There’s a pretty cool story about the Korean tidal energy project at Sihwa Lake. Here’s the net: Success! The International Hydropower Association has an interesting overview of the project: The 552.7 GWh of [annual] electricity generated from Sihwa tidal power plant is equivalent to 862,000 barrels of oil, or 315,000 tons of CO2 – the […]
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In the previous BLOTT, we looked at a hypothetical WLBOTT langar meal. Let’s look at some number. Ingredients Costs Here’s the daily and annual cost breakdown for serving 100,000 meals per day at the WLBOTT langar: Daily Cost: Annual Cost (365 Days): Summary: Time Period Total Cost Per Meal $2.91 Per Day (100,000 meals) $291,000 […]
Yesterday morning, I was checking out the Texas electrical grid (ERCOT), to see if the previous night’s snowfall was going to cause problems. Sally T. Intern braves the 1/4″ of snow this morning to get to her paying job. Her hard-currency income is essential for the day-to-day operational expenses of WLBOTT. The grid looks like […]
The book that’s making the rounds among senior leadership at WLBOTT is An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity by Professors Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen. Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity’s future will be defined not […]
A Morning Greeting from Elder G It does sound like a lovely day. How about metanoia for today’s word? It means a profound transformation of heart or change in one’s way of life, often associated with spiritual or personal growth. It feels like a fitting word for the theme of transformation we’re all working on […]
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Texas Heat / Texas Corn
The same year that the Elders gathered in Snook, Texas to consume chicken fried bacon, a terrible wildfire scorched Bastrop State Park (September and October 2011). The Drought Jeff Goodell, in his book The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, talks with a south Texas farmer about a drought-ravaged […]
A question we are often asked: “Just how high are the Elders?” Let’s explore. (Thanks to topigraphic-maps.com and UC#1) Edmonton Darwin, Minnesota (World’s Largest Ball of Twine) Santa Barbara, Ca. Maryland and D.C. HousTex CenTex Snook, Texas (Chicken Fried Bacon) Oslo, Norway Austin, Minnesota (Spam Museum) Greenland Oh, Grow Up! Phuket, Thailand Lake Titicaca, Peru […]
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Ice, Austin Style
Jeff Goodell’s book The Heat Will Kill You First is proving to be fascinating. As an Austin resident, he is able to describe global climate change and give recent examples from south and central Texas [ed. note: WLBOTT corporate headquarters is located in Central Texas]. Droughts, floods, hurricanes, crop loss, but perhaps most bizarrely, the […]
Yesterday’s BLOTT described the reference to the Yeat’s poem “The Second Coming” in the introduction Jeff Goodell’s book The Heat Will Kill You First. I think we need to look at a few more peripheral issues before diving into the poem. The Pillaging of Poetry “The Second Coming” may well be the most thoroughly pillaged piece […]
I recently began reading the excellent book The Heat Will Kill You First, by Jeff Goodell. Executive summary: We’re doomed. Goodell dedicates some of the book to discussing air conditioning and how this technology has allowed people to live in hotter climates but also has become a major contributor to global warming. Goodell explains how […]