A Link Course in the History of Red Willow County

Nebraska Memories
Neat little site dedicated to “making Nebraska’s past unforgettable”
(tags: windmill redwillowcounty)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Volume 19
More excellent rememberin’ about Red Willow County
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Climate variability, climate changeand social vulnerability
Nice little section on the “rain follows the plow” theory of climate, popular in the 1880s.
(tags: wind Science prairies)

CASDE | McCook — Red Willow County
This [...]

Delicious Links for 2009-08-30

ICE Virtual Library : Minutes of the Proceedings : Volume 119: Issue 1895
Windmills for Raising Water… Experiments carried out by J.A. Griffiths in Britain.
(tags: windmill ICE)

Delicious Link for 2009-08-29

Foreign Policy: Seven Myths About Alternative Energy : NPR
(tags: opinion energy bigpicture)

Delicious Links for 2009-08-28

Solar Photovoltaic Electricity Price Index
This is a great tracker for real solar prices. While some companies like First Solar claim much lower production costs, these guys track the real prices for consumers.
(tags: solar costs electricity)

Delicious Links for 2009-08-27

French Electricity Prices
France uses more nuclear power in their energy mix than any other country. That warms the heart of any old nuke, but their electricity prices are higher than just about any region of the United States and far above our average.
(tags: france electricity gridparity)

Nuclear Regulators Urge High-Tech Fire Assessment Tools for Plants
This is [...]

Gallery: The World’s First Oil Field

“We have no language at our command by which to convey to the minds of our readers any adequate idea of the agitated state at the time we saw [the well]. The gas from below was forcing up immense quantities of oil in a fearful manner and attended with noise that was terrifying… When the [...]

Adventures Inside the Atom, GE’s Nuclear Power Propaganda Comic

I tell you this up front because it’s true: if you love energy and 50s naivete, you are going to love Adventures Inside the Atom, GE’s nuclear power propaganda comic.
It tells the “thrilling story of man’s greatest adventure in the unknown…and his discovery of nature’s greatest secret” through a nice Platonic dialogue between Ed, a [...]

Delicious Links for 2009-08-25

Petrolia: a brief history of the Pennsylvania oil region
Petrolia’s where the very first oil well in America was drilled by “Colonel” Drake. A couple decades later, the oil ran out. Oops.
(tags: oil petrolia anti-green crude)

Dams | Report Card for America’s Infrastructure
Our dams are 51 years old, on average, and 1,700 of those that are near [...]

Delicious Links for 2009-08-24

Science – Google Books
A quick mention of THE PILING OF TOPHET AND THE TRESPASS-OFFERING by John T. FOWLER, an autobiography of a “lunatic.”
(tags: paranoia)

University of Chicago Autobiographical Sketches
This particular one of Laverne Noyes, financial backer of the Aermotor windmill company.
(tags: noyes windmill wind)

The Mascots of Electricity Demand: Power Rock, Reddy Kilowatt, and Selling the Energy-Intensive Lifestyle

The coal-industry lobbying group, Families Organized to Represent the Coal Economy, has released a kids’ coloring book starring Power Rock (“POWER ROCK!”) and his sidekick, Squirt. Yes, it’s as weird as it sounds, but it’s not unprecedented.
Joel Eisen (@joeleisen), University of Richmond law professor, pointed out to me that it is really just “Reddy Kilowatt [...]