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Daily Archive for August 21st, 2011

I enjoy reading the Rochester City magazine. In the back of this week’s issue is an ad from SONYMA proudly offering: 30- or FORTY-year fixed interest rates that are typically below market; Financing up to 97%; Flexible underwriting guidelines; Down payment assistance (higher of $3,000 or 3% of the loan up to $15,000); No points; […]

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Contaminated Thinking

This is by no means meant to be relativist. Earlier this week we discussed some of the problems with the Fractivist movement – among them was the possibility of fracking fluids contaminating wells. I understand that this is a real (and controllable) problem. Do any of you recall the US government mandates to put oxygenates […]

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Via NIRS: the nuclear energy sector was the recipient of at least 96% of all funds appropriated by the U.S. Congress between 1947 and 1998 for energy related research and development. That’s roughly $200 billion in today’s dollars. My point: despite the excellent safety record of nuclear in the U.S., and its still reliance on […]

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