Filed under: Bike of the Day, Uncategorized | Tags: aerodynamics, bicycle, bicycling, Cervelo, Cervelo P5, competitor, cycle sport, cycling, Giro d'Italia, milan, p5, pro bike, Ryder Hesjedal, time trial
An attack on the air.
via http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/05/video/pro-bike-video-hesjedals-cervelo-p5-in-milan_221888
Olive oil. Wet cleanup in aisle seven.
Safeway officials initially claimed that the spill was only 4 ounces, but as you can see it is much larger.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bluefin tuna, cesium, cesium tuna, Cesium-134, Cesium-137, Fukushima, meltdown, radioactivity
Five months after the Fukushima disaster, Fisher of Stony Brook University in New York and a team decided to test Pacific bluefin that were caught off the coast of San Diego. To their surprise, tissue samples from all 15 tuna captured contained levels of two radioactive substances—ceisum-134 and cesium-137—that were higher than in previous catches.
[…]
The results “are unequivocal. Fukushima was the source,” said Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who had no role in the research.
Bluefin tuna absorbed radioactive cesium from swimming in contaminated waters and feeding on contaminated prey such as krill and squid, the scientists said. As the predators made the journey east, they shed some of the radiation through metabolism and as they grew larger. Even so, they weren’t able to completely flush out all the contamination from their system.
“That’s a big ocean. To swim across it and still retain these radionuclides is pretty amazing,” Fisher said.
via Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US – The Denver Post.
All well below “safe levels,” of course, according to govt. agencies. That’s fine, I won’t be eating any. More for you!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Benzene, Burnett, denver, Denver Suncor refinery, petroleum refinery, Sand Creek, Suncor, toxic cloud
Burnett said it appeared a blower on the unit that processes crude oil stopped working, causing the catalyst material to escape as a yellowish, grayish material until the unit could be shut down.
The unit is is involved in processing gasoline from crude oil, she said.
“It was very short,” Burnett said. “It lasted less than a few minutes.”
She said federal agencies that regulate the plant will be notified to allow them to investigate further, if they wish, she said.
via Plume of "dust" from Suncor refinery shuts roads briefly – The Denver Post.
I don’t know how to break it to people, but toxic clouds are spewing out of that place all the time, by design.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycle racing, bike racing, Canada, chipotle, cycling, former mountain biker, Garmin-Cervelo, Giro d'Italia, mountain bike, mountain biking, MTB, Ryder Hesjedal, Tour of Italy, Vaughters, xc world champ
Vaughters said:
“His biggest strength is his ability to do a gut check and dig deep when there’s no hope,” Vaughters said. “He’s also a little bit stubborn, which can be frustrating at times.”
No hope, he says, after the guy wins the Giro. I hope Hesjedal steps up his frustration of Vaughters.
via Former Mountain Biker From Canada Wins Giro – NYTimes.com.
The sports guys are impressed that a “former mountain biker” won the Giro. Seem to have momentarily forgotten about Cadel Evans, also an xc world champ. The novelty of mountain bikers winning major road races wore off long ago among those involved in the actual races.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Bill Gabbert, Colorado, fire ban, firefighting, forest fire, forest fires, Gila, Montrose, New Mexico, smoke jumpers, smoke map, smoke plume, uncontrolled burn, Wildfire Today, wildland fire
If you’re wondering why it smells like campfire, take a look. This is from this morning. Official fire name: Whitewater-Baldy Fire. There is also a new fire on the Colorado Western Slope, but if you’re smelling smoke it’s most likely from the Gila.
In other news, the entire South appears to be on fire.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Benzene, CDHE, denver, Denver drinking water, drinking water, EPA, Epic Fail, Sand Creek, South Platte, Suncor, Suncor refinery, Tank 55, Taste the Benzene!!
It’s one of Denver’s many delightful quirks!
Six months after Suncor Energy’s oil refinery contaminated Sand Creek and nearby property, obstacles remain in containing the pollution, and a full cleanup may be years away.
via Suncor spill clean-up months, years away – The Denver Post.
