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Posted in Alternative Fuel, City of Dover, Energy, local government on Oct 21st, 2011
The Dover Post examined the Dover Sun Park beyond the hype. It would cause a minor increase in electric rates today, but the long term contract locks in inflation of our rates into the future for the next 20 years. In fact the number is $65,000,000 in rate increases over the next 20 years. What [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel on Jun 1st, 2010
Hydrogen Fuel Cells are a cost effective way to power fork lifts in this Cass Township PA warehouse. Allar said he negotiated a substantially lower monthly service fee for the trucks, supplied by Lift Inc., of Lancaster. Using fuel cells also eliminated the need for an outside maintenance person to change the heavy batteries, clean [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Energy on May 3rd, 2010
Some wonder why I am abig fan of wind-power, here is one reason. Wind-power lowers energy costs and benefits the people. I am a big fan of an all of the above energy approach. Wind-power is part of it.
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Guest Opinion, Regional Politics, Regulation on Apr 13th, 2010
Solar-cell manufacturing in Frederick, Maryland, dates back to the mid-1970s. BP Solar, one such company, was so profitable it was in the middle of building a $97 million expansion to create more jobs in the solar panel industry. Now the BP Solar building is being demolished and 320 people in Maryland are unemployed. What [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Energy on Apr 1st, 2010
May GOD bless President Obama, he needs good advise from somewhere. The President stopped his regime from foot dragging on opening up drilling areas as mandated in a law passed in 2008. The problem is that he opens exploration, but holds back on actual leases to drill. It is like trying to date someone who [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Environment, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, National Dems on Jul 20th, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to India to perform an act of contrition on behalf of United States for our Global Warming sins and to ask India not to do the same thing: “We acknowledge now with President Obama that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Employment, Energy, Environment, Wind Power on Jul 15th, 2009
Check this out, Britain is going to build more wind farms, they’re just not going to do it with turbines made there: One of Britain’s biggest employers in the green energy industry is to cease production within hours of a government announcement today pledging as many as 400,000 green jobs by 2015. Ed Miliband, the [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Budget, Change, Deficit, Employment, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Military, National Dems, Obama, Oil, Open Government, Spending, unemployment on Apr 28th, 2009
$328,835 is the pricetag for the White House’s tragically stupid New York City photo-op according to the Air Force. Check it out: The flight by the VC-25, a modified Boeing Co. 747, and two F-16 fighter jets cost $328,835, Air Force spokeswoman Vicki Stein said. $328,835 for a picture at a time when many Americans [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Business, Environment, economy on Apr 8th, 2009
The GE plant in Newark that makes solar panels is laying off 85 employees: Rumsey said orders have been falling and inventory piling up as potential customers struggle to find financing for photovoltaic installations, which convert sunlight to electricity. “It’s unfortunate, but we have to align our manufacturing output with the demand that we have,” [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Armed Forces, Change, Deficit, Entitlements, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Iraq, National Dems, Stuff, US Congress on Mar 10th, 2009
According to Judicial Watch, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her “extended family” are enjoying the benefits of travel via Gulfstream jet on the taxpayer’s dime. Here’s a little preview: The documents also detail correspondence from intermediaries for Speaker Pelosi issuing demands for certain aircraft and expressing outrage when requested military planes were not available. “It [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Oil on Jul 3rd, 2008
Harry Reid says Coal and oil makes us sick. We have to stop using fossil fuels. Most Americans disagree so do i. We need alternatives, but it is unreasonable to think that we can stop using fossil fuels anytime soon. This is especially amusing because it is from the Senator blocking Yucca Mountain. The McCain [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Environment, Oil on Jun 16th, 2008
Honda rolls out hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (source: money.cnn.com). Don’t have time to post, but wanting to keep track of progress…any progress.
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