The hilarious thing about all this is that here they are, selling a car for $200,000 -- and the researchers are still having conferences trying to figure out how to make viable batteries!!

Seriously, when's the last time you heard about high profile conference for desiging a workable gas tank?   Never...because they figured it out in like 1910 before they started making cars!

But here, in Greenville, they release unusuable technology on the promise of something big happening, even if that thing (workable batteries) has not been achieved after 100 years of research.

Yes, 100 years...cars used to be battery cars...and they would be today, IFF they actually managed to get a chemical battery to hold its charge.

That's why all the smart money is on hydrogen....

Coal-Hydrogen is getting into fuel swing and may be among the most beneficial sources of fuel for all.

The Greens who are savoring at helping Big Utilities forcing us to have battery cars that must be plugged into massive wasteful grids from dusk to dawn would be crushed by Clean Coal.

Are there any aggregate figures showing how because we've all switched to CF bulbs how now the total amount of electricity for lighting in the US has been reduced by 80 percent.

It should all add up...right?

destroyed her lakeside home in New Orleans.

Please.  Get rid of those smelly oil rigs -- so I can have a Lakeside Home in New Orleans!

Oh, if only we all could.

But then we'd be polluting it...right?

Have you read Taken For A Ride?   It's a tale about the history of auto emissions regulation.   Right now I'm reading about the Nixon-Ruckelhaus era and Muskie's Clean Air Act.

Nixon era environmental policy was truly breakthrough.   [In some sense, so successful, that it left little for the Greens of today to do.]   The goals set -- if not met -- back then, were enough to carry us through today.   The original goal was 93% reduction in emissions by 1975...something that was finally met in 1993.

The point is, that I read between the lines here.   While this book purports to show how automakers delayed and denied to prevent developing and installing pollution control devices, mostly they gave accurate assessments about what it would take and how long it would take to meet the described goals.

Mostly, it was about waiting out the technology.   Although catalytic converters were rammed into cars during the 70s and 80s in a rushed attempt to meet the government mandated standards, the real solution to pollution was onboard computers.   Electronic ignition.   Once the microprocessor took over from the distributor, we saw real change.

In this same sense, you could say that although Greens and Democrats have created a huge tale about bogeymen who spend all their time delaying and denying with help from "tobacco companies", its more about letting the technology mature enough to make the problem of CO2 pollution go away.

It's fairly obvious that some part of the Hydrogen Economy, or Hydronet as I call it, will be in place by 2020.   The cars will be here by 2015.    The pumps are already here and will multiply.

At that point, a Solar-Hydrogen, or even Coal-Hydrogen economy will all but eradicate CO2 pollution.

So, it's more about time, than shouting and passing legislation.   Like the Clean Air "deadlines", they will have to move, according to the laws of Progress...not of Man.

http://www.amazon.com/Taken-Ride-Detroits-Politics-Pollution/dp/1568581475/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251348480&sr=8-4

He sold himself as Baggar Vance...but he's not even Marcus Burnett in Bad Boys II....because Burnett (Martin Lawrence) pulled his weight in that movie...

Obama is a do nothing who sits around "opining".   He sees all sides and chooses none of them.

The problem with Obama is he is not an executive.  He is not a doer.   He is an analyst.  A professor.   He pontificates.   Every time he opens his mouth at a podium they have to hold the doors tight or they'll blow off the hinges from all the hot air.

Some of us could see the problem a mile away...and its bad enough that high expections are now crashing down, but people may soon find the person they put in the White House is not even capable on a good day.

Passenger rail in most instances is a boondoggle.

Right now in Seattle the current Mayor was ousted in a Pick Two primary (he came in 3rd!).

His crowing point?   Building a 3.2 billion light rail system that is barely used and sapped up the entire county budget.

Rail bandits and charlatans have been plying their trade for years, draining city coffers with a 19th century technology.

It's high time that we shut down these wasteful rail systems, that do no good, for no one.

I lived in Pittsburg for a while and at first I used to feel sorry for all these "displaced steelworkers" until I realized that a lot of them actually lived better than me.   Very often in these small PA towns, everyone is part of a big family and since they've been there for a while, they own their homes.    Not paying a mortgage and not having any taxes plus scamming the government for whatever sympathy they can, means that $18,000 a year goes a long way.

Hey, how about that Cat 6 Hurricane?  

Bill, right?  

Yeah, it probably raised the sea levels and now will melt more of the Arctic...according to the IPCC at least.

Where's Romm anyway?  Hiding under his desk...?

I bought a 2007 Kia from Enterprise Car sales for $8000.

I didn't have a clunker, I had a thrifty but old Mazda 626.

I donated it to NW Center and they got $1200.

I didn't get a new car credit because my car is used.

So, I'm penalized for

(a) not driving an old polluting vehicle with low gas mileage.

(b) buying a "recycled" (used) not new automobile

(c) being charitable rather than greedy.

Welcome to Obamanomics, my friends...

American companies such as GM are advancing hydrogen technology faster than their laggard Euro/Sino counterparts.

Please, if you want to talk CO2, take it across the ocean.

We Yanks are doing our part!

GM Shrinks its Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Makes it Cheaper, More Durable

The biggest improvement is no doubt the lower cost. GM engineers have reduced the amount of expensive platinum used by more than 50%, from about 80 grams in the 4th generation stack to about 30 grams in the 5th. GM's roadmap also aims for a further platinum reduction for the 6th generation, with the goal of bringing the total used under 10 grams per fuel cell stack.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/gm-fifth-generation-hydrogen-fuel-cell-improvement-cost-durability.php

Solar and wind are best used for producing hydrogen.

This let's them provide baseload and levels out the variability of wind and sun.

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India (and China) are absolutely right.

I don't see how logically or legally you could hold their positions against them.

So long as their per capita production of CO2 is less than the "developed" nations, why would you expect them to live with less?

Luckily, the whole process seems self limiting.   Give any society car, ipods and nice homes (as their minister proposed) and they stop having kids...well, not quite as many.

I long to see exurbian high tech sprawl along the banks of the Ganges...which by then will now doubt be chlorinated and have concrete banks with espresso stands on them.

Copy cats!

Signed,

Delay and Deny

Italy launches first clean hydrogen power plant

Powered by hydrogen by-products from local petrochemical industries such as the Eni group's Polimeri Europa factory, it can meet the needs of 20,000 families, while saving emissions equivalent to more than 17,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, according to Enel.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jw7xHmhTh2YiOJps-E5e9j56l-iA

"Climate Protection"

Hey, Silvio.   This guy won't "comply" with the protection...can you pay him a visit and "explain" it to him?

The sad thing is people are being misled into paying a tax for something that will accomplish zero.

Meanwhile, Chu (aka Dr. No H2) has swept hydrogen from the technology mix.

What does Honda think?

Honda Backs Hydrogen as U.S. Favors Battery Vehicles (Update1)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aD5fw9um.Y3E

Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Honda Motor Co. is backing hydrogen power for the cars of the future, waving aside a decision by the Obama administration to drop the so-called fuel-cell technology in favor of battery-run vehicles.

“Fuel-cell cars will become necessary,” said Takashi Moriya, head of Honda’s group developing the technology. “We’re positioning it as the ultimate zero-emission car.”

Yes, Takashi will be heading off the beach with Ursala Andress, while Chu is left in laboratory while his "Battery Cars" explode!!

The one real middle class candidate who challenged the oil combine and spoke for the people gets one last swift kick in the behind.

And Grist cheers.

Uh ,yeah.

Obama is more like the post-Gaye Kendricks Tempations living on Cloud Nine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBxFTzxc0Bo

Temptations: Cloud nine
Dennis: You ain't got no responsibility

Temptations: Cloud nine
Eddie: Every man in his mind is free

Temptations: Cloud nine
Dennis: You're a million miles from reality

The Battery Car is the biggest sham being foisted upon people in history.

The fact that it's yet another "overleveraged" technology, inviting the Big Money players like Warren Buffet should be enough to sound the alarms.  

The fact that Chu (aka Dr. No H2) and Obama have to pump so much money into the thing is a clue that it's a wash.

Batteries are heavy technology.   They weight the same empty or full.   You have to cart around batteries all the time, unlike a fuel that is used up as you go.  

Batteries are loved by electric utilities.   The idea of having an energy leaky Lithium battery the size of a mattress drawing energy 8 hours a night (when solar is useless) warms their hearts.

I went to the Hydrogen Road Show in Seattle this summer.   Fuel cell cars are here.  Even though Chu banned H2 from his mix, KIA, Toyota and private industry are pushing ahead.   

The one thing that Government should do is build the Hydrogen Highway.   Governor Schwarzegger is doing this, despite Obama and his cronies trying to kill the Hydrogen car.

Americans are being shortchanged and mislead by plugins, hybrids and battery technology.

As you say, the technology, which is barely useful for portable laptops, has not changed in decades.

It still hasn't changed, but the answer seems to be, well, just put more of them inside a car!

Folly.

Pure and simple folly.

Did you say "debunk" ?   That's right...yet another "Super Storm" that peters out into a fa-drizzle.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVWjsPEiqe1tEu2mhBIRaxxGi8owD99U42P80

(AP) – 12 hours ago

MIAMI — Hurricane Felicia has weakened to a Category 2 storm far out in the Pacific.

The National Hurricane Center said Felicia's maximum sustained winds decreased Friday morning to near 100 mph.

Given the ineffectiveness of Government workers, the zero (0) day work week would be completely appropriate.

Hey, guess what...no hurricanes.

US forecasters lower Atlantic hurricane outlook

The Atlantic hurricane season will be less active than originally predicted, government forecasters said Thursday after the first two months of the half-year stretch passed without any named storms developing.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iA7a38BnG4BT_-Duj9aRbUfV47WAD99TIBF01

Iowa has better things to do then deal with an anti-business and retrograde Climate Tax.  

Like:

Iowa Hydrogen Pipeline Proposed

http://www.h2daily.com/index.php/20070418267/Technical/Iowa-Hydrogen-Pipeline-Proposed.html

The Des Moines Register reported this week on a proposed 60-mile long pipeline that could transport hydrogen from Fort Dodge to Ames, IA.  Stanford-educated engineer Bill Leighty is the originator of the idea, and has been talking to Iowa legislators to try to enlist their support.  The intention of the pipeline proposal is to demonstrate that hydrogen could serve as an energy carrier to store and export the large amount of potential wind energy in the state.

According to Leighty, there is enough wind energy in the Great Plains states to supply the energy needs of the entire country.  The problem is how to transmit wind-generated energy from the plains to population centers where it could be used.

CO2 could be immediately improved with 100 nuke building program (proposed by McCain).

Had you voted for McCain-Palin, as I did, we would be six months further along on this carbon free energy system, the same used as in France and Italy.

By voting for a President firmly in the pocket of coal and agribusiness, you condemned our nation to CO2 pollution for another 4 years.

Green the wallet is more like it as Obama, yet again, funnels soft money to his cronies.

The problem with cooking is that although the American household has shrunk to where many of us are single people, the portions are all for a family of 6.    Try buying chicken for 1 at the supermarket....it's either a whole, half, or nothing.

Everything is packaged for volume, not for an individual who just wants to buy enough for a small dinner.

The story was about Italy.   Italy uses nuclear power, from France.   If the author is suggesting that:

a) Italy good

b) US bad

Then isn't he shilling for nuclear power?

As far as solar, wind, and so on...I would ask...based on this article...why isn't Italy using it, instead of nuclear?

Logic anyone?

Guess that explains why bandwidth utilization at the local ACORN office was five times normal...

Wow...a car powered by coal.

That should reduce CO2.

That inane statement can be quickly disproven by the simple test of unplugging a laptop overnight and then seeing how the state of charge changes. Answer? really not very much.

You go do that.   When comparing NiCad with Lithium, Lithiums lose charge when not kept plugged in.   NiCad have "memory" problems...which is why you must break them in and always fully charge them, or they remember, and thereafter, only store, the amount of the last partial charge.

Other problems with lithium batteries include:

batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm

Aging of lithium-ion is an issue that is often ignored. A lithium-ion battery in use typically lasts between 2-3 years. The capacity loss manifests itself in increased internal resistance caused by oxidation. Eventually, the cell resistance reaches a point where the pack can no longer deliver the stored energy although the battery may still have ample charge. For this reason, an aged battery can be kept longer in applications that draw low current as opposed to a function that demands heavy loads.

These types of problems with both batteries are known, and have little or no resolution since their introduction on the marketplace.   They are only being repackages with a lot of hoo-hah and marketing mumbo jumbo to disguise the fact that these cars are being sold with big, unusable batteries as something they are not.

Ha, guess I spoke the truth, because once "Gar Liptow" runs out of salient arguments, he calls everyone a "troll"!

Face it, the whole Gore "Green" movement is an effort by the battery and electricity companies to "charge" us more.

Case in point, Warren Buffet has sunk 1 billion dollars of his own money into cheap Chinese plug in hybrids.   Do you think for a second there will be any kind of accurate reporting about the technology?  Or that all the blogs will be chirping about how great it all is.

Chemical batteries of the sort needed for the type of cars being proposed don't exist.

Hydrogen is here and now.

Nothing could be more dirty than the Greens.

The butter on their bread has fingerprints galore.

It's good to see politicans wanting to tailor energy policy for their states.   The whole top down, one size fits all strategy isn't working.   Diversity is what our country is about.  Some want wind..some want nuclear...others Hydrogen.

BTW, Grist -- thanks for helping someone's pump and dump scheme:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/07/21/afx6680805.html

Zenn shares jumped almost 10 percent to C$5.15 on the TSX Venture Exchange, building on a 22 percent gain on Monday.

Zenn has an exclusive license with EEStor, which is a privately owned Texas-based company that is working on developing a battery that it says will be able to power a four-door sedan for 400 kilometers (250 miles) without recharging.

BlackLight Power signs sixth utility deal to produce power from water

http://green.venturebeat.com/2009/07/30/blacklight-power-signs-sixth-utility-deal-to-produce-power-from-water/

BlackLight Power, one of the more controversial and mysterious cleantech solutions on the market, announced today that it has landed a commercial licensing deal with Maryland-based utility Akridge Energy. This is the sixth such contract for the company, which claims to have technology capable of generating energy using only water.

Delay.  Deny.

The 2D strategy is superior in a world of technological change.

Who needs a hoary and cumbersome "Climate Tax" bill when small innovative entrepreneurs are delivering the goods each and every day!

http://www.thegreencarwebsite.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/07/30/hyundai-develops-solar-hydrogen-car/

Carmaker Hyundai and a postgraduate student from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a prototype solar-powered hydrogen car, the Telegraph reports.

Named the Hyundai City Car 2020, it uses solar panels to use sun’s rays to create electricity, which is subsequently used to create a hydrogen fuel source.

The electricity is fed into a water tank where it separates the hydrogen needed to powers the car. Pure oxygen is pushed out of the exhaust.

The Tesla is a coal plant owners dream.    Plugged into an energy wasting and inefficient battery for most of its existance inside of one of Al Gore's mansions.

Sapient analysis.   The metaphor breaks down in other ways.   Example, suppose we are a "brainful" frogs.   So, boiling water:planet earth::jumping out of water:?

Exactly.  Are we supposed to jump out of Earth orbit and let the planet continue to boil?    The brainful frogs assume that it will be better for them, not in boiling water.  

Likewise, could a frog master a GE electric range and turn down the Rear Left burner? 

And what about out of the boiling water, into the fire?  Or heating surface?

Again, the frog metaphor is decidely NGW.   We have no ability to control the heat, only where we live.

