The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Wired News - a must-read for the latest information and commentary on
our rapidly changing digital world.

W I R E D N E W S Top Stories - 09:15AM 2.Aug.04. PDT
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Bike Writer Pedals for Protests (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64419,00.html/wn_ascii
Activist Joshua Kinberg is taking it to the streets with a graffiti-
spraying bicycle, soon to be blanketing the streets of New York with
anti-Bush slogans. You can get involved, too, using the Net and SMS. By
Leander Kahney.
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Internet Radio, Without Drudgery (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64402,00.html/wn_ascii
To get truly personalized online radio, listeners have to spend time
ranking hundreds or thousands of songs. Last.fm eliminates that tedium
with a small software plug-in that builds accurate profiles based on
songs on a user's hard drive. By Daniel Terdiman.
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JibJab Asks for Court's Help (Culture Sunday)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64428,00.html/wn_ascii
Ludlow Music, owner of Woody Guthrie's famous song, has been
threatening to sue a Web animation site over alleged copyright
infringement. But the site strikes first, filing suit asking a judge to
tell Ludlow to get lost. By Rachel Metz.
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The Danger of the Dead (Med-Tech Center 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64401,00.html/wn_ascii
Across the country, coroners and health officials are figuring out how
to dispose of hundreds or thousands of infectious corpses in case of a
terrorist attack. By Randy Dotinga.
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Beijing Manifesto (Wired magazine 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.08/beijing.html
The Chinese love the monumental ambition. They hate the monumental
price tag -- and the 'foreign' design. A portfolio of the grand ideas
and grim realities behind the contentious new vision for China Central
Television. By Rem Koolhaas from Wired magazine.
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9/11 Report Iffy on Tech (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,64412,00.html/wn_ascii
The 9/11 Commission made recommendations for technology solutions in
its final report -- some specific, some fuzzy -- to bring government
into the information age. By Michael Myser.
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NASA Waffles on Kerry Photos (The Final Frontier 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/space/0,2697,64423,00.html/wn_ascii
The space agency raises the ire of presidential partisans by posting
goofy photos of Sen. John Kerry in a bunny suit on the Web, then
removing them, then putting some of them back up. Also: China may
recruit female astronauts.... and more. By Amit Asaravala.
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Lost Florida Voting Records Found (Machine Politics Friday)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64421,00.html/wn_ascii
The Miami-Dade County case of the missing electronic-voting records
has been solved. Elections officials found the 2002 records, previously
believed lost in computer crashes, on a compact disc in the Elections
Supervisor's office.
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Why I Publish This Blog:

"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine.
The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature
differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.
Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the
way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on
agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good
manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's
more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us
right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have
a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."