Bob Morris on Jun 16, 2011, 5:15 am Technology being developed in Australia may be able to use rooftop solar to cool homes as well, taking huge loads off the grid during peak times The principle behind Solar Cooling systems being developed by the CSIRO is simply to integrate technologies that are already understood – the rooftop panels on the roof that heat [...] Bob Morris on Jun 15, 2011, 9:05 pm [Michelin], the tire company has decided to develop a fuel cell. That’s right, a tire company developing a hydrogen fuel cell which will go inside a FAM F-City car in France. This will be the first fuel cell vehicle in France to win certification to drive on its roads. The FAM F-City will run [...] Bob Morris on Jun 15, 2011, 4:08 pm Right now, cia.gov is offline Talk about making some serious enemies… Bob Morris on Jun 15, 2011, 2:55 pm The Agonist I applaud House Republicans and the few Democrats who are pushing back on Obama’s twin illegal wars in Yemen and Libya. I don’t care if this is a partisan gambit on the part of House Republicans. And I don’t care of Boehner has flip-flopped on the issue. Of course, the Hosanna Obama [...] Bob Morris on Jun 15, 2011, 10:29 am Greek PM may step down, opposition party demands renegotiation of Greek bailout terms. I can hear European bankster howls of pain from here. C’mon Greece, do what Iceland did. Tell the banksters “no”, then arrest them. Bob Morris on Jun 15, 2011, 6:30 am Amazon In a past of abundance, we had clean water to meet our demands for showers, pools, farms and rivers. Our laws and customs did not need to regulate or ration demand. Over time, our demand has grown, and scarcity has replaced abundance. We don’t have as much clean water as we want. [...] Bob Morris on Jun 14, 2011, 8:23 pm Why, it’s beginning to feel a lot like a Lehman Brothers event, isn’t it? You remember Lehman, that bank everyone said could not possibly collapse because banks that big just don’t do that. But collapse it did, triggering mass chaos in the financial markets. Greece will default soon. Many banks in Europe are up to [...] Bob Morris on Jun 14, 2011, 3:45 pm Siemens just installed a test of their next-gen wind turbine in the ocean off Portugal. It weighs in at less than 350 tons, light for a behemoth with a rotor diameter of 120 meters. Depending on whose figures you use and whether it’s in Europe or the US, 1 megawatt is enough to power [...] Bob Morris on Jun 14, 2011, 11:01 am Virtually all of California’s water comes from someplace other than where it is consumed. Water travels through hundreds of miles of aqueducts inside the state, from the Sacramento Delta to the Central Valley and the Southland. San Francisco gets its water from the Hetch Hetchy valley in Yosemite National Park, which was flooded by [...] Bob Morris on Jun 14, 2011, 7:30 am Please click Like button here or go to my Facebook Clipper and FoxPro Conversion to Windows page and Like it. A few more likes and Facebook will give the page more options. (I won’t contact or email you.) Yes, many companies (big and small) in 2011 still run DOS-based database programs written in 1992 which [...] | Independent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues |
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