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Wandlore is a rubbish craft skill, but you already knew that: The new free DLC added a new sixth level to all of the crafting skills. That's Great-- if you're a tinker or a smith. Alchemy doesn't really benefit because it has few level six recipes, and wandlore doesn't get anything except for a few points of aetherial damage and some magic resist. To say that wandlore is unpopular would be an understatement. compared to the other craft skills, wand lore is the biggest inventory management headache, and it provides the weakest benefits. The number of cross class skills that are required to exploit wandlore is a bit tough, only supassed by the inventory headaches the player has to deal with to get any benefit from crafting wands. The goal of this thread is to provide real, implementable solutions for improving wandlore; the scope of this thread includes overall design goals as well as specifics, such as wand recipe recommendations and new wand ideas. The end product of this discussion should be .xml data that Gaslamp developers can paste directly into dredmor or possibly a community wandlore improvement mod. What should be in the Wand Lore overhaul?: 1. Fix wands so they act exactly like abilities and can use any spell type (targetfloor, item, etc) The most limiting factor with wands is that they can only target monsters or players. This means that wands can only be used for applications like hostile missiles,targeted template spells, buffs, and healing effects. There is a lot of potential for new, different kinds of wands if the code was changed to allow wands to target the floor and walls. This would greatly expand the list of things that modders and developers could do with a wand item. 2. Simplify wand recipes. Simply put, there is way too much variety in the required ingredients for wandlore recipes. No other craft skill has to deal with the intricate demands of the wandlore skill. While this aspect of wandlore could be finely tuned to offer different options based on the player's other skills, some recipes are simply ridiculous in what the require the player to produce. Rock Wand and Deciduous Wands are notorious examples of recipes that are simply too complicated for most players to get, and the payoff for making them is simply not worth it. 3. Make min-max charges less random for wandcrafters Some of the best wands can be obtained at wandcrafting level 2. There is little benefit to having more than one or two points invested in the wandlore skill (and you don't even need to take wandlore if you have a skill like rogue scientist). There ought to be a benefit to wand crafters having a higher wandlore skill, even if they take the skill only to produce the lower tier wands. One proposed solution to this problem would be to add duplicate wands of the same type flagged with special="1", that can only be produced by using the craft recipe at a certain skill level. These higher tier wands will have the same name (perhaps modified by a +1, 2 ,3 etc or some other naming convention) and will have a larger number of availiable charges. NOTE: for this recommendation to work, the code dealing with how wands randomly spawn in the dungeon needs to be fixed so that wands flagged with special="1" don't spawn in the dungeon. This was a problem with potions too, as i recall. 4. Add more varieties of wands Simply put, there aren't enough wands in the game to make wandlore a worthwhile skill. Perhaps once the coding limitations are removed from wands, it would be possible to make wands that do different kinds of effects, like digging, teleportation, and summoning creatures. Furthermore, the wand lore crafting recipes can be tailored to offer good synergies with a variety of other skills, like game hunter (wands that require meats), fungal arts (wands that require mushrooms), alchemy (wands that require potions) and tinkering (wands that require tinkering components). Obviously there should be some debate over the relative strength of the wand versus the resource cost to produce it, and this point requires lots of specific brainstorming (recipes, spell effects, spritework, etc) Hopefully I've laid out the big ideas that everybody agrees with. Once there are some concrete Ideas we can start writing xml for spell effects and recipes.
Am I wrong in thinking that wands scale to your magic power, just like their matching spells do? It seems like wands are pretty useless for that reason unless you're already playing a mage. They should do a fixed amount of damage, or one that scales to the dungeon level or something.
wands do scale with your magic power, but you don't have to be a mage to use them. Mage spells require lots of mana whereas wands do not. Rogues that aren't wearing heavy armor can use wands just as easily as mages.
At least a couple of the wands, particularly Arcane Wand, are just straight damage dealers, but they do barely any damage if you're a melee character with no magic power. I guess you could argue either way on whether the power of the wand should be inherent in the wand or something that mages are better at drawing out, but I think it's a factor that contributes to the current weakness of wands.
Given the "certain abilities" that dbaumgart ascribed to my hat, I have a vested interest in seeing Wandcrafting become more potent. Of your four main proposals, Ruigi, I think #2 is the most vital. Coincidentally, it's also the easiest for Gaslamp to implement, as it requires only minor xml tweaks not major new lines of code. The existing recipes just don't make me want to take wandcrafting at all, because it looks like a terrible inventory headache for honestly not that much gain. Simplifying the recipes would do wonders. #1 and #4 would be, as I see it, the next most important parts after #2. Opening up new ways to use wands, such as targeting walls or items, would be really good, and it's something the modding community would embrace whole-heartedly. Gaslamp could get away just making two or three new wands on their own, one for each major class of target. The one part of your proposal that I'm not sold on is #3. It actually seems at odds with #2. If the recipes were simplified and achievable, there'd be a lot less need for wand charge control. Or so I think, but I'll admit I don't have a lot of experience with wandcrafting. More important than proposal #3, I think, would be making wands more useful to non-wizards. Especially now that the DLC increases the odds of playing a rogue with a few points of wandcrafting. Towards that end, here's proposal #5: Change all (damaging) wands to use slightly alternate versions of the spells they do currently. Alternate versions that, instead of scaling to Magic Power, have a slightly higher base damage, and then scale very aggressively to Wandcrafting. So wands would only be good if you take some levels of wandcrafting. It would be an improvement over how things stand at the moment: which is that most wands are useless to most characters. As onesandzeroes pointed out, many of the wands are very dependent on your magic power, which makes them a bad choice for rogues and warriors. In my experience, wizards don't really care too much about wands either, because they usually have enough mana to fuel spells of their own that are every bit as effective. I suppose with Dredmor himself now doing mana drains and antimagic, perhaps some wands are more useful late game backup item then they once were. Just the same, they're certainly not improved enough to justify taking an entire tree that you'll really only use to prep for the final battle.
