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  • Student Accommodations To Be Powered With Solar Energy
    Three student housing communities will be powered with solar power thanks to an agreement between Campus Crest Communities, a developer of student housing, and SolarCity, a provider of alternative energy. The student communities are located in Greeley (Colorado), Flagstaff (Arizona) and Las Cruces (New Mexico). They will be fitted with more than 9,000 solar panels. [...]
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  • Energy Efficiency: What are the Laggards Thinking?
    Why do some states avoid creating policies that encourage consumers and businesses to save energy? What’s the psychology of the laggards? A new report by the American Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy sheds some insight as it examines the states that consistently fall behind in the organization’s annual energy efficiency ranking. The bottom states [...]
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  • The Value of a Diverse (Energy) Portfolio
    Talk to any financial adviser, and they’ll tell you diversity within your portfolio is important for long-term growth and sustainability. Diversity helps you adapt to changing markets and weather short-term storms to achieve your goals. The same can be said about energy. Diversity is a valuable asset – having a variety of fuel options and [...]
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  • Grid-Interactive Systems Make Renewable Energy More Attractive
    For much of renewable energy’s history, consumers adopting renewable energy systems faced have two very different options when it came to solar power. They could remain tied to the power grid and use their renewable energy source to offset their electricity use. Or, if they were brave enough, could take the plunge and try going [...]
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The Register - Science
  • SpaceX Dragon chokes at the last second

    Computer said no: New attempt expected on Tuesday

    The Falcon 9 rocket from private space company SpaceX, intended to launch this morning and send a Dragon capsule loaded with supplies to the International Space Station, has failed to take off. The rocket's computer aborted the launch automatically at almost the final possible moment, when its engines had already ignited but the vehicle had not yet been released from the pad.…

  • Does Britain really need a space port?

    Plus: Sky TV accounts for most of UK's 'space sector'

    Analysis  Everyone knows about Britain's soaraway space sector. It turns over £8bn a year – the same sort of money as the remaining automotive industry – it employs tens of thousands of people, and it's growing faster than the Chinese economy. And, famously, it has done all this without any significant government help.…

  • Vulture 2 trigger triggers serious head-scratching

    Just how do we fire that LOHAN rocket motor?

    It's fair to say that the question of just how we fire the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) Vulture 2 spaceplane rocket motor is a touch thorny.…

  • Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Mealy pudding v migas

    Hispano-Caledonian full-fat fryfest

    Following a long winter hibernation burning the fat reserves gained from a generous serving of Dutch delicacy kapsalon, our Special Projects Bureau post-pub nosh team has emerged blinking into the spring sunshine to bring you a further selection of quality international cuisine designed to soak up the excesses of a night on the town.…

  • SpaceX Dragon to smuggle SECRET package to the ISS

    Mysterious cargo buried in the belly of the beast

    Just to add some icing to the SpaceX Dragon launch cake, the cargoship may be carrying a secret payload that nobody knows about.…
 
Climate Skeptic
  • Burning Down the House
    Steve Zwick walked back his comments about letting skeptics’s houses burn down and tries to clarify the point he was trying to make.  I have further comments in a new Forbes article here.  An excerpt: Steve Zwick has posted an update to the post I wrote about last week and has decided the house-burning analogy was [...]
  • A Vivid Reminder of How The Climate Debate is Broken
    My Forbes column is up this week.  I really did not want to write about climate, but when Forbes conctributor Steve Zwick wrote this, I had to respond We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies.  Let’s start keeping track [...]
  • Updated Charts
    These are some updated charts I need for linking from a Forbes article.  Look for the link coming soon.
  • Server Issues
    I upgraded my server account – we will see if that gets us past the server issues the site has been experiencing over the last few days.
 

  • Killer Crossword

    Venezuelan intelligence officers visited the offices of Ultima Noticias newspaper to gather information on Neptali Segovia, who writes the paper's crossword puzzles. One of his recent puzzles contained, among other answers, the first name of President Hugo Chavez's brother Adan, a Spanish word for to kill and a Spanish word that can mean either machine gun fire or a gust of wind. Chavez supporters say the puzzle was a threat to Adan Chavez.


  • Iron Fist, Cotton Glove

    A code enforcement officer in Brynmawr, Wales, fined Valerie George £75 for littering after a strand of cotton fell from one of her gloves to the sidewalk. George says she didn't even see the strand fall and would have picked it up if asked. When contacted by media, local officials said they would drop the fine but George did break the law.


  • LMFAO

    Officials at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado, suspended 6-year-old D'Avonte Meadows for three days for sexual harassment. Meadows allegedly sang the line "I'm sexy, and I know it" from the song "Sexy and I Know It" to another student.


  • Another One Rides the Bus

    In Glynn County, Georgia, a school bus driver and an assistant have been suspended after leaving a 5-year-old special needs student strapped to a seat in an unattended bus for two hours. The student was supposed to have been taken to a pre-kindergarten program. But the bus returned to the depot without dropping the student off. The student wasn't discovered until another driver went to use the bus. School officials are refusing to release the names of the suspended employees.