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Comment on Freak show by aaron

aaron — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:30:53 +0000

so I guess you’re not going to try that 12,000 calorie Michael Phelps diet?

Comment on Freak show by erin

erin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:34:28 +0000

Gattaca, that’s what keeps coming to mind through the olympics. It’s not such a far fetched idea anymore. Hmm, I wonder if my thighs were meant for some other sport; they certainly weren’t meant for ballet. Oh well, I still enjoyed myself and that’s what matters, right?

An excellent movie if your readers havnen’t seen it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/

Comment on I probably won’t die trying by Traveling Hypothesis » Freak show

Traveling Hypothesis » Freak show — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:45:57 +0000

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Comment on Should I buy a hybrid? by RjZ

RjZ — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:25 +0000

Great idea! I don’t have much on lifecycle data (heck, I couldn’t even find it for the Prius) but this should be a quite reasonable thing to guess.

Comment on Should I buy a hybrid? by dingle

dingle — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:16:13 +0000

It’s a good point, I’d guess you’d never recoup the manufacturing footprint if you changed early (unless you’re driving a Hummer?), you should probably drive your current car into the ground before you change, anyway, the longer you wait the more efficient new cars will become, meaning you’ll save more. I guess the economics of running a thirsty car with the rapdily increasing oil prices might push your decision sooner though.

I’m interested in how efficient things like wind power generators are, do they ever recoup their manufacturing footprint in their lifetime?

Comment on An invisible obstacle by RjZ

RjZ — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:11:10 +0000

Thanks, Tim. My only point is that I was disappointed in her excuse.

Comment on An invisible obstacle by Tim R

Tim R — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:01:06 +0000

Hillary just ran a lousy campaign and Obama ran a brilliant one. I don’t think winning the Democratic nomination or not had to do as much with being a woman or being black as it did with organization, money-raising, and getting out your voters. Hillary’s team did an astonishingly poor job of all that, and Obama’s team was amazingly effective at all that. I’m still shocked that she isn’t the nominee, but I am happy that for once we are seeing a Democratic nominee who is better funded and and better organized than the Republican nominee.

Comment on All I wanted was a compact by Tim R

Tim R — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:48:16 +0000

I’ve had the same experience way too often with car rental companies. The fine print pretty much says they can give you whatever they have on the lot.

I think there is no a great opportunity for a Prius or other fuel-efficient hybrid only rental company.

Comment on Wind or hot air by RjZ

RjZ — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:56:12 +0000

First, thanks so much for you comment and your blog too! Thanks for coming all this way…I knew the way to get more comments on my blog was to link to others!

I think we both agree with your main point, that alternatives need to be considered and that McCain might want to pick up something better than an old addiction. As a result, any quibbles about the effects of acid rain (today there is not significant SO_x emitted by coal plants because they are forced to meet the regulations that have successfully limited it) and the damage to people that coal-mining does (my that’s a stinky job, but most miners would wonder what you’d have them do if (well, let’s be honest, when) we took it away).

Anyway, point is, we agree more than we disagree, but I am happy to hear your opinion here and it definitely wasn’t too long. Dear readers, go read Mike and Marc’s blog. We both like more clicks and comments!

Comment on Wind or hot air by Marc

Marc — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:06:16 +0000

Well, no one said that they’d decommission all coal plants, and certainly not right away. Of course there is slack time with the winds (though with offshore wind thats less of a problem) and it isn’t like offshore mega wind turbines would go up tomorrow and yadda yadda yadda. Of course anyone who has knocked around the wind turbine debate for a while knows there are tons more complicating factors in setting up viable alternative energy solutions but discussing the problems with alternative energy wasn’t really my goal.

Of course there are even more problems with coal we could have talked about, not just in terms of area taken up but in environmental and social effects. In area effect we could talk about miles of rivers and streams effected by mountains and did you know the preferred way of mining coal nowadays is to just bulldoze the top of a mountain into the adjoining valley and forests effected by acid rain, the effect of buning bituminous coal and never mind the social effects coal mining has had on appalachian american and on and on and on.

These debates end up very circular because there are many factors; I could write a doctoral thesis on the matter. You were right though, all i was trying to do was highlight the fact that other options SHOULD be considered other than offshore drilling. We talk all the time of the why not’s when it comes to how alternative energy can’t fill in the gaps for our problems but the honest truth is, and we all know it, is that its never gotten a chance, not with the Bush administration in office for the past 8 years, and that if John McCain wants to make Manhattan Project out of something, as he indicated in his speech, it should be of alternative energy. Not of offshore, which is an ol’ addiction, not anything new. Even if he tries to wrap i in a shiny new wrapper of energy independence.

Sorry if I ran long but I’d be than willing to discuss this more at anyones request, just stop by In One Ear… Out the Other. Link at the top of this page.