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Archive for May, 2008

New Kind of Energy Crisis — Indeed

Posted in Current Events, Energy, ideas on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

reportonbusiness.com: A new kind of ‘energy crisis’
The Globe & Mail this morning had a commentary about the new energy crisis — not a crisis of supply as back in 1973 (does anyone remember gas lineups?) but one of rapidly rising prices. So of course the comments on this article range from government conspiracy through corporate [...]

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Coffee Pots and the Decline of the West

Posted in Current Events, Technology, errors, ideas on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This morning our coffee pot packed it in. It was a Black&Decker Spacemaker under cabinet coffee pot with the thermal reservoir. We liked it, willingly put up with the drips that seem endemic to the design (and so many complained about). The thermal pot kept coffee hot for hours — a great thing on one [...]

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Wind Power and Reliable Power

Posted in Current Events, Energy, errors on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am troubled by the aggressive deployment of industrial scale wind turbines around me. And after reading the numerous papers and presentations from IESO and related groups I get the feeling that the folks responsible for the integrity of our electric grid are too. But since there is a political mandate to shove this stuff [...]

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Dead Ducks and Wind Turbine Noise

Posted in Current Events, Energy, errors on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Interesting article in todays Globe and Mail about the birds being killed by oil sands development:
globeandmail.com: Dead ducks a boon for oil-sands opponents
Reading about the frustration environmentalists have with the hazards poised by the open settling ponds and tailings brought to mind the disagreements in Ontario about wind turbines. One has the recently released MOE [...]

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