We were lucky enough to be given a tour of the SPRUCE Project in the Chippewa National Forest, North of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Our tour guide was W. Robert Nettles IV, SPRUCE Project Operations Manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory . I went into the site fueled primarily by my lifetime of interest in the natural environment; as well as my interest from volunteering as a park ranger in the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. However, by the time I was done, my interest in technology, from over 10 years as an IT professional, was thoroughly peaked! Definitely off the "beaten path," in a spruce bog in Northern Minnesota, this site boasts an incredible array of scientific equipment that is supported by an amazing technological infrastructure! There are control sites and some of the chambers have added heat, carbon dioxide, or both. A lot of equipment and experimental testing goes on 24/7, 365 days per year. These guys know their stuff. The 10 chambers are connected ...
That British Petroleum (BP) PSA where the Operations Manager talks about how great the gulf is after the BP oil spill makes me sick!
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Do like the chump does, the chump don't shop at BP, the chump don't go to no BP, the chump stopped listening to BP when the CEO sat fidgeting in front of congress with ants in his pants because he was missing competeing in a yacht race he signed up for. Nope, you find the chump at no BP...
Didn't Exxon get off easier (than BP) after the Valdez spill? Maybe since it was in Alaska nobody cared as much. At least they didn't tell me that Alaska was better afterward.