Son of a gun... before I was going to post this entry, landlord decided to power off my house, including my system. I went outside and chewed him a new one, because I lost maybe an hour or two's work... Heaven forbid if he should knock and ask, before throwing the master switch. Also, since Meredith is moving out, apparently my cable's been disconnected. They say that the soonest that they can get someone out to reconnect it is Friday. So, no cartoons or documentaries this week. I wonder how much new music I'll discover in that span? I don't really watch the tube, but I am terribly fond of background noise. I imagine that means the end of cable for Frankie and Sammy, too. I'm wondering how long before Frankie is officially out of here.
I'm happy to see that my birthday treats have started winging their way to the (hopefully) happy recipients. Hooray for wish lists! I hope my brother likes what I got him... a couple of books on surfing and on his b'day, a pizza party, if still possible. I put some tiny plastic zombies in my most recent letter to him, too.. Hopefully he'll enjoy 'em.
After doing my laundry this morning, I managed to go out to lunch with Noobie, and I really like the deli. I had a veggie Reuben, which was awesome. instead of corned beef, it had sweet peppers and mushrooms, with the kraut, cheese and mustard.
This afternoon, it was Grocery time, *long* since overdue. I'm delighted to have a fully stocked cupboard, freezer, and fridge. I feel a great deal better when there's a solid cabinet of chow in the house. Meredith also brought Newt by some iams "deep sea blend" as a treat... I admire the gusto with which he dug into it! I may start using that as a treat.
The weight watchers Giant Fudge Bar is really very good, and only one point. I picked up a six pack as a tester, and I'll certainly get them again.
Woohoo! - "You are sire to 91 other vampires, including: LdySaphyre (7033 pints), MissV (2665 pints), Liliana (2619 pints), gilbella (1338 pints), mixedresults (1246 pints), Morgoth (690 pints), Nathanael (479 pints), night_flyer (466 pints), wchmum (346 pints), phenrill (270 pints)" Want to join us?
A Hint - The barman says "The closest shop to here is The Potion Shoppe, right by Vulture and 79th. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while." I've visited, and the just have potions of holy water for 2000.
Moon Brings Novel Green Power to Arctic Homes
OSLO (Reuters) - Homes on the Arctic tip of Norway started getting power from the moon on Saturday via a unique subsea power station driven by the rise and fall of the tide.
A tidal current in a sea channel near the town of Hammerfest, caused by the gravitational tug of the moon on the earth, started turning the 33-foot blades of a turbine bolted to the seabed to generate electricity for the local grid.
The prototype looks like an underwater windmill and is expected to generate about 700,000 kilowatt hours of non-polluting energy a year, or enough to light and heat about 30 homes.
"This is the first time in the world that electricity from a tidal current has been fed into a power grid," Harald Johansen, managing director of Hammerfest Stroem which has led the project, told Reuters.
The plant in the Kvalsund channel, which had cost about $11 million by Saturday's launch, is a tiny contributor to help cut dependence on fossil fuels like oil and gas blamed for global warming.
The water flows at about 8 feet per second for about 12 hours when the tide is rising through the Kvalsund channel, pauses at high tide and then reverses direction. The blades on the turbine automatically turn to face the current.
If successful, the project could herald far wider use of predictable tides in green energy and generate millions of dollars in orders. Windmills, by contrast, are useless in calm weather and have to be built to withstand hurricane-force winds.
ARTIFICIAL LAGOONS
Tides have previously been tapped for power plants in France, Canada and Russia in barrages that trap water in artificial lagoons at high tide. When the tide goes out, gravity sucks the water through turbines to generate electricity.
But such barrages can disrupt the habitats of animals and plants in river estuaries and along the coasts.
Proponents of turbines turned by tidal currents say that they cause less impact -- they are silent and invisible from the surface and fish, whales and seals can probably swim round them without the risk of being sliced up.
Drawbacks are that costs are high. Hammerfest Stroem has estimated that electricity will cost about 0.30-0.35 crowns a Kilowatt-hour to generate, three times that of typical hydro-generated electricity in Norway.
And maintenance -- with divers having to go down to the seabed -- could be tricky. Other subsea experiments to generate power from tidal currents from Australia to Britain have not got to the stage of feeding power into the grid.
Norwegian oil group Statoil, Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB and local Norwegian utilities are partners in the Hammerfest Stroem scheme. "We want to get experience from this and see that we can also be a producer of green electricity," said Hanne Lekva at Statoil.
