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Bound for Glory
Posted by wastedenergy on March 18, 2010
Chugachugachuga…CHOOOOCHOOOO!!! The Little Engine That Could! Although in this case, I think we can probably replace the engine with an electrified track. Zap zap…I’m charging my lazer……
High-speed cross-continental (or even trans-continental?) travel has long been a dream of humanity, achieved for the first time in the twentieth century and hopefully to be perfected in the twenty-first. Here in the states, we’re a big fan of doing it way up in the air, which, for some of the distances we cover, happens to be “just plane crazy.” Flight from Washington to Boston? Washington to Atlanta? WHY, LORD, WHY!?!?!? Oh wait, probably because my best option is the following, and that is only in the BEST of cases:
The Acela: They call it our “Bullet Train,” but really it’s not much more than an “iron horse.”
Posted in Air, Energy Consumption, Urban Planning | Tagged: bullet trains | Leave a Comment »
Over the River and Through the Woods
Posted by wastedenergy on March 18, 2010
Speaking of Power Plants……..COAL!!! We all love this fossilized algae more than we like to believe, and some of us are a wee bit more addicted than they (COUGH COUGH environmentalists COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH *RETCH*) are willing to admit. I hate to say it though, but it just might be yet another example of Bad Romance, kind of like Sulfur and Oxygen. Remember the Acid Rain craze from back in the 1980′s? If you are in America, you probably put this one “out of sight, out of mind” long ago. But if you are Canadian, you’ll most likely never forget! After all, that stuff lodges in the spine of your great mountain ranges, they say, and once you’ve had acid rain six times, you’re considered legally “burned out” for life. After all, with all the “grandmothered” plants under the Clean Coal…er, I mean, the Clean Air Act, we’re still pumping tons of that stuff directly into your backyard! But don’t worry, we’re choking ourselves off with nitrogen oxides from those same plants burning, so it won’t be long until we all die off and you Canadian Idiots get to dig up all the rest of “The Right Stuff” for yourselves and burn it in your OWN plants!
Car after truck after car after truck after….how many can you count?
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Time to Build
Posted by wastedenergy on March 18, 2010
The text connects leaving all competitors vexed
And when you least expect it we wrecked it
Target inside the aim is directed
Eclectic took years to perfect it
Relax yourself, a mirror image reflected
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Trapped in the Iron Maiden
Posted by wastedenergy on March 17, 2010
In case you thought Freakonomists were the only people with minds screwed up enough to conceive of “geo-engineering” to solve the whole climate thing, rest assured, the “environmentalists” are trying their hand at “solutions” too, and theirs are equally dangerous. Those Encyclopedia Browns at the New York Times recently uncovered a story about some folks who really should just go put their heads back in the sand where they belong wanting to “fertilize” the oceans with iron filings in order to “sequester carbon” through the growth of algae.
FYI: this is what an “algae bloom” looks like.
Posted in Water and Soil | Tagged: geo-engineering, stupid | 1 Comment »
Black Gold
Posted by wastedenergy on March 17, 2010
What the heck is a “Full Size Septage Bioreactor Landfill?” Probably something involving a big hole in the ground (hopefully tarped over) filled with trash and sewage sludge, right? Doesn’t sound like something you’d want in your backyard, right? Think again: you might already have one! And, as usual…there’s gold in them thar ‘fills!
Holey Crap!
Posted in Energy Production, Solid Waste, Water and Soil | Tagged: landfill, septage | Leave a Comment »
Eye of the Tiger
Posted by wastedenergy on March 17, 2010
Risin’ up, straight to the top
Have the guts, got the glory
Went the distance, now I’m not gonna stop
Just a man and his will to survive
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Brown Frown
Posted by wastedenergy on March 16, 2010
Duuuuuude! You have GOT to try this stuff. From the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the boreal forests under the Northern Lights and the Blueberry fields of Vermont and North Carolina in between, the most widely cultivated crop on the planet (eat your heart out, corn!) and one of the most widely adaptable can also help us deal with some of our larger problems as a society. Want efficient biodiesel? High-yield fiber crops? All-natural herbal medicine? This “drug” may be “just what the doctor ordered…”
Unlike a lot of so-called “solutions,” it’s not actually overrated at all.
Posted in Agriculture and Food, The Ether | Tagged: hemp | 2 Comments »
Saturday Night
Posted by wastedenergy on March 16, 2010
Up on roof tops, ghettos and hot spots
People celebratin’ no more souls rot
No more bloodshed over false defecit
Even hip-hop gets a f’in face-lift
The latest fashion, stock market’s crashin’
It’s saturday, time to get the party crackin’
And if the time and the day is right
The revolution will begin this Saturday Night!
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A Graph is Worth a Thousand Words
Posted by wastedenergy on March 16, 2010
Don’t believe in peak oil? Time for your check-up…I’ll go get your charts.
I don’t put much “stock” in this kind of return on my investment…
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