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Solar World Round Up – 10/30/09
While the oil still flows in the waters off Australia’s Coast – the status quo back home isn’t going to give an inch. Anything the progressives want we are going to have to take from them. If we do nothing we’ll have oil spills everywhere, mercury to breath, mountains destroyed, the extinction of tuna (that means no more tuna fish sandwiches everyone)and more and more nuclear everything, waste, subsidies and proliferation.
The dirty energy extractors and their profit margins are going to march the economy and our collective, global survival right off the proverbial cliff. They can’t stop themselves. They know better but they will try and eliminate any and all competition stifling innovation and any and all competition.
Thank god for Europe. They are a little more sane when it comes to global, environmental and economic survival. They know its a balancing act. Winner takes all, dog eat dog, rugged individualism leads to ruin, pollution, and war.
Those are the facts so we better stay on top of our elected leaders and kick to the curb anyone who stands in our way of a more perfect, equitable and sustainable world.
When we are done with health care we have to fix Energy, Wall Street, Election laws and the Tax Code. This all has to be done or we loose the world to the dirty fuel extractors and their addiction to short term profits. People of vision stay strong and focused our time is NOW!
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Here’s what the future is bringing – America you are behind the curve….
German Energy Giants Eager for US Green Transformation
Earlier this month, Siemens also announced its plans to acquire solar thermal power company Solel Solar Systems Ltd. of Israel for $418 million. …
7 Solar Innovators From Israel That Could Fuel Our Planet
Solel is one of Israel’s most talked about solar energy companies, up there with brightsource and zenithsolar. Building solar thermal power plants in Spain …
LEBANON: Solar power helps schools, hospitals
The solution, say many Lebanese environmentalists, is a combination of solar thermal power to heat water, and photovoltaic panels for back-up electricity. …
The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand | Details of Solar Flagships …
The successful solar thermal project in round 1 will be allowed to include hybrid solar generation combining gas or other types of renewable energy, adding no more than 15 percent of the project’s total electricity output. …
Can Renewable Energy Save The World?
Solar thermal or concentrated solar power concentrates the sun’s heat to generate steam and drive a turbine, the usual method of generating electricity. …
DeSoto desoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center Commissioned
In addition to the desoto plant, FPL is building a 75 MW solar thermal facility in Martin County and a 10 MW solar PV facility on the Space Coast. …
Solar Electricity Cost Competitive | International Business And …
Wind energy and hydroelectric power are indirect forms of solar thermal energy. Solar chimneys, solar towers and the vortex engine are among the more recent proposals by which to generate electric power from solar thermal energy. …
Solar goes retail in Rhode Island with opening of display room
On display are Solar Thermal Energy Storage System components: solar panels, vacuum tube solar collectors, controllers, and storage tanks. …
National Lab Shows Costs of Solar Moving Toward Grid Parity
For residential customers, installation costs can represent up to half of the cost of installed solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal systems (used to …
Australian Oil Rig Blowout Creates Environmental Catastrophe – (With Photos) http://ping.fm/tDHF7
Australian Oil Rig Blowout Creates Environmental Catastrophe
WASHINGTON (Oct. 28, 2009) – The impacts of the nine-week West Timor oil rig blowout are creating an environmental catastrophe for wildlife and ocean ecosystems, Defenders of Wildlife said today. In August, the West Atlas/Montara offshore drilling rig, widely touted as a “safe, modern” operation, suffered what the rig’s operators termed a “loss of well control.” Despite three attempts to stop the resulting massive oil spill, oil continues to leak into the surrounding ocean.
“A global-scale environmental catastrophe so large that it is visible from space is unfolding in one of earth’s last marine wilderness areas,” said Richard Charter, government relations consultant with Defenders of Wildlife, “It is time for the dithering, excuses, and failed response efforts to end and for the international community to get the full story on how and why this spill has been allowed to continue for so long. This persistent mess is too big and too damaging to hide any longer.”
Estimates of the volume of oil spilled since the August 21 Australian blowout have now expanded as much as five-fold, to more than 9.7 million gallons, while the oil slick has covered several thousand square miles of ocean waters. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is now discussing allowing essentially the same kind of “environmentally-responsible” offshore drilling to go forward off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida’s Gulf Coast and Panhandle beaches.
“If anything like the Australian blowout ever takes place off of the Southeast U.S. beaches or in Florida waters, the economic and environmental consequences will last for decades,” Charter emphasized.
