Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Patagonian cypress (Fitzroya): Another windmill development which could impact Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts? (re 2009, & 1970s too), and having seen this related Globe article from today: "Biden administration grants Vineyard Wind its final major permit: A green light from the Biden administration to the country’s first large-scale offshore wind project paves the way for a wind farm to go up south of Martha’s Vineyard, which could generate enough power for at least 400,000 homes" * Am generally appreciative of green energy like wind especially, but NIMBY-ism - not-in-my-backyard-ism has been a very successful environmental conservation strategy in recent decades * * * Best small camper vans ~ A Toyota Proace van (partly for design:) in some years, when it becomes available in the US? . . . with an autonomous driving system (from Waymo?) ... and getting 50 mpg + ... with a warm shower :)


Another windmill development which could impact Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts? (re 2009, & 1970s too)

Hi Deborah, and Cuttyhunkers, 

Pulling forth this email from 2009 regarding a Boston Globe article on windmill development which could impact Cuttyhunk, and having seen this related Globe article from today:

"Biden administration grants Vineyard Wind its final major permit: 
A green light from the Biden administration to the country’s first large-scale offshore wind project paves the way for a wind farm to go up south of Martha’s Vineyard, which could generate enough power for at least 400,000 homes."

My hope is that state and federal environmental regulatory processes, and better windmill technology, will have emerged, but I just wanted to share this with you (and the activists among you especially), if these developments could impact Cuttyhunk adversely in the future somehow.

Hoping to see you in July on Cuttyhunk. :)

All the best, Scott


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:58 PM Deborah Middleton <deborahmiddleton@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi All,
 
Just picked up the below link from Lisa and am passing it along.  Somewhat surprising article given the download from the last meeting and seems to be a bit one sided.  Anyway, if any of you would care to write to the Globe with a differing opinion or any opinion at all, here is the article and name of the author.  A letter to the editor is always a good way to go if you are interested.  Happy Holidays!

Deb Middleton
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Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:20 AM
Subject: boston globe article on windfarms...interesting

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/12/11/on_cuttyhunk_island_a_wind_of_change/



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Hi Deborah, and Cuttyhunkers, 

Emailing this Windmills' email from here, and with the Tor Browser - https://www.torproject.org/ - through which I think you can continue to read Boston Globe articles for free: 

Again, pulling forth this email (in my helianth@gmail address) from 2009 regarding a Boston Globe article on windmill development which could impact Cuttyhunk, and having seen this related Globe article from today:

"Biden administration grants Vineyard Wind its final major permit: 
A green light from the Biden administration to the country’s first large-scale offshore wind project paves the way for a wind farm to go up south of Martha’s Vineyard, which could generate enough power for at least 400,000 homes."

My hope is that state and federal environmental regulatory processes, and better windmill technology, will have emerged, but I just wanted to share this with you (and the activists among you especially), if these developments could impact Cuttyhunk adversely in the future somehow.

Hoping to see you in July on Cuttyhunk. :)

All the best, Scott


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Dear Deborah, and Cuttyhunkers, 

As a follow up - I am generally appreciative of green energy like wind especially, but NIMBY-ism - not-in-my-backyard-ism has been a very successful environmental conservation strategy in recent decades. Here are some maps in 3 new articles, beside the Globe article - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/11/business/biden-administration-grants-vineyard-wind-its-final-major-permit/ - (readable in Tor browser): 





A realistic virtual earth for oceans virtual reality simulation - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForOceans?src=hashtag_click - for alternative planning, and information arbitrage, think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth with TensorFlow AI, and as further idea generator? I wonder also if there's a way to contact Google itself somehow in these regards, since they have a big oceans' project, and maybe a relationship with Woods Hole Oceanographic Research Center - and even through its head of research and AI Peter Norvig, who went to Brown University in the 1970s. It seems like it's the little details that could be tweaked (eg distance from Cuttyhunk re noise, Cuttyhunk interoperability with this grid without significant costs, or could Cuttyhunk also some get wind energy or sell from its amazing solar panel farm to this emerging energy grid, apart from wind generation) at an early stage in the development, and make a big difference - possibly to the benefit of Cuttyhunk.  

