Wednesday, October 22, 2008

GLOBAL WARMING



Good special on PBS last night.
HEAT...Click here. YOU CAN WATCH THE PROGRAM ONLINE.

Burnin’ down the house. The new prediction is that the Artic Ice Cap disappears by 2030, not 2080.
It takes a pound of coal to run my TV for 4 hours.
Average American household burns 9 tons of coal a year.
‘Clean Coal” or IGCC is still in the “testing” phase if you call trying to find a State that will allow you to give it A try.
In other words, its yet to be tested.
Exxon spent 1% of profits on Research and Development of alternative sources last year.
1%!
The Oil companies are about as interested in finding renewable Energy Sources as I am in appearing on the Dr. Phil Show.


If I can't be Bob Dylan, then I might like to be David Byrne

4 comments:

laughing said...

My TV habit must be near 20 pounds a week.

GrizzBabe said...

Loooove me some Talking Heads!

Anonymous said...

Burning Down the House restored my faith in music. Stopped me dead in my tracks the first time I head it.
All that energy on stage...could hook it up and save some coal, ya think?

bulletholes said...

Laughing- mine as well.

Grizz! Do you really like the Heads? Thats cool. If i ever get to Me4mphis, we gonna punk some funk...funk some punk...aw hell, we'll rock the bunny hop!

Les-I go bonkers when I hear this song. "life During Wartime" too.