After you see about 500 windmills, they are ugly. Every time you go over another hill, there they are, and they catch your eye because they are moving. They also are loud! Think of putting 10 loud moving cell phone towers on every ridge. yuck. but standing below one with the 150 foot long blades spinning at 60 rpm is exciting!
In Iceland they are planing on creating H2 by geothermal power. This makes great sense as they have a huge surplus of heat to create steam,electric and then h2. This is the KISS method. low tech and they will be producing h2 cheaper and quicker than anybody.
see http://www.lv.is/lv.nsf/pages/hydrogen_society-ens.html
The US has one of the world hottest most accessible volcanic calderas in the world. Is is huge and hot and could power that whole country. It's called Yellowstone.
You are wrong about Gore and the internet. He didn't say he invented anything. He was talking about funding the university networks into a "network of networks". Yes, we taxpayers paid for it and by the way, "YOU'RE WELCOMME!"
From Reason Magazine:
"By the next day, the ridicule was flying--mostly through Gore's supposed brainchild. Declan McCullagh broke the story in the online Wired News and his Politech e-mail news service, pointing out that Gore was just 21 years old when the Defense Department commissioned the original ARPANET in 1969.
Republicans jumped to mock the veep. "If the Vice President created the Internet, then I created the Interstate highway system," said Dick Armey, the House majority leader. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a notorious neatnik, claimed to have invented the paper clip. Lott's press release included his supposed early designs and a final version dated April Fool's Day, 1973.
But Al Gore was not lying to Blitzer. The vice president almost certainly believes that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet." His claim reflects a particular understanding of the world and of recent technological history. As such, it reveals more than mere grandiosity and spin.
To understand Gore's bizarre boast, you have to know a lot of details about the history of the Internet. It's not enough to say that ARPANET started in 1969.
In this important sense, "the Internet" dates not to 1969 but to the early 1980s. Gore enters the picture a bit later--in 1987, when he supported a drive by universities to expand funding for NSFNet. That drive became law in the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, which gave about $1 billion to high-performance networks and computers; about $150 million of the funding was new money, with the rest consolidated from other programs.
"Gore gets credit for cheerleading on networking from '87 on, and for getting the agencies to get off their behinds and coordinate things a bit," says Mike Roberts, who lobbied for NSFNet funding as vice president of networking at Educom, an association of universities.
So Gore was there in 1987, long before most politicians had any notion that the Net existed. But the basics--the software and hardware infrastructure on which the Internet grew--were already in place.
Full article http://www.reason.com/9905/ed.vp.source.html
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After you see about 500 windmills, they are ugly. Every time you go over another hill, there they are, and they catch your eye because they are moving. They also are loud! Think of putting 10 loud moving cell phone towers on every ridge. yuck. but standing below one with the 150 foot long blades spinning at 60 rpm is exciting!
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In Iceland they are planing on creating H2 by geothermal power. This makes great sense as they have a huge surplus of heat to create steam,electric and then h2. This is the KISS method. low tech and they will be producing h2 cheaper and quicker than anybody.
see http://www.lv.is/lv.nsf/pages/hydrogen_society-en
The US has one of the world hottest most accessible volcanic calderas in the world. Is is huge and hot and could power that whole country. It's called Yellowstone.
You are wrong about Gore and the internet. He didn't say he invented anything. He was talking about funding the university networks into a "network of networks". Yes, we taxpayers paid for it and by the way, "YOU'RE WELCOMME!"
From Reason Magazine:
"By the next day, the ridicule was flying--mostly through Gore's supposed brainchild. Declan McCullagh broke the story in the online Wired News and his Politech e-mail news service, pointing out that Gore was just 21 years old when the Defense Department commissioned the original ARPANET in 1969.
Republicans jumped to mock the veep. "If the Vice President created the Internet, then I created the Interstate highway system," said Dick Armey, the House majority leader. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a notorious neatnik, claimed to have invented the paper clip. Lott's press release included his supposed early designs and a final version dated April Fool's Day, 1973.
But Al Gore was not lying to Blitzer. The vice president almost certainly believes that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet." His claim reflects a particular understanding of the world and of recent technological history. As such, it reveals more than mere grandiosity and spin.
To understand Gore's bizarre boast, you have to know a lot of details about the history of the Internet. It's not enough to say that ARPANET started in 1969.
In this important sense, "the Internet" dates not to 1969 but to the early 1980s. Gore enters the picture a bit later--in 1987, when he supported a drive by universities to expand funding for NSFNet. That drive became law in the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, which gave about $1 billion to high-performance networks and computers; about $150 million of the funding was new money, with the rest consolidated from other programs.
"Gore gets credit for cheerleading on networking from '87 on, and for getting the agencies to get off their behinds and coordinate things a bit," says Mike Roberts, who lobbied for NSFNet funding as vice president of networking at Educom, an association of universities.
So Gore was there in 1987, long before most politicians had any notion that the Net existed. But the basics--the software and hardware infrastructure on which the Internet grew--were already in place.
Full article http://www.reason.com/9905/ed.vp.source.html
13 internet years is a long time.