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[ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 07:13 ]

Legacy Journal: Controlling Carbon: You Go First

Section:
Climate Change

Summary:
Many of the media and academic hyped prescription for curing perceived climate change problems and promoting alternative sources of energy production remind some of us of the kids summer games that
are playground and summer camp semi tests of bravado predictably backup up by “ You go first.” from the sidelines.

Main:
It is one thing to be in the game; quite another to be on the sidelines, in the stands, the booth, or on the beach with the latest throwaway book.

Consider the following:

* A certain California governor is said to be considering a 35 K makeover of his Hummer so it can run on canola oil.

* He also has had a fashination with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that have been prototyped by a Sacramento based research consortium and maintained by a dedicated gang of graduate engineers at their lab at UCDavis.

* One person drove his converted Mercedes diesel from Vermont to California on a fuel diet of diner grease. Now there is a recipe you can really run on. The stunt and a book have drawn attention, but so has the bizarre behavior of the horse Big Brown and people on reality TV.

* Some have proposed state wide color coded surtaxes on electrons flowing through the power grid that are generated by. say, coal fired steam plans.

* Others have suggested a jet water vapor trail surcharge on all national and international plane passangers, mail, and freight. A super supra charge would be made on flights from “dirty polluting China.”

* Countries like New Zealand and Sudan with more methane emitting sheep than people must also be called to account by the UN Security Council.

* Meanwhile, Al Gore, the current “Carbon Coach”, and Apple Board Member was sighted at the recently opened WWDC in San Francisco. To the best of our knowledge, the Major, Gavin “Green “ Newsome, has not yet declared the Moscone Convention Center a carbon fuel and plastic water bottle free zone.

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[ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley

Section:
Environment

Summary:

“Hay is the foundation of civilization in the northern climes"---- futurist, physicist, and Templeton Award winner Freeman Dyson. Chandler Hereford’s of Baker, Oregon agrees.

Main:

Going Green at Sixteen by Doug Fisk, May 2008

For the Fisks and the Forrests mid-July in the fifies was a time for three generations to gather and Go Green.

On working cattle ranches in the upper John Day Valley of eastern Oregon, haying season was and is serious business and a heck of a lot of fun.

The Forrest ranch is 4,000 acre spread located just up river to the east of the pioneer village of Prairie City. In its “hayday” “the ranch” was a cow and calf operation that shipped 1200 lb, lean and meaty 2year old grass fat steers to the Portland market or to a buyer from Safeway markets. The deal was usually make on a handshake,

One square mile of the ranch was green irrigated wild natural meadow grass that was mowed, sun dryed, winnow raked into rows, bucked up in bunches, and piled into loose two story high mounds using an overshot stacker. It was kind of a 2 weeks blitzkrieg that was hopefully free of thundershowers. The harvest result became winter fodder and the only feed for the herd of carefully bred Herefords. Home grown, individually selected, broad beamed cows, their gestating calves to be, range bulls imported from Red Bluff, CA, this year’s weaners, and last year’s yearlings were all the beneficiaries of open field winter feedings that were hand pitched daily from a low-rider hay wagon. It was a cycle that was self sustaining, season driven and largely powered by machines that had replaced the preWWII one, two, and four horse powered teams hitched to primitive iron wheeled implements.

Now, rubber shod Ford tractors were fitted with mowing machines and blades that were carefully sharped daily, a canvas canopied WWII jeep pulled the winnow rack, and the power hay bucks, pickup victims of road kill that were rescued, repaired and given new life in the winter shop. darted about the field like hounds fetching rabbits. A big green stationary John Deere diesel was outfitted with a long ponderosa pine fork received the catch for overshot loose hay stacking in the field

The machine operators were mostly family high schoolers who gathered from around the state to bunk out at Uncle Orrin’s ranch, help in the kitchen, feast and put on weight around Auntie Christina’s huge table, man the equipment, and shoot some spirited pool in the basement after the evening chores were finished. My red haired teen age cousin John was an only child, so he particularly benefited from the youthful annual gathering of the youthful hay crew.

One memorable summer, Jimmy Howard , a Prairie City townie, and I were the designated power hay buck jockeys. We had a spirited racing competition. Our cockpit perches were open air, the wind was in our unprotected faces, the bugs between out teeth , and our saddle-like seats were unbelted. The game was to see who could deliver the most hay to the stacker from soggy and slippery ditch banks and from the far fences bordering the fields. The hazards included the ignomy of getting stuck in the mud or running a fork down a gopher hole. The competition continued after dinner around the green felt pool table in ranch house basement with Uncle Orrin quietly and approvingly looking on.
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His ancient fiddle and his player piano was by that time mute and unused upstairs in the parlor where Strawberry Mountain to the south was framed in a picture window.

The times, they do change. The ranch was a major part of my uncle’s life. He had passed on college to inherit the property from Grandpa Clyde. That was the verbal bargain they made made many years prior and he had no regrets. However, were he alive today, he would be saddened, if not despirited, by recent news. The ranch has been sold by the third generation to the Consolidated Indian Tribes of the Warms Springs out of Madris on the Deschutes River near Billy Chinook Resevoir. The tribe is now the largest private land owners in the state.

