Yep, I'm an idiot. I just superimposed the wind availability map over the gmaps location for coal river mountain, and it's not in what you'd call an ideal spot for generation. WV -does- have some better land for wind, in the northeast.

I wonder what can be done with the sites that've already undergone mountaintop removal. Solar farms? It's not like the land will be productive for anything else, anytime soon. And any production out of it is better than nothing.

For the interested:

Wind map:

http://www.netpilot.ca/aes/images/US_wind_power_map.png

Coal river mountain:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=coal+river+mountain+wv&sll=37.494286,-121.981435&sspn=0.579112,0.4422&g=Fremont,+CA+94538&ie=UTF8&ll=37.107765,-79.914551&spn=9.308664,7.075195&t=p&z=7

Corporate taxes should be 0%, and lobbying by corporations ought to be illegal. They're not real people (though the folks who run them certainly are), and therefore shouldn't be taxed or entitled to representation. That's one of the rotten pillars of our whole broken system.

I'm in complete agreement with you, AL. I sure wish it wasn't a choice between the incompetent, corrupt and evil (also known as Republicans) and the incompetent, corrupt and spineless (those we refer to as Democrats).

before you post an article to a major website like Salon. That is all.

Come on. Intel integrated graphics are insufficient for a wide, wide variety of tasks. I wouldn't trust that thing to run a flash animation without jerks, much less an all-up DX9 title. Not to mention the power consumption is significantly less (sig links to tom's hw).. ION is still the better product. This is what Intel has, not what they wish they had.

If he wins re-election, we put up with his grotesque attempt at statesmanship for another 6 years. If not, he takes a $4m/year job as a lobbyist and becomes Palin's Secretary of State in 2012. There's no downside!

That is all.

That's gross :]. I've always seen condoms as the choice of people who have multiple partners, can't tolerate chemical birth control, or just don't trust their SO (but are somehow dumb enough to stay with them anyway). I sure don't see a stinking latex sock as a substitute for the miracles of modern chemistry.

Your hunch is incorrect. I'm still gonna leave the proof as an exercise for the student. Your post was very clever though. Gold star.

*Maybe* this guy is complicit in all this drama he's created. It'd be hard to know without a lot more facts than you can get in an investigative article. The only thing I know after reading this is that the guy ought to be in a hospital, not a prison. Maybe, after he gets himself right, he ought to be in prison.

Nice article.

I can't imagine the "war on terror" ever achieving anything positive, much less an actual reduction in terrorism. However, just as terrorists attach the fundamentals of our society, we can attack the fundamentals of their (heh) fundamentalism by engaging them in discussion that doesn't involve weaponry.

Google doesn't know, either.

Fine.. but where did the word Swiffer come from? PMI.

The economy will not implode if the banks holding all the bad mortgages are generally nationalized. Lending will continue in that case, and the cessation of lending is what has threatened "the economy".

Once that's accomplished, whether or not the people "owning" homes they can't possibly afford are foreclosed on is a moot point. Sure, it sucks for them, but they shouldn't get huge chunks of equity as a reward for making mistakes. It *should* suck for them. Just as people with huge credit card balances *should* generally have to sweat to get out from under.

If the government owns the mortgages, regardless of their street value, they are backed by real property. Once the MBS's are unwound to individual loans, owning those mortgages won't involve bankrupting the government, since the properties can be resold to people who can actually afford them. I don't understand (apart from politics) why "the economy falling apart" is inextricably tied to "homeowners need a bailout".

Repost from the other thread.

The economy will not implode if the banks holding all the bad mortgages are generally nationalized. Lending will continue in that case, and the cessation of lending is what has threatened "the economy".

Once that's accomplished, whether or not the people "owning" homes they can't possibly afford are foreclosed on is a moot point. Sure, it sucks for them, but they shouldn't get huge chunks of equity as a reward for making mistakes. It *should* suck for them. Just as people with huge credit card balances *should* generally have to sweat to get out from under.

If the government owns the mortgages, regardless of their street value, they are backed by real property. Once the MBS's are unwound to individual loans, owning those mortgages won't involve bankrupting the government, since the properties can be resold to people who can actually afford them. I don't understand (apart from politics) why "the economy falling apart" is inextricably tied to "homeowners need a bailout".

We need a cultural change to less debt and more responsibility to avoid meltdowns like this in the future. So what is gained by softening the blow to the "homeowners" and encouraging future irresponsibility?

--Saying this plan will be better than TARP is not saying much.

While it's a shame property values have declined, if you own your home, you can afford to wait till the economy recovers, and prices go back up. They will; population pressure will generally ensure it. A paper loss does not automatically equate to a reduction in standard of living. Unless, of course, you're just burning up to refinance or flip your house. In which case you'd be part of the problem.