What spirit possesses the tarpon? A fierce fish, known to taunt fishermen by hiding in the depths, only to finally take the bait and thrash its way upward into trees, onto shore, and on occasion even onto a boat, the tarpon is a kind of living enigma, passionate and utterly unpredictable. Anglers remark that the [...]
News and Articles by Anthony Ricigliano: It’s actually surprising that the United States has the third largest ecological footprint per capita, behind the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. While we try to do the right thing we still face huge challenges in overcoming our environmental deficit. Sustainability comes in many forms with one of them being “smart buildings.”
If you’re on the lookout for a fishing experience that will get your heart racing and your adrenaline pumping, tarpon fishing should be right up your alley. These massive, prehistoric fish have been capturing the imaginations of fishermen for years. Learn more about tarpon, where you can find them – and about some of the [...]
Advances in communication technology have made a variety of cost-effective features available to companies of all sizes. These newly available features provide benefits including greater productivity and flexibility for employees and enhanced reporting for the business. The following is a list of these new features: * Session Initiation Protocols – Session Initiation Protocols (SIP’s) enable [...]
By Anthony Ricigliano: Collecting and investing in gold coins, also known as numismatics, got its start in the late 16th and early 17th century when British royalty and nobles began assembling catalogues of precious coins, predominantly from the Roman Empire. The collectors of the time were driven by the quality and rarity of the coins, as well as their history.
Some advance planning for the installation of a solar energy system in a home can go a long way toward getting clean energy solution that fits within a budget and while delivering plenty of power. Not surprisingly, the cost of the system will be directly related to the power requirements of the home. Due to [...]
Even when completed the 330 MW Sarulla project in Indonesia doesn’t come close to the Geysers project in California, which is the largest geothermal project ever completed. When the Geysers first went online in the 70’s, the capacity of the geothermal field started out at 1.5 GW, then increased to its peak level at 2 [...]
From their very modest beginnings, renewable energy projects around the world are now growing in size to the point where the biggest ones rival the size of traditional fossil fuel powered electrical plants. There are many reasons for the increasing size and capacity of these renewable energy projects. These reasons include: 1) Advances in generating [...]
The Desertec Solar Project which is proposed to span North Africa, The Middle East and Europe while generating 100 gigawatts is the most far reaching and complex renewable energy project ever put to paper. The backbone of the project will be massive concentrating solar-thermal projects in the Sahara Desert, other areas in North Africa, and [...]
Cost and efficiency issues continue to make solar power a tough investment to sell against power generated by fossil fuels. At the present price levels for oil it could still take another ten years of research and development to get solar prices down to the point where they can compete with petroleum, according to some experts. Despite the long path ahead for solar, there is conviction that solar power can become a mainstream source of power.