So give three cheers for Cuttyhunk, 
Scott

PS
Here's a related conservation-oriented Cuttyhunk article I wrote in Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charlie Nesson's online "Cyberone: Law in the Court of Public Opinion" class (which met online in the 3D virtual world of Second Life 15 years ago) ...

Cuttyhunk Island, MA
helianth - November 6, 2006 @ 10:31 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
An Empathic Argument for Developing Cuttyhunk Island, and Video to Conserve it


PPS
Here's Peter Norvig giving a UC Berkeley School of Information talk in 2016, which is inspiring, ethical and realistic:  

In what way could #Google thanks to #PeterNorvig's #vision #ethics & #realism - https://youtu.be/QCw_D7dr7Rw HIRE #UCBerkeley #MIT #Stanford & #WorldUnivAndSch STUDENTS anew to grow #GoogleAIsystems
per 7k https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages w #WUaSavatars?

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1378397585807863808?s=20


PPS
Twitter post for #RealisticVirtualEarthForOceans with images of sea life -
Sea creatures or habitat via #FilmTo3D App >#GooglePoly >#RealisticVirtualEarthForOceans in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology
Research vessels &boats > #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://twitter.com/scubadivergear/status/906132823572193280 #FieldSites ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1261426695971590146?s=20




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Best small camper vans ~ Driving from SF Bay Area to Cuttyhunk

Ma, Sandy, Pin, Ed, Tym, Matt, 

A Toyota Proace van (partly for design:) in some years, when it becomes available in the US? . . . with an autonomous driving system (from Waymo?) ... and getting 50 mpg + ... with or without a shower :)

Fondly, Scott

(Glad to have read my poetry, a first, at a MIT Libraries' OpenMic recently - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagosa-hot-springs-southern-colorado.html - and as I said in the reading, a kind of hippy voice comes out of me :)

4 books of poetry in now, and 1 actual-virtual ethnography ... another Harbin ethnographic book ahead, partly written in, and published from Google Street View with time slider, Text-in-theSider ... even:) ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin ... 

See some of you on Cuttyhunk in late June, most of July, early August? :) 


I'm planning to drive across the country this time ... SF Bay Area, CA, to New Bedford, Massachusetts :) ... but in a Toyota Prius c, and without an autonomous driving system :)



PS
Some searches for great camper vans ... :)

Mentions shower - didn't get one 


with Shower and Toilet 

Smallest RV with Shower and Toilet? (11 Crowd Favorites)
11 Smallest RVs with shower and toilet:

1. Airstream Interstate (smallest on the list)



Class B






Best mpg

The Promaster City small campervan for sale was introduced in 2015, and prides itself on being efficient with a highway fuel economy of 28 miles per gallon.


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Hi Ma, Sandy, Pin, Ed, Tym, Matt, 


There's actually a self-driving Toyota Proace van in the making (but not with the Waymo system apparently) - 

Making of Autonomous Toyota Proace 

Global warming reversal ?
As I was walking my frequent walk in the coronavirus pandemic: up 1.8 miles to the very closed UU Church of Kensington / Berkeley and back yesterday, it was really foggy and cool yesterday.

 ... I recall fog here in the SF Bay Area in the '90s, but none this past winter north of Berkeley. I can hypothesize that FOG has been normal in the East Bay too (in addition to SF) for centuries in winter and summer but HAS not been here the past decades. (How do meteorologists record fog in CA, at the Uni etc? )

So, has coronavirus self quarantining downed the airlines and auto traffic for a year ... and is this even leading to facilitating reversing global warming :)? Kinda rad :)

Time to look at the data ...

How to combine simulations for self-driving vehicles - for the world's fleet of vehicles ahead (1.4 billion cars!) - with atmospheric data to effectively reverse glocal warming - #RealisticVirtualEarthForAtmosphere . . . 

Scott



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Hi Ma, Sandy, Pin, Ed, Tym, Matt, 

Greetings, and following up on brainstorming a great hippy camping van in the 2020s ... 

