Saturday, July 09, 2005

Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

Watching WCCA Channel 13 (Worcester Community Access) on P-in-P with C-SPAN w/ Clinton and Ted Turner talking about energy independence and, lo and behold, WCCA was showing how Massachusetts is working on energy independence by various means:

  • recovering old water-power from old paper mills that had dammed water power
  • using biomass
  • photovoltaics
  • biomass
  • wind
There were a series of small 10 minute shows on the various power generation technologies.

On C-SPAN, I still remain amazed at how much detailed information Clinton can keep in his head. Of course, he is well read, but the things that I would point out as an engineer (relative inefficiency in coal-powered turbines, for example) is something that he brought up in his initial talk. He just has a great way to tell a story and make an issue real for people listening.

Anyway, check out the website for the Mass. Technology Collaborative.

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