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Lightning's In-Wheel Motors - March 7, 2008 view full comment
comment 5 of 5 by PML Flightlink in administration - Tesla Motors Club Forum on January 8, 2009 at 4:29 pm
[...] nail for Zap-X? What of Lightning, Volvo ReCharge, F150 PHEV? Hi-Pa Drive - Projects andapplications - [...]
Ausra's Kimberlina Solar Thermal Plant - November 11, 2008 view full comment
comment 11 of 11 by GUNTHER Portfolio » Blog Archive » Photovoltaics: 7 Trends to... on January 8, 2009 at 7:16 am
[...] made progress with “Ausra’s Kimberlina Solar Thermal Plant” by Ed Ring at EcoWorld but thecredit crunch has slowed the development of planned multi-hundred [...]
The Tyranny of Unions - January 6, 2009 view full comment
comment 6 of 6 by Peter A. Quilici on January 8, 2009 at 1:32 am
I live in Illinois, and the public employee unions almost control elections in the states most populatedcounty, Cook, which includes Chicago. Their campaign contributions, campaign workers and numbers
(including active employees, dependents and retirees) are overwhelming. Watch out for any aid packages
from the feds to the states for so-called infra-structure. A chunk will go to prop up underfunded publ...
Global Warming Facts - October 8, 2006 view full comment
comment 7 of 7 by Rich Johnson on January 8, 2009 at 12:21 am
Ed and Stephen, That was two of the best worded and well thought out debate comments I have heard in along time. Kudo's to both of you for having the courage and intelligence to offer good well thought out
statements versus the name calling and just plain stupid comments that are many times posted on forums
such as these.
Abolish Public Employee Pensions - October 7, 2008 view full comment
comment 31 of 31 by Bull on January 7, 2009 at 9:54 pm
"Worker" said .... Worker Said ........ "I am a professional. I can demonstrate statistically that I amone of the best in the country at what I do. Thirty years ago I decided to lend my talent, training and
ability to the public sector and since then I’ve worked at a non-union government job that paid 1/2 to
1/3 of the minimum amount I would expect to earn for the same work in the private sector. I did th...
Climate Science - October 30, 2008 view full comment
comment 10 of 10 by Don Collicott on January 7, 2009 at 4:55 pm
thanks great artical everyone should also be aware Carbon Dioxide Solubility in Water when temperaturegoes up less co2 in water where does it go, into the atmosphere this is an effect of temperature change
but it fits their agenda so long as temperatures go up we may be saved by natural cooling unless it gets
too cold
The Tyranny of Unions - January 6, 2009 view full comment
comment 5 of 6 by James on January 7, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Reading this article has finally given me a forum to complain about the County and State paperwork load Iexperienced for 6 years working as a psychotherapist intern. I worked with a non-profit that got its
funding from the County and State (California) to provide very much needed services to teens taken into a
residential facility which provided food, shelter, and schooling as well as psychological and psychiatr...
The Tyranny of Unions - January 6, 2009 view full comment
comment 4 of 6 by Burt on January 7, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Union density is much higher in the public sector (35%) than in the private sector (9%). That is thedifference - not the employer. Most American workers have not seen their wages grow with recent gains in
productivity and corporate profits. If employees want to share in those gains in the form of decent pay
and benefits, they should form a union. Regards, Burt
The Tyranny of Unions - January 6, 2009 view full comment
comment 3 of 6 by Allen Charles on January 7, 2009 at 3:26 pm
If you apply the same kind of thinking to Executive pay that is sometimes thousands of times more thanrank and file employees it usually draws objections from the same folks that seem to HATE collective
bargaining. In my part of the country there are substandard wages for about every kind of work done by
working class folks and unions are for the most part not allowed by the state laws. The reality...
The Tyranny of Unions - January 6, 2009 view full comment
comment 2 of 6 by Bull on January 7, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Well Said ! ............ It is wrong to tax people (Private Sector workers) who make market wages inorder to subsidize people (Civil Servants) who, by virtue of their union clout, have been able to
negotiate wages and benefits well above the prevailing market. Civil Servants are the energizer bunny's
of greed and the self-serving, vote-selling, contribution-soliciting, politicians are their enablers.
