Ramblings & ephemera
From Brendan I. Koerner’s “Is a Dishwasher a Green Machine?” (Slate: 22 April 2008):
To really green up your automatic dishwashing, you should always use the air-drying function, avoid the profligate “rinse hold” setting, wash only full loads, and install the machine far away from your refrigerator.
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Just promise that you’ll scrape your dishes instead of pre-rinsing, [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Imagining Abrupt Climate Change : Terraforming Earth” (Amazon Shorts: 31 July 2005):
This view, by the way, was in keeping with a larger and older paradigm called gradualism, the result of a dramatic and controversial paradigm shift of its own from the nineteenth century, one that is still a contested part of [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Popular Mechanics‘ “How far can you drive on a bushel of corn?“:
It is East Kansas Agri-Energy’s ethanol facility, one of 100 or so such heartland garrisons in America’s slowly gathering battle to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. The plant processes about 13 million bushels of corn to produce approximately 36 million gal. of [...]
Posted on May 9th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Happiness: The Chinese zombie ships of West Africa“:
We’re in the big African Queen inflatable, cruising alongside an anchored trawler. It’s more rust than metal - the ship is rotting away. The foredeck is covered in broken machinery. The fish deck is littered with frayed cables, and the mast lies horizontally, hanging over the starboard [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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