wind power - just too difficult compared to drilling offshore or smashing atoms

An Energy Department plan to get 20 percent of the nation's electricity from wind calls for a high-voltage backbone that would span the country. It would use technology similar to 2,100 miles of power lines, mostly in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and Indiana, that are already operated by a company called American Electric Power.

The cost would be high - $60 billion or more (five months in Iraq - Ed.) - but in theory could be spread across many years and many millions of customers who would benefit from access to new power sources. However, in most states, rules used by public service commissions to evaluate transmission investments discourage multi-state projects of this sort. In some states with low electric rates, officials fear that new lines will simply export their cheap power and drive up prices.

Smiff is back and he has this off-shore drilling thing all figured out

It's simple: states filled with dumb-ass crackers who voted for George W. Bush twice and will most likely vote for John W. McBush will get the off-shore drilling. So that will most likely be the entire coastline of Alaska and from Brownsville to Norfolk. And none of this "150 miles from the coast" bullshit. I say, a mile from the coast with an oil rig every mile. Even if it's shown there's no oil there, you get a fucking oil rig there anyway.

Meanwhile, the northeast and from San Diego to Seattle will remain pristine because these places weren't dumb enough to vote for the troglodyte homunculus and the guy who forgets to put on his pants.
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Dis won't last

Gas-sipping golf carts winning over small towns

Though it probably should, I'd say these are what we should drive in and around the city. Get in the big cars when going long distance. I'm all for it. But it won't last.

American Ingenuity (cont)

For $9,995, your car could run on sugar and tequila

who's hating America today?

The good comrades of Brattleboro and Marlboro, Vt.

Vt. towns put Bush, Cheney on arrest list

Darned Frenchies

Living in the past, dabbling with centuries old technology - did anyone tell them it's the 3rd millennium now?

French super-fast train unveiled

Phokked up the @$$

Well, I just wanted the first half of the picture, but there you have it. http://www.hydrogen-pro.com/ for all the details on how to stop this unfortunate affliction.

Stopping the terrists

Top US engineer in piss-off-everybody car fuel solution

So, we're like, addicted to oil, and like, the oil profits are like being used to like terrorise us? This is like, way too complicated. Can't we just like bomb them or something? Like?

Spoil Sports

Smiff does, like, 8 of dese...

Things you should never do at work

Honeymoon in the sky?

Apparently not...

Airline bans A380 mile-high club

Citizens of the World Unite

Found while surfing the Wikipedias, a site that wants to unite the world, starting with a bridge between Russia & the US.

See the main page here

See the blueprint for their skyway system here, with its maglev trains and solar panels and aqueduct pipelines...

See the map of their highway system here

Their system doesn't reach Chi-town? How can they expect that to work without da city dat works? Doesn't hit Zimbabwe either? That's strike 2.

And how are they proposing we pay for all this? Well, it's meant to promote world peace by getting resources to all parts of the globe, so the money is supposed to come from the defence budgets of all participating nations. He gone!