Another reason carbon capture won’t work
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2007 21:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
Because it can’t effectively be implemented until at least 2025, which is far too long to wait, assuming it could even work.
Archive for November 23rd, 2007
Bloomberg cramming on foreign policy
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2007 14:34 - Category: Election 2008 ;
Sounds like he wants to run after all.
Biomass power plants
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2007 11:49 - Category: Unfiled ;
They can generate electricity from waste wood and biomass from agriculture. One such plant being planned for Wales will be able to power half their homes. Which sounds like a major wow, except that “virgin wood chips” might be used, and that’s not waste at all, but enormous numbers of trees being cut down. Plus, there’s the transportation problem. You have to get the fuelstock to the plant.
But even with all that, these plants won’t be using coal, and will burn quite clean, definitely an improvement.
Spray on condoms
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2007 07:21 - Category: Unfiled ;
The system works a bit like a car wash. The man put his penis in a chamber and presses a button to start the jets of liquid latex, sucked from a detachable cartridge.
Just the thing for those romantic moments - and it only takes 20-25 seconds to dry.
Britain to send dissident back to Uzbekistan
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2007 00:23 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Uzbekistan;
Jahongir Sidikov is a member of an opposition party in Uzbekistan. He has been denied political asylum in Britain and may soon be sent back where he will almost certainly face hideous torture. British authorities know this because they’ve sent suspected terrorists there to be tortured for information. Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan who was forced out after exposing this complicity in torture is trying to mobilize support for Sidikov.
How on Earth can we consider deporting dissidents back to Uzbekistan. Do Ministers not know what happens in that country, or do they just not care? And why can’t I get any politician, journalist or official even vaguely interested? Even on the internet, no prominent bloggers have shown any interest. To sit in a condemned cell awaiting a relatively quick death must be awful. But to await the kind of things the Uzbek security services will do to you - and to be awaiting them in England - is unthinkable.
School funds leaking like SIV
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2007 00:12 - Category: Credit crisis ;
Schools have been parking funds in supposedly safe pools that got slightly higher rates than money market funds. Trouble is, the pools were goosing the yield with highly risky SIVs - and many of them have now defaulted, something which could have disastrous consequences for the schools.
Most SIVs currently can’t even be priced, so the pools couldn’t sell them even if they wanted to.
Expect massive lawsuits from municipalities against investment banks for leading them down this toxic road.