While Romm suppresses, Brazil basks!!

http://gas2.org/2009/07/24/brazil-unveils-hydrogen-bus/#comment-95005

Brazil Unveils Hydrogen Bus

Hydrogen may just be making its come back in America, but its definitely gaining some momentum in Brazil. Earlier this week, Brazil announced plants to buy, operate and maintain up to five hydrogen-cell-fueled buses as well as install the station to produce the hydrogen to supply the fuel for the buses. The first vehicle will serve the ABD Metropolitan Corridor (Sao Mateus / Jabaquara), located in the Greater Sao Paulo area.

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/Research/CLOUD-en.html

CLOUD at CERN is the underpinning a NGW anticoncensual dialetic that will surplant the current paradigms.

Palin is the only world leader who will not have egg on her face for supporting a debunked Gore.

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World leaders should hedge their bets on AGW before ending up looking like fools:

Read the presentation here:

Cosmic rays and climate
Jasper Kirkby /CERN
CERN Colloquium, 4 June 2009

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=52576

Oh, lookey, lookey, lookey.

A few notes on "nonconsensual" global warming...

First I read:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/07/clouds-may-be-thinning-due-to-global-warming.html

Clouds may be thinning due to global warming

Clouds decline due to global warming, suggests a study of the Northeast Pacific, which in turn would lead to more climate change.

Clouds reflect sunlight, cooling the atmosphere, note the Science study authors led by Amy Clement of the University of Miami. Whether global warming creates more clouds or less "remain a primary cause of uncertainty in global climate model projections," says the study. Global warming is projected to raise average atmospheric temperatures from 3 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit this century, by best estimate of the 2007 International Panel on Climate Change.

Well, gee...you could say that "global warming" thins clouds OR you could agree with Svensmark, who, all alone has been saying that clouds control global warming...and what generates clouds?   The cloud nuclei are created in response to cosmic radiation...radiation from the Sun and elsewhere.  

At any rate, real science is being done as CERN to test the hypothesis (which, to almost anyone with sense, is far more logical than CO2 dependent global warming):

http://www.thinkdigit.com/General/On-CLOUD-9-at-CERN_3136.html

On CLOUD 9 at CERN

There are two main theories that attempt to explain recent changes in climate: the first states that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are the main driver, and the second claims that varying solar activity, amplified by corresponding changes in cloud cover, are most important. The first is promoted heavily by politicians and activists, based on computer modelling; as for the second, the most interesting work is quietly being pursued at CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Research.

This was the biggest mistake of the Obama Administration so far.

They poured new wine into old skins by transferring our hard earned tax dollars to the old Dow industries instead of funding the 21st Century small and midcap companies that would do the most good and create the most jobs.

Bring on the entrepreneurs!  Pour water on the Green Shoots!

Hold on.

China builds a "Clean Coal" study center, and Grist does cartwheels.

But if American Republican Senators propose the same thing, you guys go to war?!

What hypocrites?!?!

Oh, and another thing -- you completely ignore China's commitment to Hydrogen:

http://hydrogendiscoveries.wordpress.com/category/hydrogen-activity-in-china/

For a technology that Energy Secretary Steven Chu thinks is going nowhere, the Chinese government is showing quite a lot of interest in hydrogen cars.

Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation (BAIC), which is owned by the Chinese government, is attempting to acquire GM’s hydrogen fuel cell technology.

Chu is really spinning around on his own out there...isn't he?

One minute it's one thing...then another.

No direction.

No leadership.

Craig78.   I have to agree...if only to have the opportunity to build up the Republican vote in the House!

Speaking of ethics...most adults have zero need for milk.   Our digestive systems are not set to metabolize it and it does a lot of harm to our system.

In that sense, Sanders is just another 'pusher' like a tobacco company or corn syrup proselytizer (aka, Obama).

Turnip spelled backwards is pinrut, not spinrut.

So the plural would be pinruts.

Here's what I would have said:

Buddy, there's a double sawbuck in it for you if you just shaddup and drive...my head is splitting and I gotta get to the airport!

Isn't The Olympics just a giant exercise in globalism?

Why can't we just have a lot of local events all over the world, so people can stay where they live and appreciate the best each city and town has to offer...make an Olympics where everyone can participate instead of sitting in front of the TV watching other people get exercise.

Politicians better hurry up...the Technologists are way ahead of them:

New Mexico company to develop hydrogen power plant

A New Mexico-based energy technology company says it plans to develop what it calls the world's first utility-scale, zero-emissions hydrogen power plant.

Jetstream Wind Inc. officials said Wednesday that the plant would use wind, solar and other renewable energy sources to produce hydrogen through an electrification process. That hydrogen would be burned in a turbine to generate enough electricity to power about 6,000 homes.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7-Wm6N0WYe1Ww6_ThryRvp3iPYAD99F26980

By the time climate legislation has any effect, private industry will have converted us to hydrogen and CO2 will be moot. (In the same way that by the time the stimulus money reaches us, the economy will be creating jobs again.)

Thus, the Republican strategy of delay and deny is far more intellligent.

Example:

JAMAICA, New York - Shell today opened its second hydrogen filling station in the greater New York City area, providing improved access to hydrogen for drivers of fuel cell Chevrolet Equinoxes participating in Project Driveway.

Project Driveway selects consumers who sign up on the Internet in the greater New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. to participate for two months at a time in the demonstration. Chevy.com/fuelsolutions

http://www.auto123.com/en/news/green-wheels/gm-welcomes-shell-hydrogen-station-opening-at-jfk?artid=109489

Voting for this bill is a dangerous political gamble.   If the temperatures keep going up because of that natural causes that are really responsible for the warming, a lot of people will start to look like fools.   

Far better to play the Hanson Game of always claiming that "Evil Guys" are "preventing us from limiting carbon dioxide" and then never have the bet called.

Hah.  Now that Congress has restored fuel cell funding, it seems that the Hydrogen Haters are out in full force.   Guess you can't stop progress!

There are two kinds of efficiency.  There is good design.   Then there is that kind of overdesign and Greenlabelled stuff that overall ends up costing and polluting more.

If we start from scratch, with a clean fuel like solar generated hydrogen, then, things change a lot.   For example, using a lot of hydrogen is no longer a negative.   Instead, since fuel cells actually clean the air and make pure water, it's better to use a lot of hydrogen.

We may end up in 10 years seeing that energy growth is a good thing, if we shuffle the deck.

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http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/438645-enki09/12764-why-the-future-of-transportation-fuel-is-hydrogen

Why The Future of Transportation Fuel Is Hydrogen

The main point here is that this is a time tested way to produce clean hydrogen fuel and the one that major oil companies seem to be getting behind. Steam reforming at oil refineries is the way that almost all commercially available hydrogen is produced today. I think that this process will end up as the way that we go with vehicle fuels. It may not be on board reforming but it is the logical choice for several important reasons.

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Chew on this, kids:

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Funding Restored

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/energy/23821/#comment-211902

In its 2010 budget, the Obama administration put an end to funding for hydrogen fuel cell vehicle research, but Congress is putting that money back in.

BTW -- maybe those kids can hang out with these kids:

http://www.courant.com/business/hc-proton-energy-systems.artjul09,0,920258.story

Campers Get Look At Cutting Edge Hydrogen Fuel

WALLINGFORD - Nearly 100 Connecticut middle school students got a firsthand look Wednesday at a promising new technology that might provide new sources of renewable energy.

[...]

Since its acquisition for $10.2 million by Tom Sullivan, founder of Toano, Va.-based Lumber Liquidators, Proton Energy, which specializes in hydrogen generation by water electrolysis, has shifted away from grand applications of the fuel toward more focused industrial and defense applications.

More on the Turkish Car:

Turkish Students Create Hydrogen-Powered 1300-MPG Car

http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2009-07/turkish-students-create-hydrogen-powered-car-gets-1300-mpg

In preparation for the inaugural Global Green Challenge across the Australian outback, a team of Turkish students have assembled a hydrogen-powered vehicle that has an efficiency of 568 kilometers per liter (roughly 1,335 mpg). In order to get across the outback, they hope to only use three liters of fuel in the vehicle, dubbed the SAH?MO.

The Bush Administration had the only logical Climate Plan.

Promote the 21st Century technology, such as fuel cells and nanofibers, that makes CO2 production an anachronism.

This is the best course because it does not involve international agreements and at the same time it's viral.   At the point that fuel cell transport becomes affordable, it will instantly reshape the industrial landscape, the way the PC computer did for information technology.

Everyone's doing the locomotion:

Solar, hydrogen powered train through Detroit may be crazy but why not, says infrastructure blog

http://www.modeldmedia.com/inthenews/detroitmeglevtrain19709.aspx

BNSF Train: It is powered by hydrogen

The city of Topeka helped the train industry take a step toward the future Monday. A partnership between the U.S. Department of Defense and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway helped create the world's first hydrogen fuel cell switch locomotive.

http://www.ksnt.com/news/local/story/BNSF-unveils-one-of-a-kind-locomotive/eNmS1qvH00a9S1Aay94bVQ.cspx

One thing this guy could do is take some pictures of the Eastern Garbage Patch, because according to Wiki, although it is the "size of Texas" it "cannot be seen from satellites" (?)

So, just to drive home that this isn't yet another Green Myth (rolls eyes), bring back some photos, Mr. Rothschild...

They closed the doors because they wanted to make sure Obama wasn't distracted catching flies while the grown ups are talking.

Bush had the right idea.

Funding the future instead of taxing the past.

Through hydrogen, we could eliminate all the CO2.

You may now attack hydrogen technology -- as you would be expected to...since, from the looks of it, you've drunk 5 to 6 times the normal amount of Kool-Aid.

I'd like it too, but you guys keep cooking the books with false data and phoney summations using secondary and tertiary sources.

2009 is the point where it all crests.

I sure hope so, becase it's (P)iled (h)igher and (d)eeper than ever before!

CSJ says "WWAGD: And so this is your method of stirring the pot when you have nothing constructive to say about a cap and trade bill?"

Wow.  Is that your way of escaping an argument you can't win?   The point I made is about the map in question.   It clearly shows that climate legislation is about the liberal coasts taxing the rest of America.  I made my point that Waxman has a "do as I say; not as I do".

The argument is valid and stands.  If you have anything to add other than whining, we're all waiting to hear it.

Flying around in jets doesn't help pollution very much...

The only audience shrinking faster than "urban newspaper readers" is "light rail riders".

As these systems come online they simple lose ridership and demand more budget.

Again, another tax for the Waxman Liberals to keep their mansions by the water.

Waxman's Beverly Hills constituents get to have their 20 bedroom mansions and 10 car garages while regular folk in three bedroom houses have to pay them.

Global Warming is a Tax.

Pure and simple...

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009964.html

The Hydrogen Highway Builds Momentum

june 11, 2009

As part of the Hydrogen Road Tour, a small fleet of vehicles from eight automakers made the 1700-plus mile trek covering the West Coast of North America from Chula Vista, Calif. to Vancouver, B.C. last week to demonstrate the improved range of the vehicles, as well as the variety that could soon be on the market. Some of the vehicles included the Chevy Equinox FCV, Honda FCX Clarity, Toyota FCHV-adv, and Volkswagen Caddy Max HyMotion, which have ranges of 180 to 491 miles per fill-up and can reach speeds of up to 100mph, depending on the model.

There is still work to do to make this zero emission hydrogen dream a reality, and so far there are a limited number of vehicles being leased and loaned in California, New York, and Washington, D.C. In California, the California Fuel Cell Partnership is working hard to implement a hydrogen highway by addressing the questions surrounding fuel cell vehicles, many of which Jamais raised here in a 2005 article. Among these dilemmas: (a) Where does the hydrogen come from? (b) How is it stored? (c) How long does it take to fill the tank? (d) Where can you find fueling stations? (e) Can we bring fuel cell prices down to acceptable levels?

The real answers will come from private industry and business that will continue the work of implementing 21st technologies like fuel cells and nanomaterials.

The Republican plan is that of reality -- giving us the bridge power and energy we need for the next few decades.   We need energy to bootstrap ourselves and keep people employed and creating the next generation of power storage and production.

Pathetic and arcane.

Waxman's Beverly Hills constituents get to keep their CO2 belching mansions while piling on what can only be termed a tax on the rest of us.

Washington State could use its hydropower at Bonneville and Grand Coulee to produce scads of hydrogen.

We could be Green and self-sufficient for lighting, transportation and all energy needs.

I guess I say Caveat Emptor.

I just bought a Kia Spectra 2007 from Enterprise car sales.

Good price, high gas mileage.

Waiting out the conversion to hydrogen.

What a load of malarky.

You people go on and on and on about "Science" and what it means.

But at some point, for it to be Science, it has to be proven right by the data.

This is yet another case where the data absolutely contradicts all the pronouncements of the "Scientists".

And the fact despite Romm's backpedaling articles, that there is ZERO HURRICANE activity in the last two years contradicts another major prediction.

Is it Science to make predictions and then have them come false?

No.  That is not science.  The IPCC is not science.  Romm is not science...and you, sir, are not science!

Record low ice should mean record high sea levels...right?

No sign of that.

Except in the case where the solar and wind are used to transform water into hydrogen.

Such as here:

http://www.starbulletin.com/business/20090526_Hickam_solar_project_will_power_hydrogen_plant_and_fueling_station.html

Hickam Air Force Base has completed a $1.1 million solar array project that will now power its hydrogen plant and fueling station -- a first of its kind for the Air Force and Hawaii.

The 146-kilowatt system made up of 810 solar modules is enough to power about 30 standard homes. The solar photovoltaic system was gradually turned on Friday to fuel the base's hydrogen plant with the renewable energy.

It is the first time that a hydrogen plant has been powered with a solar electric system in Hawaii.

The base's $1.5 million hydrogen station was completed in November 2006.

What we need here is the equivalent of Open Source Seeds (kind of like Moblin for netbooks).

As far as farmland, you know what I think...everyone should be living on 2 acres...in Agraria!

Thanks for the tip.   Rhapsody has the earlier albums:

http://www.rhapsody.com/grizzly-bear

But not the new one...I'll contact customer service!

If you want to disparage nuclear fission as a source of electricity, then you must address France, which gets 80 percent of its power from nukes.   In addition, electricity is the 4th largest export of the French (Italy is their largest customer).

You cannot hold up European CO2 reductions as a model and then deny that they use nukes significantly.

You cannot also deny that while President Obama has cut hydrogen research to the bone, at the request of Chu, the Europeans have increased funding for hydrogen to 1 billion plus!

Side note:

A fresh push for fuel cell cars

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/29/BAET17SV0U.DTL

A dozen fuel cell cars are making their way from San Diego County to British Columbia on a road show tour, sponsored by the California Fuel Cell Partnership, a consortium of automakers, energy and technology companies and government agencies, all of which are trying to promote the use of fuel cells as a way to power cars.

Fuel cell cars are neglected orphans of the voguish, go-go world of green vehicles, the darlings of which are hybrids such as the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight.

Hybrids, of course, are not entirely green because they use that oft-denigrated dinosaur juice known as gasoline. Battery-powered, pure electric cars are the up-and-coming future of automobiles, some experts say.

My own take on it is this.

In the 1970s we were fighting for our lives with Russia.

And they were winning.

Our energy intensive agricultural system was a way to grow our population rapidly to keep up with what seemed like a Soviet system that could produce more soldiers, more warheads and maybe more goods than us.

So we punted and signed the SALT treaty while we massed our forces.

We fed the kids high energy high sugar stuff to make us bigger, stronger and able to pound Ivan under the table.

The fallout was lots of fat people and diabetes.

Even today, only something like 3 percent of the population is fit enough to join the Army.   But those that do are virtual terminators.

Do we still need to do this to ourselves?

Do we have to grow super soldiers to beat Al Qaeda?

Maybe not so much any more.

