The politics of progress; cleantech, the economy, antiwar
The primary goal of the project is to demonstrate that advanced control technology with energy storage can help expand the delivery of wind energy by effectively increasing the capacity of constrained transmission facilities in the area.
Power generated by the turbines will be stored for future use in the flywheels. IN addition, they flywheels aid in frequency regulation.
New Merrill Lynch disclosure shines a perjurious light on Ben Bernanke’s sworn testimony.
Honesty is for the little people.
SEC, Fed alerted by Merrill of Lehman balance sheet games in March 2008
So which theory is it: stunning bureaucratic incompetence, wishful thinking and denial? Or a cover up? Or a combination of the above?
I vote for open corruption. The financial records of all regulators involved need to be examined by forensics. Then we’ll really get somewhere.
Folks, if all this happened in a third world country we’d be chortling about how corrupt their government is, right?
Congress demands explanation from Bernanke on why Goldman And Ex-Fed board member Stephen Friedman illegally bought shares of Goldman in December 2008.
Congress is pretending to be investigating yet more criminality out of Goldman and out of the New York Fed, and specifically the nexus where the two streams intersect – Goldman’s very own/the Fed’s very ex-own, Stephen Friedman. We can’t wait to see how quick before this investigation quietly disappears.
Sen. Dodd calls for criminal probe into Lehman Brothers. See above, especially considering Dodd is a snake who routinely pretends to champion the little guy then reverses course at the last moment. However, they may need a few sacrificial lambs (conveniently from now-defunct investment banks) to throw to the growing mob of peasants with pitchforks outside.
This is a seriously big deal. It’s A USB compatible universal charger that shuts off the power when the device is charged, saving huge amounts of energy.
It’s the eco-friendly charging solution for your mobile phone. Conventional chargers left plugged in – even when not actively charging – can draw as much as 5 to 20 times more energy than stored in the battery. The advanced, energy-saving AT&T ZERO Charger outperforms other chargers by automatically shutting down when not in use. “Vampire draw” is 100% eliminated and you’ll never have to unplug your charger again! Plus, USB compatibility makes the AT&T ZERO Charger a convenient charging station for many mobile devices!
I bet they sell a zillion of them. Good.
That’s just the way it is now. People’s attention is elsewhere, on the economy, healthcare, jobs. There’s no focus on the wars nor have the organizers of today’s marches changed tactics to meet our changed times. So, it’ll just be preaching to the choir and I bet not much of the choir shows up this time.
And I say that as someone who helped organize multiple, sometimes huge, anti-Iraq war protests from 2004-2007.
Also, it’s now obvious that much of the anti-Iraq war sentiment at earlier protests was really anti-Bush and many liberal and progressives don’t yet want to speak out against Obama. Add to that the organizer’s insistence on dragging in most every far left issue into the mix, as they always do, and you almost guarantee the mainstream won’t show up.
New tactics are needed, tactics that genuinely reach out to the mainstream and address their concerns. That’s how to build an authentic mass movement.
He expressed “shame and remorse” and said “your trust had been betrayed and your dignity has been violated” then managed to imply that secularization of society was at least partly to blame. Who knew that secularization was a factor in infants being beaten bloody and preteen boys being raped.
The rest is about what you’d expect from the man who, in 2001, ordered clergy under threat of excommunication to not cooperate with authorities and to never share information. There are no specific calls to action, no acknowledgment that the problem is massive and the cover-up huge. He doesn’t even call for the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady of Ireland who was present when two victims were sworn to secrecy and who has stonewalled consistently about a viciously pedophile priest.
Email from a reader
Larry Lessig is still working to push a Constitutional Amendment, but he’s got a new idea that’s really interesting: pass an amendment that doesn’t deny corporations are people, it just says they aren’t citizens. This would go a long way to allowing Congress to prevent unlimited corporate spending – especially by foreign interests – during the last 60 days of a campaign.
Lessig debuted this idea yesterday and says
This is not about suppressing speech; on the contrary, I think we should encourage the broadest range of speech possible. Instead, this is about carefully and respectfully ensuring that our leaders are dependent on no one but the citizens whom they represent.
By 2020, Scotland expects to power 750,000 homes with commercial-scale wave and tidal power
Discover Magazine has a slideshow of the wave and tidal devices that will be used, such as the pictured tidal turbine.
PS These devices do not include Scotland’s vast potential amount of offshore wind power. That’s a whole separate subject.
Georgia leads the list, as usual. They’ve had way more failures than any other state. Incompetence? Corruption?
Marc Cooper reports from a Tea Party meeting in Arizona in support of Republican primary challenger J.D. Hawyorth against that well-known commie, Marxist McCain.
Heading this evening to a meeting of local Tea Party folks where J.D. will be the guest speaker. If there are any plans for credibile resistance to the Commie yolk being imposed by the Obama-McCain axis I will send out a coded message. Make the the diodes implanted in your neck on switched to receive mode.
In related news, from Feb. 28
Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways with the Right from DANGEROUS MINDS on Vimeo.
It was the blog post heard ’round the world. When Charles Johnson wrote Why I Parted Ways With The Right in the space of a few minutes and posted it on his popular Little Green Footballs blog, he had no idea the firestorm it would set off. Nasty denunciations, death threats and a New York Times magazine feature article later, Charles Johnson joined me for a lively discussion about what happened to him, the Darwin-hating, know-nothing Creationists and the frenzied insanity (and racism) of the anti-Obama right.
Next step for the Fed weasels – petitioning the Supreme Court in an attempt to completely trample America’s constitution
What is the Fed hiding? They’re like the Catholic Church when it comes to stonewalling and refusing to release information.
The fine is a minor slap on the wrist. And it avoids criminal prosecution against the bank. Of course no one there any clue how this happened and promises to take remedial action.
Asked if Wachovia knew it was drug money, [DEA Special Agent] Trouville said, “I don’t think I can comment on whether Wachovia knew it was drug money. There were no effective procedures in place to be able to tell them that.”
If this happened in in a third-world country, we’d say their banking system is just completely corrupt, right?
It is an obscenity that no one is being criminally prosecuted. Do we even have rule of law in this country any more?
Time Magazine says maybe our schools are pointless and if your kid drops out, maybe he has a better idea of what to do. Seriously.
Imagine a future in which millions of families live off the grid, powering their homes and vehicles with dirt-cheap portable fuel cells. As industrial agriculture sputters under the strain of the spiraling costs of water, gasoline and fertilizer, networks of farmers using sophisticated techniques that combine cutting-edge green technologies with ancient Mayan know-how build an alternative food-distribution system. Faced with the burden of financing the decades-long retirement of aging boomers, many of the young embrace a new underground economy
Glendale Stewart is already doing this in Detroit. He bought a vacant lot there, put a fence around it, lives in a trailer. He has bicycle-powered electricity, gets water from rain, do a few odd jobs, doesn’t really need money, and has no bills.
Urbanophile profiles him and his blog, Detroitblog, which is a must-read.
My news and Weather iPhone screen
This is my iPhone News / Weather screen.
Sue says my arranging iPhone screens by category then alphabetizing them is a symptom of geek obsessiveness. Hmmm.
The Vindicator fiber optic laser wind sensing system measures real-time horizontal and vertical wind speed and direction at varying ranges out to 300 meters ahead of the sensor. When mounted on a wind turbine nacelle, this forward-looking information facilitates smarter turbine control for increased power output and reduced turbine stress.