Sea Shepherds Use Any Measures to Protect Their Flock - December 31, 2008 view full comment
comment 8 of 8 by Jeff on January 7, 2009 at 5:23 am
The writing has been on the wall for a long time about extinction of species in our lifetimes. TheJapanese cannot see past their dinner plates. The rest of the civilised world stand by and talk about it,
but dont actually do anything. The conservation of a species is bigger than any other issue in current
affairs today. We will recover from financial crashes, we can implement strategies to curb global warmi...
The Tyranny of Unions - January 6, 2009 view full comment
comment 1 of 6 by Werner Patels on January 6, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Unions are criminal organizations -- in every sense of the word. Union bosses lord it over everyone else,like "godfathers," without ever getting their hands dirty. They must be abolished, and all union bosses
should be thrown in jail.
Pessimistic Reporting, Optimistic Data - December 27, 2008 view full comment
comment 24 of 24 by wadosy on January 6, 2009 at 8:23 pm
anyhow, that's about all i got to say on the subject. if it's too hot for you to handle, i can understandthat. ...seeing as how you're going for all the marbles here, especially if global warming and peak oil
turn out to be the real deal... it's just too damn bad that all real evidence and logic points seems to
show global warming and peak oil are the real deal.
Pessimistic Reporting, Optimistic Data - December 27, 2008 view full comment
comment 23 of 24 by wadosy on January 6, 2009 at 8:13 pm
if you compile a list of suspects for 9/11, using the traditional “motive, means, opportunity andcharacter” parameters, you’ve got to put israel, the israeli americans of the AEI and their exxon
allies at the top of the suspect list. seeing as how netanyahu thought 9/11 was “very good”, seeing
as how PNAC said, in september of 2000, that they needed “a new pearl harbor”, seeing as how PN...
Pessimistic Reporting, Optimistic Data - December 27, 2008 view full comment
comment 22 of 24 by Ed Ring on January 6, 2009 at 7:56 pm
wadosy - with respect, here are the calculations: A - 139,000,000 square miles, the area of the world'soceans (ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean) B - 48 cubic miles of icemelt per year according to
study you reference. C - .00003453%, the percent of a 48 cubic miles that would spread onto each square
mile of ocean ( B / A ). D - 63,360 inches per linear mile (12 x 5,280). E - 2.188%, the percent of o...
Pessimistic Reporting, Optimistic Data - December 27, 2008 view full comment
comment 21 of 24 by wadosy on January 6, 2009 at 7:12 pm
i haven't done the math. maybe tom moriarity will be so good as to post the figures he used for land andsea area, including urls to his references, so we all know we're on the same page. in the meantime, i
will trust the professionals, although i haven't read all their report. ...the basic problem being, when
co2 has been recognized as a greenhouse gas for over a hundred years, when we're pumping an extra...
Pessimistic Reporting, Optimistic Data - December 27, 2008 view full comment
comment 20 of 24 by George Antrobus on January 6, 2009 at 6:18 pm
wadosy - we value your comments and a vigorous debate, but you have pasted a quote - apparently tosupport your point about sea level rise, that is precisely the quote the author of this post was
debunking. There are 139 million square miles of ocean. Add 48 cubic miles of land based ice melt per
year and you get 2 inches of sea level rise per century. Unless ice melt were to accelerate, and there...
Pessimistic Reporting, Optimistic Data - December 27, 2008 view full comment
comment 19 of 24 by wadosy on January 6, 2009 at 4:40 pm
According to a new report led by the U.S. Geological Survey, we "face the possibility of much more rapidclimate change than previous studies have suggested." The report synthesizes the latest published
evidence on four specific threats for the 21st century. It uses studies not available to the UN's IPCC
2007 report, which explored similar questions. The report, commissioned by the U.S. Climate Chan...
Abolish Public Employee Pensions - October 7, 2008 view full comment
comment 30 of 31 by Ed Ring on January 6, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Donald - I would characterize the comments back and forth between me and Dave as a dialogue. It isimpossible to report with complete accuracy on an issue this complex. Dave pointed out some facts in
particular cases that refuted some of the generalizations I'd made, but agreed with me on other points.
For example, he agreed that CALPRS probably was too optimistic when they projected ongoing average re...
Solar Thermal Power in India - October 2, 2002 view full comment
comment 5 of 5 by Rustam Rizalman on January 6, 2009 at 9:55 am
Dear Sir, I need solution for solar power hybrid for building. This is for gov building located in remotearea. Any Solution please contact me. Thanks
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