This is Denver’s drinking water. Serves us right?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: diesel electric, e-highway, electric freight trucks, Germany, industrialized cyclist, journalism alert, Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles, Siemens, transport
It’s a great city to start in: according to the Los Angeles Times, 40 per cent of the cargo freight that enters the US comes through ports in Long Beach and Los Angeles before being shipped down the highway. Cargo trucks in the US consume nearly 2.5 million gallons of oil per year and improvements to their efficiency lag far behind those to cars.
Once the lines are in place, all eHighway would need is a fleet of hybrid diesel-electric trucks that could switch back to diesel power as soon as they go off the overhead lines. Siemens says that system is nearly seamless: in the test project in Germany, the trucks could switch between diesel and electric power at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour.
via One Per Cent: Green Machine: Electric freight trucks coming to LA.
Ich bin ein stromer!!
See the I.C. Energy & Transport Page for more on this subject.
BTW, energy journalism alert — “Cargo trucks in the US consume nearly 2.5 million gallons of oil per year…”
America uses several million barrels of oil (42 gal./barrel) per day in non-passenger transport. The journalist decreased the consumption of America’s goods trucks to a tiny fraction of the real number, and was still impressed.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycle, bicycling, cancer, car commuting, Christine Hoehner, Christine M. Hoehner, commuting times, heart disease, Hoehner, long commutes, Preventive Medicine, transportation
A study published this month in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that the longer people drive to work, the more likely they are to have poor cardiovascular health.
“This is the first study to show that people who commute long distances to work were less fit, weighed more, were less physically active and had higher blood pressure,” said Christine M. Hoehner, a public health professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the study’s lead author. “All those are strong predictors of heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers.”
…those who commuted by car 10 miles or more each way were more likely to have high blood pressure than people who drove shorter distances. And those who traveled 15 or more miles each way were more likely to have bigger waistlines and less likely to be physically active, according to Hoehner’s study.
via Long commute time linked with poor health, new study shows – USATODAY.com.
Filed under: Bike of the Day, Uncategorized | Tags: bicycle, bicycle theft, bicycling, bike, bike of the day, bike rack, bike theft, Gary Fisher, mid range, mountain bike, mountain biking, MTB, The Art of Mountain Biking, Trek
I’ve often seen a mid-range Trek mtb parked at this spot, formerly occupied by a bike rack.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: active commuting to school, cars, critical mass, Kenowa Hills, prank bike ride, senior prank, transportation, travel
Right here in Kenowa Hills. That’s Trouble with a capital T which rhymes with B and that stands for Bike.
Biking Kenowa Hills seniors punished: woodtv.com
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: crude oil production, energy, Forbes, global oil productionoil production statistics, JODI, KSA, OECD, oil production, OPEC, peak oil, production numbers, Russia, Russian energy ministry, russian oil, Russian oil production, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian oil production
…between official Russian oil production numbers and JODI numbers.
via http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2012/05/20/is-russian-oil-production-plummeting/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 1021, 5th Amendment, black sites, government, indefinite detention, NDAA, politics, power grab, traitorous, traitors, unconstitutional, United States Constitution, vile
The indefinite detention provision of the NDAA was struck down by a judge recently for being “facially unconstitutional,” after Administration lawyers could not assure the judge that the U.S. government would not indefinitely detain peaceful dissidents. Judge Forrest noted: “At the hearing on this motion, the government was unwilling or unable to state that these plaintiffs would not be subject to indefinite detention under [section] 1021. Plaintiffs are therefore at risk of detention, of losing their liberty, potentially for many years.” Who voted for this steaming sack of authoritarian anti-Constitutional garbage in the first place?
