The center is buried underground, which means it uses the earth and the surrounding rock as moderators. Then it uses water from the neighboring fjord in a closed loop ground water heat exchanger and the cold efficiently cools the underground space.
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In an era when data is steadily moving to the Internet and the cloud, the sad truth is that State of California websites are too often inadequate and archaic. Information should be easy to find on state websites. It’s not. Californians should be able to fill out forms online to be processed by the [...] (Photo Illustrations via Pepper Spraying Cop) Charles Pierce has something to say as 2011 comes to an end–his post is titled America Will Only Get Better When It Is Ours Again. [O]f course, we must never make the perfect the enemy of the good. But you know what else is the enemy of good? [...] U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder in Los Angeles yesterday granted the request from the California Hospital Association for an order to stop California from imposing the reductions, saying the hospitals had shown there would be irreparable harm if she didn’t halt the cuts temporarily. The cuts would have saved California $623 million. In another [...] Three Figures around a globe, Salvator Rosa, Italian, 17th Century (Metropolitan Museum) As National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spokesman Christopher Vaccaro put it: In many ways, 2011 rewrote the record books. For the Guardian’s series “2011 In Review”, John Vidal sums up the past year. The year 2011 was another ecologically tumultuous year with greenhouse [...] In the streets of Manhattan, during a weekend in late September, the faces of steel and concrete behemoths staring down at me, I quickly weaved my way through stopped cars. I moved with several thousand others. A collective elation filled the air, surrounding us as we sped forward. Cars honked in support, cab drivers [...] California’s stringent cap and trade rules were scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1 2012 but a federal judge blocked it on Thursday. In my view, California’s cap and trade plans are unworkable, easily gamed, would raise energy prices substantially while accomplishing little to reduce emissions, and would probably drive even more business out [...] A fuel-cell laptop could run for weeks without a recharge. The automation of work once thought the sole domain of humans continues. Software can scan documents and prepare legal briefs now. Big farming is using automated machines. Google has a car that can drive itself in San Francisco. How much longer will people still be driving those triple Fedex trucks on I-15 here in [...] |
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