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The Queensland-based Invasive Species Council has assessed weed risks posed by 18 biofuel crops currently proposed as solutions to cutting greenhouse emissions, wrote science and environment reporter Rosslyn Beeby in The Canberra Times (4/10/2007, p.11). Noxious weeds being considered: The Council warned cultivation of energy crops on a large scale would cause "grave environmental damage", Continue Reading →
Alvin Kunugi has a love-hate relationship with the sun, and it just got more complex. A farmer in San Luis Valley, Colorado, Kunugi’s plants harvest the sun’s energy and turn it into stored energy in the form of calories. But the sun in the valley is a little too much.
The project will save the farmers money for three main reasons. The first one is a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture managed by the local Resource Conservation & Development (RC&D). The second is a $4.50 buy down per watt from Xcel Energy, the local utility. The last part of the equation is a federal tax credit of up to 30% of the upfront costs for a business such as a farm.
It’s actually one of sunniest places in the U.S.—and forces him to spend 15,000 dollars a year on energy for irrigation.
John W. Warnock
Special to The Leader-Post
Six years ago this past Sunday, the U.S. government launched a war against the government of Afghanistan.
Air power was the key. Two B-2 Stealth bombers flew from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, each carrying sixteen 2,000-lb satellite-directed bombs. Five B-1B and 10 B-52 heavy bombers flew from Diego Garcia, the U.S. island base guarding the Persian Gulf. Twenty-five strike aircraft attacked from two U.S. aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea. U.S. Navy F-18 Hornets and F-14 Tomcats dropped 500-lb guided bombs and 2,000-lb earth penetrators. Fifty Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched from U.S. and British ships and submarines. The targets for the first few days were military facilities, both those of the Taliban government and those used by Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda.
For the Tora Bora bunkers, the U.S. Air Force allotted 32 individual GBU-31, 2,000-lb bombs, carried by the B-1 Lancer bombers, launched from the U.S.A. and from Diego Garcia. A single aircraft can carry up to 24 tons of bombs. The 5,000-lb bunker busters and the earth penetrator weapons were dropped by B-2 bombers. Within a few days, the U.S. government announced that they had destroyed the main targets.
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Mungo McCallum, this week, defends Garrett’s desertion of his principles with a classic tool of the demagogue, sleight of toungue. He takes a cute rhetorical flourish “The impotent are pure” and then argues the converse, Garrett can only wield power by sacrificing his beliefs.
Voters are not fools, Mungo. They are angry that Garrett deserted his principles, not because the “real politik” eludes them but because he has squandered the lessons of history: Visionary leaders who stick to their principles are the ones who change the world.
One hundred and fifteen years ago the Australian labour movement was a bunch of shearers in a paddock saying, “We can’t take this any more.” It took decades for those idealists to mature into government, but their core principles remained in place until the 1980s.
A company is seeking approval to build Australia’s largest wind farm, which would be able to power up to 400,000 homes, in the New South Wales outback. Epuron, a subsidiary of German renewable energy group Conergy AG, wants to place 500 turbines on up to five private properties at Silverton, near Broken Hill, in the Continue Reading →
