Tag Archives: Alternative Energy

Blowing Through Texas : Renewable Energy Ploy Brings an Ill Wind

Blowing in the Wind It’s the hitherto scenic, big sky Hill Country, with more stars than you can count in the night sky, that’s been chosen to carry the burden of hosting those high-voltage power lines between West Texas and … Continue reading

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Why Wind Power Is a Viable Alternative

Click on graphs below to enlarge. The cost of wind, the price of wind, the value of windBy Jerome Guillet and edited by Paul Spencer / June 2009 I’d like to try to clear some of the confusion that surrounds … Continue reading

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Kate Braun: Vernal Equinox Seasonal Message

Vernal Equinox Seasonal MessageBy Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / March 12, 2009 “Wise Mother whose love surrounds me all you make is sacred…” Friday, March 20, 2009 is the Spring/Vernal Equinox. Lady Moon is in her 4th quarter, … Continue reading

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Candelmas Seasonal Message

Candelmas Seasonal MessageBy Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / January 26, 2009 “Like a candle burning through time…”Monday, February 2, 2009 is Candlemas, also known as Imbolc, Feast of Lights, Bridgit’s Day, and Groundhog Day. Lady Moon shifts from … Continue reading

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Neil Young :
A Race for the Planet

If the Big three cannot agree to make only cars that are fuel efficient enough to get at least 50 MPG by 2011, 75 MPG by 2013 and 100 MPG by 2015, then they should go into bankruptcy and fend … Continue reading

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A New Year’s Day Thought

There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won’t anymore… And who always will. So, don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your … Continue reading

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Passive Solar: Living Without Furnaces in the Cold

This is the kind of innovation that will be required around the world in short order. We love reading our Friends at Earth Family Alpha: they always have a positive outlook and make incredibly imaginative suggestions about how we can … Continue reading

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Kate Braun: Yule Seasonal Message

Yule Seasonal MessageBy Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / December 16, 2008 “Hark! the herald angels sing: Glory to the new-born King” Sunday, December 21, 2008 we celebrate Yule, the Winter Solstice. How appropriate that this day, which marks … Continue reading

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Hawaii : Revolutionary New Electric Car System Proposed

The entrepreneur Shai Agassi, right, met with Anders Eldrup, center, a Danish energy executive, in Copenhagen last March. Photo by Jonas Pryner Andersen / Polfoto / AP.‘By using existing electric car technologies, coupled with an Internet-connected web of tens of … Continue reading

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Energy Tech : There’s Still Some Buck Rogers Stuff Out There

Buck Rogers #1, Melbourne, Fitchett Brothers, 1936-1953 / Monash University Rare Book Collection.‘There is still some Buck Rogers stuff out there that might become important if we can just back the smart people who are not in the oil business.’By … Continue reading

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World Willing to Pay More for Alternative Energy

These wind turbines at a USDA research lab in Texas generate power for submersible electric water pumps. Photo credit:US Department of AgricultureCLIMATE CHANGE: World Willing to Pay More for Green EnergyBy Wolfgang Kerler / November 19, 2008 NEW YORK – … Continue reading

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Neil Young : How to Save a Major Automobile Company

‘We need visionary people now with business sense to create automobiles that do not contribute to global warming.’By Neil Young See ‘Neil Young’s car heads west’ by Chris Frank and Video, Below. Find a new ownership group. The culture must … Continue reading

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