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Obama’s Katrina?

Tom Long — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:45:43 +0000

How much worse can it get for the Gulf region? Nature strikes with Katrina and the government fails to adequately respond. BP fails to safely drill and once again the government sits on its hands. Will this be to the Obama administration what Katrina was to the Bush administration? Could our government [...]

Offshore Drilling is Safe?

Tom Long — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:30:40 +0000

It seems ironic that a Texan would not approve more offshore drilling, but the supposedly more environmentally sensitive current president has given the green light. According to the AP “No oil appeared to be leaking from a drilling rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said Friday, though officials were trying to contain [...]

Windmill Prodigy

Tom Long — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:50:31 +0000

Thanks to Wired Science, I learned of a 14 year old boy in a remote African village who should be an inspiration for all of us. William Kamkwamba noted the wind in Malawi and thought he could rig something up to power a light to read by. This boy, who had been forced to drop out [...]