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Today Internet is on cloud nine. Bravo! It has changed the way we live. 40 years ago, spam was something I put on my toast. Like many of us, I was not wired, 8 to 10 hours a day, in front of a computer screen, did not wear reading glasses, nor did I drive home from work with my GPS and my iPhone in one hand and the proverbial cup of coffee in the other, watching simultaneously the weather forecast projection on the windshield of my hybrid, while the energy consumption indicator pulsed in a 3-D rendering on the LCD dashboard. Let’s celebrate!

My zen guru texts me that multi-tasking does NOT exist. I obstinately pretend it does as I am oohmmmm…ing along. Surely she was right when she said, with great wisdom, that “suffering is optional!” Perhaps the Internet suffers from too much attention from us all.

Just now, I clicked via Google on the link to the UCLA engineering site, where the birth of the Internet took place 40 years earlier. The link showcased, the ephemeral nature of the Internet with — a site error message! … I guess they are busy celebrating!

Coincidence or not: Bats are migrating during the month Halloween is taking place. As a result, Enmax, one of our local energy magnum’s, has mandated a slow down to stand-still of it’s windturbine farm during the bat migratory season. The reason: The turbulent trail of the 3 winged eolian energivores has been found to be deadly to the little bats or at best making them “sickly” green, gasping for air. As a results, the poor things are found by the thousands with their lungs collapsed, lying dead at the feet of the towering white giants.

Contrary to their colleague the birds, bats seams unable to deal with sudden air de-pressurisations flowing in the trailing path of the turbine blades. In the course to design highly efficient wind turbines, who would have thought that bats would get in the way. The cause of their sudden and large mortality rates was but recently discovered thanks to a small team of researchers.

A marvelously simple insight: “the tiny bats don’t like to fly in high winds”, said U of C biology professor Robert Barclay.

…. On the up side, its likely that new university classes on bats are about to be integral curriculum to the equations of aero-dynamic windturbine design? Course: Bat-turbo-eolian dynamics 101.

At the CleanPix head office, we use 100% “green” windturbine generated power, so we are concerned. But do not be scared, we will still be pixing along during the Halloween night. Right now, I have to contact our “green” energy provider friends at Bullfrogpower to find out if they are, like Enmax, scheduling a powering down of their windturbines and leaving the bats migrate though and happily without a further breath of convincing.

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What is nice and to shout the obvious:

First: Green power has admirably more nuances, scruples, self-examination, and instant democratic reactiveness at being eco-friendly in a way never concerted or previously observed over other type of energy generation.

Second (green or not): Clearly using less energy all together is far more palatable and beneficial in real time if one compares it to the efforts it takes for any power generation solutions.