World’s largest floating windfarm gets ok in Scotland

Hywind Scotland

Hywind Scotland will begin building what will become the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm. The initial pilot project will consist of five turbines generating 30 MW, capable of powering nearly 20,000 homes.The wind farm will be 12 miles offshore,…

Good little Maoists on college campuses want you to STFU

James Kunstler has a a fine rant about the Thought Police infesting universities today. Anything ideas contrary to their belief set is deemed to be a “trigger warning”, somehow injurious, and must be Resolutely Opposed. Injurious Thought and Ideas must…

Tonopah NV solar plant generates power at night

The Crescent Dunes Concentrated Solar Power plant 200 miles northwest of Las Vegas in Tonopah is now coming online. Unlike photovoltaic, CSP solar plants can store energy and thus generate power at night. 10,347 tracking mirrors, each about the size…

Yahoo: The smell of death surrounds you

There was a time Yahoo owned the Internet. Now it can’t even filter spam properly from its for-pay Yahoo Mail, something Google does for free, and well, with Gmail. Yahoo keeps trying to lurch back to the glory days when…

Federal government finally updating ancient cyber guidelines

Our befuddled government has boldly decided to update cybersecurity guidelines that were issued in 2000, apparently finally cognizant that online security no longer needs to be concerned with dial-up access and bulletin boards. Now we can all thrill to tedious…