The issue that point #3 is attempting to address has to do with the issue of players not needing more than a small amount of wandlore skill for most applications. The most important wands can be crafted at levels 2 and 3, and you don't really get much benefit from investing more skill points than that. Your idea to enhance wand damage with the wandlore skill is actually something that I implement in the new expansion wands.
Oh. That makes sense. Somehow, I didn't get that. Looking back, it seems really clear now. Did you edit the post, or did I just read it way too fast this morning? Still not 100% sold that charges are the way to get that emphasis, since making the recipes simpler will also give you access to more of each wand. It would be a step in the right direction, though, and at this point clearly wandcrafting needs whatever we can give it. EDIT: Just wanted to make it crystal clear that I am completely in agreement with your central thesis in this thread. I think your points # 1, 2 and 4 are excellent and would be a huge help to the game. The one I disagree with a tiny bit (#3) certainly wouldn't be bad for the game if it were implemented, so I'm not really trying to argue against it. I just consider it somewhat lower priority than the others. For the record, I think this problem has been over-stated. Not by you, and certainly not here in this thread, just in general by the modding community. When I complained to someone nameless about how their potions were coming up too often and disrupting game balance, they replied to me that there was nothing they could do about it because special="1" doesn't work on potions. So I opened up the files and added it to every one of their potions in my copy of the mod. The number of times these potions spawned dropped by about 80% or so. I can't quite rule out the RNG messing with me, but it seems to me like special="1" is more functional on potions than the prevailing modder wisdom expects it to be. Haemetic Phylactery is a great example of how subtle the problem is. It shows up in starting inventories from time to time, and on the dungeon floor once in a blue moon, but over the course of the multiple runs the Phylactery shows up maybe 10% as often as the other potion types. Clearly special="1" does something in the Phylactery's case, but it's not fool-proof. I've never actually tested if the same thing happens with wands, but since I know there's a misperception re: potions and special="1", I suspect the same thing goes for wands and special. If you can prove me wrong, I'd be excited to hear the details. Great! Glad we're on the same page, there. I'm sure I would have noticed that, too, if only there were a functional Mac version of the DLC RC. **ducks the Mac Mini that Nicholas is no doubt sorely tempted to throw**
Maybe wandlore could use an ability similar to what fungal arts and alchemy has, letting you zap crafting ingredients into others? If you really want to get crazy, a new type of reagent - maybe elemental essence for instance. There could be one for each of the element types, perhaps they can be extracted from gems/ores/powders, and then wandlore has an ability to zap one elemental essence into another. Then wand crafting recipes could be changed to use different amounts of elemental essences (plus possibly other ingredients for the rarer more powerful wands). Though maybe that is getting a little too complex, it would make wand crafting more viable by focusing it on one type of reagent instead of a hodgepodge of different reagents, including gems which are hard to get the one you want (which might be the point). If its meant to be hard to find wand ingredients, they should be made powerful so that while wands are harder to make, they have very strong effects to compensate their rarity. I would love if there was a combination of abilities that don't scale with magic power along with those that do. If wands were more worthwhile, I would totally pick up wandlore on warrior/rogue builds for some fun casting utility without having to be an actual caster. I like the idea of it scaling to wandlore actually. As for a specific wand suggestion, how about one to put up an anti-magic field. Could be useful to make yourself immune/resistant to magic for awhile. Or maybe a wand-only buff that adds resistances, or other nice stats/buffs. I take it based on this thread that wandlore hasn't been greatly improved with the upcoming expansion? Edit: added a lot more to the first paragraph on wand crafting ideas Second Edit: I guess a question that should be answered is: should wands be rare/hard to craft with very powerful effects, or easier to craft with more normal effects. And then tune wands from there. Either sounds good to me really. As it is, they seem a pain to craft without being particularly strong.
Back in ye olde days Wand Lore was the ultimate 'utility' skill. With no points invested it gave you an 80 turn cooldown: Heal (Coral Wand) Decurse (Zodiac Wand) Boss Killer (Tentacle Wand) Wall (Stony Wand) Melee Buff (Tesla's Wand, also lasts for 80 turns so you could keep it up permanently) ...and then came the expansion, the stylish-yet-silly recipes and a host of new, underwhelming 'damage' wands. If you want to fix Wand Lore, bring it back to its roots. Stop adding slightly-different 'damage' wands that can never compete with thrown / bolts. Think of every utility ability that you'd love to have and turn it into a wand. Go all out: It Belongs in A Museum This Translation is All Wrong Ancient Kronian Ritual Flames of The Heckforge Xeuclid's Translation Petrification Unconditional Love Nerve Staple The Mortal Machine Gem Transmutation Lucky Pick Love Will Teleport Us Apart You might think this will dilute the value of the skills these abilities are poached from, but I think that's just an issue of resource requirements. For example, the Ancient Kronian Ritual wand could potentially require a rare artifact hammer as an ingredient, limiting its use to only a few anvils per game. These wands would need to be limited to crafting-only and not be able to spawn. Oh and maybe make it so some wand effects are unresistable so they're more appealing than their spell versions. --- When you craft a wand it starts with a random number of charges between min and max. For example, the Tentacle Wand has 1-4 charges - resulting in ridiculous cases of swapping a Bolt of Squid for a 1 charge Tentacle Wand.
