Walt sent me this essay unsolicited, and I think it is very useful for establishing some baseline techniques. There’s more useful information on techniques here than in the entire Catlin…
Category: Technology
Bzzt! Welcome to the dark ages
Guest post by Steven Goddard The Effects of One Nuclear Bomb at High Altitude From Wikipedia Yesterday’s missile launch from nuclear power North Korea raised particular concern in the military,…
Canadian mini-satellite may solve carbon puzzle
from the Calgary Herald: Canadian mini-satellite may solve carbon puzzle (h/t to WUWT reader “Freezedried”) Tom Spears Canwestnews Service Friday, February 27, 2009 While NASA lost a $285-million US satellite…
Bad week for hardware: Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite burns up
Satellite to Study Global-Warming Gases Lost in Space By Alex Morales, Bloomberg News Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — A satellite launched from California failed to reach orbit today, crashing into the…
Cold Weather + Green Fuel = Yellow Bus Failure
UPDATE: Lab tests show the problem was may be caused by paraffin wax – a derivative of Diesel Fuel. See this report: http://nbb.grassroots.com/resources/BloomingtonBusReport.pdf This bus design does not allow for…
Another promise of a flying car – sigh
All thorough my childhood and adolescence I was a keen fan of all sorts of science magazines including Scientific American (the Amateur Scientist was my favorite SciAm column because it…
"No one wants to leave the house"
Wind turbines and neighborhoods just don’t mix It seems. Would you want one of these to do this when a wind storm comes your way? Wind power has it’s pluses…
Wind power
I was in a conversation today at lunch with a fellow who told me that “wind power is better than anything we’ve ever done for generating electricity”. That made me…
Newest geo-engineering plan is salt water daffy
Here we go again, more geo-engineering. From Physicsworld: Artist’s impression of a Flettner spray vessel. The wind would be blowing from the right-hand side of the image, the rotor spin…
Google Earth gets a new space eye
Maybe now I’ll be able to find more weather stations from Google Earth imagery. This spacecraft is an even better versions of Ikonos, with better resolution and color. Note to…
Algal Fuels and Massive Scales
Guest post by John Goetz I keep an active watch of the news for progress being made in the areas of renewable and alternative energy sources. One area that has…
Jason-2 satellite set to launch June 15th from Vandenberg, will track sea level
Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM). Click for High resolution image (Credit: NOAA) Hopefully, this will put an end to tide gage data and it’s nuances (such as subsidence). From a …
What we should be focusing on for power generation
While Jim Hansen lobbies states to get newly designed clean burning coal fired generation plants not built, California remains lukewarm still on an opportunity to extract geothermal heat for a variety of locations in…
NASA sends "The Weather Rock" to Mars
When I made a post discussing the weather station on NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander titled “First Weather Station on the Surface of Mars“, I expressed some concern that there might…
What I've been up to: electrifying my ride
Some regular readers may have noticed that I’ve been a bit detached from the blog in the past week. There’s a good reason for that. I’ve been immersing myself in the…
Putting myths about UAH and RSS satellite data to rest
The NOAA-N Polar Orbiting Weather Satellite There have been some questions posed recently about how the satellite global temperature record is created by UAH and RSS from the MSU (Microwave…
Now THIS is interesting: Pielke on Dr. Joanne Simpson
The Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. weblog today includes a letter from Dr. Joanne Simpson, recently retired. He calls her “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years”. It…
Help save Windows XP – sign the petition
You probably all know by now how much I dislike despise Windows Vista, even though I’ve been a Microsoft customer and systems integrator for years, this OS is useless for…
Love those Tatas
Ok, the title is not what you think. Recently Tata Motors of India announced they’d be offering a fuel efficient vehicle (50MPG) priced at $2500 USD that almost any family…
Making NOAA's MMTS wireless
This is a custom wireless MMTS with internal data logger that I built, view from my backyard. NOTE: yes I know it is not the best placement, this is just…
You must be logged in to post a comment.