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As far as wind, solar and other so-called renewable forms of energy goes - the Public will wake up soon to the fact that they have been lied to. The sticker price shock once the true costs are unleashed onto the bill payers will dampen any enthusiasm there might have been for such a foolhardy policy. As I have written elsewhere on this site the public cannot tell a megawatt from a milliwatt so it is easy to convince them that wind and solar can meet all their energy needs when it is quite obvious to any thinking person that it cannot do that. When the subsidies come off and the high price of this electricity manifests itself - watch out for the backlash.
And I could not agree with you more that any flat-lining of electricity demand is temporary and once the US economy starts to move again electricity providers are going to get caught with their demand pants down. US businesses are sitting on an unprecedented amount of cash and once confidence is restored or even starts to get back to normal the spending of this vast amount of money will translate into double digit energy demand increases that most utilities are completely unprepared for.
As you correctly state making things more energy efficient does not necessarily translate into demand reduction. Buying a flat panel TV to replace an old cathode ray tube set does translate into a reduced energy demand if it is a like for like replacement but the cost of these televisions has decreased so rapidly that now people are having two three or four installed in their homes which likely doubles the power demand that they had before. More energy efficient for sure but reduced demand - No way. In my case I now have one in every bedroom in the house (5) as well as the main one for a total of 6 when I used to have just one. I am sure my electricity demand went up not down.
But the big demand increases are going to come from a repatriation of manufacturing to North America. What is not often discussed in the utility business is the advent of robots in manufacturing. These machines operate on electricity and are replacing humans in many hitherto impossible manufacturing scenarios. These are smart robots that can emulate many activities only humans could perform. This will make North America cost competitive with China as their labour costs increase. Plus robots never go on strike, do not need pay cheques, don't get sick, don't need pension plans, follow directions to the letter and work 24 hours a day seven days a week. All they need is electricity. Demand is going to skyrocket as US business spends its trillions of accumulated capital on robotic factories. The utilities are not prepared for it.
Very good article Mark. Well done.
My prediction - there will be electricity shortages as demand increases and outpaces supply. Demand can be increased at the flick of a switch - supply takes years to build. That time lag will eat up any current surplus rapidly.
If the majority of utilities are unprepared for all this surge in demand, watch out for skyrocketing electricity rates over the next several years, or at least steady increases much higher than general inflation. There will be unprecedented pressures on consumers to conserve especially during peak demand periods.
Although today better efficiencies often spurs increased demand as we buy more and more efficient products as you say Malcolm, in future as utility bills approach the size of mortgage payments a growing proportion of consumers will start penny pinching where ever they can by reducing their demand and monitoring usage. They will also look for ways to get off the grid by investing in their own on-site generation, like those NG fuel cell generators you have posted about here before Malcolm. Energy efficiencies in TVs or other consumer products will become ever more important as selling features.
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Webberville TX solar facilities tour December 27, 2012.
Whether the price of natural gas rises enough to make coal attractive again depends on a) whether exports are allowed, which is a wild card at this point, b) the all-in cost of a new, coal-fired plant with stringent emission controls other than for carbon, c) whether carbon capture and storage will be required on new coal-fired plants, d) whether gas producers can carry out hydraulic fracturing without contaminating urban water supplies. I'm not a fan of coal-fired power plants, but it's because they're nasty, dirty beasts. The only one I ever visited that was acceptably clean was the Cogentrix stoker-fired plant in Virginia.
Before we spend a fortune building more power plants, I'd like to see a genuine effort made to get more value out of the ones we already have. The load factor in California is around 53 percent and dropping. Why? Because regulators and utilities have not leveraged available research to deal with air conditioning loads that are largely responsible for the short-term demand spikes that drive the need for installed capacity, and because no one has carefully examined the tradeoff between the purported economies of scale that accompany larger central station plants and likely lower planning reserves that would be required if a larger number of smaller plants were built instead.
Jack Ellis, Tahoe City, CA
If you look behind the scenes you will observe that there is a severe shortage of LNG tanker capacity as it has already been booked in advance in preparation for the export boom from the USA and Canada. That is a clear indication that the market for natural gas is becoming a world market - not a continental one and that means prices here are going to increase. Even a doubling of the gas price will have dramatic affects on those utilities that are putting their eggs in the gas generation basket.
In Ontario we are moving away from using coal fired plants to generate electricity and will have completely phased it out within two years. While I don't agree with everything the Ontario Government does this is one area where I think they have done a very good job and commend them for it. It has of course come at a price.
Although the cost write downs of these plants have been expensive (they are not at the end of their useful life) I agree that this is the very best thing for the Province. The number of smog days in Toronto has decreased from around 50 a year to 5 and while some of this may be attributable to heavy industries (steel works) closing, a large part of it is due to the reduction in coal fired generation. The health effects both in the form of coal not mined for these plants and the cleaner air resulting from not burning it are most definitely reducing the costs of health care.
I have worked in coal fired stations (I was a control room operator at Lakeview TGS for a brief period in my life) and can attest to the fact that they are a very dirty method of generating electricity. That is accounting for the fact that Ontario plants are among the cleanest in the world - which does not say much for the rest of them.
I also am in agreement with you that we need to get more value from the plants that we have although I would add that many of the plants in the USA have paid for themselves many many times over and should probably be demolished. Again in Ontario we have used much cleaner burning natural gas and have constructed several large combined cycle natural gas plants which operate at cycle efficiencies of over 60%. We have a powerful backbone of nuclear generation backed up with hydroelectric and natural gas and will be (if not already) one of the greenest electricity generation regions in the world. This has not come cheaply but then what price does one put on the life of a coal miner or old people suffering from respiratory diseases.
Unfortunately you cannot get away from building new plants - whatever their fuel. These are complex machines with a definite life expectancy and they need to be replaced periodically. I don't think you would disagree that it does make sense to replace an oil/gas fired plant operating at 35% efficiency with a new combined cycle plant operating at 65% efficiency. You get almost double the electricity from the same number of cubic feet of gas input. That is what really should drive new plant construction.
As you may have noted from previous posts I am no fan of global warming but if you are in agreement with that philosophy then it certainly makes sense to phase out the least efficient fossil fire plants as has been done in Ontario.
The difficulty of building smaller plants is that the same Not-In-My-Back-Yard principle applies as it does to larger ones. I can assure you that there is great animosity in many rural communities regarding the construction of 2MW windmills so it is not the size that matters but the location. Big or small people do not want generating stations near to them.
Good post Jack - in general agreement with the principles - bhut plants only last about 40 years so you have to replace them even with zero growth in electricity demand.
Do you have a laboratory? Can we see some results? Where are results published?
Or are we reading BS?
"U.S. Electricity Use on Wane"
They cite improved efficiency such that usage is only rising 0.7 percent per year.
If I were in the electricity industry, I'd be working harder to get EVs and PHEVs going.
Few people watch all of their TVs at once.
You can thank Bill "Pain" for that. His postings are almost always incoherent and without context.
