January 2007 Entries

The hipocracy of fighting pollution.

Well on Hugg I found this link.  http://blogger.xs4all.nl/marcg/archive/2007/01/09/171574.aspx  A quite annoying tactic for sure.  I would not like someone putting anything on my car.  The ironic thing is that they are protesting a petroleum product, gas.  Yet they are making pollution buy the exploding balloons.  Originally I thought the balloons were made from petroleum also, but I guess they are latex or rubber.  Either way it is ironic that it is OK to pollute if you are protesting pollution.

posted @ Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:59 AM | Feedback (3)

Nuclear Africa?

New Scientist has an article about Africa wanting to become nuclear.  I'm not against nuclear at all, but in stable countries with nuclear generation capabilities is scary.  I seem to remember GE designing a self contained Nuke reactor for this very application.  I'll try and find a link later.  That might be an acceptable solution.  Give a poor country a contained nuke.  They can buy fuel and give back the waste.  They don't have to worry about waste and the rest of the world doesn't have to worry about some crazy despot making dirty or nuclear bombs.  Though as the...

posted @ Friday, January 12, 2007 12:21 PM | Feedback (0)

First new post in a long time

My old version of Subtext didn't allow me to post for some reason.  And I had to move over to another server to get .NET 2.0 going for the latest version.  So this is a test post. 

posted @ Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:13 AM | Feedback (0)