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Even if it’s partially by force, Xcel Energy is taking a few big steps into a more realistic energy future. Unlike some people in government and energy, they are not asking us to adapt to global warming, but to buy their renewable energy.* Adaptation to runaway climate change, or to a 4-6 degree temperature rise is most likely impossible.
It’s a good thing then that Xcel Energy is moving into a new renewable, cleaner energy future in several states. In Colorado it’s not completely out of the goodness of their hearts — it’s because Colorado just passed its new clean air and jobs law. It’s another example of when govenrnment and laws actually work. From Clean Technica:
“Colorado’ s largest utility, Xcel Energy is shutting down 900 MW of coal plants and replacing them with natural gas power plants. This move by just one utility will reduce the entire Colorado coal power fleet by a staggering 30%. What prompted this rather dazzling move?
The Colorado Clean Air – Clean Jobs Act just passed. … All new (or re-powered) electric power plants may not emit more than 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, effectively ruling out coal burning (without CCS).”
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) does not yet exist for large commercial coal burning use. It may never operate as promised and it’s still a big question whether it will ever work adequately or even be remotely affordable.
“All utilities in the state must find a way to achieve the goal. They can replace or re-power coal plants with natural gas or add energy efficiency measures such as combined heat & power, or they can switch to renewable energy sources. . . . . Natural gas is the easy way out, since the state has the third-largest reserves of natural gas. Although natural gas is a fossil fuel that potentially harms drinking water, its contribution to climate change is only half that of coal.”
Only?? Comparing it to coal isn’t saying much.
Natural gas is a fossil fuel that is finite, like all the others, and it definitely pollutes the air when its processed and burned. Just as bad seems to be the process of hydraulic fracking to get the natural gas out of where it is, often in rock or hard to get at. This process uses lots of toxic chemicals that are mostly unregulated because the energy companies won’t even reveal exactly what is in their fracking formulas. Xcel Energy needs to be pushed to use more wind energy which it’s already using to great effect in Minnesota and South Dakota.
XCel Energy is building an enormous new wind farm in southern Minnesota. I’ve been down there recently twice in the past 5 years and it’s very windy there and even more so in South Dakota. It’s probably not [...]
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There various vegetables , fruits and nuts readily available in our kitchens and our local markets. But we often forget the medicinal value and no soon we have a ailment we run to the doctors for help. It is very important to consult a doctor and take the medication, but the herbal medicenes that are available readily at our kitchen could help us if the ailment is very nominal. For eg. if someone has a gastric problem, or an acidity problem , then there are so many condiments, and other herbal cures which are at our reach, but that goes unnoticed or being ignored. I give you a few remedies on very normal and common ailments from the vegetables, condiments, fruits etc available at home.
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Paul Wayne Gregory must have major self control when working so closely with chocolate all day. These are just some of his amazing sculptures from his chocolate gallery. The bust is amazing!
Be Your Own Doctor
There various vegetables , fruits and nuts readily available in our kitchens and our local markets. But we often forget the medicinal value and no soon we have a ailment we run to the doctors for help. It is very important to consult a doctor and take the medication, but the herbal medicenes that are available readily at our kitchen could help us if the ailment is very nominal. For eg. if someone has a gastric problem, or an acidity problem , then there are so many condiments, and other herbal cures which are at our reach, but that goes unnoticed or being ignored. I give you a few remedies on very normal and common ailments from the vegetables, condiments, fruits etc available at home.
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By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 19, 2004; Page B01
A more refined test of the water in the Washington Aqueduct has revealed the presence of perchlorate, a toxic chemical typically found in weapons and explosives, federal officials said yesterday.
The discovery of the chemical in the water supply challenges the prevailing theory of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has argued that contamination from buried World War I munitions in the Spring Valley neighborhood to the north poses no threat to Dalecarlia Reservoir along MacArthur Avenue NW.
Thomas P. Jacobus, chief of the Washington Aqueduct, said perchlorate in the reservoir measured between 1.2 and 1.8 parts per billion (ppb) and did not pose a health risk. He said he has ordered weekly tests of the water and is recommending that the corps accelerate its search for the source of perchlorate contamination.
