I was reading another breathless science article about carbon capture and sequestration technology when the thought struck me — what happens if this works? For thousands of years we (as a species) have been merrily taking the carbon from live and fossil sources and combining it with atmospheric oxygen in a process that releases heat [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Carbon Sequestration — A Thought
Posted in Energy, Technology, errors, ideas on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rural Internet
Posted in Technology, errors on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Living away from the big urban areas has many virtues and rewards. But internet services are not among them. This is particularly true with streaming video, that every news service in the world seems to have embraced. Previously, if one wanted to watch video media, there would be a delay while the media file downloaded [...]
Patriotism
Posted in Current Events, Politics, philosophy on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This past week both Canada and the United States marked the anniversaries of their founding. Amidst the celebrations, though, there are still notes that politicians on both sides of the border have lost their way. At the Stampede PM Harper decried the opposition for trying to hinder his ‘get tough on crime’ campaign — an [...]