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Replying to: houdini1 (Oct 29, 2009 5:33 pm)  Funny thing, bamboo bats are hitting the market now too. You knew I'd find a link, right? A warmer climate means (in theory anyway) that more beetles that attack the ash trees, and the wood grows softer too. Baseball Bats and Global Warming (Accuweather) |
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Replying to: houdini1 (Oct 29, 2009 5:33 pm) |
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that's funny, my boss and I went to Atlanta about a year ago to go to Sleep Medicine School there. Interesting information, the air seemed clean in Atlanta but man, I thought Seattle had a traffic problem! Cars and freeways and congestion at every turn. You know when the hotel shuttle drivers are taking quick, snappy, hurried shortcuts that you're in a large rat race. Wouldn't be interested in living there. And the amount of cars in that city is not doing anyone there any good. Long term. GW...from the car's exhaust...need full-scale attack of all-electric transportation there, pronto.  Using electrical energy to keep them charged from one of Georgia's coal-powered electrical generation plants, no less. 
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Oct 30, 2009 11:10 pm) PS I think you are getting spoiled out there in Wilcox. I hate heavy traffic. I avoid at all cost. |
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what is the answer then for electric generation? Nuclear powered electrical generators? Like we have the money to build those though, right? Yeah, we're spoiled out here. I have a good paying job and my wife works at the same hospital. Both putting 401K money away in preparation for retirement. Going to Tucson is not that bad traffic-wise. I must say the city of Tucson street planners have done a pretty good job designing their streets so that traffic moves continuously. Seattle traffic is horrible compared to a city of twice the people, Tucson. I don't know of any other automobile propulsion method that will work any better than electrical, though hydrogen is an option with only water as a byproduct. But how to develop those other methods efficiently and cost-effectively is going to be a real problem. We need to wean off of dino-oil, though. Seems Portland and San Francisco are in a war right now to build the best all-electrical car infrastructure. Portland's mayor is literally on fire with excitement for electric propulsion. Portland is always progressively thinking, they're going ga-ga over it.
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Nov 01, 2009 12:55 am) My biggest concern is practicality. That always wins out in my search for a vehicle. I have it figured that CA and the Feds will bugger it up some way or another. They will not be denied their gas taxes without a fight. They want to look green without losing any green. The little guy always gets to sacrifice while the elite cruise in their yachts, Gulfstreams and limos. PS Seattle traffic may be worse than Los Angeles. Both cesspools of the urban age. |
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This one can be blamed on man for sure. Beijing's first snow of season 'artificially induced' BEIJING (AFP) - – Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported. The unusually early snow blanketed the capital from Sunday morning and kept falling for half the day, helped by temperatures as low as minus 2 Celsius (29 Fahrenheit) and strong winds from the north, Xinhua news agency reported. Besides falling in the northeastern provinces of Liaoning and Jilin and the northern province of Hebei, the eastern port city of Tianjin also got its first snow of the autumn, the report said. "We wont miss any opportunity of artificial precipitation since Beijing is suffering from the lingering drought," the report quoted Zhang Qiang, head of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, as saying. Chinese meteorologists have for years sought to make rain by injecting special chemicals into clouds. Although the technique often gets results, a drought in the north of the country has continued for over a decade. http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20091101/tap-china-weather-beijing-snow-8d4ea94.htm- l |
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Start with a $2 million dollar modest home in San Diego and start spending from there. Here is the best example I know of here in San Diego. Dr. Rob Wilder's solar home complete with Tesla Roadster. He also manages a fund that specializes in alternative energy companies. I wonder if he would be interested in buying several 1000 shares in failed alternative energy companies? My advice would be to keep his high paying job at UCSD. http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=48 http://www.wildershares.com/pdf/Solar%20Power%20for%20a%20better%20Solution.pdf |
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Replying to: steve_ (Oct 29, 2009 4:47 pm) Why steve, I didn't know you were an old codger like the rest of us. If you remember 1973 you must remember the late 60s and the beginning of the environmental movement. Back then there really was something to complain about. Maybe that's the problem. Those of us who remember when cars didn't even have PCV valves and rivers would catch on fire know that the world has improved tremendously in the last 40 years. When you know that cars are 98% cleaner now you wonder why all the fuss about the last 2%. Especially when the last 2% will cost more to eliminate than the first 98%. And then some clown like Al Gore comes along and tells us that the breath we exhale is a pollutant and we have to starve, freeze and go broke because of it. It just seems a perversion of what I use to think was a good idea. 
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Oct 30, 2009 11:10 pm) WE have no central metro area where I live (3 closely located cities) so the best they have come up with is a "Park & Ride" system. They have parking lots at several exits of the freeway in the suburbs. You can drive the short distance to the lot and then board a bus which takes you into the city. Fewer car, less congestion. The buses are usually packed which I guess is good. I would consider it but none of the routes runs near me and they all go in the wrong direction for my school bus job. Still I like the idea and people who wish to drive have that choice. I know that the roads are not as full on my way to work,
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