Thursday, December 27, 2007

The Last Man on Earth Is Not Alone

I loved the 70's version when I was a kid


The new version was even better

Sunday, December 9, 2007

I'm Green, so shut up already!

Benefits.
Compared to gasoline only vehicles, flex-fuel vehicles produce:
Lower carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions
Lower levels of hydrocarbon and non-methane hydrocarbon emissions
About the same or lower oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions
Fewer evaporative emissions because they have fewer highly volatile components
Ethanol is a high octane fuel (pure ethanol is 113 octane). It is beneficial in engines that are designed to operate on higher octane fuels
If E85 is blended with 15% gasoline, the octane level of E85 is higher than premium gasoline Performance




Found an EH 85 station in Longview, only 40 miles away versus the 100 miles to Portland. Getting closer.

Friday, December 7, 2007

Pictures of the (not quite) Perfect Storm














Hurricane Who?

Our storms aren't important enough to be named by anybody. We just went through three days of Hurricane whatsitsname with winds over 120 mph for 24 straight hours as just a part of the thing. The other two days the wind was only up to 100 mph. It is day 7 of the event as I write this, or day 4 of the aftermath if you prefer. We got power back at my house night before last. Most of Clatsop, Lincoln, Columbia, and Pacific(WA)counties are still without service. We got cell phone service back late yesterday, and the internet popped up about two seconds ago. Jacq sent me a text and said that Astoria was mentioned once, briefly, on the Weather Channel. I'll post this now so that people know we are alive. Internet service will be spotty at best for the next several days.