Worldwide, conservation interests have become increasingly concerned as satellite images have shown that the mega-spill has spread from Australia’s whale and sea-turtle rich Kimberley Coast into distant Indonesian waters as well. Three prior attempts to stop the flow of oil have failed, and a fourth attempt this week had to be postponed due to equipment failure.
Satellite imagery of the spill can be downloaded courtesy of Skytruth
and here:
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Thanks to the Friends of the Lower Calaveras River for the repost of this press release
Lieberman is a corporate whore – his wife works for a big insurance lobbying firm – give Joe a piece of your mind http://ping.fm/yx7f6
Joe Lieberman is a Piece of Shit
…and always has been – for the record Sen. Lieberman has long been known to cultivate the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, which provide jobs in his home state and contributions to his campaign fund.
His wife, Hadassah joined Hill & Knowlton last year. The legendary lobbying and PR firm hired her as a “senior counselor” in its “health and pharmaceuticals practice.”
Lieberman is beyond contempt and a real slimy piece of shit. The contempt for him is real. This move “IF” the wormy, mealy mouthed, flip flopper, sticks to his word (he never does) but if he does lead a filibuster to prevent a VOTE on healthcare this will be Joe’s last act as a politician. He will get run out of the Senate and Connecticut. What a bunch of intellectual lightweights and misfits that re-elected him. I can tell you one thing he’s not much of an independent. He’s a hack for the Status Quo and his days are numbered.
Here’s his website – give the complete piece of shit a piece of your mind.
Abortion, Love and the Corporate CEO
I think the whole anti-choice movement is born out of the fear that someone is going to abort their belief in the second coming…I can fathom no other rational explanation and reconcile their free market passions with their elimination of self determination when it comes to child rearing.
In other words its perfectly okay for a corporate ceo to be unregulated ruining lives, the environment, spoiling the food chain and water and wreaking the economy and environment for self directed financial gain and profit no matter who gets hurt but those rules of unfettered self determination don’t apply to individuals when it comes to child rearing and that responsibility.
I can not reconcile their concern with a microscopic cellular unconscious molecular mass with their entire disregard for human life after it is born.
Nor can I reconcile their love of the death penalty and their shooting of doctors, and defenseless animals with the teachings of their messiah or their complete contempt and utter disregard of the poor, uneducated, hungry, sick and dying at home and abroad with their obsessive action and violent defense of a microscopic cellular mass.
Abortion is not a religious event for most and those to whom it is a religious issue should have more faith in their god and the way he directs our lives and the choices and roads he lays out before us…Life is a learning experience and I severely doubt that any of this would be here if we all didn’t have a lot to learn.
The sheer magnitude of the infinite variety of life on this earth as represented in the animals, trees, fish, insects, frogs, flowers, weather, culture, size and shape, color, grass, fields, mountains, streams, rivers, valleys, music, art and literature as well as the birds of the Galapagos Islands should certainly be a clue, and hint as to otherwise that their isn’t only one way for life or ourselves to evolve and certainly not one way for us to live our lives outside the guiding principle of love.
Paul Burke
Author-Journey Home
Scientology Again – Paul Haggis’s Public Awakening
It is such a shame that true believers get associated with corrupt organized religion – whether in a theocracy, catholic church or any other sect, cult or philosophy good people are used, misrepresented and taken advantage of to empower the few at the top.
There is a lot of bad mixed in with the good in the pews and I implore people of all walks of life and in all countries to look for your answers within your own self because it is there that they lay. Listen to your own consciousness it is the true honest voice of right and wrong. No dogma, no building, no cloaked, bearded, staff holding man or woman can direct you better than your own inner voice.
You can suppress it for a time but it will surface time and time again in your own consciousness the innate knowledge of the right way to be. Within you and within everyone is where the voice of your creator resides.
The only temple you need is your own body for it is there that the creator however you imagine or whatever you call him will meet you and confront you with your self and the choices you have made in life.
When will people realize that this whole Earth, this whole universe and all that is in it is sacred. We did not create it but how we individually choose to act upon it is our destiny as individuals and together globally as all of mankind.
We are all equal and what is different about us is the same – our sex, our culture, our education but where the rubber hits the road we are all the same flesh and blood. There is no pope, no priest, no ayatollah, no written scripture, no book and no dogma that holds greater truth, instruction or greater wisdom than you already posses in your inner core of being. We all know the difference between right and wrong. And we all know that excuses do not absolve our heinous acts toward each other.
