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Mounting Government Debt Means Ever Increasing Taxes on Citizens

Published on 2012-05-08 17:31:48

For organizations to succeed, financial matters have to be clearly understood and managed appropriately. This would mean that organizations clearly understand their revenue projections on an annual basis and appropriate expenses accordingly. Personnel requirements, which can be a large part of the overall organizational spending, must be managed skilfully. In other words, personnel requirements must [...] > read more

Wind Measurement Limitations Explained with a Spinning Bucket Analogy

Published on 2010-11-07 16:59:07

Visualize a bucket filled with water half the way to facilitate mixing, covered with a lid.  Now, imagine this bucket spin out of control, jump, wobble, momentarily stop, and randomly resume any of these actions.  Begin drawing a drop of water fro > read more

What are “wind forces” and why one needs to worry about them?

Published on 2010-09-18 18:25:06

I just returned from a two-day workshop on wind resource assessment. The global wind energy community does not seem to be ready to face the difficult challenges posed by wind. In this context, the wind energy community should go beyond the current pr > read more

The Future of Wind Energy Assessment

Published on 2010-05-04 22:21:42

Successful wind energy assessment efforts require adequately established long-term (> 20 years) wind behavior at potential wind project sites. Measurements, from such traditional instruments as anemometers or from more advanced measurement platfo > read more

The Difficulty in Quantifying the Extent of Global Warming or Cooling

Published on 2010-02-27 22:09:30

I mentioned about the difficulty in understanding and quantifying future atmospheric states in one of my previous blogs (see http://jrstalker.wordpress.com ).  This blog elaborates on that difficulty with examples. Most of us, earth system and atmos > read more

What is often lost in the global warming debate?

Published on 2009-12-14 17:50:13

I had recently written on the ongoing global warming debate and why there are quite a number of scientists out there that are skeptical about global warming or cooling.  It is not that these scientists believe that there is no anthropogenic influe > read more

On the Global Warming Debate

Published on 2009-10-04 11:29:14

As most people are aware of the fact that there is ongoing heated debate among those who support gloabal warming and those who oppose it.  There is quite another group of scientists that belongs to neither category, simply because they believe th > read more