Jim, you are making the erroneous assumption that I am the only person in my house and therefore can only watch one television at a time. There are in fact 8 people in my house and I do assure you that all of the televisions can indeed be on all at the same time. If I were the only person your post would be likely have some credibility but I am not and it is quite possible that 8 people can watch 5 televisions. However to cut you some slack our family often does watch just the one TV for special events when we do all want to watch the same program.
That is of course why the advent of robotic manufacturing plants is going to be critical. This will do two things. 1. It will increase electricity demand as more human manual labour is replaced by electricity consuming robots. People operate on food - robots operate on electricity..2 Robots are becoming very cheap with ever greater capabilities to the point that they will soon become much much cheaper than Chinese or Korean or Taiwanese labour. For the same reason that businesses moved manufacturing TO China the reverse will also happen. Once it becomes cheaper to make goods in the USA once again companies will want to save transportation costs and move their plants back to North America. Hundreds of robotic plants operating 24 hours a day 7 days a week will increase the rate of growth of electricity consumption.
I would not like to be an electricity industry planner these days. It is a very difficult job and so easy to make erroneous assumptions.
I submit that anyplace where you have had the right combinations of conditions which produced the seas, hence the shales, hences the gas, will be able to produce their own cheap gas soon enough. As of February of last year, I know firsthand that Israel has a shalegas project, and that they are ready to convert several coal-fired boilers over to gas-firing. I have suggested to some R&D colleagues in China that there exist multiple potential sites for shale gas development. Fracking is no longer rocket science, and is a completely exportable and deployable commercial technology.
If you look at two maps of the US where you overlay maps of coal deposit and shale gas formations, you will see a high degree of overlap, which I feel a strong statistical correlation. The same might apply for oil & gas elsewhere. I believe we are at the leading edge of a global buyer's market for gas, and the switch is "on" for a conversion of stationary power generation sites to gas, as low-cost supply will be more or less guaranteed for the lifetime of a CCGT plant (25 years).
Demand issues will be swamped out by this economic reality, and new CCGT plants are quite realizable at $1/watt final cost, v. coal at $2-3/watt, and nuclear at $510/watt. I projected this to be the new dynamic in the North American market back in mid-2009, and by April of 2011, coal and gas generation were (temporarily) tied at 32%. New CCGT plants can be erected and operational in less than 18 months, easily being capable of managing all but the wildest of rapid demand escalation scenarios.
I will also stick my neck out further, and claim that gas will not exceed $6/mcf (about 1 mmBtu) in any significant way or for any significant time, for the foreseeable future, at least ten years.
Regards to all, RWVesel
Even if we learn how to make electricity with fusion plants – even tomorrow morning, would any ever get built? Fusion is the Philosopher's ultimate energy solution and yet it seems to be but a fool's effort, already too late..
Conversion, in the short term, to methane (NG), for fossil-fired generation, and for some vehicular fuels, results in an immediate CO2 reduction for those converted sources of 50%+, due to much greater efficiency of CCGT power plants, and more energy in methane coming from Hydrogen rather than Carbon. (You can look up these numbers yourself). We don't have to wait years for CCS technology to maybe work, and to maybe be cheap enough to use. Converting to methane now will beat any viable road to CCS hands down.
Next, we already have a built-in infrastructure for methane ... it just needs some expansion. So you can forget the so-called "hydrogen economy" which would need a totally new, parallel, and expensive infrastructure. It simply won't be needed. Carbon can be the carrier for hydrogen (it already IS, in fact). This infrastructure is ready and waiting to connect to "green" methane, where the carbon comes as recycled material from the biosphere, rather than from deep underground. So as bio-methane sources are developed on a larger scale, there is no fuel transportation issue to deal with.
Fusion (which I studied as a grad student in college) is still an academic pursuit, and all routes still point towards a hazardous waste disposal issue which we still haven't solved for the fission plants yet. Yes, as an academic pursuit, it is still worthwhile, but we can't WAIT around for that nut to be cracked. It is the WAITING, and doing business as usual during that waiting period - that is what is really killing the planet (but not killing us directly, as we can stand CO2 at 5000ppm+, as I've recently discovered - ugh!).
I think we ultimately go fossil-carbon free (well at least 99% free), but never carbon-free. To get there has to be accomplished in meaningful stages, and methane helps make this possible, as an improvement to the generation mix which yes, does include nuclear, wind, solar, geo-thermal, tidal energy, etc. The main idea is to get off boilers burning coal at 33-36% efficiency with high fossil CO2 by-product. Commercial CCGT's are 55-60%, and next generation experimental versions are pushing 70%+. That would mean a 70%+ reduction in CO2 over coal-fired boiler technology. That still beats any parasitic CCS technology cost&deployment scenario, hands down.
Regards, RWVesel
When I was born world population was nearing 2 billion. It had rocketed up from an all-time peak of 0.3 billion only a thousand years ago.
Except in the US there was almost no gasoline used nor oil produced world wide. I saw matinee newsreels showing Italians invading Ethiopia and Germans invading Poland with horse-drawn artillery, caissons and wagons.
Americans were already absolutely dependent on coal. It heated our houses, ran our industries, our (excellent) rail service and ships. Fueled quite magnificent steam tractors and thrashing machines and generated our electricity. Worldwide, fewer went without electricity than do today.
Those who do not have electric service today over many generations never had the money to buy the cheapest. Now, those of us who have electric service say that those who don't need to buy the most efficient and greenest plants.
And every year population grows at about 0.1 billion a year and they all come without electricity. Since Kyoto base year of 1990 coal usage increase has been meteoric. Reduce coal usage? Hell, we can't even bend over the curve.
What to do when headed for an abyss? Speed up of course.
Much hinges on the sustainability of the shale gas deposits which I am told behave very differently than normal gas wells.
But I am convinced that the future lies with natural gas until we figure out fusion reactors. In the meantime load following nuclear fission plants would be the ideal solution.
And it really doesn't make much difference whether Canada, Denmark – even Germany burn coal or not. (The last I looked the hectoring, and hard to embarrass Germans were still getting 44% of their electricity from coal. Population growth replaces a Germany every year.)
CO2 from shale gas is the same stuff as from coal or cattle but one would never know it from the hype and quoted , percentages. Baloney. Only tons that count. And we are all pissing in the same pool.
I very crudely figured that the last time we ;might have managed some kind of sustainability was before 1966 or so when world population was about 3.5 billion.
What Malcolm and Richard are touting seems to me is decades of more population and CO2 emission growth. Precisely what we don't want. I don't know what the tripwire for the die-off will be. (Maybe fresh water.)
Has one step been taken?
You see, Don, as the French say, when you are stupid it's forever. I try hard not to believe that, but I dont think that I can make it.
The issues of population growth are part of the overall picture, but social engineering is outside the scope of this forum, don't you think?
However, here is what has been historically successful methods for reducing population growth (humanely!): Education Improved standards of living Education Transition from rudimentary agrarian economies to industrial ones (but we need to manage the growth of energy and resource intensive industries) Oh, and did I mention Education??? Social empowerment and equalization for women EDUCATION
I have created an excel-based model for CO2 levels, based on populaton, CO2 footprint per capita annual changes, and a few other details. The model was fitted to known historical data back to about 1600, up through current info. Management of atmospheric CO2 requires control of both factors - Fossil-carbon CO2 per person AND population. Happy to pass the model along to any interested party!
