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...Energy a Breeze? I thought I had come to a typo in your article "Got Wind?" when I read about the Michigander who spent $16,000 to get a wind turbine that "can generate 1.5 kilowatts ... enough to power the average lightbulb for 15 hours" [Dec. 1]. And that, he admits, is on a day with "decent wind." A few nuclear plants can power more lightbulbs than that, and you don't have to sit around waiting for a breeze. Americans need to look at how France is getting nearly 80% of its electricity. Stephanie Gutmann, Piermont, New York...
...buddhist-dominated Thailand, people understand the concept of a long cycle of suffering before salvation. Yet even the faithful must be tiring of the farcical merry-go-round of Thai politics. On Dec. 2, a Thai court dissolved the People Power Party (PPP) because of electoral fraud, ending Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's tenure as the country's third premier in 2008. After more than two years in political crisis, Thailand is back to square...
...court decision was greeted with euphoria by thousands of antigovernment protesters who had blockaded Bangkok's two airports for over a week and had previously besieged the Prime Minister's office complex for months. On Dec. 3 the opposition People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) declared victory and vacated the airports, bringing hope that some 300,000 stranded tourists could leave. But the PAD vows to restart its campaign if the country's next leader is linked with the dissolved government - and, more specifically, with ex - Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
...leaders failed to fulfill one of their basic functions: to secure calm and order in a crisis. Police and army leaders gave out little information to the public, and Mumbai's police chief, Hasan Gafoor, gave his first press conference to the hundreds of journalists gathered in Mumbai on Dec. 2, six days after the attacks. In the absence of any official line, sensational cable-television broadcasts and newspapers were full of anonymous police sources giving out conflicting information about the number of terrorists, the number of hostages, the number of people trapped and the progress of the siege...
...Dec. 2, Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle and her state's largest utility endorsed plans to build more than 70,000 recharging stations for electric vehicles by 2012. The project, expected to cost upwards of $70 million, calls for a public-private partnership with the California-based battery maker Better Place, which will build the stations and supply batteries to those who choose to buy or lease an electric car. Lingle hailed the plan as a major step in curbing emissions and rising energy costs. The state needs to do something; it spends nearly $7 billion each year on imported...