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The episode: used the kennedy assassination as jumping off point. Loved that. It took that damn camelot kennedy star material stuff and pulled it out into energy and change. Picked up Pete just as he is growing up. Everything Don tells Pete when he offers him the new firm, we have seen in him before but we just didn't like him. Over this ...
Posted to TV Club by ruthhmiller on November 9, 2009
Traffic Laws
I very much appreciate the story on traffic laws and cycling. For those who ride, it always is a good topic of discussion. I would note that for motor vehicles, momentum also is important. Breaking and down shifting still costs energy and efficiency. As for riding against traffic on a ''one-way'' street, I would note several one-way streets ...
Posted to Transport by Threespeed on October 18, 2009
Mind Control Takeover
America will end with a totalitarian mind control takeover. This will happen when all of our money is gone, we have no jobs due to open source information sharing and the subsequent loss of IP and Trade Secrets. We will experience first, a shutdown of our electrical grid, followed by a shutdown of our communications networks, followed by a radio ...
Posted to The End of America by femtobeam on September 17, 2009
Why does no one ever mention the residential reqs on c&t?
As if the CDO's and the Carbon Tax Credits aren't bad enough in Cap and Trade, no one ever mentions the affects on the homeowner. With this bill you will not be able to sell your home without certification and upgrading your home however they tell you you must, from your roof to your toilet. This bill deserves to get ugly and shame on you Slate ...
Posted to Politics by NoMoreKoolAid on September 1, 2009
Re: What's the responsible way?
The locals (I am an Albertan) are demanding that the issues be dealt with. The provincial government has set aside over a billion (Canadian) dollars to sequester CO2. The companies are required to find ways to reduce tailings ponds and water usage. The amount of water and energy consumption per barrel of oil has decreased a lot over the last 30 ...
Posted to Green Room by aardvark77 on June 26, 2009
Re: Niagra Falls.
i believe that the falls are throttled back about 90% during the night to permit the production of super cheap electricity. recently i have read of several new electrode combinations to increase the efficency of electrolysis of water, i think MIT announced one. the way load is shared on the grid by generating stations is to vary the voltage, ...
Posted to Moneybox by herbissimus on May 8, 2009
percentage of energy used for cooking
Duh! The DOE says that cooking only accounts for 3% of an average homes use of energy. Until recently the average home ate out, got take out, call in, and ate purchased chips, donuts and other packaged foods. So the average home was infrequently cooking at home and often the ''cooking'' was toasted pop-tarts, and microwave meals. I am not ...
Posted to The Green Lantern by maiame on March 24, 2009
How to address the energy issue...
Here in the Northwest, Portland specifically, we are making serious headway in addressing energy use in commercial buildings. While delivering feasible renewable energy, shifting consumer behavior and overhauling transportation are all fundamental components in reducing GHG, the low hanging fruit in this solution is energy efficiency. Buildings ...
Posted to Architecture by kyle.stuart on March 19, 2009
Energy is of course like heroin
The analysis of green job trade-off for fossil fuel jobs is ridiculous. Why, oh, why do economists always lock in assumptions that nobody would make ? Why do they have closed systems when we know the system is not only open but has huge unknowns in the future ? So, you put someone on methadone you hope you've displaced the heroin economy but ...
Posted to Green Room by drugdoc on March 5, 2009
Infrastructure investments can be transformative
While I agree with Mr. Spitzer's policy recommendations as to the much needed infrastructure improvements to our energy sector, I disagree that brick and mortar infrastructure can not be transformative. While there is the potential for the infrastructure investments to be wasted by continuing with the status quo there is also a huge opportunity to ...
Posted to The Best Policy by longjosh on January 5, 2009

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