3 Men and a Boondoggle?

Hickam solar project will power hydrogen plant and fueling station

http://www.starbulletin.com/business/20090526_Hickam_solar_project_will_power_hydrogen_plant_and_fueling_station.html

Hickam Air Force Base has completed a $1.1 million solar array project that will now power its hydrogen plant and fueling station -- a first of its kind for the Air Force and Hawaii.

The 146-kilowatt system made up of 810 solar modules is enough to power about 30 standard homes. The solar photovoltaic system was gradually turned on Friday to fuel the base's hydrogen plant with the renewable energy.

[...]

The solar electric system will help power the base's fleet of seven hydrogen-powered vehicles, which include an electric passenger shuttle bus.

We Republicans must ardantly support this bill.   It's time to reduce CO2 pollution and move on to a Gas Economy, driven by natural gas and hydrogen.

Please also consider supporting Joe Pitts of Arizona:

http://www.phoenixvillenews.com/articles/2009/05/23/opinion/srv0000005405547.txt

• With this in mind, I tried to offer an amendment during the recent markup of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454)—the Democrats' cap and trade bill—in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. My amendment would have helped create an incentive for our American automakers to bring hydrogen fuel cell vehicles online. Unfortunately, because the entire thousand-page bill was considered over just four days, there was not enough time for consideration of the hundreds of amendments Republicans attempted to offer to make a bad bill better. My hydrogen amendment was one of those blocked because Chairman Waxman had set an arbitrary deadline of finishing consideration of the bill before the Memorial Day weekend.

So, it sounds like there was a lot of sloppy legislating just to make political points and Congress was willing to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Also, I would hope there is some "transparency" when it comes to spending.

Who is getting what from this and why...

We've got to fund the science!

To wit:

http://www.mnn.com/transportation/cars/blogs/hydrogen-hopes-can-they-restore-funding-for-fuel-cells

• Fuel-cell advocates are none too happy about Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s abrupt decision earlier this month to cancel $100 million in hydrogen funding.
  
  In a joint statement, the U.S. Fuel Cell Council and the National Hydrogen Association said, “The cuts proposed in the DOE hydrogen and fuel-cell program threaten to disrupt commercialization of a family of technologies that are showing exceptional promise and beginning to gain market traction. Fuel-cell vehicles are not a science experiment. These are real vehicles with real marketability and real benefits. Hundreds of fuel-cell vehicles have collectively logged millions of miles.”

75 years of (mostly) Democratic rule must end in Seattle, King County, Olympia and our representatives in Washington (100 percent Democrat) so that we can regain our environment.

Does it make sense to use the deroguatory term "Mafia" when most of these organizations are run by blue bloods?

Or is this the new Grist where you "strongarm the science" and call people names?

Why should this be any different from TARP?

It's just Obama rewarding his cronies.

Hooray!

Well all be forced to by $35,000 cars with marginal improvements in efficiency!

Plus the credit card bill still lets them charge 20 percent or more.

The primary problem is that environmental issues and pollution are looked at as a luxury, and a costly one at that.   It's hard to justify long term thinking if it costs short term dollars.

That said, I think a far better approach than tax and regulation is to promote and build the technologies that are going to get us out of the mess.

To wit:

Nanotechnology solar-hydrogen project wins E.ON research award

http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=10690.php

• Dr Li Puma said: “Hydrogen production by conventional water splitting over a nano-structured photocatalyst has been the topic of numerous investigations since the pioneering work of Fujishima and Honda in 1972 (Nature, 238, 37). However, after an initial enthusiasm it was quickly realised that hydrogen production rates were too modest to warrant scale-up. In contrast, the Solar-Hydrogen process, which has been demonstrated at a laboratory scale, yields hydrogen at rates up to 100 times greater than with conventional water splitting making the process commercially feasible.”

Pocahontas has the right idea:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/qorianka-kilcher-pocahontas-honda-fcx-clarity-fuel-cell-hydrogen-car-photos.php

Green actress Q'orianka Kilcher, know for her role of Pocahontas, has been driving a first generation Honda FCX [hydrogen] fuel cell car since she was 17 (see photo below). But that was 2 years ago, and her lease was up, so she decided to renew with the new generation of Honda FCX Clarity.

How about taking no transportation?

Public transportation masks a gigantic hidden cost for its construction, land use, and management.

It's completely inflexible, so as conditions change, the same old stations remain, often falling into disuse and disrepair, or funded when no one uses them.

Lines cannot be rerouted optimally.

Public transportation requires high density cities who impose a great cost on the supply of goods such as food that must be daily trucked in and garbage hauled out en masse.

Contrast that with the vision of Agraria, where homeowners would have 2 acres of land for growing food and enjoying life.   Indenpendent SUVs powered by green energy could operate with minimal road building, cutting across the landscape on dirt or gravel roads or no roads at all.

Families could stay at home and transport themselves minimally like back in the heyday of agriculture.

Did you guys catch Michael Pollans lecture on Fora.tv -- if you listen carefully, he's saying the same thing...

http://fora.tv/2009/05/05/Michael_Pollan_Deep_Agriculture

Indeed.

Small and midsized businesses that eschew the e-Radar and current Government hegemony in setting the scientific and technology agenda will thrive.

The current Internet in my estimate is becoming an unbearable Goliath.   Data must be kept small and writing too.

Indepedent and unique actions are called for.

Hydrogen is the clear commercially sustainable winner in alternative fuels.  Business in hydrogen is set to boom with or without subsidies.   A robust set of small and midcaps has arisen in materials science and fuel cell technology but now it's time to get off the tit and start selling.

The 21st century economy is ready to blossom due to blossom entirely due to hydrogen and it's courageous supporters!

This is a very a devisive issue that will split Americans more than they are already split.

The only way out is up.  

Investment in 21st century technologies at the smallest level is what is needed.   The individual has to have the opportunity to take control and remake society.  

Clean coal can be part of the solution, and I invite the private investors who have been loaded to the gills by TARP to use that money to perfect the technology so that it becomes 100 percent pollution free...and then sell it to the customers who use the energy...or did I miss something about what private enterprise is all about?

Local banks have to help.  It's time for Henry Potter to get out of the way and for George Bailey to start helping the town again!

In every aspect we see people struggling to get gains from a 20th century system that has ended.

Investors still look to the DOW.   And planners to archaic living structures.

I disagree that high density, high energy consumption cities are the future.   Being close together does not always mean having accessibility to the necessities of life.   Case in point, it's much easier for me in the exurb of Kent, to jump in my car, drive 1/2 a mile to a warehouse size supermarket and load up on food and goods for a week.

Energy stored everywhere and generated by everyone?  The answer could be Hydrogen.  I see the "Hydronet" as akin to the Internet, prior to Netscape.   The highway has already been built.   And people can add to it with solar and wind generators...or just use it locally.

Ownership...of land...by the average person, will increase their ability to produce and consume as locally as possible, with trips to nearby centers for larger goods.   With ownership and wealth comes the ability to abandon the "job" and to generate income in the home...reducing travel overall.

These changes, made possible by H2 generated without CO2 through the Nocera process will propel change.    Change will come when a family of 4, fed up with the city, sees 2 acres of land in Agraria (beyond Exurbia) for sale in a liveable township, for little or no money.   A New Homesteading will occur.

The focus has been on Government, but we should also look to the great innovations from business leaders, scientists and engineers working in new technologies.

During the Great Depression, Howard Hughes was such a man.   He looked at the landscape and found the industries that would provide the next wave of growth.   Talking movies and aerospace.   He invested, built and thrived during the upswing.

Today, in materials science and gas fuels, in loosely coupled syntactic web services, in data analytics, in the small but creative endeavors of American citizens, these same opportunities exist.

Investors should be supporting these companies.   I have invested in many of them with my limited resources and continue to mine the Internet.  

These companies will reduce manmade CO2 and produce jobs.

Simply not true.

Land is in short supply, but not because of "sprawl" or "urbanization".

Quite the opposite.   Our population is crammed into a small percentage of the land.

The rest of it -- the majority -- has been sequested for the benefit of the few.

The Greens have been willing dupes for this travesty.

Right, you couldn't wait a week because Sarah Palin promoted natural gas as an alternative, so you find three yahoos in outer-Nowhereville to do a hit piece on natural gas.

Fight over...hydrogen won.

http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/online/news/articles/2009-04/Catalyst-Could-Lead-to-Hydrogen-

It has been reported in the Journal Green Chemistry that a catalyst has been developed by researchers at the University of Amsterdam and at IRCE Lyon to convert methane into hydrogen gas and combustible coke. This would enable power stations to produce hydrogen alongside electricity.

Authors Gadi Rothenberg and colleagues claim that the catalyst could be cheaply installed into existing plants. Generating hydrogen and power together "is a conceptual change," says Rothenberg. "When you're going to produce hydrogen, you needn't build a huge new power plant to do that. Diverting some of your existing methane feed to produce hydrogen just makes sense."

It's strange that after 30 years...we really don't know Al Gore.

The man has ascended to the ultimate heights of public visibility and honors, yet when asked simple questions, he bristles at having to answer.

But then this is the Gore polemic...all who oppose are evil...all who submit are good.

Last night I watched "Inherit the Wind" on KCLS.    While watching Fredick March play Matthew Harrison Brady (read: William Jennings Bryant), I thought of Gore...a man who made his own populist following...but was not electable.    Only this time the tables are turned...it is the model building rationalists who have to defend an ill defined "religion".    Challenges cannot be met logically, so sneers and IPCC Assessment thumping are returned.

I wish that all sides could be heard.    Yes, Gore as a businessman has every right to spend his money as he sees fit.   That is the American Way.    However, I fail to see why people cannot also appreciate the 1 Billion per year that George Bush funded for hydrogen and other technologies that will truly reduce CO2 pollution and bring us to a greener future.

Whose face is on the Nobel Peace Prize website?

Then render unto Gore what belongs to Gore...and...

You know what would make Americans respect Earth Day?

Give them all gigantic salaries like the Fat Cats who own 84 percent of the Earth and have nothing to do all day but tell us working folk that we shouldn't be mowing our lawn so much.

Richard Branson?  Take your billions and split them up into millions.   You'll see how quickly the new millionaires would tell the rest of us to "not pollute so much"...(oh, those Commoners!)

Actually, it's in the interest of the megalith businesses to increase the barriers to entry to small and midcap businesses with such artificialities as "Global Warming".

Because the big guys can afford to pay for "environmentalism" and the little guys can't...environmentalism, like expensive health care, restricts people from starting and running their own businesses instead of folding into the big corporations.

Why should an "urban" high school student care any more than a suburban householder?

Even though you'd like us all to buy the world a Coke and solve the problem, it will be the Technology Elites that make the breakthrough.  For most, life will go on as normal..but without CO2.

Example:

Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control Issues Final Decision Approving 27.3 Megawatts of Projects Using FuelCell Energy Power Plants

``The DFC-ERG and DFC/T power plants achieve approximately 60 percent electrical efficiency -- the highest electrical efficiency of any available distributed generation technology,'' said R. Daniel Brdar, Chairman and CEO of FuelCell Energy. ``This efficiency results in low carbon emissions because less fuel is used to produce electricity. And because our power plants do not combust fuel, our customers also benefit from near-zero emissions of NOX, SOX and particulate matter.''

Palin is clever because she is using the argument that is Kryptonite to the Greens.   Ok, so we agree, temperatures are rising.  Ok, so we agree, we should reduce CO2 pollution,   Then comes the diverging point.   We Cons say, hey, what about natural gas, what about hydrogen.

Oh, wait, say the Grist-- we want to have high taxes and sell you expensive hybrid cars.  Hydrogen...that might solve the problem!

Greens.

Exposed.

I was watching "Godspell" las night, and own take on it is that like the Sixties, Earth Day has failed because the technology wasn't there yet.

People don't want a pollution free planet.   They want a pollution free planet that still sells them Coca-Cola and McDonalds...and doesn't make them fat.

There's nothing wrong with that...in fact, who wouldn't want to live in such a place.

So, things like Earth Day are really "displacement behavior".  That's a behavior exhibted out of frustration...as in, if you aren't happy with your job, you kick the dog.   Kicking the dog doesn't make your job better, but its the only thing you can do.

Good news though: As America moves to the hydrogen community...we will have paths to achieving the dreams of Earth Day.

NASA Opens Up H2 fueling station for buses:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=27988

Better Storage:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415113336.htm

GM

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2009/04/13/daily34.html

"[fuel cell] models in showroom by 2014..2015..."

As far as living life as clowns and mimes like in Godspell...well, with Hydrogen we don't have to work so hard...so it's a start...

John Kerry and his wife are responsible for most of that fructose.

Will you be making a hydrogen fuel cell version?

Why rant?

George Bush was the greatest ecological President that ever lived. Reason? He promoted hydrogen. Result? The Honda FCX fuel cell powered car was named the Green Car of the Year. Bush is like a genius artist, acknowledged only after his time. The FCX award validates his belief in Hydrogen and shows that Bush had the right ideas at the right time.

Honda FCX Clarity wins World Green Car award at N.Y. auto show

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock News/2267145/

Either the first worlders OR the hut dwellers - it couldn't possibly be a mix of the two?

Since both emit CO2, it's obviously a mix, but how much of a mix?  The idea that the split in CO2 production of wood burning mud dwellers and car driving concrete dwellers would be 50/50 boggles the mind.

It's more likely to be an order of magnitude difference, by my guess...and also, by my guess, I'd pin the blame on the mud dwellers.   Move everyone into clean, green exurbian spawl with modern kitchens and CO2 bloat goes away.

Government, like St. Jude, helps those who cannot be helped.   Conversely, there is no need for them to particpate in viable profitmaking industries.  Case in point, I welcomed Obama's decision to cut funding for Hydrogen Initiatives because this is the year that Hydrogen is taking off into a viable business.   All over the country, states, education and industry are building stations.   Buses are converting to hydrogen.    Fuel cell cars and even Segways have hit the road.

Hydrogen answers all questions.   But it doesn't need Government anymore.   Just business leadership!

One of the best ways to reduce demand: shift to an Ubuntu powered Dell mini 9 with an atom processor.   I'm finding it's one of the best "Web typewriters" around...and with Linux it uses less energy.   Easy to use?  Here's a screenshot I made just to prove how easily Linux is to work with:

http://you-saw-it-here-first.com/v/screenshots/UbuntuOnADellMini.png.html

Having recently discovered Kosher salt, I will now claim there is "good" salt and "bad" salt.  Good being defined here as "tasty".

First of all a box of Kosher salt is the best 3 dollars you will ever spend.  Since I cook a lot of my own food, I control the salt...and the only salt I use are big white round grains of Kosher salt.  There is nothing so delicious.  It takes clean and fresh.

I have a theory that regular salt is full of impurities which is the real cause of health problems...and in fact, we are NaCl deprived...Kosher salt lets us make up for it!

Ulterior? No room in the noggin'

Evil people have ulterior motives...that requires extra brain capacity to display one thing, and mean another.   But Gore actually believes all the global malarkey.

Al Gore is the sort of fisherman who swallows his own bait hook, line and sinker...

Here's a picture of Al back in college:

http://livinginstereo.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/The% ...On A chat with climate skeptics whose documentary calls Gore 'not evil, just wrong' posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago 2 Responses

Romm...Meet Ronn!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29554566/

AUSTIN, TX - Ronn Motor Company, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: RNNM) announced today the Company has entered into an Investment Banking Advisory Agreement with Pepperwood Partners of Dallas, Texas in order to enhance the Company's growth plans and seek a best efforts capital infusion of $25 million, for ongoing development of their hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell, electric and alternative environmentally clean automobile systems.

http://ronnmotors.com/cms/

Also, Washington State moves into the 21st Century with a Hydrogen (Plus) Highway Proposal:

Governors envision eco-friendly fuels at I-5 rest stops

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/200882715 ...

