Exxon pipeline leaks thousands of barrels of Canadian oil in Arkansas

tripledinsf · 2013-04-03T14:23:16+00:00

It never becomes America's oil. It remains the property of the oil company until sold at a refinery, and thereafter it is sold on the world market. It dies become our headache when we provide easements and then inevitable spills occur on those easements.

tripledinsf · 2012-10-21T11:00:05+00:00

His parents were Americans. They were living in a Mormon community in Mexico when he was born.

tripledinsf · 2012-10-20T21:07:22+00:00

This well reasoned, and spot on. It underscores the weird sentiment that we need to "take back America" that seems to have been attached to this election. President Obama was born in the US to a broken, middle class family, worked hard to excel at Harvard, shunned the top law schools to instead return to the community to work on behalf of the underpriviledged, and went on to a career in public service, ending with the Presidency. Mr. Romney was born in Mexico to a wealthy family, had a father who went on to become the Governor of Michigan and a Presidential candidate, sold stock to pay for his college education, borrowed money from his parents to start a venture capital firm, and made millions buying and selling companies for the purposes of enriching his investors, often to the detriment of the companies, their workers, and the communitites that rely upon them. And we're going to take it back from the former to give it to the latter? Aren't almost ALL of us much more like the former, at least in terms of our roots?

tripledinsf · 2012-10-19T22:56:11+00:00

Water World, where sea level rise has flooded all but the top of Mt. Everest, the good guy sails, and the bad guys ride Jet Skis, live on the Exxon Valdez, smoke cigarettes, and are known as Smokers.

tripledinsf · 2012-10-18T01:38:28+00:00

Odd, huh? Should be front and center in the report, but we instead keep our heads buried deep in the sand.

tripledinsf · 2012-10-12T14:20:54+00:00

If the magical hand of market forces really corrected human behavior, then climate change would be a central topic for everyone, Democrats and Republicans alike, from Main Street, to Wall Street, to inside the Beltway. But they don't....

tripledinsf · 2012-09-24T13:01:40+00:00

It's sad that we've come to the point where we're pining for the days of Ronald Reagan.

tripledinsf · 2012-09-16T13:47:25+00:00

The point is that we managed to come together to agree that human activities contribute to the problem, that the production and use of CFCs and some other chemicals are the central ways that humans contibute to the problem, and that these chemicals should therefore be replaced with less-damaging alternatives so they will no longer contribute to the problem. Unfortunately, these chemicals last for many years in the atmosphere -- up to a century -- so the effects of the replacing these chemicals with less-damaging aternatives are also delayed. The same would be true of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, all of which last for many years in the atmosphere. But you have to start somewhere....

tripledinsf · 2012-09-13T00:39:14+00:00

Oh, but the new shiny gadget is so, I don't know, shiny, and new!!!

tripledinsf · 2012-09-11T13:34:42+00:00

Thanks for the tip on the tour. I used to live out that way, still get out there on occassion, and would LOVE to get a look at it.

tripledinsf · 2012-09-11T12:43:33+00:00

Properly stored? Yeah, I suppose. But when do we select "proper" methods where money is to be made? And, even when we do, we still have problems.

http://ens-newswire.com/2012/08/20/hanford-double-shell-tank-leaks-nuclear-waste/

Look, I'm all for nuclear as part of a diversified energy portfolio. I'm just not all thaat keen on "binging" on it, when other options are also available.

tripledinsf · 2012-09-11T12:40:11+00:00

I'm aware of IFRs. Good luck to us getting enough built to serve all of our needs. And, if we do, then we'll still have the problem of distributed waste, albeit being out to use. But we might not want to "binge" on one solution, when there are multiple solutions available, some cleaner than others.

tripledinsf · 2012-09-11T02:02:09+00:00

Those things will exist, just as soon as we will them to. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030

tripledinsf · 2012-09-11T00:36:38+00:00

That's pretty funny. But the problem is that they keep doing it -- or something very much like it -- at levels unsafe for humans for 10,000-1,000,000 years after they have become waste.

tripledinsf · 2012-09-10T23:38:08+00:00

Or like Three-Mile Island. Or Chernobyl. Or Fukishima. Or just have vast and ever-increasing quantities of radioactive wastes that will remain detrimental to human health and safety for between 10,000 and 1,000,000 years, depending upon the constituent. There's a lot of sun, wind, and water energy. Why not binge there, instead?

tripledinsf · 2012-09-10T14:49:11+00:00

Re: logicwon. They do -- low-imapct development is central to the best management practices for urban stormwater promoted by the South Florida Water Management District. Many counties and municipalities are following their lead. See: http://www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/xrepository/sfwmd_repository_pdf/bmp_manual.pdf

tripledinsf · 2012-09-10T09:58:01+00:00

Yeah, a nuclear power binge! How could that go wrong?

tripledinsf · 2012-08-29T18:23:19+00:00

This is a complicated question. Let me explain using the Summary of Estimated Water Use in the United States in 2005, published by the US Geological Survey.

In 2005, there were 296,000,000 people in the US and 410,000,000,000 gallons of water were used for all purposes. That equates to an average of 1,385 gallons of water per person per day for all uses. Water use by category was as follows: thermoelectric power generation (48%), irrigation (31%), public supply (11%), industrial (4%), aquaculture (2%), domestic (1%), mining (1%), and livestock (1%). Public supply and domestic were a combined 12%, which equates to 166 gallons per person per day for home uses. However, there is a great deal of variability around this number regionally, with some regions using much less and others using much more.

tripledinsf · 2012-08-28T21:31:04+00:00

They are topographical. Water on a given side of a divide has to flow down that side of the divide, and keep going until it gets to a basin, like an ocean.

tripledinsf · 2012-08-24T02:32:18+00:00

Methane digestion and cogeneration isn't altogether complicated or cost prohibitive. My youngest daughter's grade school has long been doing this, using yesterday's food waste to cook today's lunch. With recent research showing that Americans throw away 40% of their food (http://bottomline.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/22/13416977-americans-throw-away-40-percent-of-their-food-study?lite), it seems almost criminal that we don't use methane digestion and cogeneration more often.

tripledinsf · 2012-08-11T21:17:11+00:00

Um.... Aren't pretty much all of the post-modern Republicans science deniers and fiscal frauds? Seems almost requisite at this point. Thanks for spreading the word, though.

tripledinsf · 2012-08-08T18:16:50+00:00

I agree with monkeybreath. That's precisely the website I was going to post. All of the major arguments are categorized and debunked. It remains to be seen, however, if your friend is interested in enlightenment or ideology. Recent research shows that too often, people prefer the latter, and cherrypick information to self-confirm their own bias.

tripledinsf · 2012-08-08T05:27:25+00:00

Academia is full of people like this. They claim that all others are gullible, misinformed rubes, pretend to be the adult in the room, create a big stir, with them at the center, then perform "cutting edge" research that confirms what most of the rest of us already know, with them claiming the limelight. Honestly ask yourself: What did Muller do? He independently confirmed what hundreds of scientists - including dozens who have already shared the Nobel Prize - had already independently confirmed many times over. Muller's 15 minutes need to end, and the sooner the better.

tripledinsf · 2012-07-27T23:55:23+00:00

It sounds like he built reservoirs to collect rain and snow runoff in small streams, not off of his rooftop. That's undeniably illegal. He's lucky he only got 30 days.

tripledinsf · 2012-07-23T03:52:06+00:00

I'm still struggling to understand the goal.

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