Month December 2006

More on solar power towers

EnviroMission is planning “world’s first large-scale solar thermal power station” which will generate a whopping 200MW. Their website has a useful animation about this type of tower works. It’s quite simple, low maintenance, and totally passive. All that’s needed is…

Riverbend returns

3000 Americans dead over nearly four years? Really? That’s the number of dead Iraqis in less than a month. The Americans had families? Too bad. So do we. So do the corpses in the streets and the ones waiting for…

Mogadishu

The former Somali PM returned to Mogadishu in a heavily armed convoy and was greeted by hundreds of supporters, says CBS News. Um, if there were only “hundreds” showing support wthen maybe the populace is totally on board? Or maybe…