Sunday, July 13, 2008

New "WINDOW" on Solar -and Demise of OIL

MIT is spinning off of a company (Covalent Solar) to commercialize a solar concentrating process that achieves superior solar conversion without tracking of the sun. Such technology will help make glass-sided office towers energy self-sufficient.
If only battery storage technology would keep apace of solar technology we would see a quick end to the transportation fuel crisis. Sweeney says, "Within a decade, glass-sided box cars and glass-sided box-containers on 16-wheelers could halve diesel consumption -and glass-domed automobiles will not have internal combustion engines. "
Shell's reasons for killing its multi-billion oil refinery at Sarnia -surging construction costs and market conditions- ring a bit hollow in the face of long-term demand. Connecting the dots, or rather the hyperlinks, indicates Shell is content to milk its cash cow while investing heavily in alternative energy.

The dot com and sub-prime mortgage bubbles deflated quickly. The new bubble of pre-stressed glass heralds the era of Sun & Silicon. Get ahead of the curve; use some of your oil profits to scoop plate-glass stocks.

Monday, July 07, 2008

Londont Archives

Most visits are to current posts, but there are a surprising number of hits on archived entries. The continued popularity of "Urban Cougar Forest City Mascot" is likely due to trailers linking to media reports of on-going cougar attacks and sightings, plus the usual search engine queries -and your thoughtful referrals.
After migration to FastCompany website, a June 2007 post generated interest in England and Australia, but nary a response from target retirees in London, Ontario.

Other old favourites are found at:
http://londont.blogspot.com/2007/11/regional-road-vs-west-london-expressway.html

http://londont.blogspot.com/2006/04/places-to-grow-in-south-west.html

http://londont.blogspot.com/2005/01/wine-morels-and-sex-j.html
http://londont.blogspot.com/2005/01/twirling-lures-j.html
http://londont.blogspot.com/2005/01/shrikes-farmers-naturalists-at.html