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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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 06/10 at 07:13 AM
Biography: • Bright Lights: • Business and Trade: • Calendar: • Tuesday: • Climate: • Climate Noise: • Davis Community: • Energy: • Alternative Sources: • Coal: • Environment: • Advocacy: • Extortion: • Food for Thought: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Media Watch: • Perpetual Green: • Recipe: • UCDavis: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ 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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 03/19 at 05:22 AM
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[ Saturday, January 19, 2008 15:37 ]

Legacy Journal: Real Cold in Carolina, Coal, and ABR

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
* Some media pundits are predicating that the weather in the northwest corner of South Carolina may effect the Huckaby turnout. They may not be aware of the North Dakota effect. A National Geographic writer made the mistake of appearing to dis the state in a recent article. The temperate response of the state’s citizenry and leadership prompted Charlie Gibson of ABC News to name the state “Person of the Week” Have a good weekend.

Scots have been using coal for a long time. Coal, iron and willing workers helped build the railroad lines that allowed the for the rapid and reliable delivery of mail, newspapers and people a throughout the British Isles. Books publishing flourished and station book sales boomed as a result.

* Meanwhile, look for a ABR movement early this year. It will have stealthy and crafty anti-Mormon tone. But, it is a dangerous and unpopular tactic. Recently, the grandson of M. Gandhi, a resident of Brighton, NY was asked to resign his position with a University of Rochester affiliated peace and non-violence foundation after he wrote a web piece offensive to local Jews with holocaust sensitivities.

Main:
: Folks in most parts of the country are not intimidated by weather. Nor are they fearful of cyclic ice age climate change that moves at a glacial geologic creeping pace.
A recent biography of van Allen of Iowa has a picture of him and other scientists working on defense related missile and satellite research at the South Pole in 1958 where the average temperature was reported as - 58 degrees. His former grad student, James Hanson of NASA Goddard is not mentioned in the book.

:: The slums of Glasgow, Scotland were fertile recruiting grounds for early Mormons including Brigham Young. The Eccles family is one example. Mariner Eccles was in the FDR administration and was part of the first draft of the Federal Reserve System.

::: And yes, there is a small book out on the life and record of Mitt Romney. Predictably, it is modest, polite, and plain spoken.

:::: And aside. The Swedish firm, MySQL will become part of Sun Micro of Silicon Valley. To the best of our knowledge, the deal is Carbon Neutral.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 01/19 at 03:37 PM
Biography: • Calendar: • Saturday: • Climate: • Northern Exposure: • Culture Clash: • Energy: • Coal: • Have a Good Day!: • Leap of Faith: • MySQL: • News: • Good News: • Personalities: • Political Watch: • Predictions: • Religion: • Christian: • Judism: • Snow Flakes: • Straight Talk: • Voice: • Hired Guns: • Weather Watch: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Monday, January 07, 2008 09:32 ]

Legacy Journal: Mormonism, Coal, and New Hampshire Polls

Section:
Politics

Summary:
“We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.” ---- Abe Lincoln.

Mitt Romney is drawing media attention in New Hampshire. One New Hampshire newspaper editorial has labelled him a phoney, a nytimes reporter, Noah Feldman, is compelled to ask provocative questions and then call attention to Mormon polygamy and the “ idiocycracy” of clean living by avoiding tobacco, caffeine and alcohol. Does he also consider the lack of gambling and lotteries in Utah (and Hawai) as troublesome as the Judaic kosher food tradition? In addition, Romney is also enviromental “inconvenient”. He calls for a national energy stategy that includes liquid coal, increasing the supply of heating oil by building refinery capacity, and investing in nuclear energy. The voters of New Hampshire are concerned about the winter price and availability of fuel oil, and the future costs of electricity.

Main:
The good news is that the media, including the press, is much more restrained than in the political days of Lincoln and cartoonist Thomas Nast. Journalism is also sophisticated, subtile, and scientific in the arts of advertising, influencing, and choice making

* For example, GMA today reported from New Hampshire on a mind mapping “truth” gizmo that records a graphic image of emotional responses to messages and images of events, products, and people. Is this the new brave world of political “science”?

One of the world’s most costly construction project will be done by a Canadian firm. It is a gas pipeline from the north to the hub in Calgary, Alberta.

* Meanwhile, fear mongering, narrow mindedness and group think is alive and well in the free, but not cheap, mass media.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 01/07 at 09:32 AM
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