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POPSCalifornia Soon To Be Reading By Candlelight If the Great and Powerful Algore demands 100% compliance - Kaleefornia shall comply. Well, half-way anyway. And when the ecofreaks sue to prevent all those windmills and solar farms and new transmission lines that are required? Well, candles await. Keep it up California. You will show the way down into the New Dark Ages.
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POPSTax Credit Victory for Fuel Cell Biz FuelCell Energy, which makes stationary power generators, notched a Beltway win last week with the long-term extension of a tax credit subsidizing fuel cell tech. We mentioned the company's support of the tax credit in this story: http://www.forbes.com/businessinthebeltway/2007/02/14/sunpower-fuelcell-energy-biz-wash-cz_atg_0214fuelcell.html Unfortunately, our bullish call on FuelCell Energy's stock now doesn't look so great. The stock has lost 24%, a hair ahead of the S&P 500's 25% decline, since our story published.
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POPSComcast: "The Patriot Act" Mandates We Need Your SSN? (cont.) As you can see in the transcript I attached, she referred me to their legal department. I actually asked for the phone number five to ten seconds before she closed the chat. But when I viewed the chat transcript it says the chat was closed before I asked. That is a neat trick. Can what she told me actually be true? …I don’t believe requires me to provide my SSN just to get Internet service. I think the Comcast rep somehow thinks that Comcast falls under the "Know Your Customer" clause of the Patriot Act. As far as I understand it, that only applies to financial companies or financial intermediaries, neither of which I believe Comcast qualifies as.
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POPSConductor in Deadly LA Train Crash Was Texting To do something good you have to fully concentrate on it. Any additional task distract your attention. If you trying to do two or more tasks simultaneously - neither one will be done properly. And some improper attitudes are deadly dangerous, especially operating such huge vehicle like commuter train. Any tragedy has silent twilight period, when something going on but not happening yet. Afterward investigators rebuild tragic chain of small, unnoticed events; to do it in advance requiring the responsibility and clear vision - lack of them is our usual way of life.
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POPSPC Utilities I like utilities (especially free ones) and this site has a bunch listed, plus links to sites that have much bigger lists (freeware, nonag)
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POPSIs wind the new ethanol? I think the differences between wind and ethanol are pretty substantial, to put it mildly. But they do both enjoy subsidies (with the occasionally stated idea that eventually the subsidies will be withdrawn once these infant industries have matured.) There was a similar argument in Friday's Economist from a solar company executive who said that one problem with subsidies is that companies spend their time paying lobbyists to keep the subsidy rather than paying scientists to improve the technology. I'll clipmark that next.
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POPSPlug-in Prius Testing Begins in London Toyota and EDF Energy are using an innovative charging and invoicing system which is incorporated into the PHV. This system is compatible with a new generation of public charging stations, which aim to make electric power more accessible on public roads and car parks, and will reduce the cost to the customer. EDF Energy has helped to install the first of 40 charging posts in the UK, with plans to help install more in the coming months. A PHV uses Toyota's hybrid technology with the added benefit that the vehicle's batteries can be fully recharged using a standard electrical plug or an electrical charging post to extend its driving range in electric mode. For short distances, PHV can be driven as an electric vehicle, resulting in a silent, zero emissions drive. For longer distances, PHV works as a conventional hybrid vehicle.
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POPSThe Really Very Problematic "Pickens Plan"
sources that T. Boone Pickens rails about in the context of oil. In its most recent annual outlook, the U.S. Department of Energy projects that the U.S. natural-gas market will become more integrated with natural-gas markets worldwide as the U.S. becomes more dependent on imported liquefied natural gas -- causing greater uncertainty in future U.S. natural-gas prices. The natural-gas supply problem will be additionally magnified if significant greenhouse-gas regulation is enacted. Here's how: Currently, when natural gas gets too expensive, electric utilities often substitute coal or cheaper fuels for power generation. Under a greenhouse-gas regulation scheme, however, inexpensive coal might no longer be an alternative because of the significantly greater greenhouse-gas emissions involved with its combustion. Utilities, and ultimately consumers, could easily find themselves at the mercy of natural-gas barons -- like T. Boone Pickens himself, a large investor in natural gas
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POPSSafer Iraq Attracts Foreign Investors Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's crackdown on Shiite militias this Spring led to a thaw in relations with Sunni governments in the Gulf. That has encouraged investors such as Aqeela to turn to Iraq without fear of falling out of favor with their own governments, says Majed Michel, vice president of the Iraqi American Chamber of Commerce. The projects seek to address long-standing needs in Iraq, such as a severe housing shortage and under-investment in public utilities. Najaf is visited by millions of Shiite tourists a year but infrastructure there is poor. "This is an extraordinarily undercapitalized society," said Todd Schwartz, an economic counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. "There's no question that Iraq can absorb $74 billion and hundreds of billions more." There is plenty of money available as well, added Schwartz, in Gulf monarchies awash in petrodollars.
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POPSThey have to do better than this. A half hearted attempt to appease the majority of Americans who want States to be able to develop energy sources to power the US with US fuel. Open it all up. We can do it cleanly. And don't tax the energy companies who would develop the wells. Instead give tax breaks to companies who are willing to invest their own capital in developing new sources of energy.
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POPSBenchmarking program For testing your systems limitations and ensuring they meet standard. This Freeware product is easy to use and provides accurate information.
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POPSCompressed Air Energy Storage A New Jersey company announced to develop over the next three years an underground compressed-air storage system for wind turbines and other power sources.
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