If you know a child of school age living in Terrace, BC, they may just have as one of their teachers one of the great undiscovered satirists of our time;
[The fraud-promoting climate change deniers] ought to be slowly roasted,” commented a friend of mine in a measured voice during our weekly Yacht Club scrum.
All this, and National Socialists too!
(Speaking of “global warming’s more fulminating spokespeople…”)
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Oct.20, 2009 – President Obama’s appearance yesterday at America’s largest solar power plant, a Florida Power & Light (FPL) facility in DeSoto County, was of course planned to rally support for the administration’s renewable energy efforts and green economy stimulus initiatives.
Jan 13, 2010 – Florida Power & Light Co. is facing a class-action suit after thousands of homeowners lost power over the weekend because of a cold spell.
(Lots more interesting stuff at the first link).
h/t Don B.
Former chief United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter was arrested in a Pennsylvania sex sting in November on a litany of charges involving a lewd Internet conversation with a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl.
Ritter, 48, allegedly masturbated in front of a Web camera while he was engaged in conversation in an Internet chat room with an undercover cop posing as the teenage girl.
The chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98 and harsh critic of the war in Iraq, Ritter is accused of contacting the “girl” while using the handle “delmarm4fun” last February.
Featured comment by Eric Anderson;
SaskPower’s Centennial Wind Power Facility
• 83 “Vestas-V80” with a potential capacity of 150 megawatts of power on 30 km2 or 11.7 mile2
• 2nd largest wind facility in Canada when opened in 2006
• But, in SK they generate about 40% of this potential or 60 megawatts (see Saskatchewan Legislature Hansard, January 2007, page 794)
• They require a minimum wind speed of 14km/hr to operate and reach maximum power at 50km/hr
• They do not work at temperatures below -30 Celsius
• Footprint is thus 2 MW/km2 or 5.13 MW/mile2
• Each unit;
• is 351 ft tall , or 107 meters, or over 30-stories
• weighs 222 tonnes or 489,510 pounds
• has 3 x 39-meter blades, with tips moving at speeds up to 256kms/hr
Footprint of Wind vs. Nuclear is 1,440:1
• Bruce Power proposal for AB and “eluded to” for SK is, for example;
– 2 Areva EPRs
– 3,200 megawatts from a 250-acre facility (1 km2 or less than ½ mile2)
– Operates 90% of the time at full capacity or 2,880 MW
– Footprint is 2,880 MW/km2
• To get 2,880 MW from wind, at same scale as the Centennial project and efficiency (0.72 MW/turbine) (2 MW/km2), it would require;
– 4,000 turbines covering 1,440 km2
– or, a wind farm over 4.6 kms wide, stretching from Regina to Prince Albert (or 1 km wide from Regina Victoria, BC)
– The total weight of 4,000 turbines themselves (mostly steel, and without the concrete pads they sit on) would be 888,000 tonnes or 1,958,040,000 lbs (a lot of GHG).
• The Centennial Project was placed in the best wind producing area in the province (south of Swift Current) so its abilities cannot be reproduced elsewhere, so the farm would need to be even larger than described.
• See this link for wind averages/resource in SK
http://generationprocurement.saskpower.com/pdf/SPD_80m_021403.pdf
Nuclear capitol costs are less than wind
• The Centennial Project cost $275 million to generate 60 MW (see Saskatchewan Legislature Hansard, January 2007, page 793 for costs); that is $4.5833 million/MW
• A nuclear complex generating 2,880 MW would thus have a comparable cost allowance of; $4.5833 million/MW x 2,880 MW = $13,199.99 million
• A will-reported Finland reactor complex being built by Areva had a budget of $3,300 million that is now 50% over budget at $4,950 million. However, even at $4,950 million this reactor facility has less than half the capitol cost of wind, on a per MW basis.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) SDA Late Nite Radio.
Tonight’s selection is a light-hearted paean of sorts to the quotidian pleasures of long-distance domestic bus travel. Massachusetts native Jonathan Richman paints a picture, in short strokes, of the on-the-ground American expanse and the motley group of strangers who find themselves barreling down the highway together for a moment in time before disembarking, at various announced stops, to persevere with their unknown lives. We’re talking drunks, wailing infants, welfare moms, grit, rolling pop cans on the floor, unpleasant smells – and he likes it. Here it is: Richman’s live performance of You’re Crazy For Taking The Bus.
SDA Readers and visitors are invited, as always, to provide links to any interesting blog posts, news items, essays, ephemera or interesting tidbits you feel might be of interest to others.
