linkblogging is stupid

[solarbird]

zomg funny. I laffed and laffed and laffed.

zomg reality. On a related note, does anybody know anything about this group? I've requested more information from them.

Thursday's token: 0.5 miles
Friday's miles: 1.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 577.1
Miles out of Rivendell: 117.2
Miles to Lothlórien: 349.1

Comments

[corivax.livejournal.com]

Are they the people responsible for the "Pay us (utility company) $6 extra per month and we'll buy all your energy from windmills in the columbia gorge" bit? I really love that. Even if I never got the commemorative mnug or whatever it is you get when you join the program. I am sad I can't sign up for it in Olympia.

[solarbird]

I don't think so. I dunno, tho'!

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

So, 5% of estimated proven worldwide reserves of oil, on paper anyway, just disappeared. Oops.

[solarbird]

And largely unmentioned on major news sites!

[solarbird]

Oh, and also, a Spanish holder of Bolivian oil reserve rights just had to restate down 20%, and Shell just withdrew from two projects in Kazakhstan - paying, um, $38M, I think? in compensation to do so - because they kept coming up empty in one of the promising fields there.

[epawtows.livejournal.com]

RE: the "sushi" thing....what WAS that?!?

[solarbird]

Comedy gold, baby; comedy gold.

[banner.livejournal.com]

I can't help but think when I look at that energy site that it's going to be one huge finacial boondoogle and loss of money, ending up with energy that costs more than the utility.

What I can't understand is why everyone isn't pushing for nuclear power? It's cheap, clean, non-polluting, and we don't have to worry about embargo's. It would help us move away from oil and gas dependencies in a bog way too.

(Please nuke the anon one. For some reason LJ logged me out...)

[solarbird]

What I can't understand is why everyone isn't pushing for nuclear power? It's cheap, clean, non-polluting, and we don't have to worry about embargo's.
Only if you want breeder reactors everywhere. (Mind you: I think we're gonna need 'em. I'm not looking forward to that. But I'm just sayin'.)

I'm seriously hoping some of the lower-temperature seawater thermal works out past demonstration projects.

[banner.livejournal.com]

If you think the environmentalists are bad now, just wait until someone builds a large scale seawater thermal unit. Greenpeace will protest it and ELF and ALF will without a doubt sabotage it. Because those things will have a far greater impact on sealife than drilling in ANWAR or a nuke plant have on their respective environments, and even if it's a 'good' effect the envirowacko's will shut it down.

Maybe we need breeder reactors, I wouldn't be surprised at all, but lets face it, nothing is cheaper, cleaner or safer than nuclear power, and unless someone figures out fusion soon (unlikely) nothing is going to be for a long time. All these 'non-polluting eco-friendly' energy idea's are just pipe dreams and will never be as cheap as oil, even when they start having to ship it in solid gold barrels.