Regards, RWV
The Middle East Oil fields were flaring gas off for decades, and have only recentty begun to tame this free resource and use it for power, desalination,etc. There has been plenty there for export IF anyone had had the foresight to develop the LNG infrastructure. ME traditional resources are stlll larger than US shale gas estimates, but the largest are in politically unstable areas, and they don't yet have the will to develop gas for exportation. I don't think supply will be a problem, as long as there is a foreseeable pattern in the demand curve.
I believe that the environmental community has an obligation to help eliminate coal-for-energy in a viable stepwise fashion, rather than merely advocating zero-CO2 solutions exclusively. If we can practically reduce total GHG emissions by 50% in 15 years, this is huge step forward, even tho it does not totally solve the problem in the longer term.
I'll say it anyway. Population is not A problem, it is THE problem.
You mention solutions taking a hundred years. I believe there is no way our civilization can survive for even decades. Wherever I look I see the situation getting worse. (I am reminded of the German expression -one of the few I remember from HS Deutsch: immer schlimmer I thought it was hilarious at the time.)
DAILY 20,000 to maybe 30,000 children die from diarrhea as the result of bad drinking water. It would be humane to put a few drops of bleach in their drinking water and increase the growth rate of world population. But we don't hear about this.
All my life I have been hearing how education solves problems. There are about 52 countries in sub Saharan Africa. "About" because no one seems to know. There are tons of data telling us that average IQ's are about 70. We simply don't know how to educate such people to a competitive level – at any cost. (Consider: half would be below 70.) Who is going to finance, design, build, operate and regulate efficient green generating plants and grid? Not to mention civil order.
Professor, 40 million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
When Ontario reduced coal usage it didn't make one end unit on world coal consumption. In 20011more coal was burned than any year in history – despite recessions and grandiose claims about wind and solar and touted efficiency improvements. Have not hundreds of coal burners been built in China and India and Indonesia since Ontario shut down a few?
Perhaps it is a little rude to mention but Canada's image should include the tar sand projects.
Remember Kyoto? We were told that "all competent scientists" agreed we were already over the cliff at the CO2 rates then. Too late. There could be no return. Coal,oil and gas usage has gone up dramatically since. The curve hasn't even been bent. I am not aware of any of those competent scientist who has said," oops, we were wrong and we should have said....". I was quite uneasy and lonely about calling the Kyoto Protocol a fraud.
I don't understand your reference to populated areas.
There will be no great tipping point as you imagine will occur just as the end of the world did not come because some nitwit decided the Mayan calendar predicted it. Richard has much more of a handle on it I think and the data clearly shows that curbing population growth is linked to wealth and health.
Of course to apply your logic we should burn more coal so that more people die of lung disease cancer and respiratory diseases so that the population dies off. We should stop inventing drugs and surgeries that save peoples lives because we do not want to save people any more because we have a population that some consider too big. Maybe we should cull out all the over 80's or the over 70's (if that includes you I am sorry but it must be done).
Rather than throwing your hands up and telling us the same thing over and over your time would be far better spent developing the solutions and there are always solutions. You say there is a food shortage - there is not. You say there is a water shortage - there is not so you are fast convincing me that population is really not the great problem you think it is.
The truth is that more people are alive and living longer and enjoying vastly higher living standards than ever before in human history. Add to that that within this generation we have been able for the first time to leave the planet routinely - even went to the Moon a few times and have now discovered an estimated seventeen BILLION earth like planets to me that is cause for great optimism - not the pessimism which has unfortunately and sadly become your modus operandi. But no doubt you will see all the negatives in what I have said here. But look around you - all those billions of mouths to feed are also intelligent people who will find solutions to all the problems you speak of. One or more of them is the next Einstein or the one that solves the fusion problem. Who knows.
For my part I will keep on plugging away making our current fleet of nuclear power plants last longer, run better and keep churning out the electricity to keep the lights on and power the devises we are all using to air our opinions - even if some are rather jaded.
Who is (are) the WE who should be solving world problems. Has any world problem ever been solved by this rhetorical we? Ever. Even once?
You say we are better off today. That depends on how you measure. A thousand years ago world population peaked at 0.3 billion. Even if half were miserable that is a small number compared to today when perhaps 1 to 2 billion are either suffering malnutrition or outright starvation. Children were not being gang raped as is common in South Africa (for one) today.
Who is interested in solutions? Namely Europe, North America and Japan, South Korea, Australia and a few others. Something like a billion of us lucky ones who are (too) well fed and always have the electricity we want. (and maybe another billion else ware.) That leaves about 5 billion who want to be like us.
Are these 5 billion losing sleep about CO2 emissions?
As to those 20 to 30 thousand children who die from diarrhea EVERY DAY the solution has not been so easy. The (US) Peace Corps made great attempts as did the UN to little avail. Nothing is so fatuous as trying to help or educate those who are not receptive or ill-endowed..
1) BBC today broadcast a definitive study showing MORE THAN HALF of all human food produced in the world today is wasted. What we need is a) better transport and storage systems in developing world. b) better re-processing systems to properly utilize food which is thrown away at the pre-consumer level. c) Wiser consumers who will learn not to cook too much then throw away half.
2) The oil sands are not the "huge CO2 producer" you fools all claim. (sorry, but this repeated explaining is getting really tedious). a) Studies prove that, well-to-wheels, petroleum from oil sands releases about the same amount of GHG's as the typical heavy petroleum from Venezuela or S. Arabia, which constitute most of US imports. See Nat Research Canada - Oil Sands - A strategic resource for Canada, North America and the global market [Quote]Oil sands-derived crude oil, on a life-cycle, or "well-towheels" basis, is on average 5 to 15 percent more GHGintensive than emissions from average crude oil. In some cases, oil sands crude has similar or lower life-cycle emissions than other heavy crude oil.[/Quote] With references. b) Most new development in oil sands are "In Situ" production, which uses much less energy. c) Alberta is now building an HVDC backbone North-South so that the gas used to produce heat in oil sands production can first generate electricity, and the heat is just the waste heat from the turbine generators. (Note: This would have been done long ago if the US would get honest about NAFTA and stop blocking electricity imports from Alberta.)
Those remaining 5 billion people WILL get the standard of living that we enjoy here and they will get there rapidly.I do not know of too many people who would want to live in the world of 1000 years ago so making such a comparison that only half of those were in misery is a fatuous and rather stupid argument.
And where did the gang rape argument come into it - people have been doing bad things to other people for time immemorial and THAT has absolutely nothing to do with whether one is poor or rich. And you level a criticism at me for irrelevancy.
As Len notes the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (note engineers NOT politicians) produced a report this week that showed how much food is thrown away in Europe. Add that to all the overweight people in North America who eat far too much and you can see why your argument that food production cannot feed the 7 billion of us is garbage. The world ALREADY produces enough food to feed everyone on the planet - most of it is wasted so the idiot politicians in Europe can ensure that all the tomatoes are round and of the same colour and all the eggs pass the Euro test for consistency. THAT is the stupidity that has to stop.
The problem is NOT population it is distribution.
