Month February 2009

Enhanced geothermal systems

Enhanced Geothermal Systems have the potential to produce “effectively unlimited” renewable energy. It does this by drilling much deeper than conventional geothermal, harnessing the heat in the earth to create steam to power the turbines. As for the possibility of…

Links

GOP Governor of Utah: Republican leaders in Congress “completely inconsequential” Latvia debt downgraded to junk Fired DJ launches podcast, gets 250,000 downloads, says terrestrial radio is doomed. Corruption touched CIA’s covert operations

Hearst may close S.F. Chronicle

While I feel for those who will lose their jobs, when we moved to the S.F. Bay area last year, I asked two cousins and a good friend, all long-term residents, which are the good newspapers here and they all…

Dimbulb Idea of the Day

Hey, let’s turn an offshore oil rig into a hotel. And make it really pricey too. The financial elite (those who are still solvent and not preoccupied with being indicted, that is) would certainly enjoy be flown to the middle…

The quick road to global insurgency

If police crack down on the coming worldwide protests triggered by the recession, it will inevitably lead to the formation of global guerrilla groups, says John Robb. Of course, he expects this is precisely what will happen.