Living in a Broken America
Though not a religious person myself, I respect those who use their faith as a springboard to lead more meaningful and virtuous lives. For Christians, at least the kind I associate myself with, that means emulating the life of Christ and the adoption of His values–and this is unequivocally a good thing. Such a life calls for taking care of those less fortunate, mercy, forgiveness, compassion, and trying to find the best in one another, while protecting our environment and the life forms that share our planet. (more…)
Here’s what the inventor of a new wind turbine tells us in the video below:
Stephen Colbert makes an excellent point here. There are 14% of American voters, one out of every seven, on the fence in the coming election. You lived in the United States these last 3.5 years and you’re not sure if you want a continuation or a change?
My friend Forbes Black writes, “This is why we can’t have nice things.”
As a follow up to Trump’s famous: “What You’re Seeing and What You’re Reading Is Not What’s Happening,” we have this from The Hill:
From Democracy Now: In Tulsa, a white security guard faces charges of manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a Black man, Carlos Carson, in a motel parking lot earlier this month. New video emerged Friday showing Christopher Straight — a former sheriff’s sergeant — pepper-spraying, then shooting 36-year-old Carson in the head. Carlos Carson was a father of three.
My stock broker sent me his company’s quarterly report that, as usual, is so bland and noncommittal as to be very difficult to stay awake through.
As cities seek low-carbon alternatives, many regions are looking into microgrids. According to the US Department of Energy, a microgrid is a group of interconnected resources that act as a separate controllable energy source. There are three different types of microgrids. Remote, grid-connected and networked. The most common are remote and grid-connected.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy ha recibido condicionalmente un pedido de 100 unidades de sus nuevas 
I’m always impressed (he said sarcastically) by people in technology who provide numbers that are expressed in units that don’t exist, like KW/day. That’s like saying my driveway is 60 feet per second long.