I read an article today from Nigel LAwson the ex Minister of Energy in MArgaret Thatchers Government. Beneath Blackpool in England there sits an shale gas field estimated at 16 trillion cubic feet. Enough to keep all of Europe going for a hundred years.
Yes you are right on one thing .... I should not refer to the "WE" as it is quite clear you only see problems and have no solutions. M
Don's problem is he uses data from the past to extrapolate into the future and that is always a mistake because the future is the one thing we know nothing about. We have no idea what technologies will change the way we live.Just 30 short years ago what we are doing now was a pipe dream. Now it is reality, Flipping data around the world instantly. I do not understand why Don does not see that the very technology he is using to communicate his thoughts is the very same technology that is conveying information to poor people all over the world how to change things. There are 5 billion cell phones in the world - so that means that some of those so-called dirt poor people he talks about are walking around with cell phones in their hands.
Information is the key. The biggest change occurring right in front of our eyes is the speed of moving information - read solutions to problems that can and will change billions of peoples lives.
Using his data there are 5 billion out of 7 billion thats are destitute (the number is wrong but for the sake of argument I'll go along with it) There are 5 billion cell phones in use today that means that 3 billion of those destitute folks have cell phones. They did not have THOSE a thousand years ago a significant difference not even mentioned.
So - plenty of oil, plenty of natural gas, plenty of Uranium and just about everything else you can think of. More than enough to bring every single person on the planet to a comfortable standard of living.
And the irrelevance of my comments about Aluminium is that technology changes EVERYTHING.
I can't deal with everything wherein I am cited as being wrong tonight.
Take education ,always cited as a solution. Sorry Jefferson but your "all men are created equal" is about the dumbest thing ever enshrined if taken literally. And I don't think for a second that he had in mind including Blacks when he wrote it. He knew Englishmen, Americans like himself.
At the time he wrote it American Blacks were still African Blacks. No one, Europeans or Arabs, considered those naked aboriginal Africans as equals. They were enslaved by everyone with whom they came in contact, including their African brethren who became the slave trade sellers.
Africans were thought to be dumb. And everything seems to support that notion. Those brought to the English Colonies, later the US were arguably better off than their kin left behind. Today American Blacks are healthier and smarter and far richer than their cousins in Africa. American Blacks have average IQ's of 85 while those left behind have IQ's of about 70. A huge difference. American Blacks are about 25% white.
Nobody knows how to educate those with IQ's of 70. In the US we have the problem of educating those with 85 IQ's alongside those with 100 IQ's. While it easy to decide on statistics in reality there are some high IQ Blacks and some low IQ whites. But we are forced to act as if all were created equal.
It is not politically correct to cite but performance comparisons by race are devastating. In the same schools Black HS seniors test poorer than white 8th graders in both reading and arithmetic. The comparisons are even more devastating when one considers the efforts to narrow the gap.
For various reasons I find your constant comparing of the IQs and abilities of blacks and white annoying, but at the same time I find all of this interesting and useful. One of the reasons is that I cannot stomach Mr Obama because he has not done what should be done to make the schools of the US a shining example for the rest of the world. Instead of 8 wasted years under Bush, now we are going to register 16. Every dollar, or for that matter every penny wasted in those stupid wars on the other side of the world should have gone into primary and secondary education.
Generally I would say "Amen", but the fact is that President Obama, of whom I am a great admirer, has spent four years mainly doing damage control. It should be patently obvious that misguided principles of "lower taxes" and "let the markets run free and wild" literally exploded in our faces, and hardly anyone has erased their powder burns yet. We sit here now an argue over billions, while TRILLIONS were wasted in Iraq, much of it going into the pockets of cronies an crony corporations. Afghanistan is another story, but serious waste there is also identifiable. This President accomplished in three years what the previous one failed to do in eight (eliminating Bin Laden).
In past forums, we have bantered about what kind of money would be needed to accomplish this that and the other for the benefit of America, and for the world as well. But it seems we can only resolve to spend massive amounts of money on crisis of our own creation, rather than on the ounces of prevention necessary to avoid those crisis. I philosophically weep every time I think about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ we squandered 2001 thru 2008, and how we turned a blind eye to the excesses of the financial communities, who proceeded to wallpaper the world with their trainloads of financial derivatives (instruments which in small or moderate volumes ARE actually useful).
I feel that Don has seen too much of the negative aspects of humanity, and it has further been colored by what are now obviously the spectral opposite of "rose-colored" glasses. He therefore has lost hope, and only gains comfort in trying to make the rest of us wring our hands and wail along with him. President Obama got it right in his "The Audacity of Hope", and we might reflect on the pitiable nature of those with a lack of hope.
The topic of waste which Malcolm and Len introduced should be addressed, as a characteristic of higher standards of living. The higher that standard, the less people are concerned with, and care about the proper usage or disposal of waste. Again, without the vocal minorities who spend their lives pointing these things out, and who try to address them, humanity as a group WILL waste itself to death. Wasted food, pollutive & hazardous waste, fossil CO2 waste, wasted groundwater, wasted fuel, financial paper waste (often masquerading as "product"), even people and lives themselves. If there ever was an argument for better regulation of our activity, you merely have to look at the need for sewer systems as an analog for most all of mankinds activities. Waste must be regulated, handled, minimized, treated, and properly recycled in order to prevent us being buried by our own "waste" ... use the visual analogy that this conjures up in your heads to understand the real nature of many of Humanity's problems. We "consume", and "throw away" as easily as conditions allow, in all of our activities. Man advances by occasionally being more inventive and productive than consumptive. but it continues to take decades and centuries to make progress against the sadder parts of our inherent nature, and much of the wisdom gained by each generation simply dies with the bodies, only needing to be relearned at great expense by the next generation.
Conversely, if not for these problems, what would many of us do for a living? ;-) 5% progress, 95% damage control and maintenance seems to be the ratio of life for "productive" members of society ... at least that's my pet theory.
Regards, RWV
Just as an FYI ... LNG density is only 600x that of gas at STP. Lower physical and energy density than fuel oil, but still highly transportable. If well insulated, only slight pressurization is necessary to keep it contained.
I would love to see Hawaii put in an LNG terminal first, on Oahu, to be shared by the US Navy and HECO. They both currently burn (imported) fuel oil in fixed station boilers, at almost $18mmBtu. LNG would cut their fuel bills by 2/3 !!! And CO2 emissions by nearly as much....
What do you think the response of Hawaiians would be to their electricy prices dropping by 10 cents per kwh? I think they would be ecstatic, lol !
Regard, RWV
It is so nice to learn your feelings and get your diagnosis Richard.
A major part of science is to separate the possible from the impossible or the exceedingly Improbable.
Item: Some years back we heard about the Hydrogen Economy every bloody day!! I quicky pointed out that since there is no hydrogen on this planet a Hydrogen Economy is not possible. It would be an energy sink not an energy source. Instead of Audacity of Hope nonesense I had thermodynamics.
