Friday, April 1, 2011

Dead Turtle, Dead Aid, Waste in Europe, Europse Wasted, Steam Power

You Definitely DO NOT WANT this Turtle to Make Soup for You


The following comment appeared below the article accompanying the above picture (and two more pictures, one, a closer view of some of the objects, another just specifically the plastic “bags” taken from the same sea turtle’s stomach).

COMMENTER: DJR on Mar 30, 3:00 PM said: “What the hell is this doing on the front page of a business blog????”
MY REPLY, appears below.
RESPONSE:

The reason this appears "above the

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

dead Turtle, Dead Aid, Waste in Europe, Europse Wasted, Steam Power

You Definitely DO NOT WANT this Turtle to Make Soup for You


The following comment appeared below the article accompanying the above picture (and two more pictures, one, a closer view of some of the objects, another just specifically the plastic “bags” taken from the same sea turtle’s stomach).

COMMENTER: DJR on Mar 30, 3:00 PM said: “What the hell is this doing on the front page of a business blog????”
MY REPLY, appears below.
RESPONSE:

The reason this appears "above the

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Monday, March 14, 2011

Exxon Truthful, UK wrong,Beware the Natural Gas, CCS for Alta, CO² on Trial

Exxon is Right, UK is wrong

I’m tempted to say something like, “What did you expect from the homeland of BP?” except that I rather like BP, so I won’t say that.

In this case however, a consumer protection agency in Great Britain ruled that Exxon Mobil has to stop playing a commercial you may have seen, and probably will continue to see here in the US and Canada. It talks about the beneficial potential of the research that they are doing. Well, that Synthetic Genomics is doing as

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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Irrigation Causes Climate Change?, Dense Edu, Perennials Cooler, Exports

The MUST be a Pony Here Somewhere

On DECEMBER 7, 2010 the following announcement appeared on the www.commerce.gov website.

“Today Secretary Locke joined seven other U.S. government agencies in launching the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Export Initiative, a coordinated effort to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency exports.

Through the Initiative, the U.S. government will support renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE&EE) exporters by offering new financing

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Saturday, February 26, 2011

"Baked Montana", Dinner with Obama, Biomass Crop Assistance

Not Long Ago, and Not Far Away …

In a land known as “The Bay Area”, President Obama met with high tech industry leaders, especially the entrepreneurial ones, to discuss how to create jobs. Of course, that is not really what President Obama meant. He didn’t mean, “create jobs in Kenya and Nepal,” he was seeking ways to create jobs for Americans in America. A person would have to presume that you could include the idea of repatriating some of the tech support jobs from the Phili

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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Budget Cuts Preview, or NOT?

Black History Future

It's not as confusing as it sounds. See our PRESS RELEASE here.

BIG Money and Bigger Money

The very large numbers involved in any discussion of the US Federal Budget, the Budget Deficit, and especially the “National Debt” get tossed around a lot these days. A friend sent me a link to a video that shows how misleading some of those numbers are because we just don’t have a human scale of perspective to draw on that really gives a true sense of proportion.
He

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Obama & the SOTU Flashback, Clostridium in my Kitchen = Biobutanol? State of the BioButanol (revised?)

Do You Remember Zippo?
Zippo was the "wind-proof" cigar and cigarette lighter design from the 1930's and 1940's that lasted a very long time, until butane disposable lighters became popular.
Well, for those who haven't been following my column for a while may not know that I am a "fan" of a biofuel made from the same "base" molecule as butane. It is called butanol, or on our case biobutanol. The big news in butane happened a few years ago (who says there's not such thing as "old news"? It'

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