Thursday, June 08, 2006
Set to Random
Researching boring stuff on the internet (snow thermal conductivity references) this afternoon came across this presentation from Matthew Sturm of CRREL that seems like a pretty accessible climate change presentation.
Some UAF Oral History deal
I guess it's also an extra thing going along with this USA Today article from a couple weeks ago:
USA Today story
... and movies
In a similar vein... perhaps I need to upgrade Donald Rumsfeld in my book of evil people from 100.0% unadulturated pure evil to a more trim 99.7%. Looks like from this article on defensetech.org (a pretty good website if you have the time to spend and want to increase your knowledge about national security stuff without becoming loony tunes). That DoD is interested in alternative fuels. They're still talking hydrocarbons in the article but maybe eventually they'll do a lot of research and we'll get some good trickle down in economies of scale and stuff into the private sector. Montana's also investing in this direction... and (this is a very pipedream type thought)... I wonder if Tony Knowles is re-elected Alaska will start experimenting with the Fischer-Tropsch method of converting coal / natural gas into diesel / jet fuel by doing joint research with Montana since their governor is a democrat, too. Hmm.
Otherwise, hopefully more cool stuff after the weekend is over. I was going to head down to Nabesna for camping etc. even after Gary bailed on that trip but another friend's coming up from Denali so enter Plan B... Steese highway or bust. Should be cool.
Some UAF Oral History deal
I guess it's also an extra thing going along with this USA Today article from a couple weeks ago:
USA Today story
... and movies
In a similar vein... perhaps I need to upgrade Donald Rumsfeld in my book of evil people from 100.0% unadulturated pure evil to a more trim 99.7%. Looks like from this article on defensetech.org (a pretty good website if you have the time to spend and want to increase your knowledge about national security stuff without becoming loony tunes). That DoD is interested in alternative fuels. They're still talking hydrocarbons in the article but maybe eventually they'll do a lot of research and we'll get some good trickle down in economies of scale and stuff into the private sector. Montana's also investing in this direction... and (this is a very pipedream type thought)... I wonder if Tony Knowles is re-elected Alaska will start experimenting with the Fischer-Tropsch method of converting coal / natural gas into diesel / jet fuel by doing joint research with Montana since their governor is a democrat, too. Hmm.
Otherwise, hopefully more cool stuff after the weekend is over. I was going to head down to Nabesna for camping etc. even after Gary bailed on that trip but another friend's coming up from Denali so enter Plan B... Steese highway or bust. Should be cool.