Actually the schools today are about as good as they can be COSIDERING THE RULES UNDER WHICH THEY MUST OPERATE. Every city grade school classroom might well have children intermixed with IQ's from 70 to 115. (70 is one std. dev. below the Black average of 85 and 115 is one std deb. above the white average of 100.) This was the argument against forced integration – everyone would lose. Whites will learn less, many Blacks who were doing well would now often fail or get discouraged. Of course integration had to win. Absentee rates and behavior problems greatly increased.
Teaching in a city school used to be a good safe job. Teacher colleges had some rigorous courses and admission required more than a warm body. But teacher could be fired for cause. Now we have teachers where their school will not let them teach and the unions and politicians have made them impossible to fire. So they sit in the school waiting for retirement. I kid you not. There was no Department of Education.
In Washington D.C. The current expenditure per pupil is 20K per year. They test lousy. In ND its more like8K and the kids do quite well.
We had good public schools. I believe my HS classmates were better educated than many getting bachelor degrees today. (At least those of us who took four years of science and four years of math.) Hillary came 21 (?) years later.There was no hooky. There was no "security." We carried 22 rifles and ammo to school on club days – whether by bike or car or city bus. No permits – nothing.
Almost certainly there were some pregnancies over four years among 1600 students but not one that I ever knew about. As far as I know there were no felonies. The police typically called a kid's father if he was out of line – say drag racing from a stop sign. Remember abortion was a felony and there was no "pill." We were all whites not because of any segregation laws but because nobody but whites lived in the school district.
I never once saw a single serious incident of bullying. A bully would not have been tolerated by onlookers. While there was some brave talk, pushing and shoving I never saw a hard clean blow struck. Except for learning a few new words for a foreign language course or a short reading assignment for English there was very little home work and almost never anything to turn in.
Professor, Truman integrated the armed forces in 1948. But there are no ASTM standards for Integration. There were many permutations of Army integration, including some near calamities in Korea from very poor performance of Blacks (still called Negroes then.) I don't know how much has been declassified. In any event, I can say in 1952 General Ridgway finally acceded to allowing up to 10% MOS qualified Negroes in combat Infantry units and up to 13% in other Army units. (Not classified, It's on Wikepedia.) My men were in the Chemical Corps. Many were functionally illiterate Blacks. I don't know how they could get clap and syphilis when I never even saw a woman in the area.
I'm still not granting your racialist claims regarding relative test results among groups, since you've yet to provide any evidence. If you have some, please link it, else stuff the whole discussion.
"The American Psychological Association has said that while there are differences in average IQ between racial groups, there is no conclusive evidence for environmental explanations, nor direct empirical support for a genetic interpretation, and that no adequate explanation for the racial IQ gap is presently available.[6][7] The position of the American Anthropological Association is that intelligence cannot be biologically determined by race."
That's a pretty hefty bunch arguing against you.
"For example, in the United States the average scores of blacks on some IQ tests in 1995 were the same as the scores of whites in 1945." 1945 would have been when you were tested, right Don? LOL.
But there are some interesting things that you should know here. Partial integration took place during WW2 when the Germans attacked the Bulge, and there was a sudden shortage of white soldiers. Blacks were formally welcomed into some of the elite US divisions (like the 1st, 4th and 9th). Of course, when the war ended and they returned to the US, they had the privilege of seeing German prisoners sitting in restaurants that did not serve 'negroes'. Something else: with a desperate need for combat troops in Europe, black paratroopers and infantry were given silly assignments in the US to keep them from showing what they could do in combat.
About integration. My teacher in operations research at IIT was on the committee that determined how integration should take place. They simply met one night and without a lot of discussion decided that integration should take place the following week, and this was on a 'like it or not basis'. Let me also mention that if you did not see any women in your locality, it was because you were not interested in any at that time.
And Richard, as far as I am concerned, bad times are coming for the USA. They cannot continue with the kind of foolishness that George W. Bush introduced without paying for it. Sending soldiers to fight in stupid wars on the other side of the world, and letting the educational system go into the can. And incidentally Don, the US Army may well be getting the kind of training that makes sense. (Note the word 'may'.)
I am tired of your insults.
In regard to the absence of women: Where my unit was at the time was actually in North Korea (i.e. north of the 38the Parallel) near the east coast and was well beyond the helmet line. This meant all windshields had to be wrapped in canvas and pivoted down onto hoods of vehicles, no glass exposed. All personnel had to wear helmets (steel pots) and be armed at all times. As most of my men's TO&E weapon was the M1s this meant within reach. On smoke position flack jackets were required. The early type with steel plates.
There had been so much shelling that hardly any trees survived and nary a building of any type except our bunkers and tents. There were no civilians. There was no pavement - not within hours of driving at about 20 mpg.. Never saw a single automobile or civilian truck.
Of course girls could be smuggled in – there was 6X6 traffic. Anyone doing it was well advised to not let an officer or non-com who wanted to retain his stripes see them. Where would you put her during shelling, how feed her? There was absolutely nothing to eat except well accounted for Army food.
Back at company headquarters in Chunchon there were lots of girls. It was common to have girls brought from town for a Saturday night to Sunday morning party. The trip to Chunchon from the platoon took so long that our courier came north one day and returned the next in a ¾ ton. Going to company from the platoon was called a Little R&R.
It is clear that our friend Don is living in what he considers an idyllic past. I also cannot say that the 1950's and 1960's were so great. I recall the deadly "pea souper" fogs of London in the early 50's when the air was literally a yellow green colour. That problem was fixed. Coal burning was replaced by "smokeless fuels" and that was replaced by natural gas. Now the air is clear in London and nothing like it used to be.
The best time is of course the present. You cannot change the past you only have the power to change the future.
Regarding Don's predictions of the "hydrogen economy". This was mostly media hype which I thought he would have ignored. There were a few people on this site that promoted it but any engineer worth his or her salt discounted it. The only possible way a hydrogen economy could work is if it was made from water using nuclear electricity and converted to methane to transport through the existing infrastructure. Don is right there is no free hydrogen on the planet. Freeing it from its chemical bonds takes more energy than you get out - which is a little daft to say the least. But that applies to ethanol also.
But I have realized that it is not possible for me to see life through Don's eyes or for him to see life through mine. He has seen so much of the bad side of humanity that there are no arguments that can convince him of anything.
I see a world full of incredible opportunities. He sees a world of disaster and strife.
So sad.
At the time that much was being written about the hydrogen economy natural gas was much more expensive than today and I am sure this has much to do with why some people who don't understand thermodynamics might have been attracted to it. It does, after all, seem like a panacea. Running a vehicle that produces only water and energy makes hydrogen seems like the ideal fuel. Easy to sell to those that do not know any better.
What a difference a few years (and some smart technology) makes. Now we know how to drill sideways and extract natural gas from deposits hitherto impossible to extract. Technology, like I said, changes everything.
Not much need for a hydrogen economy now is there even if it was the thermodynamically a sensible thing to do. You're not the only one that understands thermodynamics Don. I spent years studying it as did most of the engineers on this site.
Don still doesn't and will never understand that neither he nor I knows the technologies of tomorrow and that single fact makes any such predictions of the future meaningless.
Materials like graphene, unheard of 5 years ago, are likely to completely change the technological landscape in ways we cannot even imagine.
