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FTA: The Central England Temperature record, the oldest in the world, showed the fortnight covering the end of November and start of December as the coldest ever since the daily record began in 1772.
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None of this, however, remotely concerned the warmists, who were in fuller cry than ever. In the Mexican resort of Cancun (where, for six days running, local temperatures also fell to their lowest, for the date, since records began 100 years ago)
Translation
Don't bother me with facts, my mind is made up.
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Despite the article headlne, I cannot find any direct reference to Windmills, wind geneators or towers.
And nothing about water pumping windmills.
(The best windmill use in rural African vilages)
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Redneck Jim , well spotted.
Here is correct link.
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Actually, small scale wind power could be of great benefit in rural Africa, both for pumping and for power generation. I use three power generating windmills at my ranch and, when the wind is up, they charge up my battery bank nicely.
However, when I say "small scale," I mean "small scale." Give an isolated village a unit capable of producing 30 Amps in 30 mph wind, a 60 amp bank of solar panels, regulators, an inverter, and a decent well-cell battery bank, and they can have lights, satellite TV, the Internet, shortwave, and all sorts of other things.
However, I'm quite dubious of both the morality and actual feasibility of a "smart grid" or "green grid." We should be using these technologies to decentralize, not create dependency. And they are still Hippie Power: they work when they work, and don't when they don't.
And, in Africa, you have to be careful which type of village you give them to. There is a minimal of social cohesion and prosperity necessary. If the choice is between starving to death and selling your windmill, you sell your windmill. If you don't give a damn what happens to your village, you sell your windmill. Etc etc... Zimbabwe.
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Actually, small scale wind power could be of great benefit in rural Africa, both for pumping and for power generation.
Absolutely true though what, precisely, African villages would power with the windmills is another question. Many, if not most, would benefit much more from a water well and in a world of limited resources that should be a priority.
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Are they mad? Britain is going broke, and they generate funds to be spent on new projects that have no local benefit? If they keep this up, they'll be fighting the next election against the EDL!
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Absolutely true though what, precisely, African villages would power with the windmills is another question
Internet access. Shortwave radios. Lights. Communications of various sorts. How about a tiny electric pickup truck for use around the village? Doesn't have to be more complex than a golf cart. The list is endless - though you're right that clean is water is more important.
Frankly, with 30 amps of power comes the ability to step up into the modern world, educate yourself, and better the lot of your children.
Think of it this way: you have chickens. Your pretty good with chickens, but there are things you don't know. Last week your chickens started eating their own eggs. This is a bad thing, because your daughter's diet is partially egg based, and she is quite healthy. So you go onto the Web for advice. You learn that your chicken coop is too small. You learn that they need to roost higher. You learn that they need more muscle shell in their diet. You fix these problems, and your child goes on eating well & being healthy.
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Nice thought but Internet access requires computers and software and servers and, in remote locations, radio links and someone who can maintain and operate it all. I'd think that those sorts of skill sets aren't going to be widely available in locales where they haven't discovered how to dig water wells yet. And everything else you've mentioned costs money which those folks don't have, both initially to implement then the constant ongoing costs of maintaining everything.
I love the idea but I'm skeptical about skipping right over all of those centuries of development and diving right into the modern era when even the most basic necessitites are still lacking in so much of the third world.
The poor darlings. It must be such a mental strain.
[El Universal] The event of the opposition getting enough votes to beat President Hugo Chavez in an election has been a scenario surveyed by the government for some years. Will we arrive at 2012 without mishaps on the way? In such a scenario, would the current president hand over office to a dissenting successor in a standard democratic transition?
That is the wish of many Venezuelans, and opposition leaders regard it as a viable aim after the results of the parliament election on September 26. However, The infamous However... two recent occurrences cloud the horizon. On the one hand, President Chavez warned that in the event of a victory by the opposition, the country would enter a scenario of violence. On the other hand, his Strategic Operations Commander suggested that the Bolivarian National Armed Forces would disregard a government led by the opposition.
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be a damned shame if someone funneled arms to Hugo's enemies. Kinda tit-for-tat
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Crowley first grossly misstated the pertinent facts, intimating that the recidivists had been ordered released by the courts.
Not us, man, we're just willing dupes!
In fact, most of the hundreds of former detainees were released pursuant to diplomatic agreements, the lions share of them during the Bush years, when the Gitmo population was more than four times its present level.
And who complained about that? Our 'allies'? Islamic enemies? Or the State Department?
Furthermore, federal judges have no authority to order detainees released. It is true that, in several cases, the judges have ruled that the military designation of a detainee as an enemy combatant was based on insufficient evidence.
In one man's opinion. Or maybe three. How many of them went to Gitmo to see what they were dealing with? How many were spat upon by the animals they were worried about?
Once a judge strikes the designation, it is for the executive branch to decide whether to appeal, detain on alternative grounds, or try to find a country willing to accept custody.
And this is where the follies begin.
It is the Obama administration that has effectively given the courts the power to unloose jihadists. According to Crowley, vacating the combatant designation is the same as directing release. This, the Obama administration holds, is what the rule of law dictates. I am hopeful the Trunk House will not continue to fund such follies, let alone actually close Gitmo.
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Well, if they're holding a quarter less now, Congress can authorize Gitmo to lend-lease out some of that capacity. "I don't say... 'Neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15; you have to pay me $15 for it' I don't want $15 I want my garden hose back after the fire is over."
Wow. When even the Boston Globe sees through the bullshit...
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has made a mockery of her office by skipping todays Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for laureate Liu Xiaobo. Pillays office first said she couldnt be in Oslo because of a previous commitment, and insisted more recently that she wasnt actually invited. But she surely could have attended if she chose. Pillay, a South African, played an honorable role in the struggle against apartheid. But if she cant withstand pressure from China to snub the Nobel ceremony, how can her UN Human Rights Commission be expected to defend other dissidents who are jailed and tortured by UN member governments? Ummmmmmmm...they can't? And the Globe is shocked! Shocked!
The moral failure isnt Pillays alone. Nineteen governments declined invitations to the Oslo ceremony. Some may have feared Chinas wrath. Others share Beijings desire to repress its own citizens with no outside meddling. But a UN Human Rights Commission has no purpose if not to stand with Liu, who was imprisoned for his role in a manifesto for democratic reform. They throw some great banquets though...
Pillay tried to compensate by calling this week for the release of all political prisoners jailed for promoting democracy. Liu is just one of thousands of prisoners of conscience in China. But Pillays presence in Oslo would have been the clearest possible gesture of solidarity. Jeez, and I'll bet there's some decent restaurants in Oslo too...
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Yes, and when a plot actually succeeds, they will chide the FBI and ask "Where were you?". Answer, "we were busy dealing with those we knew to be plotting and aspiring to commit terror.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
By Andrew McCarthy
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