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October 26, 2009: An interview with Amanda Little, author of Power Trip
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| Ramones | We want the airwaves | Anthology: Hey Ho, Lets Go |
| Operation Ivy | Artificial Life | Energy |
| Ramones | We want the airwaves | Anthology: Hey Ho, Lets Go |
Mon. 10/26/09 6:02pm
From:
Charles-A.
Welcome to The Media Squat
Mon. 10/26/09 6:03pm
From:
Charles-A.
We're open to suggestions.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:05pm
From:
Charles-A.
Energy, the ability to do work, is one thing. Anergy, the ability to slack off, is quite another thing.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:09pm
From:
Charles-A.
At that point, free energy would destroy the current providers unless and unil they figured ouot a way to profit from it.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:10pm
From:
Charles-A.
Kewl. Fun with scanners. That takes me back.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:14pm
From:
Charles-A.
Book tour is another kind of industrial disease.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:18pm
From:
Charles-A.
No seriously.
Bush had an energy policy?
I thought he was all for strip mining the national parks for coal and natural gas and it ended there.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:21pm
From:
Charles-A.
In fact it was so blatant that even the coal companies were ashamed to take the gift that Bush was proffering.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:24pm
From:
Charles-A.
Energy storage is easy. Pump water UP when you've got excess energy and let it flow down through turbines when you need it.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:26pm
From:
Charles-A.
Distribution can be local (tri-state wide) rather that requiring nation wide grids.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:31pm
From:
Charles-A.
Stay out of Canada. The blue-eyed Arabs in Alberta will rob you blind. :-)
Mon. 10/26/09 6:38pm
From:
Charles-A.
VROOM VROOM!!! The sound of inefficiency. (I used to tune engines and I considered it properly tuned when I could stand a Canadian Nickle on its edge and it would NOT fall over.)
Mon. 10/26/09 6:40pm
From:
Charles-A.
General Tire, Standard Oil and Ford screwed us.
It WAS a conspiracy.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:43pm
From:
Charles-A.
The car won. Deal with it.
The problem is that the oil distribution is now the major cause of our problems.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:48pm
From:
Charles-A.
Its always one damn thing after another. :-)
Mon. 10/26/09 6:50pm
From:
Charles-A.
look at http://www.theoildrum.com/ for more information.
And buy her book.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:57pm
From:
Charles-A.
Here a link to her book:
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Trip-Cells-Our-Renewable-Future/dp/0061353256/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256597817&sr=8-1
Mon. 10/26/09 6:59pm
From:
Charles-A.
Thanks for the mention Douglas.
Mon. 10/26/09 6:59pm
From:
Charles-A.
Nite folks.
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