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Entergy announced this morning that "that effective immediately it plans to unwind the business infrastructure associated with the proposed separate non-utility nuclear generation and nuclear services companies while it evaluates and works to preserve its legal rights."
Whoa. Big news. If only I could figure out what that means.
It has something to do with our intention to "unwind the internal organizations created for Enexus Energy Corporation and EquaGen LLC to eliminate dis-synergies." Eww. Dis-synergies. Kill them before they multiply.
Anyway, gossip around here has it that Enexus is dead. New York State didn't like it, and the Vermont legislature killed a measure to support Vermont Yankee in a license extension. So there's a pause in the PR battle. For me, today is the day that the earth stood still.
"Klaatu barada nikto," is what I have to say about that.
I'm going home. Maybe I'll take a stress pill and lie down. Then tomorrow when I come back, I'll join my colleagues in "moving forward on the business side to create and capture value unrealized today." Whatever.
Amen,
Fake-Rob
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I have several suggestions for conserving energy, once Vermont is free.
Never travel
Do not own a car.
Wear long underwear
Get used to a cold house in winter
Get used to a hot house in summer
Walk to work (if under 20 miles)
Bike to work (if between 20 & 100 miles).
Eat raw food.
Grow your own produce.
Fertilize it with your own poop.
Invite indigent families to live with you.
(they make a great labor source).
Have no more than one child.
If you can, have zero children.
Wear only used clothing.
Bathe no more than once per month.
Drink only from running streams.
Hunt to supplement protein intake.
Fish to supplement food intake.
Visit garbage dumps, and seek found materials.
Grow your own smoking substances.
Use no TV’s, Radio’s, Ipods, etc.
Learn story telling as your only entertainment.
Learn to craft stone knives out of flint.
Learn to craft arrows out of sticks.
Dig a hole for a sod hut in which to live.
Teach your children at home.
Get plenty of tattoos, to identify neighborhood affiliations.
Borrow a lot.
Steal , if it can be gotten away with.
Codify just which neighbors may be stolen from.
Learn to track animals.
Learn to set animal traps.
Fashion clothing from animal skins.
Start a huge dance festival on the summer solstice.
Build a stone circle for use on the solstice.
Pick recalcitrant neighbors, to be sacrificed at the ceremony.
For entertainment, sit outside at night stargazing.
While stargazing, remain submerged in water up to the neck
to avoid mosquito attack.
Learn all 176 alternate verses to “Kumbaya"
I have different suggestions for conserving energy.
We have to take back the power and the responsibility for our energy use.
The TIME is NOW to make the changes we need in the amount of greenhouse gases we emit.
We need extensive conservation and energy efficiency measures at all levels of business and government to reduce our energy use and thereby reduce our carbon emissions.
Read Carbon Free and Nuclear Free: A Roadmap for US energy policy. online for free!!
http://carbonfreenuclearfree.org/
We need 80% reduction by 2030.
Each of us needs to take personal responsibility for our carbon load.
check your carbon load here http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html
Change ALL your light bulbs to CFL's or LED's!
Turn lights off that are not being used!
Plug appliances into power strips that are REALLY shut OFF. TV, DVD, Stereo, Computer...
Turn up the AC.
Turn down the heat.
Insulate, Insulate, Insulate
Replace with Energy Star appliances-washer, fridge, dishwasher
Hang clothes out to dry.
Install solar thermal hot water collectors.
Install solar PV.
Setup a water collection system with the rain gutters. use to water the garden and lawn.
Grow vegetables for food. organically.
Join a CSA or shop at farmer's markets.
Recycle everything.
Buy used.
Don't buy from overseas.
Use cloth bags and reuse.
Eat locally.
Reduce Meat consumption.
Drive 55mph.
Walk, ride a bike to shop, work, play.
Don't fly.
Take the train.
We are down to 3 kwhr per day. The national average is 29kwhr/day. Where are you?
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html
Check your electric bill. Do a few of these things and check your next months bill. It really doesn't take much to reduce!!
Look into the Transition Town Movement for organizing communities to action.
http://www.transitiontowns.org/
Try the Low Carbon Diet!
http://www.empowermentinstitute.net/lcd/
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