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Why Hybrid Cars (Part 2)
To understand why auto manufacturers would select hybrid electrical technology over a straight out electric car, you need to understand a little about electrical technology. What I hope to do here is to distill it down to a simplified version that I hope can be understood, because to explain it fully would be too technical […]
THE LATEST PHONE SCAM Targets Your Bank Account
Security Tips from the FBI Imagine getting hundreds or thousands of calls on your home, business, or cell phone, tying up the lines. And when you answer, you hear anything from dead air to recorded messages, advertisements, or even phone sex menus. It’s annoying, no doubt. But it could be more than that—it could be […]
10 Products That Shouldn’t Have Been Released in 2010
Mobile and Wireless from eWeek By Don Reisinger With six months left to go in 2010, it’s tough to say at the end of the year which products everyone will look back on and question why they were ever released. But even halfway through the year, there are a number of products on the market […]
IAB: Boucher Bill Strikes At ‘Heart And Soul Of Today’s Internet Offerings’
By Wendy Davis Potential privacy legislation being floated by Rep. Rick Boucher “would fundamentally change online information and online advertising practices to the detriment of consumers,” the Interactive Advertising Bureau said Friday in written comments to lawmakers. “We believe that self-regulation, which is inherently more flexible and better suited to govern a dynamic environment than […]
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And the three to ten-year-olds? According to CNN: Parents using smartphones to entertain bored kids “Harried parents for years have relied on glowing electronic screens — TVs, video games, computers — to entertain children in the home. Now more and more parents are discovering smartphones’ similar ability to engage squirmy kids at restaurants, in the […]
More Electrical Power Misconceptions
February 22, 2009 by TonyfromOz
The short series of posts I made about misconceptions about our use of, and the generation of electricity were linked to at another site, and there was a comment posted at that site. The comment was made with the best of intentions no doubt, but again, what it effectively highlights is that misconceptions are easily […]
Internet Control By Government
NET NANNY IS SLOW AND MYOPIC Andrew Bolt TonyfromOz prefaces ….. This is a buzz topic here in Australia at the moment. The Government came to Office with the promise of installing high speed Broadband Internet access to every house in Australia, something that has not eventuated yet, and expressions of interest for the huge […]
The New China Syndrome
July 10, 2008 by TonyfromOz
THE NEW CHINA SYNDROME As you read this I would ask that you read what I say with some empathy for the Chinese. The movie with the above title and the current situation have some similarities. Both dealt with electrical power generation, and both concerned the media reporting on that electrical generation. The movie portrayed […]
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 50)
July 7, 2008 by TonyfromOz
CONCLUSIONS. (Part 3) Are there options to replace those coal fired power plants? Are they viable? Are they affordable? A cutback of one third of those coal fired plants means replacing fifty plants in the large baseload area, fifty plants of 2000MW size, and if it is to be considered seriously, then those mid sized […]
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 46)
July 1, 2008 by TonyfromOz
STING IN THE TAIL (#1) The Kyoto Protocol calls for the US reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 33% from all sources. That's a 33% reduction in the COAL sector of that power production. This is not partisan politics. If the Democrats get in they'll kick & scream the loudest about ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 45)
June 29, 2008 by TonyfromOz
SOLUTIONS. So then, let’s have a look and see if we actually can try and find a way to cut back on the use of power from coal fired plants. One of the problems you have with electricity is that it cannot be transmitted over vast distances, because the voltage diminishes and there is no […]
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 44)
June 27, 2008 by TonyfromOz
Politicians know one thing, Politics. Whats needed are politicians with the actual will to implement what engineers tell them. 1st item: They need to be FORCED to understand what's needed & WHY it's needed. Politicians then need to engage in the personal task of making the people understand why it's needed. Then ...
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 43)
June 25, 2008 by TonyfromOz
Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Facility Pennsylvania.Image courtesy FirstEnergy Corp. Click on image to open in a larger window. SOLEL Solar Thermal Plant Kramer Valley California.Image courtesy Alan Radecki is a Commons Image. Click on image to open in a larger window. SOLUTIONS In the previous post I mentioned statistics and economics with respect to actual […]
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 40)
June 19, 2008 by TonyfromOz
SOLUTIONS (Part 3) COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS. COMBINED HEAT AND POWER This process, Combined heat and Power (CHP) is not something new. As I mentioned in the last post, it was introduced in the 1880′s in Manhattan, and is in fairly widespread, if not unheralded, use throughout the State of New York. When grid power started to […]
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 33)
June 5, 2008 by TonyfromOz
PERCEPTIONS. When I started out on this series of posts, I hoped to be able to find enough to stretch it to maybe six posts. What I had hoped to achieve was to point out what the Kyoto protocol was all about, what it meant to the average person in the street, and how it […]
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 31)
June 1, 2008 by TonyfromOz
CLEAN COAL (Part 2) FROM GEOSEQUESTRATION TO CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE TO CLEAN COAL. Geosequestration is the technical term for sequestering something in geological layers, in this case, liquefied carbon dioxide (CO2). The word sequester in this case translates as removing something from where it is and them making it reside in another, out of […]
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 28)
May 26, 2008 by TonyfromOz
WIND POWER (Part 3) The NIMBY factor This image shows some of the 137 GE Towers at tThis image shows some of the 137 GE Towers at the Fenton Wind Farm near Chandler in Minnesota. Each tower produces 1.5MW for a maximum of just over 200MW of power. This photograph taken by Brian P […]
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 27)
May 24, 2008 by TonyfromOz
WIND POWER (Part 2) Infrastructure concerns. This image is of wind towers along the ridge of the Allegheny Front in Southern Pennsylvania. Click on the image for a larger picture in new window. This photograph was taken by ‘Dhaluza’ and is a Creative Commons Image. I remember back when computers started to become something that […]
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 26)
May 22, 2008 by TonyfromOz
WIND POWER (Part 1) This photograph shows five of the forty three wind towers along the ridge line at Moosic Mountain near Scranton PA, part of the Waymart Wind Energy Center.Each of the towers is approximately the same height as the Statue Of Liberty, and generates 1.5MW of power. I varied the contrast slightly in […]
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