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[ Wednesday, March 19, 2008 05:22 ]

Legacy Journal: Race, Coals to Newcastte, and Wednesday Technology

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
* Race Matters: At a recent URMC New York Society of Cardiology CO-hosted lectureship on the state of genomic research and technology in health, disease and in the retail consumer market, one was able to witness a race based concern. “Why are there not more African-Americans in the studies?” was the question from the only black practitioner in the audience. “ Why are some of the studies not coming from Africa?” No satisfying answer was forthcoming from the expert from California. While the largest private employer in Rochester NY is URMC, ironically, it is dependent on the black community to staff and operate its facilities 24 x 7 x 365. The residents living in the home of Fredrick Douglass has heard and seen it all. The black church, failing inner city public schools, crime in the neighborhoods, limited job opportunities in a street environment rife with petty and organized crime, substance abuse, abandoned property. High taxes, political patronage, and union restrictions are long standing facts of life that colors much of the black perspective.

Coal:

* RIT CMIS : Manufacturing technology institute funded by the Federal Government, the state of New York, and private industry.

Main:
: A new black Superintendent of Public Schools, a new black Governor, and a new black President will not qwell “prophetic” rhetoric from the pulpit, balance the state budget, or eliminate a 200 year old backlog of white guilt. Barak Obama may be perfect poetic fusion messenger to the new generation of American voters, but he can not govern well or effectively , if he is viewed as pandering to the rapidly fading black leadership elites and their supporters-- and they know who they are.

:: Coal production and export report from the nytimes..

::: CIMS is the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies on the RIT campus in Rochester, NY.

Today a OLLI tour group got a dose of sustainability, a lesson in manufacturing, and a perspective on a post Kodak western upstate NY economy. Locally, part of
the manufacturing view of green sustainability is part rehabilitation and waste management. Quality control , systems management of the product cycle, and energy efficiency is part of the package. One demonstration bay had a half million dollar articulated arm laser surface scanner for image input for product design.

Most of the projects are small simulations and tests of critical mechanical parts like aircraft hydolic systems and gearboxes.

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[ Thursday, March 06, 2008 14:31 ]

Legacy Journal: Seasoning, Conventions, and Climate Blowback

Section:
FrontPage

Summary:
Question: Which Latin American country has the best record for the largest reduction in its homicide numbers over the part 10 years?

* Seasoning is a good thing. It is part of the process of self protection, sustainability, and adaptation

The Democratic Convention in August is shaping up as a mid summer event not to be missed. The media, Denver, and the media will all benefit.

* The oceanographic spector has returned from the deep to haunt Al Gore.

Main:
: Experience is part of the seasoning process that allows one to quickly winnow wheat from chafe. Speed of processing is part of the process of pattern recognition which is often subconscious, almost automatic and appears to short cut the ponderous gymnastics of conscious analysis, rationalizations, processing and endless reality testing.

Leaders in sports, medicine, business the military, and politics are frequently called on to use their core gut instincts when making time critical decisions.

:: Meanwhile, Democratic primary news will have may ups and downs, surges and bad weeks, twists and turns. A senior Obama foreign affairs adviser with a Harvard Law and Kennedy School pedigree, Irishlady, Samantha Powell, has resigned, left the campaign trail, and put on the plane back to Boston after an intemperate, off-the-record characterization of Hillary Clinton to a Scots newspaper reporter. Words have consequences. Meanwhile, the Clinton camp has “Ken Starred” Obama.

::: Roger Revelle, a student Gore mentor is quoted prior to his death,as believing that with technology, like the “Green Revolution” it is possible to greatly expand global agriculture and food production. Truth to be told, the 96% of Americans who do not make their daily bread as farmers and ranchers seem shocked by the 6-12 months of rising world market price of grain, meat, eggs, dairy and seed oil based food. Even malt barley for brewing beer is in short supply. At last report, Nigeria, Iceland, and Indonesia are not wheat growing countries. The facts are: export oriented manufacturing, agriculture, food processing, storage, and distribution, construction, transportation, and cold weather consumers will be disproportional disadvantaged by may of this current proposals fix the presumed problem by “georegulate” of the proported global thermostat to the “right temperature” and to ‘climate control,’ or ‘climate engineering’ the atmosphere to the “right carbon dioxide” million parts per volume (mppv).

Meanwhile, there is continuing confusion as to the interplay between weather and climate. One problem is the choice of words of words to categorize a poorly understood, complex, dynamic, and chaotic process. For example, the earth has been around for roughly 4 billion years, the oceans for almost as long, and homo sapiens for 10, 000 years. In the latest interation, be are still daunted by the challenge of understanding the biochemical workings of estimated 60 trillion cells in the human body. Modern climate science research is just beginning. So step back, take a deep breath and chill out before consigning of life as we know it to the fires of Hell.

For many living in western upstate New York, this week-end’s snow fall, temperature drop,heating fuel bills, and food market sticker shock ave only been partially blunted by the good news on the sports page. The RIT hockey team continues win and advance in NCAA tournament play.

Answer: Colombia, the second most populous Spanish speaking country in the world.

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