The use of ethanol as motor fuel is controversial for various reasons – efficiency, land use and cost being first among them. But has a more direct problem been overlooked? The Des Moines Register reports. Neddermeyer was fired after an April 21 incident at the Denison plant. According to Neddermeyer, he showed up for work…
Read More An unforeseen setback for bioethanol fuelGoogle Erf users can be delighted by yet another updated situation map.
Read More More mapsIs here. Correct at 1200BST. Google Erf KMZ file.
Read More Today’s lunchtime mapIf you liked this post, you’ll love the Google Earth KMZ overlay. See where those places are on the satellite photos. Understand my nonsensical ravings. Details are accurate as of 1330 hours today.
Read More Get your fresh overlays hereRemember this post? Not only did it have rockets, plausible deniability and much more comments-rocking stuff, it also had a gigantic sea-going radar station. Chris Williams remarked in comments that “We only need a submarine and a glamorous lady spy and we’ve got an Alastair Maclean thriller.” I disagree. The giant floating radar turned up…
Read More Monster floating radar!Alex “WorldChanging” Steffen is a fan of Samuel Smith’s organic beers, brewed in Yorkshire’s oldest brewery in Tadcaster. Who knew? I’d comment, but I’m barred from his comments thread for opining that Bruce Sterling is not always right. Slightly more seriously, the row related to RFID technology – both teh Bruce and the Worldchanging crowd…
Read More Save the world, one pint at a timeAssociated Press reports on the arrival of only the second aircraft at Mogadishu since the civil war broke out, allegedly with a cargo of armaments for the new rulers, the Islamic Courts Union, to fight the Ethiopians. There’s a photo, too… The aircraft is a no-title Ilyushin 76 which according to AP was registered in…
Read More Have you seen this aeroplane?This is cool. Wind power developers valued at around £1bn, thinking of floating on the LSE.
Read More Airtricity to floatJamie K thinks the UNTSO post was bombed to prevent them observing a possible Israeli flank movement from the northern tip of the country, around Kiryat Shmona, down the Litani valley to the sea, with hopes of cutting off the retreat, which means going further into Lebanon. He quotes me, in comments, suggesting that this…
Read More Right flankNews of the Screws “investigations editor” Mahzer Mahmood has done it again, as the case against his supposed “red mercury plotters” goes belly-up. This should come as no surprise at all because red mercury does not exist. Well, there’s no reason why he can’t go on with his pathetic “no-rate sleb snorts cocaine” tales, but…
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