Fractals of Change: May 2008

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15 posts from May 2008

May 11, 2008

Geothermal Installed!

 

Heating with our new electric geothermal "furnace" will cost less than half what it costs to heat with oil give current oil and electricity costs, even though electricity at $.20/Kwh here is much more expensive than in many parts of the country. This is an environmental investment which More...

May 08, 2008

Energy Policy – The Hard Work is Done

Mustering the political will to drive up the price of gasoline to a level where alternatives make economic sense would have been impossible – note the pandering attempts to knock it down a few cents for a few months. But the expansion of the world economy to include China and India in a big way h More...

May 06, 2008

Sprint’s Big Deal – New Life for WiMax

The Wall Street Journal is reporting the terms of a yet unannounced deal which will finance a massive rollout of WiMax by a Sprint-Clearwire joint venture. Outside funding is to be provided by Intel, Google, Comcast, a More...

May 05, 2008

Fun With Google Maps

If you have a list of locations, eventually you'll want to see them on a map – count on it.

An organization I work with gathered addresses and other useful information relevant to their mission with a web form and neatly downloaded all the information into a Google Docs spreadsheet. Even More...

May 04, 2008

It IS Pandering

The proposed gas tax holiday IS pandering – and bad economics to boot. Good for Barack Obama for saying so; bad for John McCain (whom I currently plan to vote for) for proposing it; bad for Hillary Clinton for supporting the proposal even though it helps her push Obama into the "elitist" corner. More...

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