Author: Simon

Here is an interesting development that may be good for continuous output solar power. The company’s approach uses calcium hydride, a simple, non-toxic salt. Under Solar Fusion’s plan, solar heat is collected by an array of heliostats directed to a central down mirror, eliminating the requirement for a power tower. The heat, focused on a…

I left this comment (more or less) at Nate Silver’s 538 blog. He was a hoping for Coakley despite the shift that his stats clearly showed. Nate, Reminds me of what I said here about the Obama/Palin race. Bias is such a hard thing to give up. You lose some. You win some. The real…

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis This is the funniest Jon Stewart I have evahh watched. Give it a view. Hillarious. H/T Larry Johnson at No Quarter Cross Posted at Power and Control

Pick a station: Massachusetts Radio Live Online And listen to tonight’s election results live online. Drudge Has A Counter Up H/T on the Drudge counter to the gorgeous Pamela of Atlas Shrugs

N987SA? What a cryptic title for a post. So let me start with September of 2007 and an airplane crash. According to several mexican newspapers, G-II reg. N987SA went down this morning in Yucatan, Mexico, about 20 nm from MID. It has been reported the plane was carrying 3.2 tons of cocaine. Mexican Air Force…

Steve Mosher (an online friend of mine) has written a book about the unfolding of the ClimateGate Story. From the first discovery of the files to the world wide reactions to the e-mail and data release. Climategate: The Crutape Letters (Volume 1) Here is what Anthony Watts has to say about the book: I’ve read…

H/T Commenter simentt via e-mail who saw it at Karl Denninger’s blog. Karl Says: My only comment: Youtube appears to have taken this down several times, but it keeps reappearing. I found several incantations along with people hosting the raw FLV file. This appears to be created by some rather angry Democrats, and is one…

Here is the first sketchy report on Friday night’s nerd night in New York. If you’ve never been to a Nerd Nite before, here’s how it goes down. Take a college PowerPoint seminar on bird migration or muscular dystrophy or nuclear fusion or what have you, and hold it late at night in a hip…

Here is the first segment of the KUSI video with weatherman John Coleman who cofounded The Weather Channel that I mentioned in my post NASA Caught Cooking The Books. Second Segment Third Segment Fourth Segment Fifth Segment You can also see a video by a coauthor of several of Willie Soon’s climate papers, Sallie Baliunas,…

In a post at Watts Up With That a commenter looked at the e-mails found at this link [pdf] and had some interesting things to say. Ira (17:00:53) : The UK CRU version of Climategate centered around whether the 1990’s were warmer than any time in the past 1000 years. The US GISS version could…

Here is some chilling news about the American economy. Retail sales unexpectedly fell in December, leaving 2009 with the biggest yearly drop on record and highlighting the formidable hurdles facing the economy as it struggles to recover from the deepest recession in seven decades. In another disappointing economic report, the number of newly laid-off workers…

Is nothing sacred any more? I guess not. NASA has been caught cooking climate data. Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as “THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD.” KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic weatherman John Coleman will present these findings in a one-hour special airing…

Watts Up With That has the timeline (as best as it can be reconstructed) of the ClimateGate story. Climate Audit is also covering the story. My first inkling of it was between 3:34 am and 4:40am GMT Fri Nov 20, 2009 at Talk Polywell. I started a post on it at 04:29 am GMT (posted…

From Random Traverse. WASHINGTON, DC – Congress is considering sweeping legislation which will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition. “Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not…

Famulus of Prometheus Fusion will be featured at Nerd Night, Friday, January 15th, in NYC. *Presentation 1 Fusing the Atom and Living to Tell by Famulus Description: We have built an open source nuclear fusion reactor and fused the atom. This is the story of a remarkable fusion device called the Farnsworth Fusor and its…

Massachusetts may be in the process of electing a Republican to take Ted Kennedy’s old seat. His name? Scott Brown. Our good friend Abbey in Cleveland called us last night and said, “You’re not going to believe this. So sit down”. She then went on to explain that she’s making her FIRST EVER political donation…

Not as Governor Of Alaska. She is going to be a TV commentator on FOX News. Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will return to her broadcast roots and take her conservative message to Fox News as a regular commentator, the cable channel announced Monday. “I am thrilled to be…

I guess the Catastrophic Global Warming scare is officially over. At least according to one IPCC scientist. The research has been carried out by eminent climate scientists, including Professor Mojib Latif. He is a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He and his colleagues predicted the cooling trend in a 2008…

You think I’m joking? I’m not. First let’s look at the shutdown. The heaviest snowfall to hit northern China in nearly six decades continued to snarl traffic yesterday, stranding thousands of passengers on railways and at airports. The unusually harsh winter weather also caused coal shortages, forcing some provinces to cut power supplies. And what…

And this death to skeptics is not just an artifact of history. We hear those calls even today. A public appeal has been issued by an influential U.S. website asking: “At what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers.” The appeal appeared on Talking Points Memo, an often cited website that helps set…