($1=7.223 Norwegian Crown)
Tennessee is home not only to the Dollywood theme park and the Dixie Stampede, but also to the world's only human-decay research facility -- a 2.5-acre outdoor laboratory that houses over 20 corpses in various states of decomposition.
today's eats -
Points: 34.4 Adj: 0 Act: 0.0 Rem: -0.4
Bank: 34.6 Adj: 35
Bank Max: 35 Point: 0 Act: 0
Bank Method: Start on Monday
Vitamins: Yes
Breakfast: 5.0 points
5.0: Almond joy
Lunch: 6.1 points
1.4: Bread; rye
1.4: Bread; rye
0.0: Sauerkraut; canned; solids & liquids
0.3: Peppers; sweet; red; boiled; drained
0.3: Peppers; sweet; red; boiled; drained
2.6: Cheese; provolone
0.1: Mustard; prepared; yellow
0.0: Soda; Low calorie; other than cola or pepper; w/aspartame
Dinner: 15.3 points
3.1: Chik patties - morningstar
3.1: Chik patties - morningstar
3.1: Chik patties - morningstar
3.1: Chik patties - morningstar
1.4: Peas sweet; 1 can; solids & liquids
0.0: Earl Grey Tea
1.0: Ice cream- smart ones fudge bar
0.5: Ketchup
Snack: 8.0 points
1.0: Ice cream- smart ones fudge bar
3.5: Goldfish
3.5: Goldfish
Follow-up on the Ohio call - Miamisburg, Ohio-AP -- About two-thousand people in Miamisburg, Ohio, are being allowed to go back home, a day after an explosion at a chemical plant.
People living within a mile of the suburban Dayton plant were evacuated after the blast because of the possibility of a second explosion.
But officials have declared the site safe. They say tests this morning found all systems "working and stable."
Firefighters had been working with employees at the Isotec plant to contain a nitric oxide leak when the explosion occurred.
Investigators haven't determined the cause of the leak or explosion. But they say a storage tank failure might have allowed the volatile nitric oxide gas to heat up and explode.
No one was seriously hurt.
a year ago - Feeling Autumn coming, Tremors, mintyass.com, Thoughts on D-names, film fest coming
2 years ago - welcome to Autumn, poll about what you carry with, a haiku war, I'm an otter on the medicine wheel, troll's so snoopy that she inspires a sign on the door, and a post of the Chupacabra song, missing my dad, wondering about Halloween costumes.
3 years ago, I was just ending my last RPG gaming groups, an alphabet of television, nice supper at hops, great freaky/creepy movies and net fibs.
I'm happy to see that my birthday treats have started winging their way to the (hopefully) happy recipients. Hooray for wish lists! I hope my brother likes what I got him... a couple of books on surfing and on his b'day, a pizza party, if still possible. I put some tiny plastic zombies in my most recent letter to him, too.. Hopefully he'll enjoy 'em.
After doing my laundry this morning, I managed to go out to lunch with Noobie, and I really like the deli. I had a veggie Reuben, which was awesome. instead of corned beef, it had sweet peppers and mushrooms, with the kraut, cheese and mustard.
This afternoon, it was Grocery time, *long* since overdue. I'm delighted to have a fully stocked cupboard, freezer, and fridge. I feel a great deal better when there's a solid cabinet of chow in the house. Meredith also brought Newt by some iams "deep sea blend" as a treat... I admire the gusto with which he dug into it! I may start using that as a treat.
The weight watchers Giant Fudge Bar is really very good, and only one point. I picked up a six pack as a tester, and I'll certainly get them again.
Woohoo! - "You are sire to 91 other vampires, including: LdySaphyre (7033 pints), MissV (2665 pints), Liliana (2619 pints), gilbella (1338 pints), mixedresults (1246 pints), Morgoth (690 pints), Nathanael (479 pints), night_flyer (466 pints), wchmum (346 pints), phenrill (270 pints)" Want to join us?
A Hint - The barman says "The closest shop to here is The Potion Shoppe, right by Vulture and 79th. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while." I've visited, and the just have potions of holy water for 2000.
Moon Brings Novel Green Power to Arctic Homes
OSLO (Reuters) - Homes on the Arctic tip of Norway started getting power from the moon on Saturday via a unique subsea power station driven by the rise and fall of the tide.
A tidal current in a sea channel near the town of Hammerfest, caused by the gravitational tug of the moon on the earth, started turning the 33-foot blades of a turbine bolted to the seabed to generate electricity for the local grid.
