Comments by noel_stanton
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Posted on July 30 at 6:42 p.m.
Enjoy your retirement, Mr. Kelley. Over the years I have admired your skill at finding a language that did not offend while discussing a topic that many Kansans would see diametrically different than you. Some of those posting comments online were unable to recognize the nuances and seem to have instantly identified wild prejudice and unremitting heresy in anything signed with your name. In the past months, I stopped reading their posts: they were only exploiting the chance to mob and project their hate onto a local victim.
You once noted that you read 50 papers daily. Will you now still have the resources or the desire to follow the world's events at such depth?
Posted on May 10 at 10:02 a.m.
Well written. In fact, probably the best writing I have ever seen from your pen.
Posted on April 22 at 11 p.m.
Rainwater should not be contaminated by being drained into sewage lines. If the two effluents are mixed in one pipe, the pipe is quickly overloaded and all the liquid volume must be treated and cleaned. This both overworks the sewage plant and leads to backups in basements and manholes.
Many communities use a dual system of a separate storm sewer parallel to the sanitary sewer. The rainwater discharges directly into a river or similar runoff. The solution is not cheap but certainly a more sustainable answer to the Emporia problem than check valves.
Posted on April 4 at 6:52 a.m.
Very intelligent ideas and a cogent analysis. Kansas has enormous problems and Mr. Steineger sounds like someone who could repair some of its troubles.
Noel Stanton
Moerlenbach, Germany
Posted on March 29 at 8:45 a.m.
Bravo, Mr. Kelly. Well written and true.
Noel Stanton
Moerlenbach, Germany
Posted on March 26 at 8:41 p.m.
The real historic district in Emporia is Exchange and Union Streets from 5th to 9th. If downtown, in spite of the extensive abuse of its historical architectural legacy becomes a historic district, then the Exchange /Union area should at least be protected by the Neighborhood Revitalization Program.
Noel Stanton,
Moerlenbach, Germany
Posted on June 30 at 7:33 p.m.
Why was WAW's Red Rocks not on the list?
Posted on April 17 at 10:47 a.m.
Mr. Hartman has done his homework and correctly attacks the failure of the American nation over the past decades to establish a national energy policy. Unfortunately, he would correct the problems with "mainframe solutions," that is, big centralized power plants analog to the old mainframe computer centers. The future is with cogeneration, small, decentralized power plants, analog to PCs in every home and office, generating electricity and warmth and cooling for buildings with superior insulation and energy-efficient equipment and lighting.
A Solar Decathlon, sponsored by the US. Dept. of Energy, is conducted biennially. The competition in October of 2007 took place on the Mall in Washington between 20 university teams, including a combined team of KU and KSU Architecture students. The task was to design a house of about 1000 sq. ft. and use a washer, dryer, other appliances and lighting as well as an electric car, to simulate an American family home in 2015, all to be charged and keep running by solar energy.
First place was won by a team from the Institute of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. Unlike all the other teams, the Germans used standard energy management software that will run on any laptop, together with high-tech insulation, phase change wall board, LED-lights and simple shading and cross-ventilation to maintain a temperature of 72-76 degrees while keeping their batteries filled at all times, as the monitors proved.
The Kansas team was number 18 of 20. The Germans attributed their success to their strategy of conserving and managing energy, while the others chose to make as much energy as possible and then blow it away on conventional power hungry appliances. That is, the Germans generated decentralized electricity with a roof covered with photovoltaic panels and hot water with solar thermal panels, while conserving consumption with software and efficient technology. Such homes with a cogeneration plant for the neighborhood is the future Mr. Hartman, not nuclear or coal-fired monsters.
The link Mr. Hartman offers to HTA Inc. and their Aquygen gas is fascinating and might be the answer to pouring American money into the bank vaults of the Mideast potentates. Another solution for a gasoline substitute, however, can be biogas, generated from agricultural and household waste. Biogas, when properly filtered and treated, can be sold into natural gas pipelines or used as vehicle fuel. There are various towns of about 2000-3000 inhabitants in Germany and Austria and several cities in Sweden with over 30,0000 population that have their own municipal utility company which makes biogas and then uses it to heat and power the whole community as well as many vehicles.
Posted on January 30 at 9 a.m.
Alfalfa
You still have a great idea!! All the negatives being posted here are not because you are a farmer, but rather because most people are limited in their vision and react with a knee jerk to new ideas.
Would it be cheaper during the start up phase to lease a slaughter line from Tyson rather than buying a building and equipment? Assuming that Tyson would lease.
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Posted on August 3 at 6:17 p.m.
Kansas would be a lot smarter if some of the transportation monies were used to restore rail service.
Noel Stanton
On Sell funding