Friday, November 28, 2008
Delivering Wind Turbines To Duluth
Although the economy may hurt the shipment of commodities, transporting the components of the new economy is sure to keep the shipping lanes around Neebish Island busy.
See: Wind power is pushing Duluth port to a new age
See: Wind power is pushing Duluth port to a new age
The Duluth Seaway Port Authority reported this year that transportation of wind turbines was the single largest factor in making fiscal year 2007 its most profitable.
"The growth is explosive," Paulson said. "There were times this season when we were moving 12 windmills a day. It's become the major portion of our heavy-lift business."
A Possible Solution To Invasive Mussels
Biopesticide may solve zebra mussel problem
This is good news for power plants but the biopesticide will not work in open waters:
This is good news for power plants but the biopesticide will not work in open waters:
the biopesticide could also be in other contained places, such as fish hatcheries, but right now there is no way to use it in a large open water body. “That’s still unexplored,” he said, adding that it would be possible to seal in a marina and flood it with the biopesticide to kill the mussels.
Labels: invasive species
The Spread Of VHS
See: Regulatory action needed now to stop the spread of VHS into Lake Superior
A new map... produced by Geoff Maas of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, makes frighteningly clear why we need immediate action to stop the unregulated discharge of ballast water from spreading invasive species in the Great Lakes. Since 2003, the invasive fish disease Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) has spread through four of the five Great Lakes, with only Lake Superior still unharmed.
A Vertical Wind Turbine
Are you thinking about wind or solar energy for your Neebish Island cottage? There's a new wind "tower" that won a Popular Science 'Best Of What's New' award. It is the Windspire.
It is 30 feet tall and two feet wide and has a starting price of $5000.
Looks like we are on the verge of finding new and affordable self-sufficient electricity.
It is 30 feet tall and two feet wide and has a starting price of $5000.
Looks like we are on the verge of finding new and affordable self-sufficient electricity.
Labels: cottage
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Bad News For UP Tourism
Via PetNewsReview: Mackinac Bridge traffic decrease persists
Robert J. Sweeney, executive secretary of the Mackinac Bridge Authority, reported Nov. 13, that traffic flow was down for the 10th month in a row this year
Labels: Mackinac-Bridge, toursim
