By Harry {doc} Babad, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. Revision 2 (corrected 1/2/2012) Introduction Over the years there has been On-N-Off again interest in using thorium rather then uranium to fuel our energy needs. The interest came in part because of the greater availability and more widely distributed quantities of thorium in the earths crust. [...]
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The Thorium Fuel Cycle – Technology Advantages
Posted: November 19, 2011 by docbabad in Academia, Environmental Posts, Rants and Raves, The Greening Continues, by Harry {doc} BabadTags: Advanced Fuel Cycle for the Future, Advanced Fuel Nuclear Cycles, Battery Nuclear Reactors, Factory Built Portable Reactors, Generation II-IV-V reactors, HLW Waste Minimization, Lowering Nuclear Energy Costs, Non-Proliferation, Nuclear India Leads the Way, Passive Reactor Safety Designs, Thorium Fuel Cycle
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Is Wind Power an Oxymoron? (February 27, 2011)
Posted: February 27, 2011 by docbabad in Academia, Environmental Posts, Rants and Raves, The Greening Continues, by Harry {doc} BabadTags: Harry {doc} Babad op ed, Jon Boone wind power articles, Master Resources the Free Energy Market Blog, Wind Power, wind power competitive?
By Harry {doc} Babad, © Copyright 2011. All Rights Reserved. I have lately been inundated by wind power articles, trying to convince me that (subsidized) wind power for the US, is the next best thing to sliced white bread. One of my thought, ignored by most commentators is that it does mater to me whether I [...]
Android Tablet vs Apple iPad (March 2, 2011)
Posted: February 7, 2011 by Mike Hubbartt in Academia, Hardware Reviews, Rants and RavesTags: Apple, Apple iPad, Freescale aPad IMX515, iPad, iPad 2.0, iPad vs Android, tablets and academics, using an Android tablet in school, using iPad in school
By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. iPad versus Android What is the fuss about tablets? Do we need them? Why or why not? How much do they cost? Which one should we buy? What is the supported hardware and software? How do we get more (software and hardware)? Can the operating system be [...]
Are Scientists Right About Global Warming? (November 28, 2010)
Posted: November 28, 2010 by Mike Hubbartt in Academia, Environmental Posts, Rants and RavesTags: global warming doubters, global warming skeptics, religious fundamentalists versus scientists, top ten reasons global warming is not true
By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. This post is my response to some of the supposed experts that claim scientists are wrong about global warming. I lack the credentials to speak with authority on global warming, however I trust experts from the scientific community more than ignorant politicians or political movements or big [...]
A Purrfect Holiday Gift:Safe, Secure and Polite Macin’ (November 13, 2010)
Posted: November 13, 2010 by Mike Hubbartt in Apple Mac Tips, Rants and RavesTags: computer user gift ideas, gifts for computer users, Harry Babad column, ideal Mac computer gifts, perfect gift ideas
By Harry {doc} Babad, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. Introduction: One of the two thing I dislike at the Holiday, read that gift giving season, is not knowing what to give my Macintosh using friends, that’s not just an out of the catalogs gift. The other is that I’m always short of cash and figuring [...]
Apple and Oracle Announce OpenJDK Project for OSX (November 12, 2010)
Posted: November 12, 2010 by Mike Hubbartt in Apple Mac Tips, Press Announcements, Rants and RavesTags: Apple, Lion will support Java 6, OpenJDK, Oracle, OSX Lion
By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. The Java Developer Mailing list has been buzzing about Apple’s recent announcement to deprecate Java. Apple even statied it would not include Java in the next version of OS X (Lion, due the middle or end of next year). Bad news for Java developers, educators, students, and [...]
Monckton Still Global Warming Skeptic (November 10, 2010)
Posted: November 10, 2010 by Mike Hubbartt in Academia, Environmental Posts, Rants and RavesTags: Abraham vs Monckton, amateur scientists, anti-science, Christopher Monckton, doubts global warming, Father Dennis Dease, global warming, non scientific facts, rants and raves, The Scroll article about Monckton, University of St. Thomas, UST Professor argues for global warming
By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. A few months ago I wrote a short piece how a Scottish non-scientist named Chris Monckton has been traveling the globe denying global warming using unverifiable or misrepresented facts. Professor John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering posted a point-by-point rebuttal to one [...]
