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A simple question: Where will you be at the 10th second of the 10th minute of the 10th hour of the 10th day of the 10th month of the 10th year? As for me, in a little more than 10 hours, I will be in an attic, adding insulation to cut down power demands. And, […]

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Alaska’s Senatorial showdown this November is between a Democratic candidate (Scott McAdams) who might have starred on TV’s Deadliest Catch if it had been around during McAdams’ fisherman days and a Republican candidate, Joe Miller, whose out-of-touch with reality views and out-of-whack with voters policy constructs have led some to deem him America’s Craziest Catch. […]

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Last evening, my better 95+% was flipping through the channels and received the rare: stop, go back to that. What was that? A Nissan “innovation” advertisement in which the Nissan Leaf played a prominent roll, “if you never needed to buy another gallon of gas …” Watching this well-done advertisement made me think of Who […]

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When it comes to environmental and energy cartooning, there is no other major outlet’s cartoonists who comes close to matching the knowledgeable and insightful cartooning that Tom Toles brings to the pages of The Washington Post. As commented before, With Toles, we don’t know whether to laugh or cry. But, he last won the Pulitzer […]

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We must have cheap energy! This is a mantra from the right, from blinder-wearing economists, from fossil-foolish interests. In their calculation of price, however, those chanting the ‘CHEAP’ mantra don’t care to account for ‘externalities’ like worsening Americans’ health, destroying our environment, sabotaging our economy, and threatening our future. And, well, they simply aren’t ready […]

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The roof, that is … Just got off the phone with my better 95+% … Dominion Virginia Power staff are at my home, right now, upgrading the meter to be able to handle net metering.  Fingers crossed … with tomorrow’s dawn, my roof will be part of the power generation system covering over 90 percent […]

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To look at images of the oil sheen across the Gulf, oil covered wildlife, the gushing oil from the damaged well, the faces of devastated residents along the coast should overwhelm all of us emotionally.  Words fail even as those images overwhelm. In the face of this catastrophic damage, we seek the paths to express […]

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Despite the horrific nature of the massive man-made volcano of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the utter absence of discussion of the evolving disaster in work and social environments has been a striking contrast to the virtual blogosphere world. Not once this month, without my starting the conversation, has Gulf oil been discussed: even […]

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Consider rating it up at YouTube so more people will see it …

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The contrasts are stark. The week when Deepwater Horizon blew was also the week in which Interior Secretary released the (hopefully) decisive decision to give the go-ahead to Cape Wind. Stark choice: do we want to drill aggressively, increasing the risks of massive oil damages to our oceans and costs or do we want to […]

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