Via email;
I strongly recommend that as many of you that have wide-spread contact lists, urge your friends and readers, to look up the relevant embassy in their home country, or in as many countries as they can handle, and write/fax/email the Ambassador and/or Consular staff on the travesty of Geert Wilders’ upcoming trial on January 20 2010.
There are fax numbers, addresses and in many cases, email addresses in the above list that can be used with great results.
You may want to mention the following 2-3 main points to be addressed
– We note that Holland has always been a staunch ally of the West in its protection of Free Speech, now however, it seems that the old traditions have been abolished
– We abhor the decision of the Dutch Government and Justice Minister E.M.H. Hirsch Ballin to prosecute Hon Geert Wilders for hate speech on January 20 2010
– We urge the Government to immediately drop all charges and FREE GEERT WILDERS
We need voices like his, now more than ever.
To follow on Kate’s earlier post, it would seem Mr McCallum sure ain’t thinking things through (no surprise there, eh?).
Update: Much more on what Liberal ministers were doing before their government agreed to the detainee transfer agreement here from Adrian MacNair, some excellent research.
As with other news events that generate extensive coverage, I don’t plan to do much coverage of the Haitian earthquake, other than to put this up as an open thread for those who want to discuss it, or link to their own posts in the comments.
The Anchoress has a very good post up for source links and updates, there’s little point in duplicating her excellent efforts here.
Update – a few high-resolution aerial photos taken by the U.S. Coast Guard of the earthquake damage in Haiti.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Jan 8, 2010 – California looks for federal funds to close $20b budget deficit
Jan 12, 2010 – California adopts system of voter bribery to help drive remaining private employers out of the state.
(And such a cheery little article. Read the comments).
h/t Jim O.
CBC’s Suhana Meharchand comes to the rescue of John McCallum…
“You know, we could digress here and talk about who’s handing over, is it the Canadian soldiers who you’re accusing of war crimes, is it the government, I don’t want to go there in this interview.”
McCallum is a former Minister of National Defence.
A legitimate news network would consider the level of journalistic malpractice exhibited here to be demotion-worthy. But this hasn’t a legitimate news network for a very long time.
Related – Iggy goes “there”.
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Frances Langford, with Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra, performing Cole Porter‘s Easy To Love, in 1936 (2:43). |
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
We could have told you… the wind don’t blow when it’s cold.
The cold weather has been accompanied by high pressure and a lack of wind, which meant that only 0.2pc of a possible 5pc of the UK’s energy was generated by wind turbines over the last few days.
Jeremy Nicholson, director of the Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG), gave warning that this could turn into a crisis when the UK is reliant on 6,400 turbines accounting for a quarter of all UK electricity demand over the next 10 years.
He said the shortfall in power generated by wind during cold snaps seriously undermined the Government’s pledge on Friday to build nine major new wind “super farms” by 2020.
“If we had this 30 gigawatts of wind power, it wouldn’t have contributed anything of any significance this winter,” he said. “The current cold snap is a warning that our power generation and gas supplies are under strain and it is getting worse.”
But nobody bothers listening.
h/t John B.
Postcards from the birthplace of Hope and Change …
h/t Instapundit
Finally! The root cause of California’s economic malaise has been identified: “not enough drug use”.
The bill, authored by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, would essentially treat pot the same way alcohol is treated under the law and would allow adults over 21 to possess, smoke and grow marijuana.
The law would also call for a fee of $50 per ounce sold and would help fund drug eradication and awareness programs. It could help pull California out of debt, supporters say, raising up to $990 million from the fees.
“Pot and prosperity” – they go together like “bag lady and shopping cart”.
…concerning what the Liberal government knew and when they knew it.’ A post at The Torch:
Facts: The previous Liberal government and Afghan detainees
…here is a translation from a friend of a story in La Presse, April 28, 2007; draw your own conclusions over what should be the extent of any enquiry, should one be held. And what happened to those detainees transferred to the Americans? Where is, and was, the outcry?The Liberals were in the know…
It’s an affliction among the country’s nurses, teachers, police, military and bureaucrats at all levels of government, undermining innovation, productivity, quality of service, policy-making and even the relevance of our democratic institutions, said Bill Wilkerson, founder of Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Mental Health.
Like paid “stress” leave?
This Massachusetts Republican has a bright future.
More here and here.
(Surely, Saskatchewan politicians can empathize with this…)
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Wayne Shorter, Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, and Brian Blade performing Masqualero ¤ (2003, 7:12). |
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.