As the plan stands, motorists eventually would be able to pull off at I-5 rest stops for more than a cup of coffee and roadside relief: They also would be able to charge, or swap out, their electric-vehicle batteries or fill their tanks with biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen or compressed natural gas.

The Bazaar Wins!

The Cathedral is crumbling...

The Bazaar is flourishing!

Word Up to the 21st Century of Intellectual Freedom!On A look at the non-experts speaking at Heartland Institute's denialist sideshow posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago 23 Responses

Yeah, You DO Need a Weatherman...

Who needs a "skeptics site"...all you have to do is read the weather reports...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/200882451 ...

<blockquotes>Accumulations could be 1-3 inches -- "if a convergence zone forms" -- and possibly more in higher-elevation areas, said forecaster Art Gaebel.On Inhofe's resident media agitator leaving to start a new climate-skeptic website posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago 9 Responses

Are Nowdays, Made In Japan

The problem is most of us never get to "tap into these natural resources".

All but 3 percent of us are crammed into tiny 100x40 ft lots, many smaller, with no property, and little of value.

No wonder we throw wrappers on the sidewalk and act like buffoons. On Obama says there's no need to choose between sustainability and the economy posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago 9 Responses

Raise High The Loon, Carpenters

I'm waiting for USA Today to print a "Loon-O-Bar" in its weather map, indicating the current rate of Global Warming Alarmism (GWA) infecting the country.On Economists rip off climatologists, get away with it posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago 2 Responses

Index CO2 to GOOG Share Price

Schmidt has a message about reduction.

Under his leadership, GOOG stock peaked at 800 and remains at 300...thus reducing the 401k's of millions by more than 50 percent!

Since Eric is a master at reduction, he is well suited to apply his financial skills in the atmosphere of global gases.On Google CEO tells conference to get ambitious posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago 4 Responses

Junior Jumble!!

It's no longer A-G-W -- Anthropomophic Global Warming...we all know that's a crock.

It's now G-W-A -- Global Warming Alarmism!

And it sells well, as Al Gore is aware...On He is not 'guilty of inaccuracies and overstatements' and is owed a correction by the NYT posted 9 months ago 10 Responses

Sub Prime Energy Loans

There's no rush to go solar.

Every month the technology is better, cheaper and more flexible.

All Berkeley is doing is making people buy systems that are obsolete the minute they leave the showroom and pay top dollar for them to boot.On Berkeley's program to finance solar systems through property tax assessments is off to great start posted 9 months ago 5 Responses

I Have A Scheme

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hDdCeP ...

AIG to get 30 bln dollars more bailout aid: report

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- US insurance giant AIG is to receive up to an additional 30 billion dollars in federal assistance in the latest overhaul of its government bailout, US media reported Sunday.On 'So am I' posted 9 months ago 4 Responses

Cap & Trade? How about Salt & Plow?!?!

Outrageous Snow Storm to pummel East Coast!!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/03/01/winter.weather/

(CNN) -- A snowstorm that could last up to 18 hours was on its way to southern New England, and Boston could be snowed under with up to 15 inches, the National Weather Service said Sunday afternoon.

Speaking of Prejudice

Lecturer wins defamation case over `Mafia' slur

http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/lecturer-wi ...

Scotsman David Petrie, chairman of the Association of Foreign Lecturers in Italy, had been accused by Giorgio Bruno Civello and Adriano Rossi of telling the European Parliament's employment and social affairs committee in February 1997 that Italy was a country "run by the Mafia".

But Petrie denied making the remarks and was vindicated when a tape of the committee hearing was produced at a tribunal in Bologna.

Damn Those Satellites

They keep messing things up!

All those facts and data.

And the one good satellite...well, it up and blowed itself up!

Tarnation...that's the second time that happen!On The Washington Post lets George Will reassert all his climate falsehoods plus some new ones posted 9 months ago 11 Responses

Idea Here!

Hey, idea here!

Ok, we get this satellite that measures all the CO2 and we put it on a rocket and send it up to outer space...and it measures all the carbon dioxide from everywhere and shows how much people are making and where all the sinks are.   See, ok, so it like categorically proves all the stuff the scientists have been saying.  I mean there's no reason to challenge it then.  It's iron clad.  All we have to do is send up this satellite and, and, and...

KERRRR BLAMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!

Targeting Satellite Now...

My guess is the IPCC probably hired a guy like Grishenko from Goldeneye

http://www.bondmovies.com/henchmen/grishenko.jpg  

to shoot the thing down with secret laser stuff hidden in a the crater somewhere in the Alps.

This gives Hansen, Gore and the Stealulus crowd another few years to hoodwink the public before the truth comes out.   Without due diligence on actually data, the GWAs (Global Warming Alarmists) are inwincible !On Advances in climate science took a nosedive in NASA satellite crash posted 9 months ago 7 Responses

Go Postal; Go H2

http://www.hydrogen.gov/

"The U.S. Postal Service has partnered with General Motors to demonstrate hydrogen fuel cell vehicles."On Louisiana governor talks energy in his response to Obama's address posted 9 months, 1 week ago 13 Responses

How "Convenient" ...

Gee, the satellite that would prove NASA's theories of CO2 induced Global Warming comes crashing down.

How convenient...now we'll never know.On NASA mission to monitor carbon dioxide fails posted 9 months, 1 week ago 4 Responses

Seattle Times Rips Sunroof off Plugin Scam!!

Energy wasting unreliable battery technology EXPOSED!!!

Reality check on plug-in cars

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/20087 ...

The problem is the extra battery costs $10,000. At 51 mpg, the plug-in saves only about $200 in gas costs annually compared to a regular Prius in the city's fleet (and that's at $4 a gallon.) It would take 50 years to make back the cost of the extra battery.

[...]

I'd love to go all Thomas Friedman on you and say it's a green Apollo project that will launch us to a green moon. But a lot of it will turn out to be hype. The hype is more than just a sideshow -- it undermines the goal.

Golden Loon Award Countdown
Joe Romm - 2 Loon Feathers
James Hansen - 3 Loon Feathers
amazingdrx - 1 Loon Feather

A Power Companies Dream

Plugins are a power companies dream.

They have to be plugged in to the grid for hours every night.   They are hundreds of pounds extra weight that cars have to carry around which eats up more electricity.   They require the car to have a generator and an engine.   They weight the same full or empty.

A simple efficient hydrogen tank fills up in seconds.   It doesn't require two engines or an engine and a battery and a generator.   It's fuel can be made offgrid...you don't have to run wires to a remote location you can just use sunlight and wind to creat lightweight hydrogen.

Plugins are the delight of centralized oppressive bureaucrats who want to regulate and rule the populace.

Hydrogen is the technology of the independent American, freely producing energy using farm like technologies and living the dream of the free market!

Golden Loon Award Countdown
Joe Romm - 2 Loon Feathers
James Hansen - 3 Loon Feathers

Tax Breaks

There are also "farms" that are essentially set up to garner tax breaks.   They plant or raise the minimal amount of crops or livestock to qualify.

Ronald Reagan famously had a few cows on his ranch...for that purpose alone, and in wealthy suburban-rural areas you will often see freestanding cattle and bison...alpacas...

Golden Loon Award Countdown
Joe Romm - 2 Loon Feathers
James Hansen - 3 Loon Feathers

Against The Grid...

It's hard to be against something.

But its positive to be for something.

That's why I'm for Hydrogen.

With Hydrogen, produced from wind and solar, locally, individually, we can escape the Grid.

Or rather We Are the Grid.

The consumer becomes the producer -- of pure, energy rich hydrogen.

Abandon old style plugins with wasteful batteries that make us burn coal.

Go Hydrogen.

Go Solar.

Go Wind.

Golden Loon Award Countdown
Joe Romm - 1 Loon Feather
James Hansen - 3 Loon Feathers

Money's Already Gone

You don't think for a moment that anyone normal is ever going to see a dime of that money, do you?

It's already been spent...Obama-style.

Golden Loon Award Countdown
Joe Romm - 1 Loon Feather
James Hansen - 3 Loon Feathers

The Golden Loon

The Texeme Institute, a charitable trust arm of the Texeme Construct announces The Golden Loon Awards.

To win, one must acquire "Loon Feathers".

Loon Feathers are awarded for outrageous or alarmist Global Warming statements.

So far, leading contender James Hansen has been awarded 3 Loon Feathers.  

Other winners of the Loon Feather will be announced shortly.

Family members of the Texeme.Construct may not apply.   Void in Mexico.

"If you ask me, I think it's just another ball of hydrogen!" -- Captain Fraddock, S1E11

The Schlock Doctrine

I've just been reading Naomi Kline's "The Shock Doctrine"

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

She proposes a theory that world turmoil has been driven by a series of manipulated "shocks" designed to transfer power away from local, national entities, to global or corporate ones.

The funny thing is, while she cites examples such as Argentina, War on Terror, dotcom Bust -- the biggest and most obvious example is Global Warming.

I think that everyone should read The Shock Doctrine, but also open their minds to the idea that AGW is a completely fictitious event, designed to make people submit to the Hansen troops and their taxes.
On Climate change to cause dark night of the shoal posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 5 Responses

Quantum Jump

My electrons are excited into higher orbits!  

My 2p shell is full!

Thank you, Miss Atom...On From Nukes to Nincompoops posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 3 Responses

Iceland Gets It Right...why can't Ballard?

http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/02/12/icel ...

The government's plan, announced in 1998, is to replace fossil fuels with hydrogen. Together with Daimler AG, Shell, Norsk Hydro, and local utilities and research institutions, they created Icelandic New Energy, the company charged with spearheading the effort. The Shell station opened in 2003, serving the needs of three experimental hydrogen fuel-cell buses that plied the streets of Reykjavík for four years without incident. Hydrogen-fueled cars followed in late 2007, and were joined by a fuel cell-equipped passenger vessel last year.

Additionally,

Hydrogen station to be built on Camp Pendleton

http://scoutnewspaper.com/index.php?option=com_content&am ...

"If you ask me, I think it's just another ball of hydrogen!" -- Captain Fraddock, S1E11

Bush To Obama: "Fukuoka!"

http://www.gasworld.com/news.php?a=3536

The Fukuoka Hydrogen Town model project is the beginning of what organisers say will be the largest hydrogen-powered city in the world.

Two residential housing communities in Maebaru City, of southern Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture, are running on hydrogen fuel cells, as part of a pilot project to test the feasibility of such a power source.

That's right, Barack...21st century Bush policies beat your 1970s Jimmy Carter energy plan any time...

"If you ask me, I think it's just another ball of hydrogen!" -- Captain Fraddock, S1E11

You Bug Me

Now it will be harder for me to enjoy a Coke in summertime with all the bees plus yellowjackets buzzing around.

And don't talk to me about ice cream cones...

Obama The Vapor President ?!?

Gortex

Hopefully "The Climate Project" have plenty of fleeces and parkas in the company store.

Falling temperatures and all that...

Obama The Vapor President ?!?

Respect U.S. Culture

I just got back from joy riding around my neighborhood...I took some back ways and inspected a few nice new housing developments...many were beautifully done and nestled within unique locations with trees and fresh air surrounding them.

New malls were sprouting with fun stores and restaturants...the people inside seemed so happy.

This is American Culture circa 2009.  

Why is it that Libs always want to impose a foreign rail culture upon the Native American Car Culture?   Our culture stands for freedom, and diversity and the American spirit.  Rail is for fascistic Europeans who want ot keep their people under control and tax them into submission.

Rail doesn't work where I live and it doesn't work in the places that most Americans want to live.

Why is it that Libs will fight tooth and nail to prevent people from going into a culture and Westernizing it, yet they do not respect the American culture of exurbia?!

Obama The Vapor President ?!?

Keep The Riches For The Riches

Of course, the elites want to keep everything for themselves.  I'm sure we'll see Al Gore's houseboat on the new Arctic beachfront, and a landing strip for Richard Branson...all in the name of "saving the planet of course".  But let us, the Commoners, have access to fresh fish -- no, that's the end of the world.

Obama The Vapor President ?!?

20 percent more efficient Mix Master!

Nice try Obama.  

You can make an arugula salad in your Cuisinart and emit 10 percent less CO2.

Obama The Vapor President ?!?

Someone stop the madness

Can someone stop the madness.

Batteries can't work.

It takes 8 hours to charge them.

They weight hundreds of pounds whether fully charged or empty.

Hydrogen is the best storage medium for transportation.

Obama The Vapor President ?!?

Snobby?

Yeah, but they would probably park my $200 Trek 7000 way a few blocks away??

Obama The Vapor President ?!?

Porkulus Snorts Smoke

Change?  No...not for Democrats.  It's the same old story.  Tax the middle class and build useless city projects for the elites.  Trains to nowhere, tunnels that collapse.   That's what you elected folks and now they are here to pick your pocket.

You know you're not a liberal when...

Skating on Loon Lake

Speaking of cold, looks like Lon-don's Freezing (dat dat dat dat daaa).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1132144/One-takes ...

Britain hit by biggest snowfall in 18 years

Deniers and Delayers Ignore the Cosmic Truths

Cosmic Rays Detected Deep Underground Reveal Secrets Of Upper Atmosphere

Published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters and led by scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), this remarkable study shows how the number of high-energy cosmic-rays reaching a detector deep underground, closely matches temperature measurements in the upper atmosphere (known as the stratosphere). For the first time, scientists have shown how this relationship can be used to identify weather events that occur very suddenly in the stratosphere during the Northern Hemisphere winter. These events can have a significant effect on the severity of winters we experience, and also on the amount of ozone over the poles - being able to identify them and understand their frequency is crucial for informing our current climate and weather-forecasting models to improve predictions.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121091228 ...

You know you're not a liberal when...

At Khan's

At Khan's Mongolian Grill today I ordered the large bowl with two portions of chicken and one portion of lamb.   I should have gotten the all you can eat, because it cost the same, plus I get a free drink.

But if I should do that (get the all you can eat) I will be sure to order only chicken and fish because of what you say.

Although, I do like lamb and pork.

You know you're not a liberal when...

Hansen gets "Underperform" from Boss

Former Boss Rebukes NASA Global Warming Alarmist Hansen, Is AGW Skeptic

..... "Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA's official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind's effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress," Theon wrote.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/01/28/former ...
On Study says geoengineering 'useful' against climate change posted 10 months ago 3 Responses

DDT Usage

 
The biggest killer of Africans was not using DDT.

The UN now approves usage there.

People who delayed or denied use of DDT did not help the situation.

You know you're not a liberal when...

Private Loon Pond

Looks like it didn't take long for the Queen to start pulling the strings on the surrogate Commander in Chief.

You know you're not a liberal when...

True Believers Running for Exits!

You know the jig is up when even super spacey pop-scientists start backing off from the Greenery...70s legend James Lovelock among them:

Most of the "green" stuff is verging on a gigantic scam. Carbon trading, with its huge government subsidies, is just what finance and industry wanted. It's not going to do a damn thing about climate change, but it'll make a lot of money for a lot of people and postpone the moment of reckoning.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-one-la ...

You know you're not a liberal when...

Slap and Tickell

You claim that IPCC does support Tickell in contrast to what Lomborg says, but the evidence you provide is a hyperlink to one of your own posts!

So much for primary references and so much for living in a glass house and talking about other people "making stuff up".

Seriously, Global Heaters should consider stopping the vanity press and go out and do some real world research once in a day.

You are now living in the Hansen Economy!

Calling All Bureaucrats!

