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We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Keeping track of alternative failures is like drinking from a firehose;
A $2.5-million wind turbine at the Dorchester Penitentiary has stopped working and the Correctional Service of Canada cannot estimate when it will be generating electricity again.
The federal government purchased two wind turbines for Canadian penitentiaries in the last five years but both units have caused problems.
A 600-kW/h wind turbine was installed at the Dorchester Penitentiary in 2009, making it the first federal institution to generate a portion of its electricity from wind.
However, nearby residents say the wind turbine at Dorchester hasn’t been working in months.
h/t Dan T
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“I am going to let my subscription to Sports Illustrated lapse when it runs out this year.”
Math Is Hard
Before they arrived with their implants, an estimated 2-3 billion stray dogs were roaming First Nations reserves.
Dogs With No Names has implanted 155 dogs so far and Dr. Samson-French said they’ve likely prevented 100,000 puppies. The charity is now conducting a full-scale study of the program and plans to publish the results.
I’ll bet it’s a doozy.
Addendum: I blame the White Man, actually. This wasn’t a problem until Europeans arrived and convinced the Red Man to stop eating dog meat.
Addendum #2: Apparently detecting sarcasm is hard, too.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
“To make this the greenest Super Bowl, the New Orleans Host Committee has partnered with fans and the community to offset energy use across the major Super Bowl venues. The exterior of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome features more than 26,000 LED lights on 96 full-color graphic display panels, designed to wash the building in a spectrum of animated colors, patterns and images. The system draws only 10 kilowatts of electricity — equivalent to the amount of energy used by a small home — and the lights are expected to last for many years before needing replacement.”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
Despite the promise of “green” transportation – and despite billions of dollars in investment, most recently by Nissan Motor Co – EVs continue to be plagued by many of the problems that eventually scuttled electrics in the 1910s and more recently in the 1990s. Those include high cost, short driving range and lack of charging stations.
The public’s lack of appetite for battery-powered cars persuaded the Obama administration last week to back away from its aggressive goal to put 1 million electric cars on U.S. roads by 2015.
The tepid response to EVs also pushed Nissan’s high-profile chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, perhaps the industry’s most outspoken proponent of battery cars, to announce in December a major strategic shift toward more mainstream gasoline-electric hybrids, which overcome many of the shortcomings of pure EVs.
The move was widely seen as a tacit acknowledgement by Ghosn that his all-or-nothing, multibillion-dollar bet on EVs is falling far short of his ambition to sell hundreds of thousands of battery-powered Nissan Leafs.
More – Electric car sales plummet in January
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
During his testimony Wednesday, Thandiwe suggested that his reason for even purchasing the gun he used in the shootings was to enforce beliefs he’d developed about white people during his later years as an anthropology major at the University of West Georgia.
“I was trying to prove a point that Europeans had colonized the world, and as a result of that, we see a lot of evil today,” he said. “In terms of slavery, it was something that needed to be answered for. I was trying to spread the message of making white people mend.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
Swedish climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson;
The warming we have had the last a 100 years is so small that if we didn’t have had meteorologists and climatologists to measure it we wouldn’t have noticed it at all.
The Earth appears to have cooling properties that exceeds the previous thought ones, and that computer models are inadequate to try to foretell a chaotic object like the climate, where actual observations is the only way to go.
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Tonight, A Bad Lip Reading of the NFL.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
Canada’s Best Ever Immigration Minister
Here’s a long form article on the day-to-day life of MP Jason Kenney. Well worth a read!
The Sound Of Settled Science
The New York Times Andrew Revkin, via No Tricks Zone;
The climate scientist James Annan sent these thoughts by email:
‘Well, the press release is a bit strange, because it sounds like it is talking about the Aldrin et al paper which was published some time ago, to no great fanfare. I don’t know if they have a further update to that.
Anyway, there have now been several recent papers showing much the same – numerous factors including: the increase in positive forcing (CO2 and the recent work on black carbon), decrease in estimated negative forcing (aerosols), combined with the stubborn refusal of the planet to warm as had been predicted over the last decade, all makes a high climate sensitivity increasingly untenable. A value (slightly) under 2 is certainly looking a whole lot more plausible than anything above 4.5.’
Lots, lots more at WUWT on the fallout.
Big Screen TV QOTW
“Dear Indians: It’s not much of a ‘genocide’ if we can still hear you bitching.”
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
HSUS, CEO Wayne Pacelle, and ex-employee Scotlund Haisley are defendants in a $5 million federal lawsuit stemming from a September 2009 “raid” on a South Dakota hunting dog breeder. A judge later ruled the raid illegal because the search warrant was wrongfully obtained by an animal control officer who had “intentionally misled the issuing court.”
A photo of HSUS clad Scotlund Haisley kicking in a door.
All of the animal cruelty charges against Christensen were dropped. But he didn’t get all of his dogs back. Some died after they were seized; others apparently were adopted out.
Animal rights extremism is not limited to multi-million dollar activist groups like HSUS – even locally run, rural community shelters can be magnets for zealots, and they often operate hand in hand with these powerful groups. I’ve personally talked to a shelter worker from Estevan, Saskatchewan who volunteered that animal welfare would best be served through the eradication of the family pet, so check out the policies and animal welfare positions at your local humane society before giving them so much as a dime.
Those Moderate Muslims!
In a TV interview on the Islamic al-Majd TV, which seems to date back to mid-last year, Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, stressed that wearing the veil will protect baby girls. The Sheikh tried to back his assertion with claims of sexual molestation against babies in the kingdom, quoting unnamed medical and security sources.
Plus, They’ve Made Lawyers Illegal
“A militia providing for the security of a free state? In the 21st century? But I was told that was crazy NRA talk.”
The Solution To The West’s Falling Birthrate
Compel women to serve in the military;
…each year, somewhere between 10 and 17 percent of servicewomen become pregnant. In certain locales, the figure is even higher. Former senator James Webb noted that when he was secretary of the Navy in 1988, 51 percent of single Air Force and 48 percent of single Navy women stationed in Iceland were pregnant.
h/t Joe B
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If the health-Nazi bureaucrats have their way you might eventually be forced to go the black-market route to visit a Lipidlegger.
And you just know who’ll be first in line when you get there..
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“Proud to be a Democrat”
If you ever wanted a textbook example of what a “Vote Canceler” is, read this letter to the editor. Here’s one person’s analysis of what’s written. The most hilarious section is this:
The Republicans are just trying to stand in the way, because the president is black. They even dared to question whether he was born in this country. I think all this demonstrates that the Constitution needs to be amended when it comes to the qualifications for being president. Right now, it says that a person has to be 35 years old and be a natural born citizen. Well, that is obviously unfair because there are a great many otherwise qualified people who cannot run for president because their mothers had to have a C-section.