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Matt Yglesias points to an OKCupid survey which shows that in the United States there tends to be a rather coherent block of social & economic conservatives within the Republican party, while the Democrats are a coalition between those who emphasize social issues and those who emphasize economic issues. Social liberals are often found in the upper socioeconomic strata and look positively upon globalization and free trade. Economic liberals, in the American sense, are not necessarily social liberals, as is well known in the case of black Americans who tend to support government programs but are more socially moderate-to-conservative. Combined with the consistent pattern of conservatives outnumbering liberals it would naturally lead one to believe that this is a nation where the Right is eternally ascendant.
And it is certainly true that compared to European nations the United States is conservative on many social and economic metrics.* But is the arc of American history toward a conservative or liberal direction? In other words, what is the probability that there would be a blanket ban on abortion in the United States in one generation? What about the maintenance of federal laws which ban recognition of same sex marriages? Which the proportion of national GDP which consists of government spending?
For all the talk about American exceptionalism the arc of history seems to be moving to the Left, broadly speaking. Despite the reality that the American Left seems weaker in numbers and less coherent a movement than the Right, conservatives have been waging a rearguard battle by and large. The macrohistorical trends are simply not born out by the strength of numbers that conservatives have at any given moment. One might infer from this that there are strong sociocultural dynamics and institutional biases which nudge Western liberal democracies in a Left direction, with the rate of change modulated by contemporary political configurations. And yet perhaps we are too Whiggish, human history has been characterized by secular trends being nested within broader cyclical patterns.
* This has been to be qualified, as many European governments have more restrictive abortion rights regimes, and racial nationalist parties gain more traction in most of Europe than they ever would in the United States.
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Bluethroat, Inner Farne - comments welcome!However there was one thing missing today – our breeding birds (they hadn’t read the script). The poor weather of recent days has pushed the majority of our seabirds far out to sea but they’ll be back, but when I’m not sure. This is typical seabird behaviour as they won’t settle until mid-April, but some already have – some Shags are now on four eggs whilst at least five female Mallards are on eggs!
On the migrant front, several Black Redstarts remained whilst Snow Bunting and Wood Pigeon were other noticeable highlights (remember Wood Pigeons are scarce out here!). However the bird of the day – the Bluethroat was re-found. Having been extremely elusive on its first day (Wednesday), the bird wasn’t seen at all yesterday (in poor conditions) and we thought it had gone. However it was rediscovered today but once again, proved very, very elusive (it was hard work). This will go down as one of the most elusive Bluethroat’s ever seen on the Farnes as even seeing the bird in binoculars was difficult, never mind capturing photos. The racial identification and even sexing of the bird is proving topical (it’s tricky!), so any comments would be welcome from Marks photos – good work Mark for capturing these images!
Well I haven't updated you guys in much too long so here it goesWe left Siem Riep on the 22nd lovely little Air Asia flight to Kuala Lumpar. Man does Air Asia got it figured out crazy amounts of air con and leather seats the only downside being you pay for any food or drink you wish to consume flights are so cheap though so whatever. We touched down in KL and were greeted by Mcdonalds starbuc
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We meant to get this one on the web yesterday but Jeff and Bettina were keeping us far too busy. The last couple of days have been brilliant and as we now find ourselves on the way to Vegas we can look back on some great times already. Jack has experienced so many new things and seeing his face when he watched cousin Jeff catching fish with his buddies was just great the word ldquofishrdquo
Ok this was the most intense week and its only going to get more I am so exhausted but I'm still goin Lectures are very intense in a great way but not a lot of time to process I really dont know how to explain this week it was just jammed full Our lecture this week was on the Father Heart of God it was absolutely necessary to understand and accept into my life. I was challenged with i
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April 3 2010Well I finished my 16 miles. The day was so lovely and promising that I decided to walk outside. My plan was just to walk back and forth in front of my hotel two blocks one direction and then two blocks the other direction but I found a tiny little park with no traffic nearby. So I walked around and around this little park for four hours. The first two hours were great. It fel
