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09 Sep 08

Clean Break » Blog Archive » Something to watch: hydraulic storage for wind

  • funded by Sustainable Development Technology Canada, will demonstrate a 1-megawatt turbine with a 2-megawatt-hour storage capability. After which the company plans to scale up by “orders of magnitude.”
26 Jan 08

The Art of Work

  • "It is what the sailor holding a tight course feels when the wind whips through her hair....It is what a painter feels when the colors on the canvas begin to set up a magnetic tension with each other, and a new thing, a living form, takes shape...."

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    These words, written by American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Mee-high CHICK-sent-me-high-ee), describe the state of "flow." It's a condition of heightened focus, productivity, and happiness that we all intuitively understand and hunger for.
21 Oct 07

Retirement Well Being is having Money, Health and Happiness for Retirement

  • latest research in economics, biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, geography and other fields. There really are breakthroughs in all of these areas that you can put to work in your everyday life. I'm turning these breakthroughs into practical tools that you can use, and posting them on this free website.

H5N1: Not only but also...blue ear disease

  • A highly infectious swine virus is sweeping China’s pig population, driving up pork prices and creating fears of a global pandemic among domesticated pigs.
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    “This disease is like a wind that swept in and passed from village to village,” said Ding Shurong, a 45-year-old farmer in a village near here who lost two-thirds of his pigs. “I’ve never seen anything like it. No family was left untouched.”

H5N1: H5N1 and the global economy: Something's got to give

  • According to him, the stock of parent population of broiler chicken stands at only 280,000, down from around 400,000 that is necessary to fulfill the current demand.

    This is not just a tut-tut news item. Cut back on any country's protein, and malnutrition will expose its poorest citizens to any number of diseases. Even if H5N1 never jumps to humans as a pandemic, countless people will suffer from its impact on poultry.

    August 22, 2007 at 09:38 PM | Permalink
04 Jul 07

naked capitalism: Bear Stearns and the Vagaries of Models

  • As we have discussed earlier, if LTCM-like problems were to develop across multiple players, there is not enough legal, regulatory, and managerial bandwidth to handle multiple Bear-scale crises at once. I don't know what the exact threshold is, but my sense is that six simultaneous meltdowns like this would cause the system to choke. And we aren't alone in this view. Richard Bookstaber, a hedge fund manager himself and innovator of some of the risk management techniques used on Wall Street, warns that the industry, like a nuclear power plant, is subject to "tight coupling." A large error jeopardizes the entire system.

NARP: National Association of Railroad Passengers

  • The American Association of Railroads reported that freight traffic on U.S. railroads declined from last year. Cumulative volume for the first 19 weeks of 2007 totaled 6,100,454 carloads, down 4.4% from 2006; 4,313,308 trailers or containers, off 1.1%; and total volume of an estimated 620.7 billion ton-miles, down 3.1% from last year. Officials cite severe weather including massive flooding across parts of the country. Canadian railroads have also seen a decline. Combined cumulative volume for the first 19 weeks of 2007 on U.S. and Canadian railroads totaled 7,569,442 carloads, down 3.9% from last year, and 5,167,932 trailers and containers, down 0.6% from last year.

» Raising Chicago

  • The task of raising Chicago was best reported by the Chicago Press & Tribune in their 20 March 1860 issue:

    The entire front of first-class buildings on the north side of Lake Street between La Salle and Clark streets is now rising to grade at the rate of about twelve inches per day. It will be at its full height by tomorrow night, when it will constitute a spectacle not many of our citizens may see again, if ever, a business block covering nearly one acre, and weighing over twenty-five thousand tons resting on six thousand screws, upon which it has made an upward journey of four feet and ten inches. Probably its parallel enterprise cannot be be found the world over. It will be worth seeing tomorrow, and the contractors are, we learn, preparing to accomodate the public and give them an opportunity of looking and passing in among the forest of iron screws.
03 Feb 07

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Pay-per-view journalism

  • "at ZD Net bloggers are compensated based on the number of page views they receive and a fraction of the pages in TalkBack, so at the end of the month the size of a check expresses something, but not necessarily our success in being informative or accurate." Business 2.0 recently rolled out a similar payment scheme for its blog-mob, Gawker's been doing it for eons, and I'm sure other publishers are or will be linking compensation to page views, particularly for freelance contributors. And not just bloggers, either.

    Pay-per-view journalism is inevitable. It simply brings the compensation model in line with the content model.
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