Wind Power in Rural Spain. Intersting article (excerpt) about Spanish success with wind farms. I don't have access to the whole thing so I can't comment fully but I'm skeptical about windpower in larger scales. I think there's problems with transmission loss as well as adverse affects on avian types. I think this would work quite well in some places, esp. smaller grids. Wind, nuclear, geothermal and such all need more encouragment and incentive to be deployed in larger quantities. SDB has been over energy production and problems in detail so go there for a discussion that is way beyond my meager understanding of power production, usage and attentant problems. In short, it's very complicated and getting off of oil (foreign or domestic) is very very difficult.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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