In Congress:
http://votesmart.org/bill/votes/37467
In the Senate:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: active commuting, biblioteca, bicycle, bicycling, bike, biking, ciclista, ciclistas urbanos, cycling, gob mx, green transportation, Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico City bicycling manual, Mexico D.F., transportation, urban biking, urban cycling
(En Espanol)
http://www.sma.df.gob.mx/sma/links/download/biblioteca/flippingbooks/manual_ciclista_urbano/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: budget deficit, budget surplus, energy, Finland, GDP, Norway, peak oil, socialism, Sweden
Not compared to N. American ‘capitalism.’ Despite the onslaught of talking heads and columnists sent to convince you otherwise. Many of you will find the reality of the situation very disappointing, but it is what it is.
Via Beat the Press: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-self-doubt-and-self-confidence
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cessna Citation, cessna citation 525, cnn, drone, radio transmission, remote controlled aircraft, surveillance, transportation
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/17/us/colorado-plane-probe/index.html
On Monday, the pilot of a corporate jet, a Cessna Citation 525 CJ1, was flying over Denver on Monday after coming in from Wichita, Kansas, according to CNN affiliate KUSA.
The pilot made a radio transmission to air traffic control about the object, KUSA reported, citing LiveATC.net.
“A remote-controlled aircraft, or what, but something just went by the other way. … About 20 to 30 seconds ago, and it was like a large remote-controlled aircraft,” the pilot said.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bedknobs and broomsticks, bidet on wheels, flying bed, Honda Uni-Cub, personal mobility device, roving paper shredder, Segway, the end of walking, transportation
I’ll wait for the flying bed, thanks. Always wanted a flying bed.
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-segway-honda-uni-cub-personal-mobility.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike share, bikeshare, Citi, Felix Salmon, New York City, NYC bikeshare, The Art of Urban Cycling, transportation, urban cycling
He noticed, it’s kind of expensive.
The first trip you take, on one of the new New York bikes, will cost you at least $10, and possibly as much as $95. Cab rides don’t cost much more than that, and you can fit four people in a cab. Experienced urban cyclists like me will definitely cough up the $95, even if that hurts a little, because we know how convenient it can be to be able to take one-way bike trips in Manhattan, especially if it’s going to rain later, or if you don’t like biking back in the dark, or if you got in to work on the subway but then just need to go a mile or so to your lunch meeting.
But the great promise of the bikeshare scheme is that it will get people onto bikes who have never biked before — people who are generally very nervous about biking at all on busy urban streets. Those people are going to want to try before they buy, and the $10 cost of a trial one-day membership is high enough to give them a good excuse not to bother.
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/05/15/bikeshare-pricing-charts-of-the-day/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: environment, fresh water, global water supply, global water volume, H2O, nature, Peak Water, science, USGS, water
Via USGS: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthhowmuch.html#.T7Fqm7_rybJ
If all of Earth’s water (oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, ground water, and water in the atmosphere) was put into a sphere, then the diameter of that water ball would be about 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) across, a bit more than the distance between Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas. The volume of all water would be about 332.5 million cubic miles (mi3), or 1,386 million cubic kilometers (km3). The picture at the top of this page illustrates this. A cubic mile of water equals more than 1.1 trillion gallons. A cubic kilometer of water equals about 264 billion gallons.
Less than you thought?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Danube, Gaddafi, Libya, Libya oil industry, Libya oil production, Qaddafi, Shokri Ghanem, Tripoli, Vienna
VIENNA, May 13 (Reuters) – Spat at in public by a fellow Libyan who called him a thief, watching his back on long walks through Vienna, eating poorly; Muammar Gaddafi’s fugitive oil supremo was a troubled man in the months before he was found drowned in the Danube two weeks ago.
Just whom, or what, Shokri Ghanem feared may hold a key to his mysterious sudden death, just as he was under mounting pressure to reveal what he knew of suspect deals with foreign oil buyers that made billionaires of the late dictator’s family.
Ghanem, a former prime minister who ran Libya’s oil industry until he fled during last year’s civil war, was in negotiations when he died with the victorious former rebels to give evidence, a source close to those discussions in Tripoli told Reuters.
via Drowned Libya oil chief feared going home – TrustLaw.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 