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I don't generally agree with Al Gore. I happen to think he is a blatant opportunist. However, I can get on board with his idea of switching all of our electrical power generation to a non fossil fuel base. To be fare, many others have stated the idea but he has the fame to back him up on saying it first.
July 10, 2008:
No new picture today. I am busy refining one for future posting. What I did do is add an oil price widget to the web site. Its a bit crude right now but I'll fix it eventually. Feel free to visit SetAmericaFree or even take a look at the Pickins Plan. See what you can do to get involved in removing ourselves from oil dependence.
May 26, 2008:
There is a new entry in the Gallery today. Enjoy.
March 26, 2008:
A National Network of Water Pipelines
Every year we read about flooding in some part of the United States. Every year, we also read about severe drought in some other part of the United States. It isn't always the same parts flooding and under drought but each of these events do seem to be happening in some part of the U.S. during any given year.
So this idea has been in my mind for some time that an advanced industrialized nation like our own could possibly build and maintain a network of pipelines and pumps to move water from potential flood areas into resevoirs in drought areas. I can come up with a few reasons why we don't, but allow yourself to play "what if" for a while. Consider that we already do this with oil pipelines.
Now, there are likely reasons we don't do this. First, in my opinion, is the fact that oil (currently trading at $105 a barrel) is much more lucrative than water. Forgetting the fact that water is essential to life and oil is not. The pipelines would have to be maintained and inspected. Given the current security issues, we might even have to test the water in the pipes at regular intervals.
The pipeline would also not be in use all the time, like an oil pipeline is. That is to say that we do not always have flooding somewhere in the nation. So the money one would spend on such a system is not getting continuous use.
Still, it seems like such a good idea to me. Right now, the excess water is known to be coming in the cases of estimated river crest levels. The fictitious bureau of water distribution could then open the pipelines from such a river source and pipe it to some current state experiencing drought. Say, New Mexico, Southern California, Georgia, the Florida Panhandle.
The potential environmental problems I can't see being worse than the ones caused by letting the flood happen anyway.
The potential benefits are huge. There would be better water distribution across the nation, less damage from natural disasters, and jobs for inspectors, construction workers and operators as well as the administration overhead.
October 24, 2007:
Obvious updates to the home page. I tried out a new web authoring tool called Nvu. We'll see how well it works out. I'll have to change the about page, of course to reflect that fact as this home page isn't made using notepad.
The experiment didn't work out so well so I'm back to notepad. NVu has some annoying bugs that I couldn't work around and its successor, komPoser didn't work any better.
Both projects seem to be abandoned so no updates are expected.
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