Projections of the past onto the future is a very serious error of judgement on Don's part. People who have tried that have always been shown to be exceedingly foolish. The world is not coming to an end. The seven billion we have and the billions more to come will have plenty to eat and drink. There are many unfortunately that do not now. We will fix that.
"Regarding Don's predictions of the "hydrogen economy" I never made such a prediction – Actually I said the very opposite, that it was impossible.
"This was mostly media hype which I thought he would have ignored." Baloney. The federal government tookit seriously. California actually built some fueling stations. Japanese and several German and US auto companies had programs with engineers working on it. How embarrassing, Bu real money was being spent . "But I have realized that it is not possible for me to see life through Don's eyes" WRONG. That's exactly whatyou are doing on this post.
" He has seen so much of the bad side of humanity that there are no arguments that can convince him of anything." Where in the world did you get this idea except from Richard above. How does he know what I have seen? and how did he convince you?
What a dreadful thing to say, that no arguments can convince me of anything.
"Projections of the past onto the future is a very serious error of judgement (sic) on Don's part. People who have tried that have always been shown to be exceedingly foolish. The world is not coming to an end. The seven billion we have and the billions more to come will have plenty to eat and drink. There are many unfortunately that do not now. We will fix that."
To make any sense at all tell me what what "projections of the past into the future" I have made, serious error of judgment or not. It sorta sounds as if like you are harkening to the recent Maya Calander. I'll agree that would be foolish.
I have never said anything about the world coming to an end short of the sun becoming a Red Giant so big as to contain the earth's orbit but thanks for mentioning me in such a grandiose role. I have said our civilization is in jeopardy. I say those even those who don't have enough to eat today are victims of over population. People don't get too upset as long as its out of sight.(Right here on my property we suffer over population of deer. Food, flowering plants and gardens in yards are too plentiful. Nature's way to control population is starvation and wolves – and we don't have wolves here. Not a happy situation for the Bambi's (or me) either way. We do have lots of vultures.)
"We will fix that." Now that's indeed a prediction if I ever heard one. We? Who else have you signed up?.
But where the US Army is concerned, I know more about it than you, the guy who wrote the article in Wikipedia, and probably everybody on the faculty at West Point. Where that topic is concerned, I regard everybody else as amateurs...until of course they prove otherwise. I would never say that about energy economics.
And occasionally I wonder why I ended up in Swden instead of Canada. Canada has a chance, assuming that they take their soldiers out of Afghanistan and put them on the Canadian-US border. And oh yes, they might close the airports while they are at it and mine the harbors.
Here's a view from inside the (energy) industry, and I suggest taking a look, perhaps continuing our discourse based on some of these prognostications. Don, Exxon Mobile also makes some population projections in here too...
Regards, RWVesel
This tends to indicate to me that we are approaching some kind of resource constraint, unless we are up for writing off a good portion of humanity to having a lower quality of life (Like what India and China have already done for a good portion of their own populations).
And we have no clear substitute for oil in the works, even though it 'peaked' 35 years ago.
I believe you will find this second number will decline due to the following: Alternative fuel abundance, in the form of natural gas and eventually bio-gas, bio-diesel, bio-jet fuel, etc. Natural gas is the predominant one of these, but all will be important. Secondly, oil consumption reductions due to high prices have already precluded the use of it for electricity production, and the mpg ratings of vehicles between 1978 and now have about doubled, with further significant improvements in the pipeline. These are two very significant components in the demand side of the picture. Yes, there will be more vehicles, so please don't bring that up as a complete argument against the above. The new fleet will transform over the next couple of decades to alternatives to the traditional gasoline-powered ICE, with many of those alternatives currently being deployed. LNG/CNG vehicles, hybrids, plug-ins, electric vehicles, etc.
Foremost as well, new sources (tar sands & shale) are coming online, just in case we need copious amounts of oil, but frankly, I see total demand declining after 2025. Oil prices simply drive people to look for better ways to buy and consume the energy that is currently delivered from oil. If the coal people were smart, they would work on taking their $2/mmBtu raw material, and processing it into market-priced $18mmBtu product. But they still only understand "dig it and ship it", the same mindset as the buggy whip makers of 1900.
Read the above link to the Exxon-Mobile energy outlook 2013-2040. They do a pretty good job of realistically projecting where we are going.
Regards, RWVesel
I too like reading the Exxon reports
But I will say again that it is technology that repeatedly changes the picture.
I was reading today about the number of patents related to the material Graphene discovered by the British a couple of years ago. It has a conductivity many times that of copper (I think the commentator said 100X) and almost no resistance but may be I misheard that. In any event this stuff is set to be another game changer.It has the potential to eliminate copper conductors just as plastic is eliminating the use of copper in plumbing systems.
It is more flexible and stretchy than rubber and can be formed to any surface. The possibilities are endless.
This stuff is just carbon atoms in a one atom thick lattice. It is harder than diamond. Carbon I think all would agree is readily available on this planet.
Like I said technology changes everything. I can foresee this material making fusion reactors possible a whole lot sooner than we currently think. With material this conductive superconducting magnet suddenly become a whole lot smaller.
No problem with feeding, clothing and housing 20 billion people. Just leave it to people who care.
Good posts Richard. Do not disagree with you on anything here. Price and technology are the main drivers of change as they always have been. And the great thing is that technology is changing faster and faster with each generation. That is why I maintain that all of the problems we have including population will be solved without major catastrophes.
Materials science is really going to help shape the 21st century, and yes, graphene seems to be just one of the miracle materials that can contribute. As I like to remind my son (age 25), it takes a full generation for nearly all technologies to move from the day of discovery to the day of full commercialization. I use 25 years as the nominal length of a generation.
Similar results may come about from commercializing advanced engine technologies. A group of MIT developers is bench testing 40hp (30kw) internal combustion engines with purported 70% efficiency! The technology appears completely scalable in terms of size and number of combustion chambers, so I am hoping to hear about their long term endurance testing result to identify the weak points in the design, and to prove out the claimed efficiencies. This could, in very short order, supplant CCGT plants with even lower cost-of-construction plants, and would be deployable from utility scale, right down to the home-use level.
This is one that I hope is truly REAL, and furthermore, can be commercialized.
Regards, RWV
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Fables creator Bill Willingham dismisses accusations that ABC's new fairy tale drama Once Upon a Time ripped off his acclaimed Vertigo comic series.
Between Grimm, Once Upon a Time and ABC's announcement of a series based upon Beauty And The Beast, it seems that fairy tales have replaced superheroes, Lost wannabes and even cheaply made conspiracy theory shows that neatly avoid showing alien invaders as television's genre of choice. But how long can this latest flame last before burning out altogether?
Lost writers Adam Horowitz and Eddie Kitsis talk at Comic-Con International about their upcoming fairy-tale drama, noting "that these stories are iconic for a reason."
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For those waiting for the rumored ABC television adaptation of Vertigo comic Fables… you may want to stop holding your breath. According to writer Bill Willingham, the show is "probably dead."
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ATHENS--Greek bank deposits rose for a fourth consecutive month in December, as the country's greater political stability during the last months helped to underpin confidence in the sector.
