The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

Saturday, August 28, 2004

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our rapidly changing digital world.

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Induce Act Draws Support, Venom (Politics 2:00 a.m. PDT)

http://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64723,00.html/wn_ascii

Hollywood loves it. Techies hate it. And now, nine senators are
signing on to help it pass. That's the latest chapter in the short
history of the Induce Act, a bill aimed at cracking down on
technologies that can be used to steal copyright works. By Xeni Jardin.
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Selling the High Life in Iraq (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT)

http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,64693,00.html/wn_ascii

More than a year after Saddam's ouster, a website hawking real estate
in Iraq is seeing something of a mini-bubble. Asking prices in the
swankier neighborhoods of Baghdad and Najaf are surging against a
backdrop of civil unrest. By Joanna Glasner.
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Where Do the Extra Embryos Go? (Med-Tech Center 2:00 a.m. PDT)

http://go.hotwired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64722,00.html/wn_ascii

Every year, in vitro fertilization clinics produce more embryos than
they use in helping women get pregnant. A new study shows a wide
discrepancy in what happens to the extras, from incineration to
freezing. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Seas Seen as Viable Power Source (Technology 2:00 a.m. PDT)

http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64695,00.html/wn_ascii

Escalating oil prices and global warming concerns have shifted the
quest for renewable energy sources into high gear. While wind and solar
claim most of the attention, the dark horse in this race may be the
restless energy of the sea. By Stephen Leahy.
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RSS Attracts Really Serious Money (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT)

http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,64716,00.html/wn_ascii

Really Simple Syndication technology, which lets news junkies get
instant info feeds from multiple sites, is grabbing investors'
attention. The latest evidence: a multimillion-dollar funding round for
RSS developer Technorati. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Weapons of Mass Mobilization (Wired magazine 2:00 a.m. PDT)

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/moveon.html

A quiet couple in Berkeley, California, got sick of being ignored by
the system. So they built a new one. How MoveOn.org changed the face of
fund raising, brought P2P to political advertising and reinvented
grass-roots activism. By Gary Wolf from Wired magazine.
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March 28-31, 2004

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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."