RobBob

Damn, raced to post this story and I'm 15 minutes late. You f'ers are 1) quick or 2) lazy loafers who do nothing but stay online all day. Where is that pinko lefty DFA? He needs a good nose-rubbing.

touche, catbird. I've complained about ethanol here before, only to be berated by the environazis. There are ethanol carpetbaggers proposing to build ethanol plants all around the US. They are all after incentive $. What a stupid idea, with corn and soybean prices at like ten-year highs right now, we're gonna give tax money so that a con artist can go build an ethanol plant in Bumfuck, ND, then haul corn in unit trains from IL to run it. What a load of horsecrap. It also cuts against the grain of the no-GM-corn&soy constituency. If you promote an industrial market for corn and soybean farmers, you can expect them to grow an 'industrial' (GM) crop, not focussing on the consumer or the feed market.

hear, hear iain.

It's the boots

And the funny thing is that Texas may well be the horniest state in the nation.

Damn, that caught my eye and I clicked on that before fully reading his post...

It's the hot-dogging assholes who are going way too fast on intermediate slopes, putting my kids at risk, that put me close to going medieval...

This you came up with after listening to that NPR piece this morning, where they were talking about the privatization of defense and its risks, as they saw it, of industry being motivated to wage war.

thanks guys

Found the hut photo w/ the turbine...this one's in South Tyrol

Jim's point is well taken that I need to do a site assessment, which I'll prob. have to do myself. I've got kind of a "micro climate" where a promontory on the water increases the wind dramatically.

Nice, Trask, but first let me assure our kind readers that I did NOT come out to visit you. Minx paid for my ticket and we just happened to run into you at the dungeon. I am wondering how you happened to know about my love-hate relationship with Delta Airlines, which has resulted in my sending regular delta flight TRs to senior management. As far as Hilton Head, I'm a southerner, but not that far south. That's down there where Gullah is still spoken, voodoo practiced, and Bill Clinton still runs the boo. Yur Friend, RB

Haven't yet checked our local utility to see if I can tie in and sell it back. I have seen articles about smaller turbine applications...some time ago I saw a pic of one at a climbers hut in Europe, but I don't recall which site it was on. I've got a little weather station, but have not tried to see if I could capture some history with it via a pc...that's probably worth doing.

Okay, I'm putting my environmental gadfly suit aside for a moment and asking you boobs a serious question: Anybody here familiar with small wind generators for home use? I'm looking at building a home on a site that has 5-15 kt. winds a lot of the time. Any of you got experience in installing or using wind generation? Any other construction advice for a windy waterfront site would be appreciated.

What do you know about his touch?

If you eat beef then you get 8 times the pcb load of salmon (farmed or wild). Even by using the Suzuki data, it's an argument about the difference between 0.1% and 0.15% of the FDA threshold level. And that's before cooking, which disperses most of pcb's, I believe I read somewhere. Anyhow, the dishonest part of the "study" was the fact that they compared one species of wild salmon (atlantic) that is naturally carnivorous with a blend of wild salmon that is omnivorous (I forget the species). They knew the atlantic species would test higher than an omnivorous blend, wild or farmed, because the strictly-carnivorous fish naturally feeds higher up the chain.

I don't believe they did that, Dru.

That is exactly, for instance, the scientifically dishonest approach that David Suzuki and the Pew Trust have taken with their "research" showing farmed salmon have more pcb's than wild salmon. What they really in fact showed was that both farmed and wild salmon have pcb levels many times lower than the FDA's threshold level... and their work bore out what scientists already knew---that different species of salmon (whether farmed or wild) are likely to have slightly different levels of pcb's. But they achieved their "mission," which was to create misinformation and consumer panic.

In the beginning, there were country music hairdos...

cbs has been put in charge of the pep committee, and is trasked with convincing us that it's a good thing trask is gone. discuss

See what we get without trask? Spray turns into cc.com bible study.

Asian brown cloud from another source: You guys are fooling yourselves, lapsing back into defining pollution as CO2 emmissions and making it sound like India and China aren't egregious polluters. China, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, take your pick: They haven't eliminated that first 80% of the most noxious pollutants that are cheapest to fix. Saying that these societies are barely surviving and can't afford to change isn't accurate in all cases and in general is a cop-out. The corporations that provide employment could be held accountable to the same standards of pollution, safety, etc. as the rest of the world. A little education and pressure on governments could help convert people away from dung-fires, etc. I'm sorry that wirlwind wouldn't have his cheap chinese merchandise in this scenario, but isn't this a small price to pay for really getting Asia to bring itself out of the 19th century and into the 21st? And why should jobs be trooping overseas essentially because those countries' work rules, payscales and expectations are so low?

Terms coming to a dictionary near your soon: nucular baby-daddy snafflehound

I agree with you on that, Will, but unfortunately we speedball them into polluting more by allowing ourselves (US and Euro companies) to exploit those same resources by abandoning home production and home rules...and by living this free trade mantra which may float the Asian boat but unfettered does not correct its lack of controls. When the chicken fever hits, I'm takin' my kids out of school and hunkering down in the woods!

The term is "all right." Please let's not dumb down the English language any further.