Is hurricane sandy a bellwether?

Saw Al's comment on hydrogen, and sort of theoretically hydrogen is great except for one small problem. Hydrogen is so chemically active that there's very little free hydrogen just floating around, and freeing that hydrogen up from what it's bound to requires energy. More energy than the recovered hydrogen can produce to do work. Something about perpetual motion being impossible I think.

IF solar panels or some other method of utilizing solar energy can be developed that are inexpensive and efficient and won't need to cover vast areas of land that'd be great. Until then not so much.

One interesting thing that a lot of people who live in more or less perpetually cloudy areas like Western Washington State don't seem to understand is that while clouds reduce surface heating of the earth they also inhibit radiation of surface heat. Consequently when it's cold and cloudy in the winter, it's warmer than it would be if it were cold and clear.
 
You guys with really high insulation values may want to consider monitoring whatever it is that has to be monitored -- CO2, is it? Back in the 90s when super efficient insulation became more common in Europe, there was a report of a German guy who suffocated in his apartment.

And no, I'm not joking. Sort of like a nuclear submarine -- you need to watch the oxygen content of the air -- need CO2 scrubbers, is it?
 
As I was driving into the office today I listened to an interesting interview on CNBC , hardly a bastion of conservative mindset. Anyway, the gentleman that was being interviewed, was from a major research firm that provides historical weather data to Govt. agencies, primarily reconstructing historical data oveerlayed onto todays infrastructure in an attempt to make valid "apples to apples" comparisons. The bottom line is that the frequency of severe coastal weather events is well BELOW historic trends going back to the 1850's but they seem more severe because of the substantial buildup of populations in the coastal regions.
 
I am all for solar, H2, wind, magnets, rabbits feet.....whatever......just don't subsidize the technologies.We are at the point of critical mass.....we cannot honor the promises politicians have already made and I fear it they don't have the balls to stop this runaway train ready to jump the track at any time.
 
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