Annual US Wind Power Capacity

Here is a chart showing Annual Wind Capacity for the US [United States], note the large increase in the last few years. So what is T. Boone Pickens [blog link] talking about, there seems to be a lot of wind power activity.

Related; Wind Power Capacity per state map.

Wind Resources in the US

The attached map of the United States shows the available wind resources in the US. The map colors indicate the amount of wind power available, with blue indicating the highest wind speeds. The color red indicates the next highest wind speed, followed by purple, pink, and orange. Map credit; US Department of Energy.

Compare this map with the one that shows Wind Power Capacity. The two maps seem to track, as the states with the highest wind speed also have the most wind generation plants.

The Pickens Plan, Wind Power

I joined the Pickens Plan today. A grass roots movement started by T. Boone Pickens to promote wind power to try and reduce oil imports.

The idea is to support and promote wind power to produce electricity, freeing up natural gas currently used by power plants so the gas could be used for cars. Vehicles using natural gas would not require petroleum, which is all imported.

A Space Coast FL group was started on their site; engineering for wind.

Previous posts;
Are we really running out of oil?
Why we import oil.
Peak Oil and the end of gas [US Wind generation / capacity map]
Why Gas costs so much [National Petroleum Reserve map]

Googlebot Crawl Stats

Here is the latest graph showing Googlebot activity in the last 90 days crawling interfacebus.com. It appear that the web site was off-line back in April and the spider stopped coming by for a few days. At most the site was off-line for less than a half day.

The same page that provides this data also shows a bar chart of pages with page rank 'PR'. There are four columns; High, Medium, Low, and Not yet assigned. I can't really tell if I have any pages ranked as high (above PR 5), as I can only see a sliver of color. Medium (PR 5) may contain a few pages, at least the index page. Most pages show as low (below PR5). What I don't see is any pages listed as 'not yet assigned', which has always showed many pages in the past. So Google has ranked all or most of the new pages that have been added to the web site ~ and that tells me I have stopped adding pages at the same rate I had been.

47" Flat Panel HDTV

Purchased a new High Definition Television [HDTV] a few weeks back. A Westinghouse 1080p HDTV; TX-47F430S.

I just got around to connecting my Alienware PC to it, Wow. Makes the two monitors in front of me look like toys. Has a lot of input connectors, I like that.... It does not seem to want to do Picture-in-Picture, 'PIP' yet. Maybe the VGA connection does not count as a video input.

The year old 27" HDTV I was using went bad. I just gave that away when it got stuck one one channel, I figured the remote went south. Turns out most of the sets had the same problem.

The 47" is a bit large for my office, but not so big. I'm currently using a Velocity Micro as the main PC

Link checking and SEO stuff

Hmm, I've been hand checking some pages and have found some bad links on the web site. Maybe I rely to much on Xenu to check the links on the site.

I see some old re-directs that have been fixed, just to clear the redundant listings. But what I'm more concerned about are the dozen pages found that point to the isp, indicating that the web site is gone. I assume that the Xenu robot does not detect those changes ...... That's not good. Still a few bad links out of 5,000 isn't that bad.

Open Source Office Applications

To my surprise I found a few free office type applications today (web based). Server side applications are fine, assuming we don't lose the internet connection. This link provides a listing of office tools, both local and server side.

Here are the addresses to these new application;
http://www.spresent.com/
http://product.thinkfree.com/
http://www.zoho.com/

The 'zoho' seems to show the most promise, I'll down-load or sign in now....... I'm in!