Adam Serwer, writing on Twitter in response to a series of distortions from the conservative Federalist website, states plainly the truth of Trump-supporting lies: There is no incentive to correct because the targeted audience will believe anything pro-Trump they are told, whereas acknowledging error would signal weakness and insufficient devotion to the Great Leader. Yes,…
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Babbittry, Boosterism, CDA, Foxconn, Mendacity, Reasoning, Science/Nature, That Which Paved the Way, Waste Digesters, WEDC
Junk Reasoning Isn’t Simply a Problem at the Top
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Helena Bottemiller Evich reports ‘It feels like something out of a bad sci-fi movie’ (‘A top climate scientist quit USDA, following others who say Trump has politicized science’): One of the nation’s leading climate change scientists is quitting the Agriculture Department in protest over the Trump administration’s efforts to bury his groundbreaking study about how…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Politics, Waste Digesters
Wagon-Circling Versus Persistence
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
I’ve posted before about the unraveling of medical-diagnostics startup Theranos, and founder Elizabeth Holmes, now revealed as a multi-billion-dollar fraud. See, previously, Theranos as a Cautionary Tale. The story has useful lessons even for small-town Whitewater. I’ll illustrate one of those lessons today. There’s a thorough update of Theranos’s dodgy claims now online at Vanity Fair.…
Development, Waste Digesters, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Development
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Post 69 in a series. Two weeks ago, I posted a simple question about Whitewater’s former Hawthorn Mellody milk plant: “If there had been no milk processing plant in Whitewater, would the city have constructed digester capacity as large as it now has, for importing waste into the city from other locations?” That’s seemingly a…
Waste Digesters, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
‘Until That Second Digester is More Utilized’
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Post 61 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. We saw in last week’s post that actual elements of the importation project that City Manager Clapper claims would…
Waste Digesters, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
‘A Truck Loop Specified for Heavy Truck Traffic’
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Post 60 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. I mentioned that I would look at a few more aspects of Whitewater’s 12.15.15 meeting on wastewater upgrades and…
Waste Digesters, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
The Contentions Made in a Single Meeting
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Post 59 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. On 12.15.15, Whitewater, Wisconsin considered both upgrades to her wastewater facility and as part of those claimed upgrades a…
Waste Digesters, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Answering Three Questions
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Post 58 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. I received an email over the weekend which posed a few questions about this series (and then veered into…
Environment, Waste Digesters, Water, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN, Wisconsin
The Water Problems in Wisconsin
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Post 57 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. I promised to begin reviewing by the particulars of a 12.15.15 discussion of waste importation. I’ll hold off to…
Environment, Waste Digesters, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
A Bit More About Methane
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
Post 55 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. I’ve posted before about methane, but only as a foretaste of more on the subject (Methane on 11.23.15 and…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Corporate Welfare, Culture, Economics, Economy, Free Markets, Government Spending, Local Government, University, Waste Digesters, WEDC, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Boo! Scariest Things in Whitewater, 2015
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Here’s the ninth annual FREE WHITEWATER list of the scariest things in Whitewater for 2015. The 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 editions are available for comparison. The list runs in reverse order, from mildly frightening to truly scary. 10. The Coming Ferret Invasion. Alternative title: The Unprepared Will Be Doomed. Earlier this year,…
Waste Digesters, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
The Not-So-Technical-After-All Memo
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
Post 42 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. The Donohue firm describes its memoranda about a wastewater upgrade as technical memoranda. Waste importation is described in Technical…
Waste Digesters, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
The Pilot Program
by JOHN ADAMS • • 6 Comments
Post 39 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. (Every question in this series has a unique number, assigned chronologically based on when it was asked. All the…
Government Spending, Science/Nature, Waste Digesters
Cold Fusion Research Wasn’t Bad Because It Was a Budget Buster
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There’s a brief discussion at the end of Whitewater City Manager Clapper’s state of the city address from 9.17.15 that comes to mind this morning. (I’ll get to the substance of his specific remarks about a digester-energy project another time.) For today, I’ve a different perspective to offer. Consider this question: was cold fusion a…