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It’s raining.

Attitude + altitude = #avl

“Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear”

Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear
A surprising aerodynamic innovation in wind turbine design called the ‘wind lens’ could triple the output of a typical wind turbine, making it less costly than nuclear power.

Great news! But keep in mind, this is still just a render. IT’S NOT ACTUALLY IN PRODUCTION, which means it’s hard to make those kinds of statements. I can make a model say whatever I want, it doesn’t mean the system can actually produce that. The last thing our industry needs is more unfulfilled promises. Just look at the $500 million mistake of Solyndra…

(Source: http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/japanese-breakthrough-will-make-wind-power-cheaper-than-nuclea)

So the morning commute starts a bit early

Fog burning off as the sun rises

Quote: “Warhol is beloved by the right and the left for exactly the same reason…”

Warhol is beloved by the right and the left for exactly the same reason: he performed a ritual purging which seemed to deprive the art work of its complexity, freeing both those in power and those fascinated by it to talk about what really interests them, namely power in the land of commerce.

—Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, BOMB 21, 1987

You can never have too many markers

You can never have too many markers.

My marker habit is getting heavy. (via dallasclayton)

Today’s morning commute

(Taken with instagram)

(Source: http://instagr.am/p/PEw57/)

Blog Breakdown

newyorker:

Cartoon of the Day. Don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest.

(Source: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/caption/)

Quiet day on the #avltransit bus route

Tonight at @FirestormCafe Songs of the Strong Heart

(Source: http://instagr.am/p/OxYjT/)

A reminder that the seasons are in transition.

theatlantic:

Can the Middle Class Be Saved?

The Great Recession has accelerated the hollowing-out of the American middle class. And it has illuminated the widening divide between most of America and the super-rich. Both developments herald grave consequences. Here is how we can bridge the gap between us.

Read our September cover story at The Atlantic

(Source: http://theatlantic.com/magazine)

What can I say… #avltransit bus stops are… an adventure.

thenewrepublic:

There’s more new census data out and, as Jonathan Cohn writes, “one in six Americans are extremely poor. … If you want to find a year when the poverty rate was significantly higher, you have to go all the way back to the early 1960s, before enactment of the Great Society.”

Read more, here.

Courtesy of the AtlanticWire

(Source: http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/94875/poverty-census-insurance-2010-median-income-obama-jobs)