BAD NEWS ABOUT WIND ENERGY AND BIOMASS

Just when you thought wind energy and biomass were mostly good and abundant come news that the potential of our winds should be reduced by a factor of ten, and biomass burning is WORSE than coal.  You would think that this is the usual diatribe funded by fossil fuel companies, but, apparently not.David Keith of Harvard and his former student, Amanda Adams, now at the University of North Carolina, say that we need to pay attention to wind availability...

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EXCITING SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS

RenewableEnergy.World.com recently had an article by Jim Snyder of Bloomberg (right) with a somewhat deceptive title, "Cultivating Bipartisan Support for Biofuel from Germs," that unknowingly diminished the relevance of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (or ARPA-E).  This office, recommended by the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2007 created by Congress, was not funded until 2009 through the economic stimulus program,...

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PROJECT FOR ASTEROID TERMINATION (PAT)

You can find hundreds of doomsday scenarios.  At random I clicked on Yahoo Voices and saw the following:1. A great unseen comet colliding with earth. (to the left, a painting of a comet hitting Earth...by a six year old boy).2. The Earth colliding with another unknown planet. 3. A Gamma Ray bombardment from space. (Loss of the Power Grid and all Electronics)4. Solar Storms. (Violent storms on Earth)Wassily Kandinsky...

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HITLER, CLAY-LISTON AND 26 LAUGHS

It's Monday morning, a little more than 300 days until Christmas.  Not much happened in history today.  Adolf Hitler in 1932 became a German citizen.  In 1964 Clay (before he became Ali) fought Liston.  Watch the entire circus:  the weigh-in when Cassius Marcellus went berserk, introductions of Sugar Ray Robinson and Rocky Marciano, the fight, with Joe Louis providing color, and the surprising ending, for Clay was a...

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NASCAR AND OSCAR

I'll start with NASCAR, but scroll down to the Academy Awards if you're not into car racing.The National Association for Stock Car Racing, or NASCAR, began their season today with the Daytona 500 start above.   Last night there was a second-tier race in Daytona where the crowd suffered with 33 casualties, although no one died.  Today, a couple of non-lethal accidents (first one to the left).It is said that these stock cars had an early...

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