Enercon 6MW wind turbines

These are the most powerful turbines ever

California City. Ghost city that never was

In the desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles is a suburb abandoned in advance of itself—the unfinished extension of a place called California City. Visible from above now are a series of badly paved streets carved into the dust and gravel, like some peculiarly American response to the Nazca Lines (or even the [...]

Cleantech news

MIT announces new way to trap waste heat and convert it to energy

It could even work on cell phones and laptops as well as in much larger engines and devices

Researchers develop machine to recycle carbon dioxide into fuel This could be a welcome replacement for sequestration of CO2

Is an electric Rolls Royce [...]

Dead Battery of the Decade Award: Alan Greenspan

Wall Street Cheat Sheet gives this prestigious award to the man who without him, the financial collapse could not have happened – Alan (“I heart Ayn Rand”) Greenspan.

The video explains that Ayn Rand would have detested what Greenspan did, as he was constantly meddling with the markets and never allowed the destructive [...]

Cratered land values in southern Utah

Five acres of land zoned for agricultural and residential in southern Utah (located near a freeway with water rights for a home) sold three years ago for $110,000. A few days ago it went at a foreclosure auction for $14,500. That’s a 87% drop in price.

Many other properties in the area are also [...]

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot More Riskless

From Versusplus.com

Socialist left distinguishes itself by continued irrelevance and purges

This time it was SWP in Britain who purged Clare Solomon, apparently for thought crimes that led to traitorous behavior. As one who was purged from a far left US Marxist grouplet a few years back, I can sympathize. The process is jolting. But then you realize those comrades weren’t really ever friends or even [...]

The World According to Americans

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Sugar cane waste to power coal plants

Brazil Pellet has developed a way to process bagasse, the waste from sugar cane processing into pellets for use in coal plants. They are thinking very big, like 520,000 tons of pellets a year that would produce 2,420 GW of power.

Most bagasse now is dumped where it decomposes and produces methane. Burning it instead [...]

Courting convulsion. As America resolutely ignores reality

Jim Kunstler in one of his finest moments

How infantile is American society? Last night’s CBS “Business Update” (in the midst of its “60 Minutes” program) featured three items: 1.) The New Moon teen vampire movie led the weekend box-office receipts; 2.) Cadbury shares hit an all-time high; 3.) Michael Jackson’s rhinestone-studded white glove [...]