Bob Morris @ May 14th 2008 22:15 - Category: Energy conservation, Renewable energy ;
Not only is it the right thing to do, greening your business can save money, as Qualcomm has found. They use waste heat from servers to create power, built floors that cut down on cooling costs, use virtualization instead of buying more servers - and more.
Bob Morris @ May 14th 2008 16:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
From Synergic Earth News
Had the Soviet Union, the weaker of the two great powers of the second half of the last century, simply imploded first, while the U.S., enwreathed in a cloud of self-congratulation, was almost unbeknownst to itself also slowly making its way toward an exit? And, as a final irony, Klare — author of the not-to-be-missed new book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet — points out, energy has refloated Russia, even as it’s sinking us.
Yet Russia is hardly immune from peak oil, their supplies are peaking and massive corruption by the state is hardly making things better for the populace at large. China has so many problems and is so vast that it’s difficult to see how they can solve them. This is not a a good era to be a superpower in.
Bob Morris @ May 14th 2008 11:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
Not only can shipping containers be used in a multitude of ways to create housing, they are piling up the thousands at ports, since it’s cheaper to build new ones than ship them back, so they are freely available and cheap, if not free.
Photo from Container City, who has built several such projects.
Bob Morris @ May 14th 2008 07:15 - Category: Anti-war ;
If anyone doubts the problems of US infrastructure, I suggest he or she take a flight to John F. Kennedy airport (braving the landing delay), ride a taxi on the pot-holed and congested Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and try to make a mobile phone call en route.
That should settle it, particularly for those who have experienced smooth flights, train rides and road travel, and speedy communications networks in, say, Beijing, Paris or Abu Dhabi recently. The gulf in public and private infrastructure is, to put it mildly, alarming for US competitiveness.
Doc Searls notes that Obama has a plan to rebuild our transportation infrastructure while McCain does not.
Another problematic area is the Internet. European nations, Japan, China, and Singapore often have vastly faster and more reliable net infrastructures, and they’re cheaper too. This country needs to stop spending hundreds of billions to destroy other countries with insane, pointless wars, and spend the money here instead, rebuilding the decaying infrastructure.
Bob Morris @ May 14th 2008 00:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
From Wikipedia
Northridge earthquake, 1994. Magnitude 6.7. Equal to 5.6 megatons
Sichuan earthquake, 2008. Magnitude 7.9. Equal to 600 megatons
The Richter Scale is logarithmic. Thus, an 8.0 can be hugely more destructive than a 7.0.
I was in L.A. during the Northridge quake. It did tremendous damage. But this China quake was vastly more powerful than that.
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