The Greek central bank said Monday that total deposits held by domestic residents and companies rose by 5.5 billion euros ($7.4 billion) in November to EUR161.36 billion from EUR155.89 billion in November.
Deposits started rising in July by EUR3.3 billion, after months of steady decline, as repeat elections on June 17 produced a three-party governing coalition, which prompted relief for savers, while there was a small decrease in August mainly due to the fact that Greeks had to pay their taxes at the end of the fiscal year. Since the elections, EUR11.3 billion have returned to Greek banks.
Greek banks have suffered a steady decline in deposits since the start of the country's debt crisis in late 2009, which prompted depositors to withdraw cash and transfer funds to overseas banks. Greece's recession has also forced many households and businesses to draw down their deposits.
In the past two years, the banking system has lost about one-third of its deposit base, with monthly deposit outflows generally averaging between EUR2 billion and EUR3 billion a month, but outflows have risen even more at times of political uncertainty and speculation over a possible Greek exit from the euro.
Deposits by households and businesses with Greek banks grew strongly in the years after Greece joined the euro in 2001, peaking at around EUR238 billion in September 2009, according to Greek central bank figures.
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The balance of deposits held in Greek banks at the end of 2011 fell to EUR174.2 billion, a decline of 16.8% from EUR209.6 billion in 2010.
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We FINALLY got some snow this week!! I'm waiting for it to warm up a bit to take the boys outside to play. This week I am cooking chicken, chicken and more chicken. I am most excited about the "chicken crust pizza" recipe. It might just get moved up to Monday's dinner
Sunday – Superbowl Party! – White Chicken chili
Monday – Provencal Salmon Burgers, Sweet Potato Fries, chick peas
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The New York Islanders are searching for answers after dropping their fifth straight game and their 10th loss in their last 12 games. The Detroit Red Wings invaded the Nassau Coliseum Friday afternoon and came away with an easy 5-0 victory. The Islanders are still trying to figure out why things are going so wrong.
"We've got to try to find some answers and clean up our mistakes," captain John Tavares said after the game. "We're an easy team to play against right now. We have breakdowns, especially in our own end. We're having a tough time coming out of our own end and we're just not moving our feet and engaging. We can't give them time and space like we did tonight."
Many of the goals and scoring chances allowed by the Islanders came off mistakes tonight that included a litany of blown coverages, turnovers, lost puck battles and poor execution. At times, the fans voiced their frustration with their club's poor performance.
The Red Wings led 1-0 after the first period on a goal by Darren Helm at 7:09. Despite the fact that the score was close and the Islanders actually outshot Detroit 12-9, the Red Wings had more quality chances and maintained possession of the puck in the Islanders zone for long periods of time.
Helm made it 2-0 Detroit with a shorthanded goal that illustrated many of the Islanders recent struggles. Isles goalie Kevin Poulin hesitated when going for a loose puck as Helm and Andrew MacDonald raced for it. Helm got there first and tipped the puck ahead as all three players collided sending Helm flying forward and MacDonald over the top of Poulin. The puck slide into the net while the two Isles players shook their heads in frustration. The Red Wings led 2-0 after 40 minutes.
Any doubts that the Isles could get back into the game in the third period evaporated just 12 seconds in when Daniel Alfredsson scored on a breakaway to make it 3-0 Detroit. Thomas Hickey coughed the puck up in the neutral zone and Brendan Smith hit Alfredsson with a long, tape-to-tape pass that sent him in behind the remaining Isles defenders. He beat Poulin high to the glove side and quickly it was 3-0.
Goals by Gustav Nyquist and a second goal by Alfredsson provided the final 5-0 margin for Detroit and left the Islanders with an empty feeling.
"We've been down this road before," Matt Martin said. "When you're losing games, it's like quick sand. Things aren't going right and it gets harder and harder to win. But we've got to find a way to get out of it. We've got to dig deeper and do whatever we can to win a hockey game. Stick together, get dirty and do whatever it takes. Luckily, we've got a game tomorrow. We've got to go out there and find a way to win."
Coach Jack Capuano is also searching for answers. He sat out the slumping Josh Bailey, making him a healthy scratch. He mixed and matched his lines and defense pairings. His team's sloppy performance left him very disappointed.
"You saw our execution," Capuano said. "We made some decisions with the puck that weren't very good. We can't do that against that team or any team for that matter."
The Islanders return to action Saturday night when they host the Washington Capitals.
Attendance was 14,826.
In addition to Bailey, Eric Boulton and Calvin De Haan were scratched. The Isles also remain without defensemen Lubomir Visnovsky and Brian Strait.
Pavel Datsyuk and Todd Bertuzzi missed the game for Detroit.
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Y JetSki indulges aquatic adventurers with a fleet of luxurious boats and action-ready jet skis. Voyagers of the excursion will cruise along the shores of Miami from Star Island to the high-rises of downtown in a 60-foot Gulf Craft yacht. Tunes, complimentary drinks, and snacks make it a floating party, like a hot air balloon filled with cocktail wieners. During the nighttime outing, softer music accompanies the journey as the city lights bathe the boat in a peaceful glow. Alternatively, plot your own course with 90 minutes atop an ocean-carving jet ski. Seven days a week, the high-powered watercraft propel wave wizards along Miami's dazzling coastline and all over the ocean bay. When fatigue sets in, jetters can anchor, relax, and illicitly sand-castle-smash at the nearby sandbar.
Maria T. Cummins was already an established chef when she moved to Miami and began teaching an after-school cooking program for children. Struck by how little her students knew about nutrition, she founded The Real Food Academy?formerly Cooking With Kids Miami?to instill healthy eating habits in her young apprentices. Here, she and her fellow skilled instructors lead classes and activities based around one simple philosophy: "we don't change the dish, we change the ingredients." During group sessions, birthday parties, and camps, Chef Maria and her team teach youngsters how to choose and prepare more nutritious, "real" foods, ensuring they avoid meals that are high in preservatives, chemicals, and plastic grapes. Non-edible offerings, such as spa days and kid-centric Zumba classes, promote healthy lifestyles.
Oscar Ochoa's passion for salsa dancing sprouted at age 9, grew rapidly at age 18 when he began taking formal lessons, and blossomed at age 24 when he won first place at a salsa competition. Today, the founder of Miami Salsa Driven combines his dancing expertise with the physical discipline he's developed from years of practicing tae kwon do and Brazilian jujitsu to lead detail-oriented salsa lessons. His team puts a big emphasis on creating an environment in which beginners feel welcome and unintimidated by advanced dancers trying to show off complex moves, such as the iceless triple axel. Students have ranged from seasoned dancers to a first-timer police-department captain, who actually ended up joining a professional dance team. Located inside the Tempo Music and Dance Academy, Miami Salsa Driven's classes focus on improving students' self-confidence and fitness levels with hands-on instruction and practice. One of the studio's walls is completely covered in full-length mirrors, allowing dancers to adjust their posture to match the instructor's or enjoy uninterrupted eye contact with themselves.
