the government gets involved in markets - they tend to stagnate. Having a monopoly means never having to upgrade - just keep charging the same amount or more money, and your profits go up (since there is no...
- Tags: Fermi
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Is using less energy actually green?
- Everyone says so, but in reality the more likely answer is no - the greenest thing you can do in areas where regulatory constraints limit electrical power generation and delivery is to use more of it.Notice that this isn't about about dollar costs -everyone knows that using less costs you...
- Tags: Paul Murphy, pollution, energy use
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Cellulosic ethanol: A fuel for the future?
- Cellulosic ethanol: A fuel for the future?TypicalWe're sopping wet in oil in this country in Alaska, the gulf and the Atlantic Continental Shelf and instead we waste millions of dollars on stupid ethanol plants and run the risk of deforestation. There have already been food riots in mexico because of...
- Tags: Tembec, Cellulosic Ethanol, refinery
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- Silicon Valley goes dark again
- Silicon Valley goes dark againEuropeans are afflicted with same diseaseEuropeans are afflicted with same disease, it's called NIMBY Not in my back yard.Ironically the French are there to bail them out Nuclear power.Socialist Republic of CaliYou nailed it George, people cant have it both ways. Im all for new...
- Tags: Government, uranium, Now IT
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- Symantec earnings, outlook come in at low end
- Symantec earnings, outlook come in at low endNIMBY!!!!Not in My Back YardPersonally I would rather Symantec stay away from Linux for all of our sakesShut up, fool..Bad year for their bloatwaresurprises abound, not.they should embrace Linux and ditch M$and they will live happily thereafter.Yes...Better run the the EC now and...
- Tags: SECURITY, Symantec Norton AntiVirus, Symantec Corp., earnings, Microsoft Corp., NAV 2006
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- Seen any perfect storms lately?
- Seen any perfect storms lately?Have never seen it in the market.Honestly, markets simply do not react that quick. Change takes time and lots of it and even then it's a gradual process.Auto's might have been a "perfect storm" but it took years decades for them to displace the horse...perfect...
- Tags: Auto
- Discussion threads 2005-08-01
- Sandia pushes limits of solar technology
- Sandia pushes limits of solar technologyStirling energy systems link is wrongThis link is incorrecthttp://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stirling.com%2F&siteId=22&oId=2100-9584-5466122&ontId=9584&lop=nl.exFabulousThis technology is outstanding - I love hearing about innovations in clean power.Preposterous !Wait till George W Bush hears about this devious effort to undermine the viability of the oil industry. When he figures out that...
- Tags: acre, Hoover Dam, square mile, nuclear energy
- Discussion threads 2004-11-24
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