Of these wands: I'm in favour of Nerve Staple, Unconditional Love (or whatever the Animal Friend one is in the Vegan Skill Tree), and Love Will Teleport Us Apart being added to the game. Xeuclid would be good, too. I'm not sold on having any of the Archaeology tree in wand form, nor am I comfortable with Heckforge being in wand form. These are fairly strong game abilities, and I don't want to undercut Archaeology/Demonology by having all its good perks in wand form. Sleep and the anti-magic field are both good candidates for wands as well. Anyhow, I have some ideas; I just don't know when we'll be able to get to them. We're also doing something goofy immediately after Expansion #2 that kind of changes the core mechanics, and so we'll have to rebalance everything. Gahhhh.
You guys seem to love making more work for yourselves. That said, if there's anything we can do to help, I'm sure you'd get plenty of volunteers.
Point #1: 1. Fix wands so they act exactly like abilities and can use any spell type (targetfloor, item, etc)
All well and good, but even existing spells have trouble targeting activateable items in your inventory via right-click (as generally they end up activating those items or making them the ready spell instead).
Admittedly, using up a bolt of squid to make a tentacular wand is silly, but I still don't think that's an issue with Wand Crafting needing to create more charges than the wand otherwise comes with, it's an issue with the recipe sucking. Bolt of Squid triggers a level 6 skill, and Tentacle Wand triggers a level 5 skill. Why the heck does the recipe use the stronger item to make the weaker item? I strongly agreed with Ruigi that the recipes need to be made easier. I just don't agree (or at least not very strongly) that the wandcrafting also needs to grant extra charges on top of that. Fix the recipes to something manageable, and that part of the problem is solved without having to fiddle with a lot of game code (just a bit of xml). Tentacular Wand, for example, should not use Squid Bolts and Offal, as both are really hard to get in quantity. It should use Potions of Dire Empowerment (easily crafted by a Rogue Scientist or Alchemist/Wandcrafter) and Ground Meat (easily crafted by anyone). Or heck, Fell Truffle plus Lutefisk.
Disregard the Offal part, then. It was sorta beside the point, and only clutters up the message. The real point was that Squid Bolt should only ever be a component to a crafting recipe if the end result is something amazing. How many Tentacular Wand charges would it take to make up for even 1 squid bolt being lost in the process? Probably at least 10. The squid bolt will kill half a dozen monsters in 2 or 3 turns from a single action, and if the stars are right it'll kill dozens at once. The wand kills just slightly more than one per activation under the best of circumstances, and time between activation and death is also about a turn and a half longer on average than with the squid bolt. So even if you add +1 charge per wandcrafting level, you'd still sometimes get 6 or 7 charges on the wand with the current recipe, and usually feel it wasn't worth using up the squid bolt.
I'm very interested in fixing Wandlore, but I haven't yet seen that magic suggestion that I can really get behind. I love the fact that wand-crafting uses weird ingredients - especially ingots! And I love burnt-out-wands as the basis for new wands. So there are two areas we can mess with - the recipes, and the skills. Here are some ideas for changing how the wandlore skills work: 1 - Give a skill which causes recipes to consume less than all of the components. 3 ingots to make a Rock Wand -> 2 ingots left over, plus the wand. That means fewer components to find, overall, and allows for interesting power-swings like the bolt of squid / tentacle wand. 2 - Give a skill which allows us to burn out a wand immediately, and turn it into crafting components based on the number of charges it still held. This makes wands a resource for wandlore masters. 3 - Give a skill which adds charges to a wand, in exchange for something significant. 50 mana might be good enough, or an iron ingot, or a weapon, or something. Transforming your other resources into charges is something that really should be possible. Eating weapons for charges sounds really appealing, actually. 4 - Give a passive skill such that wands don't always expend a charge when you fire them. This returns some of the old wand feel, but in a predictable way. It also increases the effective charges of your crafted wands. 50/50 would be a fun starting number. Here are some ideas for changing the recipes: 1 - Allow some flexibility in the recipes, based on item quality rather than the specific item used. For example 1 iron ingot + 1 class 7 item = wand of fireball. "De-Enchanting" artifacts to create wands is awesome, and very thematic. 2 - Give us some wandlore-fueled recipes which change components into other components. Mushing ingots into ore would be nice - or creating offal, or any of the other weird components. I'm a big fan of grinding pearls, so I like the idea of the game moving more in that direction. 3 - Give us a "charge up" recipe - which lets us add charges to an existing wand directly. 4 - Give us a recall wand, which teleports us to a nearby shop! 5 -


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OSA in infants is usually caused by craniofacial abnormalities, low muscle tone, and/or altered soft tissue size.5 The 2 most common causes of OSA in older children are adenotonsillar hypertrophy6 and obesity.7 MRI studies of children with OSA have shown that most obstructions are in the area of the adenoids (which reach their maximum size at age 6 years) and the soft palate; these studies show that the size of the soft palate in children between the ages of 3 and 7 years who have OSA is increased by 30% compared with soft palates in children who do not have OSA.8 The increase in the size of the soft palate represents edema, which is probably secondary to vibratory trauma.
