Archive for the 'coal' Category

Jul 28 2008

The limits of China:

Published by jrittenhouse under automobiles, business, china, coal, communism, corruption_govt, criminals, environment, famine, government, health, oil, political_science, pollution, renmin, secrecy, tech, thoughtful, transport, water

Very good article that explains the real limits of Chinese power down the road.  Here’s a mix of his points and some of my thoughts on the matter:

Cheap labor and fair access to markets is about their main strengths.  Quality is not as important if the manufacturers can slide by.

Labor is starting to [...]

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Jul 03 2008

Projects: overview

Published by jrittenhouse under AH, Eisenhower, FTL, Goldwater, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Suez_crisis, UK, X-craft, africa, animals, anthropology, astronomy, australia, austria-hungary, biofuels, brazil, canada, caves, china, climate, coal, computers, dinosaurs, dogs, dreams, dutch, environment, exclave_enclaves, france, gardening, gates, geography, geology, global_warming, goo_goos, great_auk, india, library, linguistics, linux, mammals_old, maps, marmots, masstransit, mongols, mysteries, nearstar, paleobiology, paleoclimatology, paleogeography, paleontology, pandemic, personal, pollution, prehistory, radio, religion, science_fiction, spaceflight, sudden_impact, television, thoughtful, trains, water, wind_energy, writing_projects

At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak.
My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]

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Jun 20 2007

Outrages for today:

Published by jrittenhouse under adoption, china, climate, coal, energy, global_warming, idiots, iraq, orphans, pollution, renmin, weird, ww2

I thought I’d heard the end of orphanage-abuse stories for a while.  I was wrong.   This one’s in Iraq.
Chinese air pollution from coal emissions have now made it the top CO2 emitter in the world. One of the big culprits - cement production.  Think about the stuff behind that…the size and reasons for making that [...]

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Jun 14 2007

It’s a small, small world:

Published by jrittenhouse under 2008_elections, GOP, climate, coal, energy, environment, iraq, meredith, military, oil, pirates, politics, pollution, silly, weird

The debate on Ron Paul. (Interesting stuff, re the back and forth, but I agree on the statement that it would be nice if both parties had someone you didn’t look at with utter revulsion or despair).
Are you a Sunni spy for Iraq, or are you a Sunni spy for Iraq?  Decisions, Decisions.
The Big Gay [...]

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Nov 16 2006

Very Low Food Security:

Published by jrittenhouse under GOP, bush, coal, dogs, food, iraq, science_fiction

Jack Williamson’s obit in the Telegraph
A comeback for the Illinois coal mines
I just heard a commercial on NPR for a chiropractor for dogs. Not a story, an ad.
“Um, we don’t call those Americans ‘hungry’ anymore. We say that they have ‘very low food security’. And then we offer them a plate of [...]

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Jan 05 2006

Coal Mining Tragedy:

Published by jrittenhouse under Uncategorized, bush, coal, mining

Aside of the horrible problems over communication, what struck me was - how did this happen? In China, you hear about these sort of things all the time because the government is in bed with the mining companies, if not part owners, are ssafety rules are ignored, underfunded and never enforced.
Well, guess what. [...]

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