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Raser Technologies has devised a way to create geothermal energy from water only as hot as a cup of coffee. This is much cheaper than other geothermal techniques and can be done in more places too. Plus, unlike solar or wind, geothermal produces power 24/7. [...] Well, this is certainly quite a change. Perhaps GE (owners of NBC) wants CNBC to be taken seriously instead of being known for endless manic cheerleading for the stock market interspersed with rants about how Obama is a socialist (like Jim Cramer has done.) I’m currently at a hotel with quite possible the worst internet connection on the planet, so watching the video is painfully slow, but apparently it’s quite stunning. Let me know in the comments. Or maybe I’ll watch it on my iPhone…Sigh. Atlantis Resources tidal turbine Atlantis Resources of Singapore has tidal power projects planned in Scotland and Australia. The Scotland project could eventually output 1GW, as much as a large coal plant, of clean, renewable energy. Huge data centers housing tens of thousands of computers may be built there, with the electricity coming from tidal [...] We just signed a lease for a condo in Orange County. It’ll be the same price as what we pay in SF – but 3x bigger. Yes, we’re getting a deal, but rents in the SF Bay Area, while dropping, are ridiculously high. We will be moving soon. But my view is also that the president has acted wisely in this. As president in wartime, he knows how wounding it would be to engage in this kind of activity right now. But he has also ensured that a process of transparency continue. A full accounting of all of this – by people from [...] A 3,000 mile wind power transmission route has finally been approved and will bring wind power from the upper Midwest to the Midwest and Eastern seaboard. This is precisely what we need to make renewable energy available to all. Guns seized in Mexico from Gulf cartel. Photo from slide show NYT In Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, dealers can sell an unlimited number of rifles to anyone with a driver’s license and a clean criminal record without reporting the sales to the government. If sales were reported, then trends could be tracked. That [...] The Chinese BYD F3DM, the first mass produced electric vehicle, has only had 80 sales. Apparently, it’s too expensive and the range of 60 miles before needing a recharge is too limited. This is always been the problem with EVs. The range is too short, plus the recharging time is too lengthy, there aren’t enough [...] Business schools will be studying the collapse of General Growth for years to come, trying to learn the lessons from how an enormous, and prosperous real estate developer managed to destroy itself through over-leveraged greed. |
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