Obesity increases the likelihood of childhood OSA by a factor of 1.3- to 9-fold7,9; it does this by increasing the size of the fat pads in the neck, causing fatty muscle infiltration and producing changes in chest wall mechanics. This can lead to a decrease in the functional residual capacity of the lungs, which, in turn, increases sensitivity to relatively small changes in respiratory patterns.
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• | Hypertension.11 |
• | Impaired glycemic control.12 |
• | Increased cardiovascular13 and cerebrovascular disease.14 |
Researchers are discovering that in children, OSA has additional deleterious neurocognitive, developmental, and behavioral consequences. Connections between OSA and reduced verbal IQ,15 decreased executive function,16 lower Bailey developmental scores,17 poor school performance,18 attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder,19 and failure to thrive20 have become widely recognized. Many of the studies cited have described improvement in the parameters examined following successful treatment of OSA—an improvement not seen in untreated children. It is still unclear what the precise mechanisms are that cause the neurocognitive and behavioral deficits; however, there is evidence that changes in cerebral blood flow21 and the presence of inflammation22 play significant roles.
It is always a good idea to ask parents whether their child snores. If parents report that their child snores—or volunteer information about other signs and symptoms listed in Table 2—a workup for OSA is indicated. The first step in the workup is to take a detailed history. Questions to ask the child and parent are listed in Table 2.
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• | Does the child breathe through an open mouth (suggestive of nasopharyngeal obstruction)? |
• | Does the child sleep on multiple pillows or in strange positions (eg, seated upright, folded over, or with the neck hyperextended)? |
• | Does the child sweat profusely at night? |
• | Is there a history of bed-wetting that has reappeared after several months of the child's being dry at night (secondary nocturnal enuresis), and has that developed in conjunction with the emergence of other signs of OSA? |
• | Has the child had parasomnias, such as sleep walking, night terrors, or confusional arousals (all of which can be precipitated by OSA)? |
Daytime symptoms | |
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• | Does the child not seem refreshed despite getting an adequate amount of sleep? |
• | Does the child fall asleep in the car on short drives, fall asleep at school, or nap in a manner inappropriate for his or her age? |
• | Has the child gained a lot of weight recently? |
• | Have there been recent changes in school performance or behavior concurrent with weight gain or onset of sleep disturbances? |
Risk factors | |
• | If the child is at high risk for hypothyroidism, have thyroid functions been tested recently?55 |
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- Penbutolol
- Pindolol
- Propranolol
- Sotalol
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- Tertatolol
- Timolol
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Hi everyone, Your prayers for my daughter were so very powerful just weeks ago! I do not think I have experienced the power of prayer quite like I have through all of you. My daughter needs that power of God again this weekend and monday especially, for the Holy Spirit to move her to fullfillment of His purpose in allowing the trials in her life.
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PAST IS FUTURE: The dry landscape in this image, taken during the drought on the Great Plains in the 1930s, could be what lies ahead for the southwestern region of the United States and northern Mexico.
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In his much-ballyhooed 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes the conditions of the southern American Great Plains, where a severe drought caused the devastating wind-swept storms of the 1930s dust bowl: "When June was half gone, the big clouds moved up out of Texas and the Gulf, high heavy clouds, rain-heads," Steinbeck wrote. "The rain-heads dropped a little spattering and hurried on to some other country. Behind them the sky was pale again and the sun flared. In the dust there were drop craters where the rain had fallen, and there were clean splashes on the corn, and that was all."
Unfortunately, severe droughts are not just the stuff of classic literature. A research team, led by a group at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) in Palisades, N.Y., reveal in this week's Science that southwestern North America will likely be saddled with increasingly arid conditions during the next century. This drying effect, the researchers say, is directly related to man-made climate change and will demand new methods for managing water resources in the region. They based their findings on 19 climate models, all of which contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report released in Paris in early February
"The Southwest," in the current study, refers to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. The researchers add that a similar pattern of drying is predicted for the region bounded by southern Europe, the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East; wetter climes are expected for areas farther away from the tropics and closer to Earth's poles.
The output of the climate models used in the current analysis came in measures of future precipitation and evaporation. "[Those figures are] what matters in terms of the water that's available to the soil in the ground," says study co-author Mingfang Ting, a senior research scientist at LDEO. By subtracting the area's evaporation rate from its precipitation rate, the scientists were able to make projections on the net gain of water available in the ground. (Of the 19 models, 18 of them show this value to be negative by the latter half of the current century, indicating, according to Ting, that "precipitation is reduced or evaporation could be increased.")
On average, the models suggest that the cusp of the late 20th century–early 21st century ushered in a period of consistently arid climate. Soon, if not already, one quarter of the models predict that moisture will begin to disappear from the region at a rate of 0.1 millimeters per day. In fact, the researchers believe the current six-to-seven-year drought in the region is the beginning of this drying trend. "The current drought is related to the warming due to the greenhouse gases," says Ting. "In the past, El niño [would] disappate the drought, but now it's not able to stop the drought.''
