Happy Birthday to the Large Hadron Collider
Today is the five year anniversary of the first experiments performed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the centerpiece of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in the suburbs of Geneva, Switzerland. There, more than 10,000 physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe by smashing particles together at speeds near that of light and watching the results, hoping to develop insights into the basic laws of nature.
While this is way cool, I caution: (more…)
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Obviously, renewable energy has a whole host of nay-sayers who make a variety of points, including:
A bit off topic perhaps, but I know that a ton of readers here have their own blogs, and thus have to deal with spam. My spam filter, Akismet, which used to be excellent, btw, has for some reason gone downhill recently, and just let through a comment from a guy whose email address clearly says that he’s selling fake Louis Vuitton handbags and whose comment to one of my posts on solar PV is as follows: コート ロング.
With enough solar energy to power almost 12,000 homes and employ 3,200 Texans, 
Though I’m obviously not a fan of Big Oil, I try to stay somewhat conversant with the issues that these behemoth entities face, and so I read a number of articles like this one on 
I attend frequent fund-raisers for 
I’m on my way out for lunch with a new-found friend, environmentalist 
Why is the stock market doing so well when prospects for economic strength in the U.S. are so scary? It’s because the market – or even the set of large companies that happen to be headed here in the U.S. — doesn’t really care too much about America’s economic future. General Motors generates most of its profits selling in Asia, and General Electric, with its ever-widening array of renewable energy solutions, understandably believes the U.S. market is something of a joke. 
