Comments on: Quickbits May 2009

By: Paul Currion

Paul Currion — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:43:31 +0000

Without wanting to be Mr Negative about “Solar Eagle”, it does rather fail the reality test. Would it be logistically possible to implement this from the top down in the US? I’m guessing no, in which case it’s probably a stretch to imagine it would work in Iraq.

By: Jonathan Soroko

Jonathan Soroko — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:13:54 +0000

Re: internet luminaries in Iraq. One of the great missed post-invasion opportunities was the “Solar Eagle” proposal – the work of two graduate students at the (U.S.) Naval Postgraduate School. They proposed building a distributed smart electrical grid for Iraq, with solar on every building. This would have made the grid highly resistant to attack, eliminated or reduced the corruption opportunities associated with gasoline/diesel distribution, and had a number of salutary public health effects. Not least reducing the childhood illnesses associated with spoiled food and nonpotable water.
JS

By: Michael Keizer

Michael Keizer — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:29:04 +0000

Tried it again yesterday, and now it works flawlessly, so I think they must have done some debugging. Great!

By: Dennis King

Dennis King — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:36:21 +0000

I don’t know, I didn’t find it that buggy and thought it worked better than expected – it sent me what i asked for in a presentable form and is easier and less time consuming than if I to create a Briefing Kit manually. Maybe takes practice…

Dennis

http://www.reliefweb.int/RWBriefingKit/occupied-Palestinian-territory-OCHA-7SVQ3V.pdf (20.73 Mb)

Please note that the above link will only be valid for 3 days.

By: Michael Keizer

Michael Keizer — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:27:43 +0000

ReliefWeb’s Briefing Kit would be great if it weren’t buggy as hell. Just try to get an interesting kit around the OPT and see what happens.

Really too bad, as it would be a wonderful tool if it worked well.