Normally, the El Niño and La Niña weather systems are largely responsible for cyclical precipitation and drought in the Southwest. El Niño brings in moisture from the tropics (by the warming of the ocean, which condenses water into the lower atmosphere that is then shuttled into the subtropical regions), whereas La Niña essentially does the opposite, causing cold ocean temperatures in the equatorial eastern Pacific. The latter phenomenon is believed to be the culprit behind both the 1930s dust bowl and a widespread drought in the Southwest during the 1950s.
"The drought that we're taking about is not La Niña," Ting explains, referring to the current dry system. "That is associated with the greenhouse gas warming." While the consequences are similar, the actual effect on the oceans is very different, she says. Instead of a cooling in the tropics, there will be a uniform warming of the ocean, which will push the Pacific jet stream farther north. As a result, "Canada does get quite a lot more rain," Ting notes, whereas "the whole state of California, for example, will be much drier."


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A redditor called Elqueso posted the photo below, in which his daughter is visiting the zoo. An over-enthusiastic kangaroo dives in front of the little girl just as the photo is snapped. It's like the kangaroo is in an action movie, yelling "Nooooooooo!" as he dives in slow-motion to take a bullet for his mismatched cop partner.
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Forever Cheese Celebrates and Strengthens its Commitment to Renewable Energy
Forever Cheese is already renowned for their commitment to sourcing the finest cheeses and specialty foods from Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Croatia and it has now been seven years since they have begun a commitment with Carbonfund to actively help the planet and further renewable energy.
"We are focused on wind and solar energy not just as a way for the future, but for now." states Michele Buster, President and Co-Founder of Forever Cheese. "We hope to be a role model for other companies, catalyzing them to support the development of renewable energy resources."
Since 1998, Michele and her business partner, Pierluigi Sini have been finding unique artisan cheeses and specialty foods to introduce into the US. They hand-select each item directly from the producers.
Some of their more famous products include Genuine Fulvi® Pecorino Romano, Rustico®, Drunken Goat®, Naked Goat®, Mitica® Marcona Almonds & Fig Almond Cake. Look for the brands Fulvi®, Sini® or Mitica® to find Forever Cheese products.
Carbonfund.org is very proud to have this great partnership with Forever Cheese to provide significant benefit to renewable energy projects around the United States along with additional support toward national reforestation projects.
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"Community Capital is excited to partner with Carbonfund.org in committing to offset our carbon footprint. We hope that we will help lead the way and encourage others in the investment management industry to do the same," said Jamie Horwitz, Director of Marketing at Community Capital.
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Long-term Policies Necessary to Ensure Renewable Energy Future
Among other good news on the climate change front this week, renewable energy is projected to exceed gas by 2016. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), by 2016 global electricity generation from wind, solar, hydro and other forms of renewable power will eclipse that from natural gas – and should be double that provided by nuclear plants.
The IEA points to a surge in renewables led by emerging economies such as China, which accounts for 40 percent of the projected global growth in renewables between 2012 and 2018. Although this is positive, we're not out of the woods yet if we want to avoid the 2 degree Celsius increase threshold that scientists predict could lead to permanent changes to ecosystems. China still relies heavily on coal, and not just for electricity generation. The country also depends on the fossil fuel for steel production and making fertilizers, which generate large amounts of greenhouse gases. Even aggressive expansion of renewables and nuclear power leaves China using coal for up to half of its total energy needs by 2050.
In the U.S., a boom in shale gas production is stunting efforts to expand renewables. European growth of renewables has also slowed. But the new economic powerhouses of China, India and Brazil are leading the charge, which sweetens the overall global renewable picture.
However, don't fall into the trap of thinking the future is rosier than it seems. On the surface, these projections paint a picture where natural gas fills in for a decade or two while we build a low-carbon future based around renewables. That is certainly a likely scenario, but it requires the support of long-term policies in many countries to encourage sufficient investment in renewable power plants.
The problem is that policy uncertainty leads to building gas-fired plants that have a lifetime of three to four decades. This makes it difficult to phase out fossil fuels on the timescale needed to avoid dangerous global warming, which requires major cuts from 2030 onwards. In fact, the IEA itself warned in its 2011 edition of World Energy Outlook that fossil-fuel plants due to be built over the next five years are already likely to lock the planet into 2°C of warming.
So how can we fix this problem? Energy analysts say we need long-term assurances to investors that renewable plants being built now will deliver a better economic return than those fired by coal or natural gas. It's a weakness of U.S. President Barack Obama's climate plan, announced earlier this week, which lacks the long-term targets that could be set if Congress would pass new legislation.
The stakes are high. We need significant changes in existing proposals for policy. Otherwise the chances are slim that we'll avoid surpassing the 2 degree Celsius increase threshold climatologists warn will alter the lives of billions of people.
Legislation Could Level the Playing Field for Renewable Energy
For decades, fossil fuel companies have enjoyed the benefit of master limited partnerships (MLPs). A MLP is a business structure that acts like a corporation with its corporate stock trading on the open market, but is taxed as a partnership rather than at the corporate tax rate. This allows investors to buy and sell their shares in the public markets, and project developers to access cheaper capital through the markets. It's an attractive tax benefit to be a MLP; an advantage that is inaccessible currently to renewable energy investment.
Since the 1980s, Congress has enabled investors to bundle energy projects like oil and gas pipelines and other fossil fuel developments from companies that extract, process or transport "depletable" natural resources and exempted them from corporate income taxes. The word "depletable" specifically excludes renewable energy.
