The price is.
I just got my PG&E bill. $0.38 per kwh. WTF!!
My natural gas is $1.23 per therm, or equivalent to $0.042 per kwh.
I don’t know how efficient a natural gas generator is, but even at 20% efficiency that still works out to $0.21 per kwh, and I could use the waste heat to heat […]
It never stops. Terrorists are going to bring down civilization with unlocked i-phones.
The move is essential to AT&T as Wi-Fi via wired broadband is much cheaper than 3G data transmission. It is estimated that as few as 12 iPhones streaming video can swamp a single iPhone tower, leading to Apple suggesting that terrorists could […]
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
A long article from the National Post, but worth reading.
Is there really a “global cooling” chart in the Smithsonian?
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/03/climate-science-gore-intelligent-technology-sutton.html
Someone has written this fantastic comment to a article in the Telegraph:
Global Norming Concensus Proves Climate Strange Is Real
December 2nd, 2009 by admin
Using a highly reliable measuring system know as the five senses, human beings in their billions have come to the conclusion, that the only certainty about the weather on planet earth, is that […]
If we fall for this global warming BS, and let our leaders destroy our economy and the path to improved lives for many many people across the world, we deserve a special place in hell beside the guys at the Hadley Climate Research Unit.
While searching for reviews on the new book, Superfreakonomics by Stephen Levitt, I ran into this wonderful piece of insight:
For the record, it’s perfectly logical to believe that — indeed, I daresay most of the world’s leading climate scientists believe that if you could curtail all new carbon emissions (including from deforestation) starting now (or […]
Its H1N1 season. But you can get a shot for it. But the short has mercury in it. That can’t be good. Or can it?
Clearly the biggest danger posed by H1N1 and the H1N1 shot is that it induces people to use the internet to check up on the toxicity of ethyl mercury.
A domain name […]
Did you know what Canada’s biggest problem is? Well in case you didn’t, McLeans magazine will be happy to spell it out for you.
A-M-E-R-I-C-I-A
Yep, the country that buys untold billions of dollars of Canadian stuff, and basically keeps the country from being a third world garbage dump with second rate hockey teams.
That’s not to say […]