Here it is ~ a shower in a VW EuroVan !!! (from the 1990s I think) ... but this surf shower is the idea (and you can imagine a wrap around shower curtain or google this ie https://www.eurocampers.com/Fritz-Rear-TentShower-for-Mid-Sized-Vans_p_342.html ) ... 





(Could Toyota design it with enough warm water for 2 or 4 people- re big enough water tank?)

Now how to get a safe autonomous driving system built in the Toyota Proace, and how also to get this imported into, or built in, the USA? 20 years, if at all? :)

:)

Scott 

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Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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Hi Ma, Sandy, Pin, Ed, Tym, Matt, 

I think it's a 2016 4th generation Toyota Prius c (44mpg? - and sleep-able) that's the answer for cross-country travel in a month, and not a 2003 Eurovan with a hand shower (18-22 mpg, and if I could find one that would make it:) Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? 

What years did VW make Eurovan?
1993-2003 VW vans are called Eurovans.

Here's a pic of the Eurovan hand shower:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=572623&postorder=desc
which appears to be VW factory-installed hand shower ... (and not sure if it was warm water or not either)

Am doubting that a factory VW shower like this was mass produced ... 

And here's a 2003 Eurovan nearby me - https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/d/alameda-volkswagen-eurovan-2003/7315797849.html - for $16,000 with 177k miles on it ... and withOUT a factory-installed hand shower ... 

Best VW Vanagons - 1986-1991 (too old)

Warmly, 
Scott


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Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 



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Ma, Sandy, Pin, Ed, Tym, Matt, All, Cuttyhunker, and New Englanders esp.,

A Toyota Proace van (partly for design:) in some years, when it becomes available in the US? . . . with an autonomous driving system (from Waymo?) ... and getting 50 mpg + ... with a warm shower :)

Fondly, Scott

(Glad to have read my poetry, a first, at a MIT Libraries' OpenMic recently - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagosa-hot-springs-southern-colorado.html - and as I said in the reading, a kind of hippy voice comes out of me :)

4 books of poetry in now, and 1 actual-virtual ethnography ... another Harbin ethnographic book ahead, partly written in, and published from Google Street View with time slider, Text-in-theSider ... even:) ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin ... 

See some of you on Cuttyhunk in late June, most of July, early August? :) 


So, newly, ...

Thought about contacting Cuttyhunk folks whom I've been emailing about a wind farm going up in Vineyard Sound again (after another Boston Globe wind farm article some Cuttyhunker friends sent me in 2009) per a new Globe article ... And asking if they had any ideas for 'Best small camper vans' some of whom might have hippy instincts (some of them being around in the '70s there, and actually putting up the Cuttyhunk Windmill at the Cuttyhunk west end), but probably won't...

My little Toyota Prius C - a grey sea tortoise it appears - will be my surf-across-the-country conveyance ... May even travel under 'controlling processes' to use a phrase Laura Nader, a former UC Berkeley Anthropology professor of mine of 'Clasdsic Ethnographies' (and sister of Ralph, and longtime Berkeleyite),  used to describe some identity's tactics I think ...

O for a Toyota Proace with Autonomous driving system and a warm shower getting 50 mpg ... By mid June in the US

Warm regards,
Scott
Will probably post this thread with this Cuttyhunk activism? Thread :)

Who's coming out to visit on Cuttyhunk in July? With an invitation to stay for a few nights :)

Hi too from the 'Unitarian school of philosophy' (UU church of Berkeley Kensington ... eek LRY ... little red Yogis ... Liberal Religious Youth:) ... On yet another foggy evening ...a frequent walk destination  ... Is global warming reversing ?:) ... (but then I see these dry streams in CA in what should be the wettest time of the year  ... https://twitter.com/JimSpohrer/status/1392628689985175557?s=20).


Sadly, with all the wars in the world, it seems like there's more need than ever for excellent multi identity psychiatry (and maybe World Univ & Sch can help)!


Friendly regards,
Scott



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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 




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