U.S. Senator Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, introduced a bill last year that would give wind, solar and other renewable projects the same tax benefit. The Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act was re-introduced this week by a bipartisan group of senators.
In order to effectively combat climate change, renewables need to be priced at, or better yet, lower than fossil fuels. It's easier to sell shares to individuals and institutional investors such as pension funds when renewable projects are set up as MLPs. Widening the pool of potential investors adds new competition, which could lower the cost of financing projects, and in the end reduce the cost of renewable power.
Is leveling the playing field for wind, solar and other renewable projects the magic bullet to renewable energy investment? No, but it is a step in the right direction. The Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act is actually part of a broader toolkit, one that the federal government has used successfully in the past to develop domestic energy resources. Tax benefits such as the Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit remain essential tools within the renewable energy industry.
Other tax reforms the industry and its supporters say will help level the playing field with fossil fuels include allowing renewable companies to organize as real estate investment trusts (REITs) and letting renewable tax credits be claimed by more types of investors. In December of 2012, a bipartisan group of 29 U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to the President calling for changes to both MLPs and REITs.
Even with bipartisan support in a deeply divided Congress, the bill faces some serious obstacles. A 2011 Congressional Research Service report estimated that extending MLPs to renewable energy companies would cost the U.S. Treasury about $2.8 billion between 2010 and 2014. At the moment, the broad political momentum in Congress involves eliminating loopholes and exemptions in order to raise revenue and lower tax rates. The report suggests that if leveling the playing field is the endgame, the alternative is closing the tax loophole for oil and gas companies.
Personally, I want to stop global warming and move into a sustainable energy future. Let your Congressional Representatives know you want them to support the Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act.
The Transition to Renewable Energy and the Role of Natural Gas
Sometimes the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow, temporarily stalling renewable energy production. When that happens, what fuel source fills in the energy gap? Traditionally the answer was coal, but due to increased supply and low prices, the answer of late has been natural gas. Coal is certainly the dirtier of the two fossil fuels, but natural gas is not a perfect choice either. The increased supply in natural gas was achieved through the process of hydraulic fracturing (called fracking), which can be harmful to the environment.
Last spring natural gas prices fell to all-time lows of $2 to $3 per thousand cubic feet in the United States. This spring natural gas prices are on the rise. In fact, they've doubled to just over $4 per thousand cubic feet, but the bottom line is natural gas is still pretty cheap. Experts say prices in the $4 or $5 range won't affect the increasing use of the fuel by consumers and the energy industry since the price was $8 just a few years ago. In Europe and Asia prices are even higher; think $10 to $14.
According to a Citibank research report, "Gas and renewables could in fact be the making of each other in the short term." Expect renewables to cost about the same as conventional fuels in many parts of the world "in the very near term." Mark Brownstein, an associate vice president at the Environmental Defense Fund, noted that the price of renewable energy has declined substantially in recent years, and that's expected to continue, making them even more competitive. As demand for renewables builds, it will in turn "drive demand for more gas-fired" power plants to be used as backup.
Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) missed an April 13 deadline to issue much-anticipated new rules limiting carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants. Proposed a year ago, the rules were first to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new plants. Once a limit is set for new facilities, the EPA is legally obligated to address existing plants, which pose the true climate threat at the moment. The US' power plant fleet is the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Acting EPA Administrator Bob Perciasepe said last week that the agency expects to propose new rules on greenhouse gases from existing plants in fiscal 2014.
The draft rule for new power plants sets a limit of 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour of electricity. That cutoff point would be easy for natural-gas-fired plants to meet, but not conventional coal plants. Already, power companies build natural gas plants almost exclusively because of the low price of gas.
There is speculation that the EPA's indefinite delay on the new rules limiting carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants is due to second thoughts at the EPA and the White House over the single standard. The EPA is said to be contemplating setting two standards, one for coal plants and the other for natural gas, which might make the new rule more legally defensible in an attempt to avert the inevitable legal wrangling that goes on whenever the EPA sets a new rule including limitations.
Environmental groups argue that separate standards make little sense. "Setting a separate standard for coal- and natural-gas-fired plants would greatly weaken the standard's ability to ensure a transition away from building high-carbon electricity-generation sources," said economist Rachel Cleetus of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Natural gas may be the interim answer as we build our renewable energy infrastructure and then the backup once we move to a sustainable energy future. For the sake of slowing down climate change, the EPA needs to set the rules on new electricity generation plants posthaste. Then they should tackle existing power plants without delay. Global warming won't wait.
Global Energy Focus on Renewables
Those of us living in the United States can easily get wrapped up in the domestic energy picture, but it is important to stop and take a look at how renewables are doing in other countries too.
If you peruse a list of countries by 2008 emissions, the top emitter of carbon dioxide is currently China, followed closely by the U.S. China accounts for 23.5% of world emissions, and the U.S. is responsible for 18.27%. However, the good news is that China's renewable-energy industry is currently on the upswing due to supportive government policies and generous subsidies; so much so that they've achieved the height of the world's wind and solar industries. We've all heard the phrase, "Everything is made in China." The U.S. does import many goods from China, but a report released this week titled, "Advantage America" analyzed trade between the two countries in solar, wind and smart-grid technology and services in 2011.
The analysis, by Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Pew Charitable Trusts, showed $6.5 billion in renewable energy technology and services traded between the U.S. and China. But the U.S. sold $1.63 billion more to China than it imported.