The only way to stave off the fruitcakes is to inundate them with web forms.   Got a complaint about climate change in your neighborhood?   Go to www.myclimate.gov.   Be sure to have your Neighborhood Climate Id ready.  If you don't have a Climate ID, you can apply for one at your local Social Security office.

By 2050 we'll have swapped out the computer systems at least three times, and by then everything will be great.   All nations including Greenland will have the climate of Big Sur.    There will be enough land for all 8 billion of us so houses will cost $5000, even for ocean front.   Arctic Ocean that is.

You are now living in the Hansen Economy!

It's Been A Long Time...

One thing that people need to consider is just how long it took us to reach this level of population.

Yes, population expands geometrically, but the tick mark is a human generation, 20 to 40 years.

Now, yes, that can seem fast, but think of it this way.   Suppose our replacement rate were 1.   In a single generation we could half our population from 8 billion to 4 billion.

Now suppose our replacement rate were something like .25 -- where many opted out of direct parenting and became "aunts and uncles" helping to rear a relative or friend's child (A Village).

I think alot of people would like that relationship, somewhere between a parent and childless.   But at the same time, look at how quickly our population could be reduced.

So, I guess I would caution people that while it seems like a good idea, it does take a long time to bring back population...

You are now living in the Hansen Economy!

The Bailo Belt Shows Its Effect

Yes, but what's even more interesting is that climate change has ZERO EFFECT on India, Venezuela or any other equatorial land.

This is resounding and convincing evidence by a gigantic consensus of people who shall go nameless, that the Bailo Belt, the CO2 Tropospheric Layer, both re-radiates and equalizes heat over the entire surface area...another benefit of global heating.On Study shows global warming hitting all of Antarctica posted 10 months, 1 week ago 2 Responses

Battery Con Artists Roll On

Battery Con Artists can ply their trade on the street.   They offer no more than hucksters with Omega knockoffs and 3-card monte dealers.

You are now living in the Hansen Economy!

Runaway increase in PR

Every time I read the new technology sections on Google there always seem to be at least 3 articles a day on Tesla.  

People are not going to buy Teslas.   In fact, any car based on current battery technology will fail.   People do not want a car that takes 8 hours to refuel.

All the car companies have given way and will have hydrogen vehicles by 2015...so if you want an 8-track player, by all means, purchase a hybrid.   Me?  I want an mp3 player...a hydrogen fueled car.

You are now living in the Hansen Economy!

No, That IS The Plan!

Sheesh.  After expecting the Potomac to part, all Obama's plan comes down to is putting some aluminum siding on Section 8 housing.

What a let down...

You are now living in the Hansen Economy!

We?

"we all agree"

We do?

How about this scientist:

Weather response must be grounded in science

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008620031_ ...

As an environmental scientist, I am frustrated by the poor information distributed by public officials, the media and others regarding the current and predicted frequency of extreme weather events. It is time for the scientific community to set the record straight.

...

Clifford F. Mass is a meteorologist and professor in the University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences.

You are now living in the Hansen Economy!

Nino/a: Local, Not An Average

Bob Wallace: "Read up on short term cyclical influences like El Nino/La Nina and solar cycles."

I am told time and again that global temperature is an average.   No matter what happens locally, the overall radiance of the Sun is constant (AGW).   It is CO2 that traps the infrared rays and that CO2 is long lasting...not dissipating even over centuries (AGW).

Given that, even with local effects like Nina|o, the input of solar energy into Earth should be constant.   If manmade CO2 output varies, the CO2 in trapped in the troposphere can only increase, not decrease (AGW).  There can only be either stasis or increase in average global temperature.

So how could a local (Pacific) effect like Nino|a cause an overall decrease in global temperature?

You are now living in the Hansen Economy!

Agreed

The Bailo Model says the rise will happen more around 2012.

You are now living in the Hansen Economy!

Conveniently Selling Toyota Plugins...

Keep cooking the books so that you can sell more expensive plugin hybrids, and enlarge the money we pay to utilities.

...if there are self made Purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
--"This Side of Paradise", TOS

Global Dumbing

The floods in the Pacific were caused by the Army Core of Engineers bleeding a dam which overflowed into residental areas.

I guess you can blame that on global warming if the human brain doesn't function as well at higher temperatures....

...if there are self made Purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
--"This Side of Paradise", TOS

W. WA not place to live

People are mistaken in thinking that soddy, rain washed Western Washington is a place to live.

I say, go East, young couple...to Moses Lake or the interior.  Plenty of space there...and check out those rainfall numbers on the interior...yep, it's a Paradise waiting to bloom!

...if there are self made Purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
--"This Side of Paradise", TOS

Chosen Well

Obama is smart.  Labor is the one growth area in the economy.   People are valuable.  There aren't enough of us.  Skilled or unskilled, labor is the next Growth Industry.

...if there are self made Purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
--"This Side of Paradise", TOS

Want off the grid?

http://www.renewableenergyinternational.com/technology

REI combines existing, proven technologies with innovative designs and proprietary controls to provide its customers with integrated, turnkey systems. The core technologies employed include:
Hydrogen gas separating from water
Hydrogen gas separating from water

    * solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, including architectural BIPV (built-in-photovoltaic)
    * wind turbines
    * biomass
    * hydro turbines (for generating electricity)
    * solar thermal collectors (for space and water heating)
    * geothermal heat pumps (for heating and cooling)
    * hydrogen electrolyzers (to generate gas for excess power storage, direct combustion)
    * fuel cells (for reconverting gaseous hydrogen into power)
    * hydrogen refueling stations (for appliances and vehicles)

...if there are self made Purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
--"This Side of Paradise", TOS

Congress Or President?

RNC Republicans are only for small government spending, when they aren't in power.

Also, for some "strange reason" the economy tends to do better under Democrats:

Do you mean Executive office, or Legislative?

Because from 1994 to 2000 the Republicans controlled Congress during one of the most prosperous times in American history.

Or do you just make up data to suit yourself?

...if there are self made Purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
--"This Side of Paradise", TOS

And Yet You Would Cede Our Freedom To Them

Transportation is one of the prime freedoms of American life.

Going where we want...when we want.

Yet, here is this small example about how a centralized authority can have screwed up programming where the most rational act becomes criminal.

And you, Grist, would cede our liberties of transportation to such an entity!

...if there are self made Purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
--"This Side of Paradise", TOS

Exurbia/Agraria Wins

What the author is saying and being near Central Park are two different things.

That author is emphasizing being immersed in local green space.   In my 3rd floor apartment complex in the exurb of Kent, there are many trees lining the grassy area between the buildings and the sidewalk.  I can look out at those trees or above them to a bit of the sky of Puget Sound.   On the other, interior, side, there are alternating courtyards and parking areas.   The courtyards are completely enclosed on four sides by the townhouse style buildings and have picnic tables and swings.   The amazing thing is this building is at the low end of rent and serves many working class families.  In fact, back when I lived in Seattle I searched for such a structure after reading the book "Co-Housing" and this one in Kent meets the design as close as possible.

An honest man is always in trouble. --Henry Fool

From Squeakly Clean To Slime Ridden!

What a turnaround.

Bill Richardson was held up by the Democrat Party as the model of good Government.

But now, his crimes are so heinous that he darn't go before a Committee at all, let alone allow someone to ask a question about his back room dealings!?

Get the shovels, Senators, there's a lot of room to bury the skeletons in New Mexico...

An honest man is always in trouble. --Henry Fool

The Needle and The Damage Done

Giving extra gas mileage to mainlining rock stars only increases their chance of getting to write a book in rehab.
On Rocker Neil Young says America can take lead in efficient autos posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago 3 Responses

Queen of Outer Space

Now I see!

Venusians screwed up their planet by buying SUVs.  Eventually SUVs became so huge that each on was three stories high and 20 feet long.  This caused global warming and made Venus uninhabitable.

They sent a small pod to earth containing one male and one female.

This "Adam and Eve"...at first it was a paradise.  But then Eve said to Adam, "I'm bored, I want to go to the mall".  

This began a millenial long quest to use the Venusian primal mind to build a technological society capable of manufacturing SUVs....which has been a military code word for Surface Utilicar for VENUSIANS!!

An honest man is always in trouble. --Henry Fool

Calling all Superstars

Here's an enery policy...take your car and get it converted to hydrogen at:

Hydrogen cars ready to roll -- for a price
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4563676/

If you can't wait five, 10 or 20 years for the much-touted "hydrogen economy," then step right up: Several companies are ready to sell you vehicles that run on the fuel that's much cleaner and gets higher mileage than gasoline or diesel.

I'm Green AND I'm On Time!

Check me out...I just got my 2009 DayMinder.

The label on front says:

Printed with soy based inks on recycled paper containing 30% post-consumer waste.

Grist...I'm not carbon neutral yet...but I'm getting there!On N.Y. Times is ready for regime change at the EPA posted 11 months ago 1 Response

Island Hopping

Forget Cap and Gown...or whatever.

The Bailo Plan offers a simpler solution.

An Industry by Industry CO2 "diet".

Order the industries by CO2 smarminess.

Example: Coal Plants, Concrete, ...

Then, identify all the "factories".

Next, order the factories.

Ok, one by one, either bring each factory up to spec or mothball it with a replacement.

An honest man is always in trouble. --Henry Fool

Ill Logic

Whether another theory is falsified, doesn't therefore prove AGW.

You understand that right?

An honest man is always in trouble. --Henry Fool

Hydrogen Buffer

Any intermittent source of energy can be buffered by using it to convert water to hydrogen using the 100 percent efficient Nocera process.

A wind turbine could work 6 months a year and still be useful because when active it could constantly generate hydrogen.

Same with solar, hydro-power, nuke, even coal (yuk!) could be run optimally.   Hydrogen is the perfect storage medium...what "battery" could store energy for days and weeks at a time?

Hydrogen can also be used for cars, planes, buses and trains, so if there's too much energy, it can be siphoned off for transportation fuel.
On Old Man Winter declares war on renewable energy posted 11 months ago 33 Responses

Ideological Greens

By blocking the free expansion of Hydrogen Technology, they have drawn out the time scale for implementation of 21st Century clean fuel.

Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the Bridge. J.T.Kirk

G-7, I-5, ... YOU SUNK MY COAL PLANT!

Here's a completely new approach to CO2.

Think of CO2 power plants as battleships.

You're job is to sink them...metaphorically of course, but also literally.

Forget about cap and trade, cap and gown, all the rest.   We have to pinpoint, search and shut down CO2 plants using logic and business skills.

So, you can do this by:

1. Replacing it with new clean coal plant.
   
2. Replacing it with wind-solar-H2 plant.

Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the Bridge. J.T.Kirk

Bailo Model On Target!

Only the Bailo model accounts for polar warming.

Only the Bailo model foresees the local minima and global maxima.

Of course Antarctica is warming, the Van Bailo belt of CO2 in the troposphere is mediating the infrared to the poles.

Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the Bridge. J.T.Kirk

Bottoms Up

Here's the missing element about "Startups".

They weren't designed to sell stuff.

They were designed to look like they might have stuff that someday people might one day buy.

The new model should be:

find customers,

then shareholders.

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

Do What You Want

It's gonna get hotter after this brief "cold snap" '09-'11) no matter what you do according to the Bailo Model.

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

Nature Conservan-Sea ?

From that article:

"5-10% of the land is in parks and preserves and less than 1% of oceans is protected gives some sense of the disparity"

Amazing...I did not know that.   Is it neglect, or legal issues with the "High Seas" as President Reagan called them.

Wonder if the private (Nature Conservancy) could or has the legal ability to, buy up more ocean territory?  

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

Daniel G. Nocera

The time for whistle blowers and preaching to the choir has ended.

We need solutions, not proselytizers.  And those solutions will come from technology.

The best "grid" system to replace the current CO2 bound centralized system is a loosely coupled, multinode, individually owned one based on hydrogen and electricity created with renewable wind, solar and backed up with modern nuclear baseload.

With that in mind, I nominate Daniel G. Nocera of MIT whose electrolysis process, that mimics the low cost methods of plant photosynthesis, puts us on the the productive road to clean, low cost energy with zero CO2 emissions.

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

People Are Infrastructure

Whenever I went to Mass, the priest always said the same thing, "the Church is not the building, the Church is the People".

Same here.  People are the infrastructure.

The source of many of our "environmental" problems is that people are herded like cattle into overcrowded cities.   The "answers" are more and more spending to increase densities and hence problems.

Imagine if people had enough money so they didn't have to "go to work" each and every day, and could live on small farms and buy energy efficient fuel cell cars and hydrogen powered houses.

Suddenly we wouldn't need large scale coal fired generators and light rail and carbon scrubbers because we've solved the problem at the demand level.

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

X-Nature

Wolverine writes:

You are, however, correct to imply that walking in boots is unnatural and possibly ecologically harmful, as opposed to walking barefoot.

Right, and having super strong metal knives come out of your knuckles, that's natural...On Rule change would allow more mountain biking in national parks posted 11 months, 1 week ago 11 Responses

Thruppence and sixpence every day

http://gas2.org/2008/12/20/plug-in-hydrogen-fuel-cell-bus ...

The vehicle operates in a similar fashion to other plug-in hybrids, such as the upcoming Chevy Volt, but instead of having a gas- or diesel-powered engine to extend the range of one charge, the Proterra bus uses hydrogen fuel cells. The fuel cells are fed from tanks located on the vehicle's roof, and transform hydrogen and oxygen into water vapor and electricity to charge the batteries.

The fast charge batteries, provided by the Hydrogenics Corporation, are made of lithium titanate -- and it's simply amazing that they can be recharged in 6 minutes. By the time the bus driver finishes his soy chai latte, the bus'll be good to go again.

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

Tires Versus Boots

Let's see...a bike tire is about an inch wide and about 3 inches (at most) long has contact with the ground.   The weight of the bike plus the person is Person + 50 lbs extra approximately.

The hiker wears two boots that are about a foot long and 4 inches wide, so 48 sq. in. of surface area.

The bike is continuous, so in 10 ft of trail, it would be 120 sq. in.  trod upon with Person+50 lbs of force for each 6 sq. in. (two tires).

The person would leave about 10 foot prints or 480 sq. in. of damage with Person lbs of force on each foot print.

A bike moves faster than a person, so the person's presence in nature is much less...less disturbance to wildlife.

You could make a case the bike would create less damage.On Rule change would allow more mountain biking in national parks posted 11 months, 1 week ago 11 Responses

Go With The Floe

http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2101

e360: You've said that adaptation is not a dirty word. What did you mean by that?

Yohe: For a very long time, it seems to a lot of us that the environmental"It seems to a lot of us that the environmental community has looked at adaptation as something to be avoided." community has looked at adaptation as something to be avoided, to be ignored, to be eliminated from the conversations...

e360: Because it was an admission of defeat when it came to tackling global warming?

Yohe: Because it was an admission of defeat to some degree, but also because they thought it takes your eye off the ball of trying to reduce the source of the problem. The Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] has made it very clear that we need to do both adaptation and mitigation, that if we were to shut off greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, we've already committed ourselves to another six-tenths or seven-tenths of a degree of warming over the course of the next century and associated with that warming will be impacts to which we will have to respond. We're committed to a certain amount of sea-level rise that there's nothing we can do about, and we need to prepare for that.

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

Innovation Too Tied To Present

The problem with this type of thinking is that it focuses research and effort on existing ways of doing things.

The alternative is the Defense or Space Program style which exists outside the current system, proposes an impossible target and along the way, creates unexpected order of magnitude innovations.

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

He Fits

Seems like a clean coal and nuke guy to me.

Here's his Impress presentation on Clean Coal from 2007:

http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/opening_remarks ...

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

Dino! Sammy! Grab me a shovel!

