Tag Archives: Energy

Breakthrough on Fusion power but with caveats

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Steve

Today the Department of Energy announced what I heard about over the weekend; there was a successful fusion ignition at Livermore National Lab. Hey, that’s near my brother’s house and a key research facility during WWII alongside Los Alamos and Oak … Continue reading →

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1977: The Great NYC Blackout…of the Seventies

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Steve

Although I wasn’t there, in New York, I do remember the events adequately because it was freaky to my eight-year-old brain. My parents were watching a movie (Made for Each Other, had to look it up!) on CBS/Channel 3, WCIA … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow begins the “voluntary” winterization

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Steve

While the GOP made sure they can dictate what women can do with their bodies, “urban dwellers” have a harder time voting and preventing children from learning the ugly truth about Amerika…they sure as hell didn’t do shit about the … Continue reading →

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GM to go all electric by 2035

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Steve

To all the MAGAts, haw haw! All that screaming, bullying and so on from your Orange Foolius to lower mileage standards have failed. For a corporation the size of General Motors to finally announce this means they have planned this … Continue reading →

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1979: The Three Mile Island Disaster

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Steve

For better or for worse, the accident that happened at this American nuclear power plant changed the country’s opinion about how safe this type of energy generation was. Thanks to TMI (before it became the abbreviation for Too Much Information), … Continue reading →

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Bummer on fusion news

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Steve

Near the anniversary of the cold fusion nonsense, some operation belonging to Lockheed Martin may have made the news about their “breakthrough” on getting real fusion to happen in a decade. I knew it was too good to be true because … Continue reading →

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Another step toward cyberizing the house!

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Steve

We finally got around to installing this cool device you may have heard of, namely a few weeks ago when Google acquired them. A couple power companies will give it to you for free if you want one; Austin Energy … Continue reading →

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Austin is number six, but number one in Texas

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Steve

Sure the Right-Wing Noise Machine and their flunkies will claim the source is biased, the ACEE, and the publisher relaying this, good ol’ Mother Jones, but there is much evidence of Austin being more energy efficient than Houston or Big D. … Continue reading →

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