It's good to see both countries making such strides in renewable energy. Oftentimes, the countries are perceived as being in competition with one another, but a more accurate picture would be that they are interdependent. The bottom line is that both countries should be doing as much as possible to focus on renewables, especially considering they're the top two carbon dioxide emitters on the planet. And the global interest and investments in renewables doesn't stop there.
Saudi Arabia, a country with the world's second largest oil reserves, is beginning a green revolution. This week, Saudi King Abdullah revealed ambitious plans to develop renewable energy programs that will produce 54,000 megawatts of electricity by 2032 as part of a strategy to save 1.2 million barrels of their oil per day for export.
King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KA-Care) is a strategy paper set up by King Abdullah in 2010 to develop alternative energy sources so the country won't have to burn millions of barrels of oil a year on power generation. KA-Care outlines the preliminary phases of the kingdom's agenda for its energy future and focuses on thermal solar, photo-voltaic solar, wind, geothermal and waste-to-energy. Much of the desert landscape in the Persian Gulf is well suited to solar energy production; a fact that has not escaped the Saudi's neighbor, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The UAE, with 8% of the world's proven oil reserves, has also embarked on a major renewables program, which focuses on nuclear and solar energy production. By taking a look at the global energy picture, we see that even those countries with vast fossil fuel resources recognize the finite limitations of their reserves and the importance of investing in sustainable energy projects, which is great news in the fight against climate change. Every country on the planet contributes to global warming, and every country will have to do their part in order to pave the way to a sustainable energy future.
Simi Valley Ford Launches "Drive to Save the Environment Campaign"
Local Ford Dealership to launch first ever green initiative to offset carbon footprints
SIMI VALLEY, Calif., January 31, 2013 - Simi Valley Ford will be launching its first-ever green initiative called the Drive to Save the Environment Campaign.The dealership has partnered with the Carbonfund.org Foundation to help offset the carbon footprint for the next 2 years of every new Ford vehicle that is sold during this campaign.The two and a half month long event will kick off on February 1st and go through Earth Day, April 22nd.
For every vehicle sold during this campaign-- from compact cars like the Ford Fiesta to the larger, F-150 trucks, Simi Valley Ford will purchase 2 years of carbon offsets by making a donation to support Carbonfund.org's carbon emissions reduction projects. Whether it's planting trees, pulling plastic out of the ocean, recycling or investing in renewable energies, the dealership has made a commitment to help reduce the carbon footprint in CA for all of the vehicles sold over the next 80 days.
"We at Simi Valley Ford are concerned about the future of our planet, so by partnering with a green organization like Carbonfund.org, we are hoping to help raise awareness to this growing issue. We are also excited to allow our customers the opportunity to drive 'emissions free,' simply just by buying a car," says Mike Shell, Fleet Manager, Simi Valley Ford.
After Hurricane Sandy, a recent survey shows that 70 percent of Americans believe that climate change is caused by our daily carbon footprint emissions. Most people are unsure of how they can do their part to help reduce emissions, so Simi Valley Ford wants to help raise awareness on climate change, while promoting Ford's green initiatives at the same time. The dealership is working with several green organizations to help promote this campaign and raise awareness in the community.
"Simi Valley Ford is taking a real leadership position by neutralizing the first two years of carbon emissions from every new Ford vehicle sold during their Drive to Save the Environment Campaign. It's this type of forward thinking and pro-activity in the fight against climate change that we encourage among our business partners and supporters," explains Eric M. Carlson, President of Carbonfund.org. "We're very honored to participate as a partner with Simi Valley Ford for this inaugural campaign."
Simi Valley Ford has set a goal to sell 300 new vehicles between February 1st and April 22nd.They invite any and all local and national companies to join them in helping to reach their goal. This is the first time the dealership has launched this campaign and hopes that it will grow exponentially year to year, not just in CA, but also to Ford dealerships nationwide.
About Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 172,000 employees and 65 plants worldwide, the company's automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford and its products worldwide, please visit http://corporate.ford.com.
Will the US Lead the Green Industrial Revolution?
Last week in President Obama's inaugural speech he addressed the most serious threat our planet has ever faced, climate change, when he said, "We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries – we must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure – our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared."
It is exciting and hopeful to hear our nation's leader pledge to put us on the path to conquer global warming and combine it with the economic recovery the US so badly needs. Now we need to back up these words with some actions. What can we do to lead a green industrial revolution?
Well we're already seeing some promising actions from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). Did you know the DOD is the largest single consumer of energy in the world? The agency spends approximately $20 billion on 3.8 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and 120 million barrels of oil per year. That's a lot of energy, and sometimes fossil fuels are bought from countries hostile to U.S. interests. So the U.S. military is turning its eyes to renewable energy. Fortunately they are not starting from scratch; they currently have about 80 megawatts of installed renewable energy capacity. However, the good news is that a report released this week by Pike Research forecasts this number to quadruple to 3,200 megawatts by 2025. The research firm quantifies the increase in renewable energy use to a predicted almost $1.8 billion in 2025 of U.S. military spending on renewable energy programs, including conservation measures.
All of this green spending can have lasting positive effects on the industry overall. For example, as the demand for solar cells increases, it encourages the building of more solar cell manufacturing plants. Due to economies of scale, the cost of producing solar cells can decrease, and the new lower costs are passed on to the private sector. Additionally, the solar industry, because of large sales from the U.S. military, has more funds available to conduct research and development into better and cheaper solar cells, which can drive down the price permanently.
