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- Canadian Oil Sands Flyover
An aerial/telephoto exploration of the Canadian Oil Sands operations. Two trillion barrels of oil in the ground. Pyramids of sulfur and coke. Lakes of oil stretching to the horizon. At $200k/yr, it's easy to understand how one might get roped in, gold rush style. - Clean energy will unfortunately be political
Conservative thinktanks step up attacks against Obama's clean energy strategy, as revealed by ALEC bills and other PR documents. This morning at the World Renewable Energy Forum, in response to a (long winded) question about how we might re-frame the energy discussion in light of the unfortunate hay which was made from Solyndra's failure, US Energy Secretary Stephen Chu re-iterated that clean energy should not be a political issue -- that it's just common sense. That may be true, but it doesn't mean it will remain apolitical. As Pericles once said... "Just because you do not take an interest in - The Dangerous World of Underground Chemistry
A look at the increasingly outsourced world of underground pharma. Domestic black-market chemists handle R&D and distribution, and the actual manufacturing is done in China. Seems that way with everything. - Google Street View for building energy efficiency
Essess is doing drive-by thermal imaging in high density urban areas across the US, hoping to target possible building energy efficiency opportunities. Another company is using urban satellite imagery to choose the best rooftops for solar energy siting. Big Brother may be watching you... but at least occasionally he's got the right idea. - The Neapolitan Mob’s Most Dangerous Family
A character sketch of Paolo di Lauro, one of the Neapolitan Camorra's former leaders. Southern Italy it seems, like some parts of Mexico, operates with more than one quasi-state organization governing in parallel. A tacit negotiation between the official and unofficial systems, which sometimes erupts into violence -- ironically, at those times when the so-called "criminal" organizations have become weak.
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- Incredible photo essay on the Athabasca Tar Sands operations: businessinsider.com/canadian-oil-s… 8 minutes ago
- At a great talk about individual cities as the right scale for renewable energy systems innovation at #wref2012 3 days ago
- Heard rural Wyoming folk talking local Chinese coal/gas investments, hacking of their SCADA water system. I live in a @GreatDismal future. 3 days ago
- The tar sands have to stay in the ground. Stop the pipeline… again. And again. And again, if necessary. act.350.org/sign/kxl/ 3 months ago
- Roughly 2/3 of all the humans who have ever reached the age of 65 are alive today. 3 months ago
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Links for the week of February 21st, 2010
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Tagged bank, bernanke, billgates, breeder, climate, corporations, debt, directaction, economics, economy, energy, espionage, law, microsoft, money, nuclear, oil, politics, reactor, realestate, satire, school, science, sex, surveillance, sustainability, technology, terrorism, waste
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Energy at the Crossroads by Vaclav Smil (Part 2 of 2)
Fossil Fuel Futures Smil’s take on the future of fossil fuels seems very similar to that of Steve Koonin (and thus BP), namely that there’s plenty of all of them in the ground for us to damn ourselves to a … Continue reading
Energy at the Crossroads by Vaclav Smil (Part 1 of 2)
Where does our energy come from today, and how do we use it? How much does it take to live the Good Life, and what, really, should that energy be used on? Where might it plausibly come from in the … Continue reading
Tagged books, change, climate, coal, economics, energy, environment, nuclear, oil, reviews, science, sustainability
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Links for the week of November 15th, 2009
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Tagged architecture, biology, change, climate, design, dna, economics, energy, evolution, genetics, genome, green, harvard, health, iea, neanderthal, oil, peakoil, politics, privacy, research, science, sustainability, transparency
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Links for the week of October 10th, 2009
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Tagged activism, art, bicycle, china, coal, dollar, economics, electricity, energy, euro, film, finance, government, green, iran, japan, longnow, losangeles, magazine, money, nuclear, oil, performance, photos, planning, politics, portland, russia, satire, sustainability, technology, transparency, transportation, urban
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Links for the week of August 28th, 2009
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Tagged activism, agriculture, amsterdam, apocalypse, archaeology, bbc, bicycle, bullshit, capitalism, china, cities, climate, communication, copenhagen, csa, cuba, data, denmark, design, dutch, economics, education, energy, film, fish, food, google, green, greewashing, holland, human, india, information, infrastructure, internet, islam, maps, monopoly, netherlands, ocean, oil, organic, peak-oil, performance, phone, physics, policy, propaganda, regulation, religion, santacruz, satire, sex, sustainability, technology, transportation, urban, women
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Links for the week of August 20th, 2009
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Tagged advocacy, agriculture, apple, astroturf, backup, backups, bicycle, cars, cities, climate, criticalmass, design, economics, energy, flickr, food, framing, freegan, gardening, green, hiphop, information, infrastructure, internet, law, mac, oil, organic, osx, parking, pasadena, petroleum, philosophy, photos, planning, policy, portland, propaganda, publishing, python, research, science, society, sustainability, technology, timemachine, tools, transportation, travel, urban, volunteer, waste, wwoof, youtube
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Georgia and Russia, sittin’ in a tree
Pravda has put out a helpful timeline of the current Georgia-Russia conflict Maybe I have a one track mind but, I don’t think this kind of conflict often erupts for purely egotistic political reasons. There’s a lot of energy backstory … Continue reading
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Tagged caspian sea, energy, fruit, georgia, ira, natural gas, oil, pipeline, politics, professional, russia, solar
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Congress has failed us on renewable energy again
Last week Congress left DC for its summer vacation without extending the federal tax credits for investments in renewable energy. This is an abject failure on the part of our elected representatives. Without these tax credits, the booming renewable energy … Continue reading
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Tagged california, energy, foreign, money, oil, policy, public, solar
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Too big to fail is too big, period
With the collapse of Bear Stearns and the US automakers and airlines tanking, and the prospect of a trillion dollar bailout of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and who knows how many other large lenders, all because they are, putatively, “too … Continue reading