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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: James on November 05, 2010, 06:47:31 AM
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The Obama administration made Solyndra, a solar-power manufacturing company, a symbol of its “green jobs” push in the Porkulus program. Barack Obama himself toured the factory, as did Barbara Boxer. Taxpayers ended up sinking $535 million into building Solyndra a new facility that promised to add jobs in the clean-energy sector. Instead, now that Solyndra has its new facility, it’s closing another older facility and will lay off dozens of employees and cancel the contracts for 150 more contract workers.
In other words, we invested $535 million into a company that apparently couldn’t compete on a price basis with its foreign competition.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/11/05/stimulus-follies-535-million-down-the-drain-in-california-in-green-jobs/
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I was just going to post this gem!
I'm going to copy it and throw it into my economy thread for later reference.
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At least one business is being stimulated: Emergency Interstate Movers Co.
Lone Star on November 5, 2010 at 9:48 AM
Unreal
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Unbelievable. This is so sad. Pathetic.
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I think we'll see less of this now come January. haha
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UNH scientists to study cow burps . . . and more
By CLYNTON NAMUO
New Hampshire Union Leader Correspondent
Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010
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DURHAM – University of New Hampshire and outside researchers are creating a computer model to help organic dairy farmers cut greenhouse gas emissions such as methane, because Beano probably isn't an option.
Nitrogen- and carbon-based greenhouse gases are produced via a complicated system at dairy farms that is affected by everything from the weather to the soil to the feed to cow burps, among other things.
"Cows emit most of their methane through belching, only a small fraction from flatulence," said the project's principal investigator, Ruth Varner of UNH's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space.
UNH has been awarded a $700,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to create a computer model that measures the amount of greenhouse gases an organic dairy farm produces and thus provide ways to cut those emissions.
UNH has won a $700,000 to grant to study greenhouse gas emissions from organic dairies, which are cause by cow burps, among other things. (COURTESY)
Varner said the study will focus on the waste streams at farms. Using UNH's own organic dairy farm as a testing ground, researchers will measure things like how spreading manure on pastures will affect the amount of greenhouse gases produced.
The idea is to use the various factors to create a computer model that farmers can use to plug in data for their own farms.
"The real goal is to get a decision support tool that captures the very complicated biology of these systems and uses rigorous science that can support the model results," said Bill Salas, president of Applied GeoSolutions LLC, which is creating the computer model.
Salas said even small changes in the system -- such as changing what type of feed animals receive -- can ripple through the system and affect how much greenhouse gas is made.
There are many ways to cut how much gas is produced, such as leaving manure out rather than putting it in water, Salas said. The question is how to do it best at an organic dairy. What works for one dairy may not work for another, he said.
The computer model will be tested with Londonderry-based Stonyfield Farms and Organic Valley, of Wisconsin.
The grant will also be used to create programs meant to improve the competitiveness of organic livestock and crops, which tend to be significantly more expensive.
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I think Obama should resign. He's just been terrible in every way possible.. :'(