It is encouraging to hear and see the U.S. take steps towards leading a green industrial revolution. Is there more that can be done? Absolutely! But we have to recognize these constructive efforts as they are brought to light.
Most Domestic Oil and Gas Companies Fail to Cut Emissions
According to a recently released report by the World Wildlife Fund, 58 of the United States' Fortune 100 companies set goals in 2012 to either reduce greenhouse gas emissions or use more renewable energy in their operations. However, oil and gas companies are lagging far behind in this movement. Eight of 11 domestic energy companies on the Fortune 100 have not set internal energy goals.
This is in direct contrast to 68 of the planet's 100 largest companies who recognize the impact of global warming and are making investments in greenhouse gas reductions and renewable energy goals. Sadly, energy companies represent the lowest participation rate of any industry worldwide. The few exceptions are Hess and Chevron who have both set renewable energy and greenhouse gas targets, and ExxonMobil who set a greenhouse gas target.
Why have three quarters of the nation's industrial companies voluntarily set some sort of environmental target? There are a variety of potential reasons including: policy pressures, public relations or perhaps even the forward thinking that sees renewable energy's potential to someday be less expensive than, or at least competitive with, oil and gas.
And why haven't most oil and gas companies voluntarily set environmental targets? It may be because the very products they put on the market directly contribute to climate change. There is also a lack of urgency to act; little pressure comes from investors or policies. An example of a type of policy that was successful in the past is the Environmental Protection Agency or EPA's Toxic Release Inventory, which worked by making large companies publically accountable for which potentially toxic chemicals they use and where they are released. Then the information is posted on the EPA's website for anyone to see.
The planet would really benefit from a similar policy focusing on oil and gas company emissions, or better yet, a broader climate change policy such as a national carbon tax or cap-and-trade program. There are other options that could pave the way towards a cleaner energy future. The federal government could require that a certain percentage of electricity come from renewable sources and offer further tax incentives for wind and solar production. Many companies are setting their own internal goals, but for others such as the majority of the oil and gas industry, they're not going to do anything about increasing efficiency and reducing their carbon footprints until someone makes them.
Wind Blade Innovation May Move Renewable Energy towards Cost Competitiveness with Fossil Fuels
Wind turbine blades currently have some challenges that impact their cost effectiveness. First, most wind blades are made of fiberglass, and the molds to manufacture these blades cost millions of dollars to acquire. Transporting the massive manufactured blades also poses a challenge as they cannot be assembled on site. Furthermore, fiberglass places limitations on the size of the rotor diameters, which means the turbines are smaller and heavier so they are less able to capture wind at lower wind speeds in places such as the US Midwest.
The US Department of Energy's advanced research projects agency (ARPA-E) project aims to address these limitations by researching and developing architectural fabrics in lieu of conventional fiberglass. These tough, flexible fabrics would be tension-wrapped around a metal frame and specially designed to meet wind blade operations' demands as well as allow for easy maintenance. The project will span three years and be comprised of a team from US electrics company GE, Virginia Tech University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
If successful, these advancements in blade technology will enable larger, lighter turbines that allow tapping previously unsuitable moderate wind speed markets. The new approach also has the potential to overcome earlier manufacturing and transportation limitations since the wind turbine components can be built and put together on site. According to GE, this new blade design could reduce blade costs 25%-40%, making wind energy as economical as fossil fuels without government subsidies.
Expanding wind capabilities and lowering its costs as an energy source represents forging a course towards a clean energy future.


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Is Sherlock sexist? Steven Moffat's wanton women
Nearly every time I see someone accusing Moffat of sexism, I must headdesk.
Doyle wrote in a time when women were socially restricted, and he nudged a few of those barriers by making Irene Adler an intelligent adversary for Holmes.
Does no one else see that Steven Moffat did something fairly similar? Female sexuality is strongly looked down upon, (we call it "sluttiness") whereas it's often praised in males or otherwise seen as a mild annoyance (we call it Dean Winchester). We're fine with John having gone through a number of girlfriends that he can't tell apart. We're fine with Sherlock walking around in nothing but a bedsheet that almost falls off, and even Mycroft is only peeved. But Irene Adler walks into a room completely nude? Sound the alarms! Call the police! This one's dangerous!
There's still the complaint about Irene Adler falling for Sherlock. But you have to admit, she does a pretty good job of hiding it. We know she uses her sexuality to manipulate others and get her way, so everything up to the end of the episode could easily pass as part of her strategy. Heck, the conclusion of the episode may have been part of her plan as well. And must we forget that stoic Mr. Holmes fell for her, too? And it was far more obvious in his behavior than in hers? And since Sherlock isn't used to having such emotions, she uses this to her advantage? And they fell for each other for the same reasons? Not to mention they're practically the same character, just on different ends of the social spectrum.
In other words, I thought BBC Sherlock's portrayal of Irene Adler was fantastic. At first, she may come off as another "sexy female villain", but as the episode progresses it becomes clear she is far more of an intelligent individual than a simple sexual object. And for goodness' sake, Sherlock doesn't feel threatened because a woman may defeat him, but because someone may defeat him. I tip my metaphorical hat to Steven Moffat before handing it over so he can sign it.