Apple, Google, IBM – the way forward
Apple HQ, Cupertino, California Back in 1965, IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson, Jr, wrote, in IBM’s Basic Beliefs & Principles, “We accept our responsibilities as a corporate citizen in community,...
View ArticleEarth Day, 2013. Oil Spills, Explosions, Fracking Business As Usual & The...
Wall St. NYC, April 26, 2013. Monday, April 22, 2013 was Earth Day. At the close of trading Thursday, April 25, 2013, as compared to my reference date of Dec. 21, 2012, the Dow Jones Industrials was...
View ArticleCelestial Shooting Gallery, Part One: The Day We Lost Quebec
John Kappenman reconstructed the electrojets which formed in the ionosphere late in the March 13, 1989 geomagnetic storm which compromised the Hydro-Quebec power grid in Canada. Concurrently, the...
View ArticleCelestial Shooting Gallery, Part Two: The Physics of Geomagnetic Storms
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at...
View ArticleCelestial Shooting Gallery, Part Three: When a CME Hits the Atmosphere
A Generator Step Up (GSU) transformer failed at the Salem River Nuclear Plant during the March 1989 geomagnetic storm. The unit is depicted on the left; some of the burned 22kV primary windings are...
View ArticleThe Celestial Shooting Gallery, Part Four: “You Have Nothing to Worry About...
A stability map of a simple power grid. Each point on this image represents an operating state of a simple power grid consisting of a few generators. Bluish regions constitute stable working states,...
View ArticleIn RE Carbon Dioxide – The EPA is Listening
Hurricane Sandy, via satellite, 10/27/12, NOAA The people at the Environmental Protection Agency understand the issue of increasing atmospheric Carbon Dioxide above 350 PPM. And EPA is listening. EPA...
View ArticleChina to Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions Below 2005 Levels – After 2030.
BEIJING, CHINA – Tiananmen Square, January 23, 2013 (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images) Forbes, here, and reports that China is building a 200 MW solar farm in the Gobi Desert (Clean Technica, here, IFL...
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