Biofuel and switch grass

"Bill Belden says many of the hurdles of the project have been cleared -- harvesting switchgrass, developing a system for grinding it, burning it with coal, and improving plant emissions. Still, the biggest challenge is the economic one. Right now, coal is about $20 a ton, delivered to this plant 125 rail cars at a time., five times a week "Comparatively speaking, coal is still dirt cheap," says Belden. Proportionally, the price of coal hasn't risen as fast as crude oil at $72 a barrel, and at this stage the economics don't really favor replacing coal with switchgrass. However, Alliant Energy is a forward-thinking regional power company that wants to be proactive on new sources of energy. "This energy plant here is the biggest and most modern boiler in the Alliant fleet," says Belden. "They gave us that to work with. We couldn't have done this without them."

[biofuel switch grass]

ID Theft........

[ID theft]

Able Danger........

[Able Danger]

Bill Roggio/ Afghanistan

[Roggio Afghanistan]

Harmless mistake or something else? -they didn't seem to know what country they were from.......

Mark Steyn

[Mark Steyn]

The criminals should be looking over their shoulders not law abiding citizens-

Crime beat- 79 year old mugged in park at knifepoint-dies -Politicians better wake up

[crime]

Weston/(-the way the Liberals squandered taxpayer funds via Sponsorships and the gun registry- they wouldn't know a good deal for

beleaguered Canadians if they tripped over it. Why didn't they pick it up for about $30 million when they had a chance ?-bearing in mind they were running a $9 billion surplus- after all they paid money for nothing when it came to some Sponsorship contracts)............

An example of costs

Gun registry

[gun registry]

Laundering- 2-5% of GDP

"The figures he presented on the scale of money laundering was mindblowing. World-wide, money laundering could amount to between two to five percent of world GDP - between $590 billion - $1.5 trillion, according to IMF figures.

He said about £25 billion of criminal assets is laundered through UK financial system every year, UK Government estimate, said.".....


[laundering]

Border smuggling- some weapons are smuggled but the triggermen are Canadian

[border smuggling]

Powerline- Iran

419eater- or how to get back at scammers......not for novices

[419 scam]