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Hello Member, How is everybody doing? I hope that everybody is having a great weekend. I got this from an email that was sent to me from a subscription and I thought it was funny.Somebody's Thinking Ahead
Israel touts some of the world’s best solar technology advances, but its Middle East neighbor Dubai, says it is planning to set up the region’s largest solar energy manufacturing plant. They are expected to start producing by the last quarter in 2010, and will manufacture photovoltaic panels that can generate 130 megawatts of power annually. The building plans call for a 1 million square foot plant, with solar panels to be produced as big as 5.7sqm.EPA & Obama try to censor EPA Attorneys
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4929
EPA: Capping Dissent?
November 10, 2009
By Brita Belli
Under cap-and-trade legislation, coal plants could continue polluting and simply purchase offsets.
Two U.S.
Algeria takes advantage of Sahara's heat to create solar power
Conscious that their oil reserve will soon be gone, Algerians are constructing a solar power plant to create alternative energy which will generate 150 megawatts, feeding Europe and itself. The plant, which started being built late last month, should be done by 2010 and the goal is to export 6,000 megawatts of solar-generated power to Europe by 2020. Read full article.Glenn Beck's Bizarre Outburst Against Meatless Mondays and Vegetarians
This goes along with the story that I posted in 4.0 about Meatless Mondays in Baltimore schools Jon Stewart ended an interview with climate-change contrarian and Super Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt on Monday night by noting, "I've apparently frightened our audience by suggesting that conservation isn't the only way out of any of the problems of the world. I sincerely apologize." He added, "And I do also believe that we should just eat vegetables."Floating house could ride New Orleans’ floods
A house capable of floating atop rising floodwaters made its debut Tuesday in New Orleans alongside more than a dozen other homes built through actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation. Called the FLOAT House, the unique home aims to answer the challenge posed by the Big Easy’s flood risk, starkly illustrated by the rising waters of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
“I wanted to float it down the Mississippi River to New Orleans,” architect Thom Mayne says with a chuckle while in New Orleans for Tuesday’s event.
2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist
MEXICO CITY – Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.Why CEOs Are Joining the Global Warming Bandwagon
The New Progressive CEOs In a recession there are few global-warming-denying libertarians in the boardroom. By Daniel Gross http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2231925 Andrew Taylor, the CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, in many ways epitomizes the business establishment. His family is No.Her message finally got across
Each year on her birthday, Ann Hernandez and her boyfriend, Alan Tomaska, would settle on the rocky shore of Thacher Island and uncork a bottle of champagne in a toast to the day. When the bottle was empty and the tide going out, Hernandez would tuck a handwritten message inside and Tomaska would hurl the bottle over the rocks and into the crashing surf.
Tomaska considered the ritual a lark.
There's Plenty of Energy at the Bottom (on of those must read articles IMHO)
There's Plenty of Energy at the Bottom By William Tucker On December 29, 1959, on the threshold of the 1960s, Richard Feynman, "the best mind since Einstein" and interpreter of quantum mechanics, gave a lecture at the California Institute of Technology that is generally regarded to be the opening bell of the Information Age. It was titled, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." "There is a device on the market, they tell me, that can write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin," Feynman began.
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