Horizon Wind Energy is building a new wind farm just across the Ohio line along US 30. The windmills are Vestas V90 1.8 megawatt turbines. We drove out to look at them earlier this week, and I took some snapshots:
Since the price of gasoline in the US is increasing again, the talk making ridiculous claims about gas prices are too. For example, I recently received a chain email titled “Buy AMERICAN Gasoline”. This particular email (which I won’t help spread by posting a link) claims that we should buy “AMERICAN” gasoline or we will [...]
Here are four articles to read this weekend: ‘The Tyranny of Defense Inc.’ from The Atlantic about the insight of two of Eisenhower’s speeches. ‘Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You’ from the New York Times is about the latest edited edition of Huckleberry Finn. The original is public domain (as it should [...]
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While doing some background reading for another project, I ran across a couple interesting maps of the US natural gas pipelines: I haven’t read much about the distribution of natural gas—I’ve mostly looked at the electrical grid—so this will be worth studying after I finish several ongoing projects. The original maps: U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline [...]
The were a couple points of good news for solar power this week. The first is that solar panels are returning to the White House roof. Solar panels on the White House were an important symbol when Jimmy Carter originally had them installed, and an important symbol of disrespect for the planet when Ronald Reagan [...]
This is intriguing, and I’d never heard if it before. Apparently, two billion years ago, for around one million years, there was an area in Gabon where uranium 235 concentrations and other factors coincided to create several natural fission reactors. Cool. Err, well, I guess it was actually hot… Curtin University via APOD. See also: [...]
Today I saw an interesting chart: This is a useful illustration because it clearly shows the main energy sources and users in the US, as well as separating the total energy used and wasted. The original is from LLNL, I saw the link at Ars Technica.
I ran across the paper ‘Public perceptions of energy consumption and savings’. The authors conducted a survey to study how perceptions of energy use compares to the actual use of various appliances and transportation methods. For the appliances, they had people compare energy used to the power a 100 W lightbulb consumes in one hour. [...]
Which half of the US trade deficit is easier to shrink? Probably petroleum. I don’t see much of a chance of major changes in the deficit in goods, but it is easy to significantly reduce the amount of oil consumed.
We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one [...]