Month September 2010

Will the Netherlands rule high altitude wind?

The country has three key ingredients: good technology, a cooperative government and really bad weather. High altitude wind uses tethered kites or planes at very high altitudes to generate electricity. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But so did solar and wind…

Yet another sign Democrats are in deep trouble

Liberal columnist Colin McEnroe of the Hartford Courant on Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumental’s campaign for Senate as a Democrat. Blumenthal should be coasting to victory against his Republican opponent, WWE magnate Linda McMahon, but he’s not. He was ahead…

Goodbye Karen

In honor and in sorrow for our sister-in-law Karen Slater who died this morning much too young after a five year battle with cancer, which she fought against like a tiger and with a smile on her face. She lived…