Articles by Jerome Woody
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The Energy Star Alliance is running a public service announcement profiling a fictional family powering their house with static electricity.
It's a pretty funny commercial; I wish I knew the ad firm that did it.
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NOAA satellites are degrading
Reuters reported on Monday that without adequate funding for maintenance, we can expect NOAA-run observation satellites to be dropping like flies from orbit -- 58% of them by 2010, and pretty much the rest save five scrappy ones by 2020. And although the high-tech Ragnarok was foretold as far ago as last March, still no mission "go / no go" from the White House on what do about it.
Perhaps their rationale for decision-stalling is related to their lunar base idea -- just put a huge magnifying lens on the moon and we can see the changing earth better than ever! Just watch out for that sun glare though. We wouldn't want to burn something.
