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St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, still needs our help.
Submitted by CindyM on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 9:02pm.My daughters and I just returned from a five-day visit to St. Bernard Project - a non-profit organization rebuilding homes post-Katrina in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Our goal is to raise community awareness about the continued need for assistance in St. Bernard Parish and to raise funds and recruit volunteers for St. Bernard Project.
Cindy and Caitlin Meyer are students at The Evergreen State College. Lindsey Meyer is a student at Black Hills High School.
To visit a blog of our trip go to: http://helpstbernardproject.blogspot.com
Some interesting facts about the county of St. Bernard Parish:
Cindy
There was a really interesting article in there...
Submitted by Phil Owen on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 12:49pm.on nuclear power. Said that nuclear plants are so extraordinarily expensive to build and operate, that no-one on Wall Street was interested in investing. Apparently wind and solar are far more economic. So why the big conservative push for nuclear?
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they are not smart
Submitted by chad360 on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 5:40pm.As far as I'm concerned, they are not smart, so it comes as no suprise...
My2cents:...the last guy [in the White House] who really was smart enough to know what was up with technology was Carter, or maybe ex-CIA Bush Sr. (I'm sorry, I know Clinton was all-Rhodes scholar-n'-stuff, but I didn't drink that kool-aide either =).
-and while I admire JC (and to some extent Bush Sr.), I'm just not feeling the love in now in 2008.
I can't imagine what kind of egostistical power-tripper would be attracted to [the job of] the Office of the President of the United States, and I'm still hurt over not getting Gore for 8 years(sorry, but I am!...).
Mostly because it is "extraordinarily expensive"
Submitted by Guglielmo on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 12:29pm.In other words, someone makes a lot of money buidling the damn things. Partly the same reason ANWAR is so attractive even though it would produce less than 1% of the world's supply of oil at it's peak. Yes, wind and solar are far more promising in the long run.
Check out these folks. They've developed a solar powered electricity generating system that uses the sun to heat molten salt that is then used to power a steam plant. And the molten salt can be stored for round-the-clock power generation. Their research suggests that this relatively simple and clean power source could have supplied all the US electricity needs in 2006 with about 138 square miles of surface area in the southwest. I imagine that's probably an overstatement, but it's still a fascinating approach.