Tuesday, February 23, 2010

[Magical] Solar power changes lifestyle of char people | Voice of South
“Now we can light our houses with bulbs, use electric fans and watch TV. There is no disruption in supply of solar power,” they said.
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Monayem Khan, another user of Hatiya upazila said, “I have taken a 50 Watts connection on a two-year installment basis.

“I am using 20 Watts for three bulbs in my house and the remaining 20 Watts have been given to two neighbouring houses on monthly payment basis,” he added.

Mazahar Ahmed of village Char Clark under Subarnachar upazila, said they are getting uninterrupted power supply by means of the solar technology.
WikiAnswers - How many watts does a TV use
It depends on the type and age of the TV set, but a general answer is between 100 and 300 watts.
Showcase: [Unfavorable weather blamed on trace amounts of natural atmospheric gas] - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com
Mr. Grarup’s photographs were exhibited almost as soon as he took them. They appeared last December at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, as part of an exhibit by Noor, the 10-person photo agency that Mr. Grarup helped co-found.

The exhibit, “Consequences,” captured the calamitous effects of climate change that are occurring throughout the world — from Brazil, to British Columbia, to India, to the Horn of Africa.

“The strength of the project rests within its immediacy,” Mr. Grarup said. “It has an honesty to it.”
Jackson: EPA Climate Regs Coming in 2011 | Mother Jones
The Obama administration on Monday sent an ultimatum to the Senate: regulate carbon dioxide this year, or we'll do it for you.
The Monkey Cage: The Democrats are gonna get hammered
Recently, Harry Joe (who took a statistics course from Joe Bafumi at Dartmouth!) crunched the early poll numbers, does the adjustment based on the Bafumi/Erikson/Wlezien regression, and comes up with a forecast that the Republicans will win by 8 percentage points (that’s 54%-46%); that is, 1994 all over again, but this time without the benefit (yet) of any Newt Gingrich-like figure

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