The prototype looks like an underwater windmill and is expected to generate about 700,000 kilowatt hours of non-polluting energy a year, or enough to light and heat about 30 homes.
"This is the first time in the world that electricity from a tidal current has been fed into a power grid," Harald Johansen, managing director of Hammerfest Stroem which has led the project, told Reuters.
The plant in the Kvalsund channel, which had cost about $11 million by Saturday's launch, is a tiny contributor to help cut dependence on fossil fuels like oil and gas blamed for global warming.
The water flows at about 8 feet per second for about 12 hours when the tide is rising through the Kvalsund channel, pauses at high tide and then reverses direction. The blades on the turbine automatically turn to face the current.
If successful, the project could herald far wider use of predictable tides in green energy and generate millions of dollars in orders. Windmills, by contrast, are useless in calm weather and have to be built to withstand hurricane-force winds.
ARTIFICIAL LAGOONS
Tides have previously been tapped for power plants in France, Canada and Russia in barrages that trap water in artificial lagoons at high tide. When the tide goes out, gravity sucks the water through turbines to generate electricity.
But such barrages can disrupt the habitats of animals and plants in river estuaries and along the coasts.
Proponents of turbines turned by tidal currents say that they cause less impact -- they are silent and invisible from the surface and fish, whales and seals can probably swim round them without the risk of being sliced up.
Drawbacks are that costs are high. Hammerfest Stroem has estimated that electricity will cost about 0.30-0.35 crowns a Kilowatt-hour to generate, three times that of typical hydro-generated electricity in Norway.
And maintenance -- with divers having to go down to the seabed -- could be tricky. Other subsea experiments to generate power from tidal currents from Australia to Britain have not got to the stage of feeding power into the grid.
Norwegian oil group Statoil, Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB and local Norwegian utilities are partners in the Hammerfest Stroem scheme. "We want to get experience from this and see that we can also be a producer of green electricity," said Hanne Lekva at Statoil.
($1=7.223 Norwegian Crown)
Tennessee is home not only to the Dollywood theme park and the Dixie Stampede, but also to the world's only human-decay research facility -- a 2.5-acre outdoor laboratory that houses over 20 corpses in various states of decomposition.
today's eats -
Points: 34.4 Adj: 0 Act: 0.0 Rem: -0.4
Bank: 34.6 Adj: 35
Bank Max: 35 Point: 0 Act: 0
Bank Method: Start on Monday
Vitamins: Yes
Breakfast: 5.0 points
5.0: Almond joy
Lunch: 6.1 points
1.4: Bread; rye
1.4: Bread; rye
0.0: Sauerkraut; canned; solids & liquids
0.3: Peppers; sweet; red; boiled; drained
0.3: Peppers; sweet; red; boiled; drained
2.6: Cheese; provolone
0.1: Mustard; prepared; yellow
0.0: Soda; Low calorie; other than cola or pepper; w/aspartame
Dinner: 15.3 points
3.1: Chik patties - morningstar
3.1: Chik patties - morningstar
3.1: Chik patties - morningstar
3.1: Chik patties - morningstar
1.4: Peas sweet; 1 can; solids & liquids
0.0: Earl Grey Tea
1.0: Ice cream- smart ones fudge bar
0.5: Ketchup
Snack: 8.0 points
1.0: Ice cream- smart ones fudge bar
3.5: Goldfish
3.5: Goldfish
Follow-up on the Ohio call -
People living within a mile of the suburban Dayton plant were evacuated after the blast because of the possibility of a second explosion.
But officials have declared the site safe. They say tests this morning found all systems "working and stable."
Firefighters had been working with employees at the Isotec plant to contain a nitric oxide leak when the explosion occurred.
Investigators haven't determined the cause of the leak or explosion. But they say a storage tank failure might have allowed the volatile nitric oxide gas to heat up and explode.
No one was seriously hurt.
a year ago - Feeling Autumn coming, Tremors, mintyass.com, Thoughts on D-names, film fest coming
2 years ago - welcome to Autumn, poll about what you carry with, a haiku war, I'm an otter on the medicine wheel, troll's so snoopy that she inspires a sign on the door, and a post of the Chupacabra song, missing my dad, wondering about Halloween costumes.
3 years ago, I was just ending my last RPG gaming groups, an alphabet of television, nice supper at hops, great freaky/creepy movies and net fibs.
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