Wind-leashed high-flier and Skybanditz founder Francisco Escudero has blown spectators away at such competitions as the Velocity Games and the Bahamas kite race. He is the North Miami Beach area coordinator of the Florida Kitesurfing Association and founder of Skybanditz, where he and his trained staff conduct all manner of surf- and sky-borne expeditions. They outfit maritime adventurers with all the proper kiteboarding, kayaking, and paddleboarding gear, as well as lead kayak tours through Marine Stadium and several small islands. They also give guests the option to explore the high seas on their own or with friends. Instructors, meanwhile, cover safety and proper techniques during kitesurfing programs that range from beginner level to Level X, an echelon they reserve for students who are ultra-advanced or genetically related to flying squirrels.


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Randolph-Macon College students gave their career development a kick-start during
Boot Camp weekend January 4-5, 2013.
Sponsored by R-MC's EDGE program,
the Boot Camp was held at the Wyndham Virginia Crossings Conference Center in Glen
Allen, Virginia. The EDGE, within the Center
for Personal and Career Development, is a four-year program designed to
help students identify their career passions, compete for meaningful employment
apply to graduate schools. The Boot Camp was just one of
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Columbia Avionics Gets STC for Garmin GTN in Citation 500 Series
Columbia Avionics & Aircraft Services obtained FAA STC approval to install Garmin GTN 650 and 750 navcoms in the Cessna 500, 501, 550, 551, S550 and 560. This follows a similar STC that the Columbia, Mo.-based company received in May for the Cessna 650. The touchscreen Garmin GTN navcoms are certified for full autopilot-coupled Waas LPV approaches, including vertical guidance. The STC also covers various combinations of the GTN 650/750, Garmin GTX-33ES mode-S transponders, Garmin GDL-69/A weather data link and a marker beacon receiver.
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Stringer Bell is confused. "Whaddaya mean The Wire's not feminist?"
The Wire, the HBO series that ran for five seasons, will apparently live on, despite its shelf life, in a class at Harvard. And Professor William Wilson, the self-admitted "huge fan" who will be teaching the class, is high off of The Wire's Kool-Aid:
"I do not hesitate to say that it has done more to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life and the problems of urban inequality, more than any other media event or scholarly publication," Wilson told the audience before poking fun at himself, "including studies by social scientists."
As a racial justice advocate who loves politics and sexually diverse representations of people of color, one can't help but be a sucka for The Wire. (Also, I am not going to lie. I might have dedicated a Facebook status, or ten, to good-God-what-have-you-done-to-me Idris Elba.) But when you fasten your feminist goggles and take another gander, you are bound to get bamboozled, psyched out and sucka-punched by yet another attempt to be progressive — hold the feminism.
Elizabeth Ault, a bad-ass feminist at the University of Minnesota, begins to sum up The Wire's gender problem in the title of her paper: "You Can Help Yourself, But Don't Take Too Much": African-American Motherhood on The Wire. At one point she states,
The Wire is quite capable of creating sympathy for the
struggles of men… shows us
characters like alcoholic police officer Jimmy McNulty, strategizing
drug kingpin/real estate developer Stringer Bell, and corrupt (okay,
maybe just stupid) cop Thomas Hauk, and doesn't dictate how we
interpret their storylines; rather, much of the show is full of
precisely the sort of representational ambiguity that obviates calls
for "more positive representations" and earns the "authentic"
plaudit–except, again, when it comes to black mothers, women without
the social or cultural capital of those men.
Then she goes for the jugular:
The institutions that The Wire is so devoted to condemning
have failed these women too. In order to make its damning assessment of
urban politics within its own institutional context of
Time/Warner-owned HBO, The Wire must make some compromises. In this
case, black mothers' sexualities, their subjectivities, their desires,
and therefore their fitness as parents is the price the show, like so
many before it, is willing to pay.
Her paper has not been published yet. But it's chock full of good
stuff about the director's decision to opt-out of "woman of color
feminism" and her analysis of the director's reinvestment in
"heteropatriarchal family." I don't know what Wilson has planned on
the syllabus, but he needs to give our girl Liz a call. Because the
urban inequality problem he rails on about is gendered.


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Chapter 170 Reviews
Gerard and Bob stood before us. Both injured. I wanted to help Gerard but as I walked towards him and gestured to his nose he looked away, toward his brother. "Mikey, can you help me out please?" Mikey has sat frozen as his blood stained brother stood beside him, he nodded and took the hand from Gerard's nose but more blood spurted out and they went behind the curtain, up to the bathroom. I walked over to Bob shaking my head.
What had he done that for? Was he really that angry about me and Gerard sleeping in the same bunk? "Come on," I took his other arm and led him through to my bunk.
He sat down on the made bed and sighed. "You didn't sleep here last night did you?" I shook my head as I took the bandage roll from my case. "You slept with Gerard didn't you?" I looked at him, his mouth was quivering, with anger or with sadness I wasn't sure, but his eyes told me he was guilty. "I slept in Gerard's bunk, not with him." I took his wrist from where it lay on the bunk and twisted it gently in my palm. He squirmed beneath my grip, "Does it still hurt?" He nodded and I began to gently wind the bandage around it, careful not to cause him any more pain. "He kissed you," Bob stated, anger rose in his voice and I knew this was going to turn into an argument.
"I kissed him back. Which one of us are you most angry at? Me for leading him on? Or him for touching me?" I could not look at him, I couldn't bear to see the disappointment in his eyes. I continued to wrap his wrist and grabbed a safety pin from my draw to fasten it. "Him, he's an adult, he shouldn't have touched you in any way. He's married for God's sake!"
"He left Lyn-Z." "I'm basically an adult anyway, I can get married in the UK with a parents permission, I can have sex in the UK, I can drive a car in the USA, so why cant I let a guy touch me, even if he is older than me?" Bob squirmed, his arm still in my grasp, with every word I'd been pressing down harder, pressuring it even more. "Your still my little sister. Your sixteen, a child." I looked at him and tears burnt my eyes.
"That doesn't mean anything, remember. Just because I'm sixteen doesn't stop people taking advantage of me." The tears were flowing now and I heard sobs escape my throat. I pushed myself up from the ground and went to find some painkillers for his arm, I grabbed some paracetamol from his bag and gave him them before he took a bottle of water from my bunk. I sat again on the floor and rested my head against his knee. "I couldn't sleep okay, I kept dreaming about it. I got out to get a drink and Gerard was up. We talked a little and went back to bed but I still couldn't sleep. I got into his bunk and we kissed." He rubbed my hair gently with his injured wrist and comforted me as I wept. "It's okay, just stay away from him, I don't want him to hurt you." I nodded and felt his arms around my shoulders.
We hugged for a little longer until I heard footsteps on the stairs and Gerard and Mikey came down, Gerard's shirt covered in blood. "I'll see you in a minute," I got up and left the guys by the bunks.
"Are they okay?" Ray and Frank sat at the small table, their faces distraught with worry. "They'll both be fine." I walked over to the door and grabbed my trainers from the ground by the sofa. I opened the door and stumbled down the steps. This morning's fog still hung heavy and the cold summer wind bit at my face. I felt the common sick feeling within my stomach and ran for the back of the bus. Just in time. Vomit splattered everywhere, covering myself and the ground around me. I fell to the floor and sobbed.