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Fixed News is telling us this is a nonevent. The guy was sick. Nothing to worry about?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/us/politics/w28talk.html?hp
Are we sure there’s no broader plot? On reading about the first one - and knowing that the al Qaeda link was only on his word - I wondered if that was another of these fabricated faux terrorist plots. But now there’s a second one. This one however all that’s known is the guy was rowdy, not whether there was any incendiaries. Mebbe the guy was simply misunderstood?
http://green.autoblog.com/2009/12/22/squaring-off-again-plug-in-advocates-res...
A report comes out of a prestigious science academy claiming that the benefits of plug-in hybrid vehicles is modest. I haven’t seen the paper but have a couple of unfounded thoughts and opinions of my own. First, why is there so much concerted effort to tarnish plug-in hybrids with problems etc. Second, did the paper base its conclusions on faulty reasoning. For example they may have assumed there would be slow uptake. They may be looking only at money advantages while assuming that battery prices would remain high. They may be looking only at carbon footprint as the only environmental measure, whereas there are other environmental issues to pay attention to.
Must watch Avatar again. Must.
I have to agree - I saw it yesterday, awesome movie.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/opinion/21mon1.html?_r=4&ref=opinion
The recently concluded climate change conference in Copenhagen may seem to have been a failure. No treaty was made, a lot of squabbling happened, no concrete result, so it must have been a failure, right? This NY Times editorial suggests otherwise. It says:
Copenhagen’s achievements are not trivial, given the complexity of the issue and the differences among rich and poor countries. President Obama deserves much of the credit. He arrived as the talks were collapsing, spent 13 hours in nonstop negotiations and played hardball with the Chinese. With time running out — and with the help of China, India, Brazil and South Africa — he forged an agreement that all but a handful of the 193 nations on hand accepted.
and
The other was China’s willingness to submit to a verification system under which all countries would agree to report on their actions and — assuming details could be worked out — open their books to inspection. Transparency is a huge issue in Congress, and Mr. Obama made clear in his opening remarks on Friday that he would not agree to a deal unless China gave ground.
Put this way it doesn’t seem like a failure even as we might have wanted more. Perhaps a dysfunctional process was never going to produce a good result, and the move to a functional process will require some time.
A report comes out of a prestigious science academy claiming that the benefits of plug-in hybrid vehicles is modest. I haven't seen the paper but have a couple of unfounded thoughts and opinions of my own. First, why is there so much concerted effort to tarnish plug-in hybrids with problems etc. Second, did the paper base its conclusions on faulty reasoning. For example they may have assumed there would be slow uptake. They may be looking only at money advantages while assuming that battery prices would remain high. They may be looking only at carbon footprint as the only environmental measure, whereas there are other environmental issues to pay attention to.
RUF Automobile is a specialty automaker whose high performance offerings have influenced the decisions of Porsche for years. They have done an electric conversion of the Porsche Cayenne SUV.
The electric motor is capable of 367 horsepower giving a 0-60 mph time of 10 seconds. The top speed is limited to 90 miles/hr.
Source: RUF Reveals Electrified Stormster Based on Porsche Cayenne SUV - All Cars Electric
The aa.com website is incredibly slow. Probably because everybody is trying to get preboarding tickets printed or whatnot. Unfortunately it’s not going to give me one because it refuses to assign me a seat on the outbound flight. Bleah. Double bleah.
Anyway - I’m primarily interested in this to replace what I’ve been doing with del.icio.us.