Las Vegas gets record snowfall, 3.6 inches

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_on_re_us/western_w ...

LAS VEGAS - Flights resumed in and out of Las Vegas, but schools and highways were closed Thursday after a record-setting snowfall coated marquees on the Strip, weighed down palm trees and blanketed surrounding mountain areas.

The city awoke to clear weather after a storm that left 3.6 inches at McCarran International Airport. It was biggest December snowfall on record there, and the worst for any month since a 7 1/2-inch accumulation in January 1979, forecasters said.

Dampening Science

I'm announcing the formation of a new paradimg: Dampening Science.

http://you-read-it-here-first.com/viewtopic.php?t=3507&am ...

Going into the 21st Century, there was a lot of focus on chaos, and out of control systems. We live in an era where the runaway "forcings" of CO2 may soon melt us. Michael Crichton made millions selling sci-fi about human events that got out of hand -- the Butterfly Effect -- and came back to whomp us!

However, there must be millions of butterflies in China. Is it that only one of a million times a butterflies wings beat in Shaanxi Province and one in a million times the stock market crashes in New York City. Or maybe chaos is more rampant than we think? Often we have illusions about something being rock solid, only to find it's as variable as the wind. House prices were once sacred -- destined to rise -- and now we're looking at 80K 3 bedroom houses in Marisopa, Arizona.

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Easy Go, Easy Come

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/ar ...

The record melting of Arctic sea ice observed this summer and fall led to record-low levels of ice in both September and October, but a record-setting pace of re-freezing in November, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. Some 58,000 square miles of ice formed per day for 10 days in late October and early November, a new record.

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

And to act boldly...

Why is it that I imagine him saying this as model of the U.S.S. Enterprise goes whirling around a CGI of a reddish planet?

Maybe it's the split infinitive.

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." -- Fox Mulder, S1E4, "Conduit"

Want More?

Here's that link:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/200852297 ...

"We get cold weather but this is definitely not normal for this time of year," he said, noting that we're averaging temperatures that are 10 degrees colder than the 36-degree average temperatures typically seen in December.

Seattle Times: Record low temperature set this mor

Sometime before 4 a.m., the mercury at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport dipped to 19 degrees, besting the record low of 20 degrees set for this day 44 years ago.

And the cold isn't over yet.

Our next best chance of breaking a low-temp record will come Friday -- if the forecast holds true with an anticipated 16-degree low. That would be one degree colder than the record low of 17-degrees set for December 19 in 1990, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle.

More Blindness

There are no working batteries of the type that Sci-Fi Environmentalists insist upon.

The people pushing batteries are in cahoots with the electric generation utilities which hope to have a bonanza by getting the public to purchase batteries that:

a. Are inefficient and don't hold charge
b. That drive up demand for electricity
c. That enslave people to the current grid

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Greenest Job of All...Parenthood

I suggest we pay moms (or dads) to stay at home with their kid for the first 10 years of life.

I would pay them $35K per year to do so...a reverse income tax based on a credit.

I would only pay for the first child and put penalties for more than one to discourage overpopulation.

They would get an extra credit of $10K if they contribute significantly to education, either through home schooling, or by volunteering at the public school that their child attends.

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A Different Definition of Green Job

I would like to try a different definition of "Green Job" in terms of the energy usage.

A Green Job is one that:

1. Requires very little travel or daily commuting.

2. Allows a person to use his labor or knowledge locally.

3. Is in a location where basic resources such as housing, food and goods are affordable, so the person isn't dependent on continued high wages and can save money for down times.

4. Requires few physical inputs and is focused on transformations of existing resources, or renewable ones from nature.

5. Has a horizontal management system, like open source developers working via the Internet.

6. Where payment or salary comes from a variety of sources so no one input causes dislocation and movement.

7. Where health care, transportation can be independently managed and purchased at low cost, so that dependencies are minimized and personal control is high.

8. Where food, water, clothing and other resources can be acquired locally and at low cost, so in the case of independent business or consulting, the worker is not entirely dependent on a grid.   The person is "loosely coupled".
   

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Why Are We Here Then?

So, the Medieval Warming was caused by the Sun, but the 1820-present warming is caused by manmade CO2?

Although we are now arguing percentages, this research leaves open the door for two proximate causes to warming.   (And where there's two, maybe there's three or more, as in, a lot...)

Also, during the Medieval Warming, CO2 also rose (the classic Questioner issue of CO2 lagging warming)...in fact, Gore's charts show CO2 rising during all the warming periods -- even when our Hummers had stone wheels like Fred Flintstone's.

So, one would think that a solar induced warming, though small, would lead to greater CO2 emissions from nature (melting tundra, increase vegetive activity) which then leads to a CO2 runaway condition and according to the CO2 theory this CO2 would result in a positive feedback loop of CO2 forcings.  

So why did the Renaissance happen?  Shouldn't we all be dead from rising seas?

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Batteries Not Included

All based on non-existent battery technology...On California to slash greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago 1 Response

Good Jibe

>>Purple Ozone wrote "At the rate Siberia is >>warming up, you won't even need a coat."

Hey good jibe.  I'm sure you find the millions who perished in Stalin's death camps funny as well.  You laugh at all the imprisonment.  It's all very funny to Obama supporters.

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Ideology Used To Punish People

Great, the great Green Terror begins.

Despite telling us he would be "pragmatic" and inclusive, Grist tells us that unless people enslave themselves to name calling and ideology they are sent to Siberia.

Are we creating a dictator?

Republicans are wise to raise their hackles and cast shame on such behavior...

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How Much is Zero?

Gore's influence is as about as much as he would like the ppm of C02 in the atmosphere to go up -- zero.

Gore chose the path of name calling and ideology above consensus and rationality.  

For that he was richly rewarded to the tune of 300 million dollars.   Dollars he promised to help stop global warming.   Dollars that he spent on a houseboat.

Revenge?  Why?  What for?  For running such a terrible campaign following the most popular Presidency in recent history that he was defeated by an unknown Governor from Texas?   For taking a career cul de sac by becoming the Joe McCarthy of science policy?

Could Obama use such a person in his Administration?   No doubt.   He's already shown he's willing to bring in the strongarms like Immanuel when needed.   Thus Gore could become the Climate Enforcer.   When the eggheads and wonks have expended their last sentence, Big Al could come smashing in make them do it.

Only problem is what to do, when to do it...but then that's why you elected Obama...right?

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Now Do You Believe Me?

The Department of Agriculture and the FDA should be somehow combined to create a Department of Ingestion.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/12/4/145754/222/#co ...

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I wish we had one of them doomsday machines...

Chu is hardcore.

According to wiki, he told his staff to look for ways not merely to combat global warming -- but to reverse it!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu

As global warming warnings grow more dire, Chu is currently pushing his scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and industry to develop technologies to reverse climate change.

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Department of the Auto Mobile

I don't know about a "czar" but look at it this way -- there is a huge psychic blindness when it comes to the automobile and planners.

It's the single most used machine in our country.  Millions depend on it.   It's more flexible than a bus, a train or a plane.   It can go in cities, exurbs or agrarian lands or wilderness.

If done right, it can consume very little energy per person.

Yet this all important "transit" system is treated like dirt by bureaucrats and plutocrats whose greatest dream is taking away as much personal liberty as possible and cramming us like sardines into 19th century trolley cars.

I don't want a car czar to manage bailouts.

I want a Secretary of the Automobile.  To give due respect to the technology.   "Auto-" -- the morpheme for self.   "Mobile" the morpheme for movement.

A department to concentrate on these all important devices.  Not just "Roads" -- which are an important technology for todays cars -- but a department to support and nourish the devices themselves, to improve their safety, and fuel efficiency...but most of all to champion the idea of Personal Mobility...the cornerstone of American Freedom!

(I also nominate Bob Lutz.)

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And Now, A Segue

"You're drastically underestimating the problems of living off the grid."

http://gizmodo.com/5104016/dean-kamens-private-island-is- ...

By letting his friends at Philips Color Kinetics take the reigns ol' North Dumpling is now fitted with energy sipping LED lighting inside and out. This resulted in in-house energy consumption dropping by 70%, and ensures his on-site replica of stonehenge gets the dramatic splash of nighttime green and purple it so clearly deserves (total energy reduction was to 50% when all of the new colored outside lighting is factored in). Still, it was enough to take the island entirely off the grid; Kamen produces all of his own juice with wind and solar power.

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Ok, it's warmer

So what?

I like it warm.

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Stay Free of Namecalling Ideologues

Obama must be inclusive, yet he should reject Gore the Namecaller.

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Go H2 Guy

Scientist urges Obama to go H2:

http://waldo.villagesoup.com/opinion/story.cfm?storyID=13 ...

Hydrogen can save economy, and planet

After all, the infrastructure for the Internet and the World Wide Web was put in place in less than a decade. It fundamentally changed how companies do business and how people communicate with each other.

For the first time in human history, we have within our grasp an all-encompassing form of energy. It will truly be democratic energy that should be made available to every human being on Earth.

Change that department

The Department of Agriculture and the FDA should be somehow combined to create a Department of Ingestion.

Ultimately, it's about what we put in our mouths and where it comes from.

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Conan The Vegetarian

I'm with AS.

Let's stop pussyfooting around, and take a mace and start slamming CO2 polluters.

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You Could Capture All CO2 from cars...

...if you created Hydrogen centrally, then distributed it -- cities would immediately become free of toxins in the air.

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Hybrids Continue Reliance on Dirty Fuels

Hybrids are the dirtiest of cars:

1. Continue reliance on dirty fuels based on oil.

2. Have two engines, drive trains, instead of one.

3. Use toxic manufacturing.

4. Use heavy batteries which must be replaced often and create toxic waste.

Great Opportunity

Because the Old Economy is crumbling, and the foreign world seems to have become quiescent (maybe) Barack Obama will have the unique opportunity to remake our economy.

We're basically starting from scratch in so many ways.   As this Slate essay aptly describes...we should be funding the new, not the old.

http://www.slate.com/id/2205995/?ref=patrick.net

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No infrastructure needed

In the sense that a Hummer can go anywhere without roads (or bridges in some instances), and running it on hydrogen from wind/solar, it actually could be less impacting on the earth.

My vision for Agraria has no paved roads in the last 10 miles...so off road vehicles powered by Hydrogen would be used.  

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Something's Fresh in Denmark

We need to stop worrying about coal and move on to Hydrogen -- the Danes are by building H2PIA -- the world's first Hydrogen Community!

http://www.h2pia.com/com/h2pia/materials/H2PIA_Concept_La ...

Based on existing hydrogen and fuel cell technology the building of H2PIA can actually begin in year 2007, and thereby become an early stepping stone towards the future hydrogen economy.

H2PIA - a city based on freedom, clean energy, creativity and innovation

H2PIA is a vision for a complete city, where citizens will produce the energy they need for
themselves. H2PIA will show how we can develop from a society that produces energy by
burning oil, coal and gas, to a hydrogen-based, independent, and pollution-free community.
H2PIA is based upon three values:

* Freedom
Because the citizens of H2PIA are independent of oil. They produce and store their own
fuel in the form of hydrogen, that can deliver energy to both their homes and their cars.

* Clean energy
Because hydrogen is produced from renewable energy sources: sun and wind. And the
only exhaust product left over when it is used is pure water.

* Creativity and innovation
Because the creation of H2PIA demands a close cooperation between the private and
the public sector - between businesses, universities and policy makers.

Experimentation, knowledge, experience, and results must be turned into real-life
products to create a well-functioning and sustainable community where the noisy and
polluting combustion engine is replace by the clean and silent hydrogen fuel cell.

Euclod

I've been running the numbers on "sea ice" and something doesn't add up.

Ok, start with the radius of the Earth...according to Google, its 6378.1 km.    That makes the volume 1086832411937 km^3.   Now, a one millimeter increase in radius, changes the volume by ~ 511 km~3.

The total sea ice volume according to NOAA

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_untersteiner.html

is 175000.000000 km^3.

For these calculations, let's say the Earth is entirely covered in water.   Let's also ignore the change in volume as ice turns to water ( the water would be 92 percent less in volume)

http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/122Adensityice.htm ...

That means if every bit of Arctic Ice melted, at most it would create something like a .3 meter ocean rise.

Yes, 1/3 of a meter, which is about 1 foot.On Island nations call for steep emission cuts to curb rising seas posted 12 months ago 5 Responses

Hydrogen In Da House!

http://www.cop15.dk/en/servicemenu/News/QueenMargretheToO ...

On 15 September, the village of Vestenskov on Lolland, the fourth largest island in Denmark, will take a step closer to becoming Denmark's first hydrogen community, when Queen Margrethe opens the hydrogen supply from a central electrolysis plant to five test houses, writes financial daily newspaper Børsen.

Each house has a hydrogen-powered fuel cell module installed, which will supply heat and electricity. The project is part of Lolland's aim to become a European role model for full-scale hydrogen technology implementation.

Section 9 & Give Us Ford Fiesta Econetic First

Biden,

First things first.

Most of the poor in this country would gain in wealth if they could get off the buses and have a car of their own.

I propose Section 9 -- similar to Section 8 for housing, that would allow poor folk to use a small portion of their income to purchase a car -- like the 68 mpg Ford Fiesta Econetic Diesel.

Oh, and you need to allow Ford to sell it here first, for about $6500 per.

http://www.independent.co.uk/money/invest-save/the-inside ...

The Ford Fiesta Econetic has recently been declared the best value green car by the consumers' group Which? and, according to its manufacturers, offers a fuel consumption rate of 76.3mpg. What's more, its 1.6 litre, turbo diesel engine produces the lowest carbon emissions of all mass-produced cars on sale in Britain, at 98g/km.

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Give Us The Fiesta

Ford has one of the most standard fuel efficient cars: The Econetic Fiesta, 68 mpg diesel.

It's small, efficient and has simple technology that would eradicate all sales of hybrids.

http://wordpress.com/tag/transportation-fuel-economy-gree ...

But they can't sell it here in the US.On Ford planning shift to small cars, company says posted 12 months ago 5 Responses

Why Delay?

Who'd want to delay?

Book your cruise through the Passage now while berths are available!

Enjoy 12 hours of sunshine on the beaches of Siberia.    Or stay a while and buy your very own $12,000 Arctic Dacha!

So call now.  You can't deny these bargains any more!!

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Thanks, Dad, For Messing Up My Climate

Messing it up?  The weather is better every year as far as I see it.

I want to thank my Dad for buying a 6 cylinder 4-door Chevy Impala in 1968 (butternut yellow) and stinking up the Troposphere to high heavens so that I don't have to sludge through blizzards any more and can enjoy moderate winters and mild summers.

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The Joe Biden Prophecies

Maybe Joe Biden should be the new spokesman for Global Warming

http://www.hulu.com/watch/40827/saturday-night-live-road- ...On Climate juggernaut on the horizon, U.N. talks told posted 12 months ago 2 Responses

But Miss Havisham...

Climate "scientists" remind me of Miss Havisham from Great Expections.   There they are, sitting in their yellowing wedding dress from 1998 -- the Last Good Year as far as they were concerned.   If they didn't have that bit of data to cling to, they might have gone on to study real sciences like Physics and Chemistry.  

But no...they cling...cling...cling...to 1998...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11083

The researchers acknowledge that comparing 2001 predictions with just five years of subsequent data represents a very short timescale relative to climate change.

As a result, Rahmstorf and colleagues say it would "premature" to conclude that sea levels will continue to follow the "upper limit line" in future.

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Solution? Global Warming

Interestingly, I noticed that my PSE bill for November went down by about 5 dollars from this month last year.

Reason?  Average temp 44 in 2007, not 48 in 2008 (score one for Hansen).