Worship as you see fit, love your rituals, read the words in the books that remind you of the inner truth that resides in all of us and enjoy life. Know that no matter what choices you make they must be worked at and know that each individual has their own road to travel to enlightenment. You can not force your beliefs on others. That is repression and control for the enrichment and empowerment of others. As long as you are not harming any one do as you see fit and let your conscience be your guide.
Remember always no matter where you are in the world and I suspect universe that if you aren’t following these two rules: live and let live and do unto others as you would have them do unto you – you are the one doing the wrong thing.
Paul Burke
Author – Journey Home
Read Haggis’s Letter renouncing Scientology in the link above or here.
AUSTRALIAN OIL SPILL APPROACHING
“EXXON VALDEZ” SCALE – http://ping.fm/l1RuE
New Blogs Up at http://ping.fm/KzwNo
The Cost of Healthcare in America – Insurance Companies Anti-Trust Status – Federal Health Insurance to Everyone – Solar World Round Up – all with links to take action!
Solar World Round Up – 10/15/09
While we continue to slowly pull the healthcare bill away from the death grip the insurance companies have on it – Olympia Snowe – who cares – the fact remains the insurance companies have been living off of blood money and ripping us off for decades.
We’re pissed and the party is over – even their ultra hush, hush anti-trust exemption from 1945 is finally being talked about.
They are scum (that’s not hyperbole)and do not care about the economy as a whole or the damage and pain and suffering they have caused regular people. They don’t care – too bad you made a typo – have fun dying. We’re not sorry YOU got sick – thanks for the policy payments! That’s whats going on people and they are finally being called out on their bizarre behavior. They gilded the lilly for so long pushed the premiums up too high. Those of us who have been saying WTF for decades are finally seeing some action on the HILL not because its the right thing to do but because its a huge drag on the economy – freakin’ geniuses no duh.
Here’s what’s happening in the rest of the world while the dirty energy sector is asleep at the switch getting ready to defend their turf as doggedly as the insurance whores. Get ready for another battle but stay focused on health care and pump up the volume. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!
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German industrial conglomerate Siemens acquires Israel’s Solel Solar Systems …
The Canadian Press
Its US arm, headquartered in Irvine, California, is developing a solar thermal energy plant in the Mojave Desert. The deal is expected to close this year. …
Ohio State’s Solar Decathlon Entry Is Entirely Home-Grown
Popular Mechanics
… Sanyo solar panels, is net-zero in terms of energy—it produces as much power as it consumes. Sixty evacuated tubes provide hot water from solar thermal. …
Eve Samples: Solar energy growing in Indiantown should be first step to more …
TCPalm
s solar-thermal plant in western Martin County is to think that a new era of clean energy has finally dawned in the Sunshine State. …
Midwest Renewable Energy Association Receives $3.3 Million Award
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
The Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) has been teaching about solar electric and solar thermal technologies since 1990 and has offices in Custer …
$4 Million in stimulus funds to help homeowners ‘Go Solar’ with hot water systems
Connecticut Plus
The new Solar Thermal Incentive Program is part of the comprehensive State Energy Plan that has qualified for $38 million from the American Recovery and …
Solar Thermal: Leading by Example
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
The Reichstag building uses passive solar, combined heat and power, a geothermal heat pump, solar PV and solar thermal for almost all its energy needs. …
Clean all around – solar hot water | DIY HOME ENERGY
By admin
Lately, there has been a lot of talk around the water cooler about renewable energy sources. This includes technologies based on natural elements, such as wind, the sun, the ocean and thermal energy from the earth itself. …
DIY HOME ENERGY – http://www.diyhomenergy.com/
Bridging the development gap
Edmonton Journal
Andy Reynolds, program leader for clean energy at the Alberta Research Council, sees enormous potential for the province to develop solar thermal energy. …
Duke Announces Solar on Customer Rooftops
Clean Energy News
Since solar photovoltaic (PV) systems can be more costly than buying electricity at today’s prices, Michael particularly recommends solar thermal (hot water …
US NAVY: Navy Finalist in Two Categories for Platts Global Energy Awards
Trading Markets (press release)
… wind energy generation, solar photovoltaic energy generation, solar thermal energy systems, geothermal energy generation and ground source heat pumps. …
The NAVY – you right wing elitists – and political whores – the Navy – the freakin’ Pentagon knows damn right well that oil is unsustainable and a national security risk – keep playing politics and slow our real independence down to a crawl – Un-American morons.
Love,
Paul
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