Usually a American Preasdent doesn't visit Congress except for the "State of Union" address once a year. This precedent was set by George Washington who visited Congress early in his early in his first term, the Congress was not polite and gave old George hard time. So old George said I won't be coming here again. So it is kind of historic for a President early in his first term to visit to congress. However, given the nature of the current "Economic Crisis" no one objected to his visit. Sure g
Today I thought I would do Renewable Energy comparison between Thailand & Denmark. I picked Denmark because we have a little idea of what it is like from Khun Nicky (Pandorea) journals.
Thailand's Energy PlanThailand Renewable EnergyDenmark Renewable EnergyWind Power Growth in DenmarkCost of Wind PowerSome Khun Thai Energy Planners think differentThe influential “Energy Strategy for Competitiveness” workshop set a goal that 8% of
Thailand’s energy consumption would be derived from re
“If you look at the average wind or solar site alone, there’s a good amount of time each day that it’s not generating electricity,” explains Palmintier. “But if you combine all the wind and solar sites together, you find that 90 percent of the time you can get seven megawatts out” of facilities that at peak production might generate 100 megawatts.ONE OF THE BIGGEST DRAWBACKS INVESTORS and utilities have found with solar and wind power is that they are “variable.” Simply put: they can’t generate
I'd like to dedicate this journal to Science and Technology Minister Khunying Kalaya Sophonpanich. Good to see a Minister who knows something about Ministry she running and who is an expert in her own field.
Guiding society with technology
To celebrate the 22nd anniversary of 'Database', Science and Technology Minister Khunying Kalaya Sophonpanich talks to Don Sambandaraksa about her life and times
Published: 4/02/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Database
Science and
Al Gore
Posted January 28, 2009 | 10:43 AM (EST)
My opening statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today:
We are here today to talk about how we as Americans and how the United States of America as part of the global community should address the dangerous and growing threat of the climate crisis.
We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home - Earth - is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditi
http://www.youtube.com/user/ChangeDotGov
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Anyway, tomorrow W. is gone forever, Thank God!!!!! B.
On January 19, 2009, President-elect Obama joined a huge crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for a national free broadcast concert featuring some of music's biggest stars.
The above table shows 5000MW of PV & CST (Solar Thermal) in the pipeline to be implemented by Utillities as of the end of 2008. President Elect Obama wants to double this the 5000MW figure during his Presidency. Solar Power to People!!! Plus add, more wind power and geo-thermal power and implement the Universal Smart Grid so that clean renewable electric power can reach everywhere in USA. How about Thailand's Gov. Solar Plan? Well, Thailand has about 25MW PV of which 70% is not working, the
Dr. Steve Chu at the Nation Energy SummitPossibly, the next Secretary of Energy
If the rumors are true, and I dearly hope they are, President-elect Barack Obama could not have made a better choice to head up the Department of Energy than Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu.
At his current post as the director of the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chu's goal has been nothing short of solving the world's energy problems. When I interviewed him four years ago for the Con
It’s now clear that Obama intends to stimulate the economy through large direct government spending on infrastructure projects as well as through business and individual tax cuts,” said Mr. Bledsoe, now an official of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a nonpartisan research group in Washington. “He is advocating things like guaranteeing every American a college education, wiring the entire country for Internet, putting in a smart electric grid. If he can do it, these will be major system
One Day in Bangkok
Jarrett Wrisley, the Atlantic
2 Dec 08
The past week has been a strange time here in Thailand’s capital. The streets have been quiet, and the people as friendly as ever, but most have been glued to broadcasts about the protests that have hampered the functioning of the country’s government and shut down its airports. I had been following the situation closely from my home in Shanghai, but nothing could have prepared me, my fiancée, or our dog for what we encountered las
The view from my Bungalow porch.
The lounge and eating area. Pia river If you'er the kind of person that likes natural suroundings, rustic Thai charm, and friendly people.You will like this place, no TV, no radio, and no internet http://www.baantawan-pai.com/index.php Tip, call to book room, Patchree is very busy, no time to check Email.
CrazyHorse, Thaibell & Nok , and me had a very relaxing & fun traditional Thai lunch together at Huew Teung Tao, a reservoir lake close to sports stadium in Chiang Mai. Good friends, good food, beautiful place, hard to beat
The Climate for Change
By AL GORE
November 9, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor, NY Times
THE inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he — and we — must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis.
The electrifying redemption of America’s revolutionary declaration that all human beings a
Selections from the "Spring" Section of Walden
Henry David Thoreau
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was
that I should have leisure and opportunity to see
the Spring come in. … Fogs and rains and warmer
suns are gradually melting the snow; the days
have grown sensibly longer; and I see how I shall
get through the winter without adding to my
woodpile,for large fires are no longer necessary.
At length the sun's rays have attained the right
angle, and warm wind
Senator John McCain gave a gracious concession speech, maybe his best speech of the Presidential campaign. I think he was just being himself in this speech. I believe that in his heart he wants the best for his country and for all races & cultures that make up the USA.Still, I am extraordinarily pleased that Barack Obama will be our next President
Looks like Senator Obama will be the next President of the USA. I think he's up to the job.Forces of the Dark side are temporarily fading away, . Let's hope the better side of our nature prevails.
It's interesting that Thai Banks only invest 90% of their deposits. Many American Banks invested 26 to 31 times their deposits or 3,000 percent. Plumbers for Obama!!!
The Republican party spent $150,000 dollars for Sarah Palin's wardrobe.Does'nt she look nice :)How about we nominate a TF gal for American VP, at least you would get some nice outfits.
I lived in Alaska for 15 years outside of small fishing town called Homer at the end of the Kenai peninsula about 220 mile south of Anchorage. There's a mixed bag of folks up there, fisherman, artist, craftsmen, oil-field workers and religious nut cases. I'd say half the people are like the author of this article. I can imagine cross-country skiing over his cabin about 3 in the afternoon as the the sun is starting to set on a mid-winter day for an irish coffee and a game game of crib seasoned