However, if rising temperatures mean less energy use during winter and not so much air conditioning in summer, then we'll be reducing CO2 like gangbusters, just by going with the flow.

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Stop Foot Dragging, Democrats

Look, you guys have a Democrat President, a full Democrat Congress that is near (or perhaps even truly) filibuster proof.   Al Gore could probably be annointed as a god of State by the current people soon to be in power.

I don't see why you waste your time going after a few people who raised a red flag.

If you want to reduce Co2 emissions -- go ahead.  You have the mandate.

It's like why do SNL comedians still make jokes about Sarah Palin?

Reason -- because it's easier to complain than to get things done.

But when you do -- please take all the responsibility...along with the credit.   If -- o, if -- you should be wrong.

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Slurp...

Yup, every loon group with a mouth to feed is standing in line waiting to eat up at the Federal trough.

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Tyranny of Infrastructure

Infrastructure is a way to extend taxation from the dying urbs into the modern and free exurbs.

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This Guy Makes Sense

This guy makes sense.

Take a look at our "health care crisis".

Well, something like 95 percent of all medical costs occur during the last 8 months of life.

Because we live in a "developed" country, where most natural causes of death have been eradicated, we live long enough for us to die of cancers and heart attacks.   These are not so much diseases as total body failures from age.

Or take that film about Super Sizing.   There are people in this world who eat junk food all the time and yet are skinny as a rail and fairly healthy.    

If we let evolution take its course, McDonalds would be a natural selection agent and eventually our entire population would have a gene pool capable of digesting a quarter pounder without negative effects.

In the same way, I bet there are people now who actually are adapted to both Global Warming and pollution.   If you took some of it away, they might go around coughing and saying things like "the air is so...clear...I think I'm going to stay inside today and maybe run the car's exhaust for a while".  

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3 CEOs and a Buggy

Imagine if the CEOs of the Automotive Big 3 drove into Washington, DC -- in a Chevvy Equinox fuel cell SUV powered by Hydrogen!

Imagine if instead of begging for money they presented the Equinox to the American People and said, "Look at this!  Look at what we can do...a Car with no CO2...that can be powered by a fuel created from wind and solar!"

http://www.chevrolet.com/fuelcell/

People would be standing in line to donate money to the Big Three...happily!

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Solve Agribusiness...solve warming

If we want to reduce CO2 levels, nothing is more important than completely overhauling our agricultural systems.

The entire cycle of inefficiency begins with how we feed ourselves.

We need to put the ideas of Bill McKibben's Deep Economy into practice.

We have to break down the behemoth's into small manageable parcels with more control at the local level.

Local means oversight and participation.  It means seeing where and how CO2 pollution begins and ends, not reading about it in a book or paper.

Luckily we can make these changes without waiting for Government or Agribusiness...we can do these things now, by zoning farmland in the exurbs and using local markets to buy food.

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"jabailo just wants us all to get along"

Yes, the election of Barack Obama has given me a new bi-partisan awareness.

We should stop the name calling and use of evil terms like "denier".

We need to replace the divisive ideologues such as the IPCC and Al Gore with Neo-Pragmatists who can have a wholist worldview of everything as "pollution" tieing in the classical Conservative notion of Goldwater environmental preservation with Obama-ist eco-preservation of jobs and industry.

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Let That Be A Lesson to AGWers

This signals a new pragmatism in Washington.

President Obama doesn't want a bunch of ideologues like Al Gore in Washington.   They simply cause divisiveness and call people nasty names.

I think Sarah Palin's approach was the best: focus on pollution and polluters (including Co2).

Let's work together (in a bi-partisan way), and stop the rampant IPCC ideologues from hampering progress.

Check out the new GM Equinox at your local Chevy dealer.

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Hydrogen Hearse

Pretty soon, inhabitants at the graveyard will be ferried there by Hydrogen Power, as Euros roll out more of their H2 Hyway:

http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage9375.html

The first project was HyWay today at the annual meeting presented: In this North Rhine-Westphalian - Dutch joint project involves the development of a bus line with fuel cell propulsion. The 18 m long articulated buses will be around after a year of development the trial operation in the area of Cologne and Amsterdam record.

Mr. President, Barack, Build The Hydrogen Highway in America!

http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2008/11/24/news/d ...

The Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell vehicle runs on a hydrogen fuel cell; a $24 fill-up will get about 200 miles. Last week General Motors brought one of the gas-free cars -- which are available only as test vehicles -- to Jackson Chevrolet and offered 15 minute test drives.

Obamaspeak dominates

Is everyone going to start talking like Barack Obama now?  

To wit: Pelosi

It is my intention to put forth a renewal of that committee

She's not actually doing anything -- she's renewing a "committee".

in the new Congress, in the rules for the new congress.

It's new...it's green.   It must be good.

I have consulted in bipartisan way on this subject, and I intend to put it in the rules.

In a bi-partisan way?  Well, she is from San Fransico...and yes, she still hasn't done anything, but she will put it in the rules (cough, cough, meanwhile, dying of pollution...)

I think we do have a need for one more term, because our work is not finished. We do not have the climate change legislation

What work?  You don't do any work...you renew things and put them in the rules.   How about shutting down a coal plant and replacing it with hydrogen generators or some nuclear batteries?   How about running your vineyard on a mini-nuke?   Please, Lady, do something!

that I had hoped we might be closer to, at least at this point. The committee serves a tremendous intellectual resource purpose for me to get the scientific basis

Ye, Gods!   She's babbling now!   Did the plastic gel leak out and enter her brain stem?

for how we go forward, and it is a big problem. It is as big as the world, literally and figuratively.

What?  What is a big problem?   Committees that don't last until Doomsday?   Or there not being enough "rules"?

Chairman Markey has done a magnificent job, to use the word again. And I hope he will agree to serve in that position.

Yes, please.   Someone needs a good long rest...it might as well be Markey.   On Pelosi confirms intent to maintain the House global warming committee; Markey stays on posted 1 year ago 1 Response

Like Little Puppies!

Oh, I'm sure glad we didn't vote that old 72 year old John McCain into office.

Nope, now that we've got 69 year old Waxman running around with all those Greenies.

Yeah, Waxman is turning cartwheels.

Oh, and then there's 63 year old Clinton.

Gee, that Obama cabinet smells like patchouli...or is that ben-gay...I can never tell them apart...On Waxman may move to put climate allies at head of key subcommittees posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

Plugins a Bailout for Power Companies

This is why Grist and the power companies have been running H28R articles about hydrogen.  The only way they can survive is by pimping more electricity to energy wasting battery cars that don't work.

Meanwhile the FCX clarity, the Mazda5, the BMW Hydrogen 7 and the GM Equinox continue to roll on...even though the compromised New York Times wrote and anti-Hydrogen hit piece on Honda's new fuel cell sports car which has been getting rave reviews by others.

Hydrogen can't be stopped by Grist, it's Democrat Bailout Buddies, and all the rest.On Big drop in U.S. electricity consumption confounds utilities posted 1 year ago 14 Responses

Insert Batteries Here

the depreciation and replacement of the batteries are built into the financial model of the recharge stations.

Exactly -- in other words, your going to spread the cost of expensive and waste full battery systems all over the consumer and taxpayer when a lost cost Hydrogen system would serve almost everyone much better.

Batteries are heavy, dirty and inefficient.  And they don't work -- no battery is capable of reliable long term, high capacity storage and no battery can be charged in a reasonable amount of time.

Hydyogen is a storage medium for wind and solar power.   And it works great, is cheap, and there are cars like the FCX Clarity, the GM Equinox and now the Madza5.
On Electric-car infrastructure coming to California's Bay Area posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

The Crazy World Of Joseph Romm

you know you've really been so blind.
Now 's your time burn your mind.
You're falling far too far behind.
Oh no, oh no, oh no, you gonna burn!
Fire, to destroy all you've done.
Fire, to end all you've become.
I'll feel you burn!

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_crazy_world_of_arth ...

Tonight
Lows: 36-44

http://www.king5.com/weather/On NOAA: Second warmest October on record posted 1 year ago 4 Responses

Calling All B.S. Detectives: Whaddya Think?

I have always thought the ads and articles for "hydrogen generators" that people stick on their cars were borderline...but here's a guy who's a city engineer, the Chicago Tribune is reporting he's put them on a fire truck, bus, etc...

Beloit tests hydrogen boosters to improve mileage

The city of Beloit is installing hydrogen boosters on three of its vehicles to try to improve their gas mileage.

[...]

Department of Public Works fleet supervisor Dan Lutz says a hydrogen booster usually increases mileage by 20 percent and often by more than 50 percent.

Lutz built a hydrogen booster for his 2004 Dodge Ram truck about six months ago. He says the truck's mileage improved from about 11 miles per gallon to nearly 22 miles per gallon after the first 70-mile test trip.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-hydrogen-car ...
On Volkswagen Jetta TDI: 2009 Green Car of the Year posted 1 year ago 10 Responses

I don't mean to bother ya...

I've been watching old episodes of Columbo on Netflix Watch Now streaming.

In the third season, the episode "Mind Over Mayhem" Columbo is solving a case on the campus of a technological think tank...I think modeled on Rand or SRI.

Everyone on campus has access to a car pool.

At one point early on the mechanic was under a car and talking about the "pilot light".   Hmmm...I thought it was just an expression.  But no, what it was is that all the cars there ran on natural gas!

Yeah, I know it was just a drama, but I think a lot of Columbo ideas were based on real world things...I kind of made me wonder if there were campuses with cars in 1973 that ran on natural gas.

And even if there weren't, here was the idea being presented on prime time television -- 1973!!
On Actor touts renewable energy 30 years ago posted 1 year ago 4 Responses

Demo-Barnacles

Now I feel differently about the Trolls in the comments above.

I too feel differently about the barnacles.

I feel that so Obama promised so many different things to people that he will be unable to deliver.

He says he's for coal...or against it...or both.

In fact, that's his stand on almost everything.  

On 60 Minutes President Obama compared himself to Lincoln.

So how he forgot Lincoln's words:

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Why Didn't I Think of THAT !?!?

From the article

So how do you get costs to come down? Several ways, it turns out.

First, obviously, is by improving the technology.

Improving the techlogy!  

Quickly, Watson, call the Patent Office!On Are we nearing a breakthrough on electric cars? posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

Transportation Independence

The beauty of private transport is that it takes away power from centrist bureaucracies and puts it in the hands of the people.

Each individual controls a part of the "system" rather than letting a few people take all the marbles.
 On To save themselves, the Big Three should become 'transportmakers' posted 1 year ago 15 Responses

Cap and Bail

Bailout?

Sure...but first cap executive pay.

$100,000 is max from CEO on down.

No perks until company is solvent and all loans are paid.
On Because small fixes make the biggest difference posted 1 year ago 12 Responses

Hard For Some...

it will be much more difficult to find the money to build smarter infrastructure and for innovation and research.

Really?  

Right now Honda is leasing (on a limited basis) the FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell powered cars to real people in Los Angeles.

They built and deployed a 21st century car that works in the real world, this year, 2008.

And they're solvent.On Nix fuel-efficiency requirement from Big Auto loan, says White House posted 1 year ago 11 Responses

It's Not the Size of CO2, it's what you do with it

Well, one thing that is not accounted for in these schemes is that all CO2 production seems neutral.

That is, if someone burns leaves in his backyard or a coal plant keeps people alive with heat during winter, both are putting CO2 into the atmosphere.

In the first, case, it couldn't possibly be regulated except with an outright ban.

In the second, you would seem to have to make allowances, or end up with crazy laws to reimburse people who live in cold places if the carbon tax makes their heat too expensive.
On Why should we assume that a carbon tax will be simple and transparent? posted 1 year ago 11 Responses

November Redux

I hope the next administration completely eliminates subsidies to fossil fuel based farming.

LMAO!!!

Har Har Har!!!

Obama is the Son of Corn!  His state and his backers the people that Pollan is talking about.

Now you expect him to "do something"!

Give me a break...try reading something before pulling the level in the voting booth....On Confirming Pollan, PNAS study shows that fast-food chains mainly peddle corn posted 1 year ago 12 Responses

Mini Love Nest

I didn't know this car was a manual!

That's not a stick shift.

Ohh...On From Backseat to Front Seat posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

Hellish "Coal"-alition

Yes, this is exactly the type of "flim-flamming" that Grist Environmentalists have been espousing from the get go.   Now we see it in all its silliness.On Utilities ponder big buy of electric cars posted 1 year ago 5 Responses

From the detritus...

There is only one car among the Big Three worth saving...the hydrogen fuel cell powered Sequoia SUV.

I would shut down all of Detroit except for the factory that makes Sequoia hydrogen cars.

Then I would regrow the industry with seed capital money based on that single car.On Republicans refuse bailout; Obama wants auto czar posted 1 year ago 13 Responses

30 Years Later...

In July 1979...the panel concluded that the potential damage from greenhouse gases was real and should not be ignored.

C'mon greenhouse gases, come and get me...neaahhh...

Some threat -- still waiting.

Warming is a threat that started in 1820 and we have yet to see anything other than superabundance coming from it.

Greenhouse Gases,  your mother wears Army boots...yeah...On Killing the myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus posted 1 year ago 4 Responses

Where Are the Bond Girls?

Seems like every advertisement has Bond with his shirt off.

Where's the Bond girls...I mean, that's why everyone goes to see these movies...right?
On James Bond a not-so-secret green agent posted 1 year ago 9 Responses

Arrest Themselves

The backwards looking Statists of Seattle are trying to entrap more and more tax monies.

Like the tire repair person who puts nails on the road so he can "fix" the problem, the Bureaucrats do the following:

1. Restrict land with GMA.
   
2. Drive up land costs.
   
3. Cause density.
   
4. Manipulate land prices with light rail and other boondoggles.
   
5. Create density oriented "remedies" to solve the problems they caused.

Putting on the Ritz

Greatest economic slow down ever.

Declines in gasoline demand.

Sounds like the 1930s -- the other time that there was the hottest temperatures ever.

Seems like there's an inverse relationship between industry and temperature...wouldn't ya say?On NASA says October is sixth warmest on record posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

Capitalist Rampage: Get Out of Our Way!

All of the current 20th century style Democrats who are salivating at the thought of building regulatory bureaucracies and dipping their paws in the public tax monies had better think again.

We are living in Gold Rush times.

The old economies of the DOW are falling to the floor.

But the new Hydrogen Economy and Nanotech Economy and Linux Netbook Economy are ready to burst through the ground and sprout up.

The last thing we want is a bunch of Clinton bureaucrats and Goremeisters to come in and prevent these natural market forces from saving us.On Seven post-financial-crisis opportunities for healthier economies posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

No Problemo

The immigration rate from Mexico to the US dropped to near zero starting in 2006.

The birth rate among Mexicans plunged from 6 to 2 in recent years.

That means the wall serves us better to keep our Mexican brothers in, not out, of the US. On Obama's pledge on the border wall posted 1 year ago 8 Responses

And we were so nice to her...

I hope Palin can jack up the price as revenge from all you nasty mean spirited misogynists who lambasted here.

Some are seeing the light...

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/11/12/cami ...On Lots of natural gas is chillin' on Alaska's North Slope, says USGS posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

Elect a Ponzi Schemer??

Google the former high flyer is now trading BELOW $300.

While officially GOOG came on the market at $200, that was after the "Dutch auction" initial pricing for insiders.   Most people bought at $400 or higher up to its lifetime high of near $800.

