Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, freshwater, gallons per day, irrigation, power, self-supplied, tap water, USGS, water use, water withdrawals
via (pdf) : http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/3/034034/pdf/1748-9326_7_3_034034.pdf
Just an aside in a very interesting paper, “Evaluating the Energy Consumed for Water Use in the United States.”
“Self-Supplied” means they sucked it right out of a river, lake or aquifer.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: california, energy, gasoline supply, transportation
Gasoline station owners in the Los Angeles area including Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST) are beginning to shut pumps because of supply shortages that have driven wholesale fuel prices to record highs.
Costco’s outlet in Simi Valley, 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles, ran out of regular gasoline yesterday and was selling premium fuel at the price of regular, Jeff Cole, Costco’s vice president of gasoline, said by telephone. The company hasn’t been able to find enough unbranded summer-grade gasoline to keep its stations supplied, he said.
via California Gas Stations Begin to Shut on Record-High Spot Prices – Bloomberg.
Consider those issues of great national importance which remained carefully unmentioned by both men in the so-called debate, and which will not be mentioned by any of the analysts discussing it.
Filed under: Bike of the Day | Tags: Comp-23, Flite, mountain bike, mountain biking, P-22, P-23, rigid fork, Ritchey, singletrack, Spinergy, Tange, TIG-welded, Tom Ritchey, transportation, vintage mountain bike
With custom factory paint. In its native habitat.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cybersecurity, email, hackers, Homeland Security, Napolitano, National Journal, NSA, Patriot Act, surveillance
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has a whole host of reasons why she doesn’t use email.
“I don’t have any of my own accounts,” she told a cybersecurity conference hosted by National Journal. “I’m very secure.”
Asked if her reasons for sticking to other forms of communication had to do with concerns about email security, she hedged and said she avoids email for “a whole host of reasons.”
via Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she doesn't use email – NY Daily News.
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