DISQUS

Excellent point - I always wrestle with this, how to describe alt-power plants that aren't always on. I've toyed with developing a new unit of electric power production called The Seabrook, in which one Seabrook would be the amount of mwh that the nuke-power plant produces in an average year. So I believe Lempster would be roughly .01 Seabrooks; I'll have to crunch the numbers a bit more, though. (I hadn't noticed the mwh designation by Lempster - very foirthright of them!)

The idea that turtles end up this far north by semi-accident (as you said, and has long been believed) is being questioned by researchers. It seems that coming up here on the Gulf Stream is a normal part of their routine.

Both sides have had comment and rebuttal, so this conversation need not be continued.

I missed the 9-stone handicap aspect. That does ramp back my panic mode. Still - beating an 8 dan is a huge jump over anything software has done before.

It'll cost you a million billion kajillion dollars! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Only a handful have been delivered so far - I would be very surprised if Kamen has gotten his yet. (And doesn't every designed-by-man-thinking-like- teenage-boy sports car look the same when they zip by on the highway?)

Good point - reducing the need for large-scale projects, by using small, local projects (or increasing local efficiency) is important. When I asked for the data last year, there were fewer than 100 small-scale projects (1 kW or so) in the entire state that fed power back into the grid. That has to change.

The Hull, Mass., plan is one of the "pins" on my alternative energy map, with links in the bubble. The reality, however, is that most places do not have the alternative energy sources to meet their own needs. Moving lots of power from places that have excess (wind in the Midwest, solar power in the Southwest, tidal power in the Bay of Fundy, wood power in Coos County, geothermal in Iceland, whatever) will always be a big part of the picture.

Yes. I'll make that clear.

Looks to me like marketing went off without checking with the engineering department.

Now Earle, you know that *never* happens ...

Excellent thought - I hadn't considered that birds could spread it.

I agree that logically it would make no sense to have another delay. Human behavior is not a logical entity, however.

Our hot linking doesn't seem to be working; the article quoted above comes from the publication Beijing This Month. URL:

http://www.btmbeijing.com/contents/en/business/...>

This must be a real problem in China, where the large majority of people share fewer than 100 different family names.

"According to the Ministry of Public Security, China has nearly 300,000 people named Zhang Wei (wei meaning “great”) and more than 280,000 share the name Wang Wei. One percent of the Chinese population, or 1.3 million people, are named Liu Bo, meaning Liu the waves."

Click here to read that article.

Alas, as my "update" notes, I was unable to go because of a sudden change in my schedule at work ..

It's also about five years old now ...

You're right, they say it's available. Maybe it from Veriz - er, Fairpoit as well, and I just hadn't noticed it. The company must have put in one of those remote offices between us and Milford.

I live on the west side of town - last time I checked, it wasn't available there, but was available on the Amherst side. What part of town do you live in?

Could be worse: the closest I got to the space program was living next door to a NASA engineer as a kid. I remember him showing close-up photos of the moon taken by Ranger 8* after it crash-landed with the cameras firing away.

*yes, I'm old

My previous post (the one that I linked to) mentions this publication - it came from a conference based around the book.

It just means that computers and software operate in an alternative universe that follows a different causality ...

I've got a green undotted pin for the Berlin proposal, which is still in the works as of May 2008. The Busch-plant biomass project is slightly smaller than the 12-MW limit that I set myself, at 11 MW. (I had to draw the line somewhere! It was originally 25 MW, then 15, then 12 to fit in some wood-burning plants up north.)

If we could only tap all the underground explosions happening in East Coast cities with aginging sewer lines, we could power 5 billion homes for a day!

You, sir, are exempt from all look-down-our-noses-at-big-vehicles snootiness! (Reminds me of my seven cousins; in the '60s, long before minivans, their family bought an airport taxi, a sedan with three doors on each side. It was *wicked* cool.)

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