Just had to claim this lame joke about the certainly lame brained Rep Michele Bachman (R-Minn). When does oral diarrhea become treason?   more »

What goes better together than long distance High voltage Direct Current (HVDC) power transmission and continental/global solar and wind power?   more »

Very proud of this tweetback!   more »

A very cool wind land speed record winner

This is to serve as a virtual sanctuary for endangered walken tweeters,please tweet away in comments and link to the comment section in twitterland.   more »

I'm training now. Running and yoga this time around.    more »

Yes, it just might be, from "Solve Climate" blog: 'Raser made Fast Company’s list of the “50 Most Innovative Companies” last month for its ability to "generate zero-emissions electricity using water that's scarcely hotter than a cup of coffee." The listing followed Raser initial completion of its first 10.5 megawatt commercial power plant.' "With considerable backing from Merrill Lynch, Raser has begun an ambitious plan to construct 155 MW worth of geothermal plants on its vast real estate acquisitions across the western United States. It has plans to do the same overseas through a partnership announced in September with Indonesia Power."   more »

Isn't there anyone out there! A scary reamination of Gristmill commentary. Can it live?   more »

Hilarious video.   more »

Don't settle for an imitation. Only the real drx has no I.   more »

Does he want "more cowbell"?   more »

Check out this amazing new blog. I'm already intensely jealous, this has to drive me to get video too. Who else do you know who converted his own bike to the latest lithium ion plugin hybrid technology? You probably didn't know anyone who did that, so click on his blog and find out how he did it.   more »

"Plausible deniability" is the operative phrase. Here's how this works: the well placed and comfortably fixed within the structure of power, in government or industry, place their savings in a hedge fund where they can't be blamed for the inside information that is slipped to hedge fund managers "anonymously". Eventually nearly everyone with a potential conflict of interest has money in a hedge fund. These individuals, congressmen, senators, management, (de) regulators all protect and enhance the "rights" of hedge funds to avoid any and all regulation and scrutiny.   more »

Not so fast. Coal state democrats and wall street democrats are agin' it. It's a tax they say. This sounds familiar. "No new taxes", yeah that's it the old talking point. So how do you get the money and retain support from no new taxers? Subsidy diversion. Take from the oil and coal companies, give to consumers, robin hood style. Pretty simple really.   more »

Yes, another one. This one uses microwave ovens to make the charcoal, at $65 worth of electricty per ton. Put aside the fact that biochar actually accelerates the breakdown of soil carbon sink and then feature the prospect of coal burned in a power plant to power a microwave oven to make wood into biochar to bury. How would you ever get ahead in the carbon balance, burn the coal, bury the char?   more »

Jon concentrated on the outrage at the gaming aspect of trading, and the wacky bent that Cramer gives it all. That was kind of beside the point, real traders don't take Jim's advice. Maybe his callers do? Traders, especially self taught ones like me, don't generally trust bombastic entertainment like Jim provides as a good barometer of market sentiment. We see it as a contra-indicator, just as several statistical studies of Cramer's schtick have proven, he is wrong more often than he is right. His act tells where the herd is at, how close they are to the cliff. Real traders take their gains before the lemmings jump off into freefall.   more »

Check out the video that started the war between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer. My adivice to Stewart is that he run the video of Cramer's show where Cramer explains the uptick rule and why it needs to be reinstated just before he comes on. This will put a better face on Cramer's schtick. John, please ask Cramer about the Glass Steagell Act and margin requirements for trading derivatives. This way when you guys get into your dispute over Cramer's obvious mistaken touting of various stocks before the crash, he will at least get credit for what he does right. Explaining how regulation works and why it needs to be reinstalled.   more »

Obama's hair is graying already. Caught between the science of GHG climate disaster, healthcare reform, and the wall street masters of the universe threatening to destroy the global economy if they don't get their way, this is still surprising. I'm seeing a distinct downward trend towards real hopelessness. Kind of like the slide in financial markets. Gloom and doom, without the sense of humor.   more »

Nope, they don't have a president anywhere on them, not even the fraudulent president, duuhbya. I think they are counterfeit, who gave all these credit default swaps their alleged dollar value of 800 trillion? If counterfeiters print money we don't honor it, whoever gets stuck with it suffers. International banks and their customers are the ones who accepted the bad paper.   more »