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[ Friday, September 05, 2008 06:46 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fifth: Change, Cultural Divide, B&B, Google Chrome, and Arctic Drilling

Section:

Briefs

Summary:

What is in the Air?

*  Change is coming. So is __

**  Google Chrome browser

***  Drilling for Oil in the Arctic

Main:



*  It seems there are two big glitches in the T. Boone Picken’s plan to put wind generated electrical power onto the national grid:  distance and capacity.  Electrical power is best used immediately close to the site of generation.  The electrical grid is not designed for high volume, long distance transmission.  Natural gas lines are.

The post conventional wisdom of the professional national press and pollsters continues unchanged. The powerful B & B attorney partnership charisma machine continues to be fueled by mega bucks.  The mass of volunteers, like families with kids with special needs working for the other side, are given no reckoning.  Further, Alaska is far from the Boston, NYC, Washington, D.C. axis of power.  Talk about a change challenge to the continuing cultural divide between the east and the West!

**  So, Google is now on the the desktop with a browser and it works well with Vista.  Fast is good.  Google apps will continue to flow from the Lab to the rest of us.

***  It appears that the widely reported melting of the Polar Arctic Ice Cap is not quite the sure evidence of global warming a once advertised by the advocates of the theory.  New interpretation of satellite images say “OOPs, not so fast. 

It seems that shallow water pooled on top of the floating ice pack has been misinterpreted a open sea water.  In addition the prospect of using the long fabled NorthWest Passage that shortens the freighter run from Rotterdam to Yokahama by 5,000 mile is still a bit of a pipe dream.  Shifting summer ice continues to a formidable Arctic hazard for most surface ships. So, the Arctic Polar Ice Cap is almost a floating island just as we begin a long winter of refreezing as the Polar bears continue to thrive.

Meanwhile, the Siberian version of the Northwest Passage appears to have a significant choke point for summer time open water freighter traffic.

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