If GOOG goes back to $200 that's nearly 3/4ths of people's capital being stolen by the Google Surfboard Crooks.
On Google's CEO is the one person who can engineer the transition posted 1 year ago 4 Responses

More Capital for Advances

We must move on to hydrogen and the lower gas costs free even more capital to develop those projects.On Why taxes can't get us where we need to go on transportation posted 1 year ago 17 Responses

Subvert the Workers: Make Them G-7s

Instead of presenting workers with options like "you're killing the rest of us, we're shutting down your coal plant"; how about making good on all those promises of "Green Jobs" and starting to transfer those workers to them?

For example, you cite 184,000 workers.

Well, heck, if I were to put them all on the Government payroll for say $50,000 a year (they live in Appalachia so that's like $5 million) the total cost would be:

184,000 x $50,000 = $9,200,000,000

We are still trying to bail out Wall Street AIG with a $85 billion salve -- yet, we can put the entire coal industry on retainer for a mere $9 billion for a year, or for an entire decade for the price of the AIG bailout!!

 On What's the best way to phase out the huge fleet of aging coal plants? posted 1 year ago 6 Responses

Obama Grew Taller than Corn

I think that Obama may have been more in their pockets as a Senator, but has now built such a national base that he can rise above the regional corn and coal interests.
On Will new prez toe the agribiz line on food policy? posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

"Hyper" passe

Anything word that starts with "Hyper-" is passe ever since the book "Hype" was published back in the 80s.

However, "staycation" is truly original and much more in with the tenor of the Summer of 2008.On 'Hypermiling' is the word of the year posted 1 year ago 1 Response

e-Dreams Come True

Long live Kozmo.com

It never should have "busted".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.comOn UPS to deliver by b-i-k-e? posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

Or, We Could Just Wreck The Economy...

Luckily for you, Wall Street has pretty much dismantled the remains of the DOW and the industrial economy, including GM, the oil companies, and the Federal Treasury.  

If any CO2 is produced down the pike in 2012, it will be by a bunch of bums standing around a rusty drum trying to keep warm by burning books from the library.On Stabilize at 350 ppm or risk ice-free planet, warn NASA, Yale, Sheffield, Versailles, Boston et al posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

Make Sure To Paint Them Day Glo

You can put those windmills 20 miles out, and no doubt one, if not more, drunk Kennedys will find a way to scuttle their yachts on them.On RFK Jr. and other prominent enviros face off over Cape Cod wind farm posted 1 year ago 57 Responses

CTOs, Chiefs and Czars

Man, you guys are in love with petty power bosses.

How about dethroning a lot of the warlords as a solution instead of setting up more under the guise of "helping people"?On Michael Pollan and other food authors and activists offer their elevator pitches for Obama posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

Any Sufficiently Developed Culture...

Alternatively, one can propound that once a civilization reaches a certain state of abundance, people will arise to criticize it and make everyone feel guilty.

Thus, an alternative is to buy more salad shooters and lead enriched tot toys in order to promote Chinese development and hope that their version of Al Gore will emerge.On Chinese Premier: Rich nations should ditch 'unsustainable' lifestyles and stop buying our crap posted 1 year ago 5 Responses

CO2 -- Two Things We Want!

In all this hoopla over CO2 remember, CO2 is two things we want:

Carbon
Oxygen

Plants know how to use CO2...why can't we?  We're supposedly more evolved, or something...On Scientists eye rock that converts CO2 to solid mineral posted 1 year ago 4 Responses

Translation

I have enough oil in my state to completely trash your farm subsidy laden, ethonol spiking, tax money gobbling Illinois...buddy.On Palin offers the help that Obama has not yet asked for posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

Those Fabulous Fire Island Parties!

This guy looks like the cloned son of Roy Cohn.On Emanuel, tapped as Obama's chief of staff, has a respectable green record posted 1 year ago 5 Responses

Revealed Fears From Agraria

I just added story about my superstuct, Agraria, that reveals some of my fears about this renewed interest in "rail".

http://superstructgame.org/StoryView/808On A real path to energy independence posted 1 year ago 31 Responses

A Word From Barack Obama...

I want to thank these world leaders for sending a message...a message that will be heard by men, women and children around the world.   This message is of bodaciousness.  The bodaciousness to enact a world of change...in a world of chaos.

And I thank you...Canada and the Netherlands, for making a smog of hope out of a smog of despair!

And you India for...um.....what?  No message from India?  Ok...let me start again....

And you China, for.......what?   Them too?  Well did you call them to see what's up?  

Darn!On World leaders express hope that Obama will actively address climate change posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

Seems slow...

http://www.monorails.org/tmspages/MagShang.html

"The Transrapid in Shanghai has a design speed of over 500 km/h (310 mph) and a regular service speed of 430 km/h (267 mph). Shanghai Maglev is the fastest railway system in commercial operation in the world. Other maglev lines are under consideration in China."On A real path to energy independence posted 1 year ago 31 Responses

The Web Has No C.E.O.

The web and Internet don't have CTO's.

But if America wants a Project Lead, I'd make it Linus Torvalds.On John Doerr recommends Bill Joy for chief technologist posted 1 year ago 5 Responses

Does Obama Have any Friends his Age?

Is Barack a senophile or something?

Where's the change?

These are the same jokers from 1996?!On Obama names advisers to his transition team for energy and environmental issues posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

Get Beyond the Big Wigs!

That's right...listen to the people.

We need to move beyond the fat cats of Green like Hollywood Superstars and former Clinton appointee (Gore) and ask the People what they think!On Obama plans green listening tour posted 1 year ago 5 Responses

Barack H2 Obama

One Hydrogen acolyte looks forward to a hydrogen friendly Barack:

http://hydrogendiscoveries.wordpress.com/category/barack- ...

However, one reason I voted for Obama was because I strongly believe that he will surround himself with the right people and make the best decision once he knows the facts. Basically, I think he will take the time to learn more about alternative energy and then likely become a strong supporter of hydrogen, because it is clearly the best option.

Maybe the H stands for Barack "Hydrogen" Obama.
On Obama triumphs, names environment and energy as priorities posted 1 year ago 11 Responses

Master the Possibilities!

Any chance to plug this site:

Oil is Mastery
http://oilismastery.blogspot.com/

And we all know, oil is abiotic, and nearly limitless.On Green groups dropping big cash on independent expenditures for this year's election posted 1 year ago 1 Response

My 3 cents for environmentalists

Go back to the classics: Hooty the Owl and Blackfeet walking along highway margins, shedding tears.

The faster you guys distance yourselves from the whole Global Warming scam, the more likely the public will actually want to fund you.

Concentrate on the big three:

Clean Water
Clean Air
Clean Land

And skip the parlour games...On McCain adviser repeats myths about climate change posted 1 year ago 4 Responses

Everything but...

Hey, Grist, here's the perfect story for you...a youngish celebrity buying an expensive bit of green technology.  She's even been in movies that run the full spectrum of sexuality.  

Oh, but wait...you'll never mention it because the technology is HYDROGEN, not a toyota hybrid...

http://www.newcarnet.co.uk/BMW_news.html?id=8600

"Hollywood actress Hilary Swank is the latest star to receive a set of keys to a BMW Hydrogen 7.

Hilary Swank is a two time Academy Award-winning Best Actress for 'Boys Don't Cry' and 'Million Dollar Baby'."On Ford rehires truck manufacturers posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

Taxis and Cars Cheaper

In Seattle fares cover 6 percent of costs.

The cost of a fare is $2.

So the real cost of a bus ride is

$2 = 6/100 x real cost

real cost = $200/6 = $33.

Now, spread that among 3 people sharing a cab and those 3 bus fares would buy you nearly $100 worth of taxi -- more than enough to cover most daily commutes.On NYC cabs don't have to bump up fuel efficiency, judge rules posted 1 year ago 10 Responses

Science by Volume

There is too much additional evidence to make it very likely.

Funny, but AGW theory reminds me of the old joke about business.

We lose a little bit on each sale.

How do you stay in business?

Volume!

So, everytime a single point is defeated, the AGW zombie says "oh yeah, but what about all the other evidence"?  

Yeah, but that evidence is just as skakey and refutable as the current diatribe!

So there is no preponderance of evidence, because each individual point is completely farcical!
On Polar warming directly attributed to humans, study says posted 1 year ago 13 Responses

Why Synchronize?

Does it really matter?   I mean, most people in modern jobs make their own working hours.   Who cares when the Government tells us to wake up and go to bed?

I watch shows whenever I want to on hulu.com or movies on Netflix.   I go to the gym when I feel like it at 24 Hour Fitness.  

Clocks mean nothing to me.On Daylight saving wastes energy posted 1 year ago 5 Responses

Taxis are real mass transit

Taxis are the real answer to "mass transit".

They can serve wherever private cars cannot meet demand.

Yet, like Hydrogen, they fall prey to over regulation on the one side, and predatory business practices on the other.

Taxis are the best, most efficient way to "mass move" people in the current isnfrastructure and can serve both city, suburb, exurb and Agraria.

But all the top level interests converge to prevent this...
On NYC cabs don't have to bump up fuel efficiency, judge rules posted 1 year ago 10 Responses

Obama's Worst Enemy: The Printed Word

Obama's worst enemy is the printed word.

He is a concoction of looks, voice and media hype.

How many times has the press sat down one on one with Barack Obama and really tried to understand what he wants.

I still get this chilly, icy feel when he speaks.  

But, worst of all, is reading in print what he says.

Get his speeches...and perform an exegesis on the text.  There's nothing there!   He says one thing, negates it and then negates it again.

I think most of his followers are hypnotized.  

Obama talks nonsense of such a high level that the press are too taken in by his b.s. to challenge him.On New McCain ad highlights him and Obama agreeing on global warming posted 1 year ago 1 Response

Hydrogen the Linux of Energy

I'm trapped between two evils:

Evil Number 1) Monopolistic organizations that want to turn back time and force me to use their outdated technology (Windows).

Evil Number 2) Greedy Greens that want me to pay taxes and tariffs for super expensive because they tell me these are somehow better (Mac OSX).

What I want is simple, clean and the ability to control the process like Hydrogen.  Give me the LINUX of energy -- Hydrogen!On Report shows how world can eliminate fossil fuels by 2090 while sustaining economic growth posted 1 year ago 11 Responses

Homesteading

The real need in this country is to release BLM land to homesteaders...people need to spread out from the exurbs into Agraria.

We each need 2 acres per household.   We need to abandon the high cost, high density cities and return to the land.   We need to escape the robber barons and bureaucrats that enslave us to oil and light rail.

Hydrogen will be the Conestoga wagon of the 21st century!On BLM proposes opening wilderness-y areas in Utah to oil and gas drilling posted 1 year ago 5 Responses

22 Percent of Transit...for Bikes and Walking ?!!!

I found this out in my recent Kent Bicycle Advisory Board meeting.   A national study to determine where Americans would spend transit dollars had a seismic shift over the last decade -- and it was conducted way before the worst of the gas price increases.

Whereas most thought only 1 percent of funding should go to bike and pedestrian roads in 1998...ten years later most would put 22 percent of funding into bikeways and sidewalks!!

http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/newsmail.asp?art=6854& ...

-> According to an article in the Oct. 27th edition of Smart Growth Online, "Even before gas prices spiked high above $4 per gallon this spring and summer, a Harris Interactive poll found last December that 81 percent of Americans would radically change federal outlays of the 1998 Transportation Efficiency Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) from 79 percent for roads, 20 percent for mass transit, and 1 percent for biking and walking, to 37, 41, and 22 percent, respectively, in its 2009 replacement bill."

http://www.bikewalk.org/news.php
On Surveys show Americans more concerned about energy prices than environment posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

2 years too late

Ha...Mexican immigration has ground to a halt in the last two years.

It got zero play in this year's election because it's no longer an issue.

Mexico's economy has stabilized the birth rate has gone to 2 and might drop lower.

The good news is that you Yankees are going to pay through the nose for labor.

Ha!On California group attempting to stoke anti-immigration sentiment among enviros posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

America's Favorite Teenager!

Hey it's Veronica Mars!

Aren't you too young to vote?
On Veronica Mars campaigns for the Earth posted 1 year ago 1 Response

Big Beautiful Autos

http://www.chevrolet.com/equinox/

Chevy Equinox.

The unsung hero of green transport.

Fuel cell powered.

Or hybrid.

Here today.On Chrysler puts kibosh on hybrid SUVs posted 1 year, 1 month ago 4 Responses

Translation: We Were Snookered

So after all is said and done, we were basically fooled into wrecking our economy by smarter strategists in India and China.

While we piddled around worrying about the sky falling, they surged ahead and continued to grow their economies, CO2 be darned.

Those who aided China and India in their quest, like Bono and Gore, were rewarded.   On China concedes its CO2 emissions have caught up to the U.S. posted 1 year, 1 month ago 3 Responses

Pull His String

Obama is a puppet of corn.

Pull his string, out comes a subsidy.

Obama is Yellow...not Green.

Vote McCain-Palin

We'll take on the Polluters.
On Democrat gets black mark from environmental lobby for backing of corn-based ethanol posted 1 year, 1 month ago 13 Responses

Palin Right: Pollution Problem Not Climate Change

I noticed that a year or two ago, almost every other article in Grist was about the dire consequences of Climate Change.

Well, that Millenarial Movement has long since been repudiated and it's obvious that the saner members of the ecology movement are focusing on the meat and potatoes: pollution.

Sarah Palin is the only candidate who speaks about "pollution".  She's the only one who focuses on clean air and who has left the smoke and mirrors of Gorism not delude her.

That's what leadership is...staying on target.
On Oregon guv outlines climate-change-fightin' plans posted 1 year, 1 month ago 1 Response

Superstruct To The Rescue!!

You guys should check out the SuperStruct Game.  It's a way of creating solutions to future threats, in text and then having people group together and discuss and problem solve.

I created a SuperStruct called "Agraria" which I use to solve the land poorness of current exurbia.

My SuperStruct is here:

http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/438

The game's home page:

http://superstructgame.org/

 On 'I was just reading an article in The New York Times by Michael Pollan about food' posted 1 year, 1 month ago 11 Responses

Try Living on $300 A Year

He says he'll spend $15 billion to create 5 million jobs over the decade.

$15,000,000,000
_____   =  $3000 total per job

5,000,000

Over 10 years?    $300 per job.

I guess Obama's math is as bad as his politics...On Obama pitches green to 100K posted 1 year, 1 month ago 4 Responses

And When They Grow Up?

And find out GW is all smoke and mirrors, they'll become Energy Junkies, blazing incandescent bulbs night and day in their room!On A talk that's tougher than 'the birds and the bees' posted 1 year, 1 month ago 3 Responses

Me Neither

I've been investigating the Global Warming Scam for two years now, and there's not a shred of truth in any of it.On Palin can't name a single man-made cause of climate change posted 1 year, 1 month ago 7 Responses

Not Any More

The US mostly added citizens from Mexico.

However, in the last 2 years, that immigration has dwindled to near zero.

Europe grew due to middle eastern migration...in some countries reaching 20 percent of the total population.

My guess is that growth is not sustainable either.

What is different about us is that while many European countries are at the top of the density chart, the US is near the bottom!

We have bigger houses, live further apart and travel longer distances to do stuff.On Population growth and climate: The E.U.-15 vs. the U.S. posted 1 year, 1 month ago 4 Responses

Row Back? That's All Greens Do

The people in this world most hindering progress are the Greens.  It is they whose only bent is to impose taxation on us and to criticize anything that doesn't result in the formation of a large government agency for them to sup from.

The obvious answer to clean fuel is hydrogen.

I defy you to find me one Green person who acknowledges this.

Yet, they are mired in the technologies of the 20th century.

They don't recognize nanotechnology, fuel cells, material sciences.   They do recognize windmills.
On Identifying one of the great misunderstandings of our political age posted 1 year, 1 month ago 4 Responses