How 'Bout a Mix of Wind and Direct Solar Power

• Here's a combination wind power and direct solar power product from Aerotecture in Chicago, IL, USA that's worth a look:
  
  http://www.aerotecture.com/products_712VHybrid.html .
  
  Thoughts
  
  1)  We can either get going on building the renewable energy industry here in the US, or we can wait and watch while China does it. Which will it be? Jobs here or jobs there?
  http://repoweramerica.org/why-clean-energy/economy/
  

  
  
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  2)  Spain, whose population is about that of California and whose land area and climate are similar to Texas, is the world's THIRD largest producer of renewable energy, after Germany (second) and the much larger United States (first). How did they do it? Their government is not in an oil-addicted stupor induced by 100 years of heavy petroleum production and profit. Do we plan to spend our time in the future or in the past? It's time to adapt, folks! The times are a changin'.
  See http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06/spain_renewable_energy.php and http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2005/11/spain-new-plan-for-renewable-energy-39046
  
  

  
  

  
  

Have You Heard of Montessori Education?

If you haven't seen Monetssori education work, it's time you visited and observed at a Montessori school. You'll be amazed. If you want to talk to a former Montessori student and now certified Montessori teacher, I just happen to know one (daughter Carri, presently an OCCC math adjuct prof.)

http://www.montessori.edu/info.html

The Sound of Music's von Trapp Family, Alive and Well

Those of you who are fans of _The Sound of Music_ will be happy to know that a number of the real von Trapp family are quite alive and well and running a lodge in Stowe, Vermont, USA, where they've been since they escaped Hiltler's takeover of Austria in 1939.

See also http://www.trappfamily.com/story .

Don't Worry, Be Happy

If even one-tenth of the stuff in this collection of articles is correct, it may be time for our children and grandchildren to eat, drink, and be merry.

They'll tell you that it isn't happening - and then they'll tell you it's too late...

C L Oates

22 Oct 2010

Norman, OK, USA...