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Archive - 2008
December 20th
Monticello Nuclear Power Plant
Submitted by rl on Sat, 12/20/2008 - 14:43
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6o Year Life of Nuclear Power Plant Core
Excel Energy is conducting public hearings concerning its proposal to increasing its electrical output from the Monticello, Minnesota Nuclear Power Plant (MMNPP). I attended a meeting held at Saint Cloud State University (SCSU).
November 14th
American Pile
Submitted by rl on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 10:46
Sung to Don McLean's “American Pie”
A long long time ago
I can still remember
What a dollar used to buy
October 27th
Solar Power Satellites
Submitted by rl on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 14:23
An article published in the Minneapolis Tribune (10l20l08) written by Ben Bova projects one of the potential solutions in resolving the externalities associated with electric energy production by combustion.
Ben's article is not reporting a new proposal; in fact I first read about photovoltaic (solar) cells attached to outer space satellites back in the eighties.
October 8th
Green Energy-part two
Submitted by rl on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 12:24
Green Energy
Submitted by rl on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 11:30
Two interesting energy topics are confronting electric energy users in the Midwest now. The first is a story written by a commercial farm supply retailer and, the other is an electric rate increase in northern Minnesota.
I receive many stories either written or verbal on wind turbines and/or energy conservation. I investigate them all.
October 3rd
9/11-AIG Collapse
Submitted by rl on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 11:35
The 9/11 Collapse – The AIG Collapse
As I listened to the public/ social pundits analyze the economic turbulence that the AIG collapse inflicted and will continue to cripple everyone's money management system I wonder if the cause of the Wall Street collapse is from the collapse of the Twin Towers that occurred in 2001.
September 19th
Energy Policy Hubris
Submitted by rl on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 11:28
The time spent reading and listening to both Presidential contending parties' conventions is reflected as another waste of time. It's not that I expected any differences from the past but; with the rapidly changing ecology along with it's twin, the economy; how do the followers that attended both conventions in Denver and Saint Paul remain so optimistic of their own futures while chanting “change”?
Don't they realize that the change that the U.S.
July 22nd
Don't use "Alternative" Energy
Submitted by rl on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 17:00
In my venture in attending higher education one speech communication course titled “Theory of Persuasion” is a course that will ever more be the course that will direct myself in any communication strategy.
I inferred that the choice of the words one uses in addressing others has a overwhelming influence on how the message is perceived.
June 20th
Silicon Story
Submitted by rl on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 14:05
I listen to Minnesota Public Radio and often hear a snippet of a news bit that is presented by National Public Radio. More often than not many of those snippets are not covered at length. The snippet stated that a shortage of silicon (an important component in the manufacture of solar cells) is the primary cause to high cost of photovoltaic panels.
June 5th
Lindsey William's Doubt
Submitted by rl on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 13:41
I witnessed the speeches presented by Lindsey Williams on You-Tube. Everything he states have been stated by many other researchers/writers as far back as the first energy crises of the nineteen seventies.
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