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Free SSL Certificates

Six — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:15:45 +0000

This is basically a note for myself and other webmasters out there. In 2015 there is a project to offer free SSL certificates in order to make more of the web easily encrypted. Great idea!!

Thanks to the WordFence plugin for the heads up!

Last year the US was not in debt?

Six — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:44:04 +0000

Staying with politics, but on a slightly different topic, what year did the US last not have a national debt (i.e. we had money in the bank)?

Answering the last question, at this writing Illinois seems to be in the lead for most campaign money spent.

Total Energy Usage Is ..

Six — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 06:35:45 +0000

If you haven’t voted already, be sure and vote! Since it’s close to the election, here’s an election trivia question – In what state was the most election money spent this year?

In answer to the last question, the US used 4,095 Billion kWh (B kWh) in 2012

How Much Energy Does the US Use?

Six — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 03:29:56 +0000

Keeping with the current theme of energy, how much energy does the US use every year?

As for the last question, nuclear power generates 19% of the power in the US.

On to nuclear!

Six — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 16:32:48 +0000

From the last question – coal generates 39% of the nation’s power. For today, how what percentage does nuclear generate?

From water to coal

Six — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:44:23 +0000

While I’m still searching for an answer to the question about energy usage for water, today’s question is what percentage of the energy in the US is generated by coal?

As for the last question about hydroelectric is it generates about 6.4% of the total power in the US.

Hydro-electric in the bigger picture

Six — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:55:25 +0000

I’m still looking for an answer to yesterday’s question about energy usage for water, in the meantime here’s the next question. In keeping with the theme of water and energy, what percentage of energy in the US does hydro electric power generate in the US?

How much to move water?

Six — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 06:14:06 +0000

From yesterday, the largest supply of fresh water in the world is the Great Lakes, holding over 6 quadrillion gallons of water.

Continuing with water, but moving towards energy, today’s question. In the US how much energy is used to move water around? (Not sure how easy this one will be to answer

Greatest source of fresh water in the world

Six — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:47:45 +0000

From yesterday we found that watering golf courses uses about 74 billion gallons per yer of water, and fracking uses between 70 to 140 billion per yer. How does this compare to residential lawn watering? According to the EPA outside residential water usage is about 9 billion gallons per DAY or an astounding 3.2 trillion gallons per yer FAR dwarfing the usage fracking and golf course watering combined. If we want to save water, it helps to start at home.

Moving on with water questions, what it the largest source of fresh water in the world, and for extra credit, how much is there? (hint, it is Great).

Fracking + Golf Courses vs Lawn Watering

Six — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 05:44:31 +0000

Since the answer for yesterday’s question, leads to today’s question, here’s the answer to yesterday. In the US which uses more water fracking for oil or watering of golf courses?

This one turns out to be kind of a tie, depending on what estimates you use.

From the US Golf Assoc, the US uses 408 billion gallons of water a day, of which .05% is estimated to be used for watering of golf courses. This is 204,000,000 gallons per day, or 74,460,000,000 (74 billion) gallons/year.

Sourcewatch estimates that fracking uses 70 to 140 billion gallons of water per year, so fracking uses from slightly less than golf course watering to a little less than double depending on your estimate.

Bring us to tomorrow’s question, which uses more residential water lawn watering or fracking and golf course watering combined?