This was forwarded to me, I don’t know who originally crafted the image. But it made me chuckle this morning…a little geek humor always brightens my day.
Originally published at Montara Energy Ventures.
Via Yahoo News:
BALTIMORE, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG – News) today announced that its subsidiary, Constellation NewEnergy, will work with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) to ensure that its “Your tempo: Olafur Eliasson” exhibition is matched by regional geothermal energy. Constellation NewEnergy has secured green power for the duration of the exhibition (Sept. 8, 2007 through Jan. 13, 2008).
With the exhibition exploring numerous environmental issues including global warming, SFMOMA wanted an energy partner to help reduce the exhibition’s carbon footprint. Given SFMOMA’s support of locally produced renewable power, Constellation NewEnergy was selected in part because of its ability to match the exhibit’s electricity usage with energy generated by the Geysers Geothermal Facility located in Northern California. This clean energy purchase is the equivalent of avoiding the emissions from more than 100 barrels of oil.
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Constellation’s Soda Lake geothermal plant
OK, we can understand
Constellation Energy wanting to get some of the PR value from green, but this is pretty lame. First off, Constellation is simply buying green energy from the Geysers (
Calpine or
NCPA.) Secondly, 100 barrels of oil is an interesting comparison – why? Because almost no electricity is generated in the US from oil right now, and that’s certainly the case in California. How about coal? How about the positive impacts on greenhouse gas emission. Nope, just a publicity stunt.
The odd thing about this is Constellation doesn’t even talk about its
Soda Lake, Nevada geothermal plants. Why not simply make an arrangement to supply the juice from there? Why not mention that Constellation is a geothermal operator working to provide green power? This is a hollow and transparent act.
Bebel Gilberto at Carnival
Photo Credit: Lil’ Mike
Doing research for the prior post on
Bebel Gilberto and her excellent concert, I came upon the photo above. Bebel was definitely working it on stage last night and it’s clear she has a good time. One day, I’d love to visit
Rio for Carnival…
Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian chanteuse extraordinaire
What a great show in a great venue. I haven’t been to
The Fillmore in years though after this visit, I’ll make sure to show up more often.
My spouse and I (along with another couple which includes a Brazilian) went to the show last night. I’ve been steadily listening to more Brazilian music over the past few years and this was a great chance to see a popular performer put on a high energy and passionate show. Most of the songs played were new to me, I could only identify two from the entire set, but that didn’t really matter. A mixed crowd of Brazilian ex-pats along with the San Francisco natives were engaged and happy. It was something of an older crowd (thankfully) but still managed to muster good enthusiasm for the show.
The band was great and was comprised of two guitar players, two percussionists, and a utility wind player that switched between instruments. But the star of the show was Bebel and her smooth vocal stylings. Many of the lyrics were in Portuguese but that didn’t really matter as the music conveyed the feeling behind each piece. The place was packed and friendly, the music was great, the company was great, what more could you ask for?
The only other things I’ll observe is, it was overly loud for the type of music being presented – I think that’s come to be expected here. The other thing was a couple that stood in front of us most of the concert that seemed to be engaged in a bad
Saturday Night Live parody of
Dirty Dancing. Hey, Baby says “get a room!” That may be the unfortunate side effect of the concert; as a Bebel song played this morning all I could think of was that couple dancing and I started laughing…
If you haven’t heard the great Bebel Gilberto sounds,
visit her site and have a listen. It’s great. So Nice (Summer Samba) is my favorite.
