Properly managed rotational cattle grazing systems that mimic wild herds actually sequesters huge amounts of carbon.

I frequently use NX and have just now performed a side by side test which at least shows for my situation that NX is better than VNC. I've got two identical PC's on a local network, each running ubuntu 10.04 updated. Local machine has two flat screen displays, I've got an NX full screen connection on the right display, and a VNC full screen connection on the left. The remote machine is used to access some graphical waveform control screens. Output of top shows VNC (vinagre) is using 8% of CPU compared to 4% of CPU for NX (nxssh). Both are using same amount of memory at 0.6%. Just moving the mouse around in the window shows the difference between the two, the mouse pointer movement is smooth on the NX display and jumpy on VNC. Windows open immediately on the NX display and are slow to display on VNC. I tried VNC with and without JPEG compression option and it made no apparent difference.

Actually, it's a dielectric insulating material such as teflon, not a semiconductor. I've got a three phase 500 kV TVA overhead power transmission line that goes across my property, I would be very happy indeed if they could come up with a way to safely bury that thing. It's ugly, it restricts what I can do with my property, it makes hissing and buzzing noises, and it will charge up nearby materials that can zap you.

My wife and I homeschool our kids in Tennessee. We love it and so far it is working great for our family. As required by state law we are registered, we have an appropriate curriculum, and we maintain records. Every year we pay to have our children take the national standardized tests, and our kids test well above the local and national averages.

In our local home-school group we have two families that have a parent who is a public school teacher. We know some families that do a fantastic job home-schooling, and unfortunately we also know some that do a less than stellar job. The same thing applies with public schools, some are good, others not so great.

We know the people involved in the home-school political asylum court case. In Germany, the government has taken kids away from parents who home-schooled. The family fled Germany to avoid that fate. I'm very glad to hear that this family has won in the courts and will be allowed to stay in the US and home-school their children.

Absolutely correct. Lawn seed mixes used to contain clover. Now people consider clover to be a weed and are quick to apply herbicides to kill it. People seem to think that a proper lawn is a sterile monoculture of KY31 fescue. Au contraire. On my East Tennessee farm I seed red and white clover into my cool season perennial grass pastures in the spring. Clover is a legume plant that is very nutritious and much desired by horses, cows, deer, turkey, etc. Clover will grow in the heat of summer when grass production slows. Clover fixes nitrogen into the soil so one does not need to apply nitrogen fertilizer in the spring. This practice prevents nitrogen fertilizer runoff from getting into the waterways. Also as OP pointed out, bees love clover.

If solar technology and price were close to being competitive with conventional energy (coal in my case) then you would see many small solar deployments by consumers as well as large solar deployments by businesses and even power utilities themselves.

Absolutely correct, mod this up! It's all about choices and sacrifices. My wife and I chose to live on a single income and home-school our children. It's working out great for our family.

My wife and I in fact do home-school our kids and it is working out very well for our family. We drive an SUV to transport the kids to their various activities; karate, dance, field trips, etc.

What Obama tax cut for those making less than $250k are you referring to? We know that Obama has raised the tobacco tax which affects 20-25% of Americans, 16 days into his presidency, so he has already back tracked on his pledge to not raise taxes on 95% of Americans.

The key here is the solar heat gain through the glass windows of the car. Old cars had less window area, that would be a good thing to reduce the heat gain from our mobile "greenhouses". Existing vehicles could be retrofitted with reflective white or silver tape/coating material applied on the outside of the glass to reduce effective glass area. Have you seen school buses lately? They are yellow on the sides and white on top. Why might that be? Development/implementation of glass with better heat rejection performance would be helpful. A small solar powered vent could remove heated air from the passenger compartment while the vehicle was parked and the inside temperature rose above a certain setpoint.

We built a superconducting heat engine; it involved a liquid nitrogen bath, a powerful yoke magnet with mu metal, and a disk with high temperature superconductors placed around the outside of the disk. A horizontal axle goes through the center of the disk, the bottom of the disk is immersed in liquid nitrogen. Give the disk a little push to start it rotating, then it will continue to run by itself. The warm superconductor enters the liquid nitrogen, the magnetic field passes through the superconductor. The superconductor cools and begins to superconduct and the magnetic flux no longer passes through the superconductor, it now generates a force which rotates the disk. We also improved the project by adding diagnostics.

Another interesting undergrad project I did was to build a cosmic hodoscope. This involved scintillator paddles, dark boxes, optical fibers, photomultipliers, and timing electronics. When constructed one arranged two scintillator paddles such that if a cosmic particle passed through them it would cause light to bounce around the scintillator, into the optical fiber, to the photomultiplier tube, and to the electronics. If the electronics detected a signal from both scintillators within a given timing gate then we counted that as a cosmic particle that passed through both scintillators. One can get fancy with readouts, computers, and arrangement of the scintillators.

OK, it appears that we've established that jobs are created by those with wealth; thereby validating the trickle down theory and not the bottom up theory.

You asked if the wealthy business owner earns an additional $3 million this year, how much will you get? Let me turn it around, if the wealthy business owner loses $3 million this year how much will you owe?