Gretchen took these LAKE videos at the South Georgia Native Plant and Wild Flower Symposium, at NESPAL, UGA, Tifton, GA. The event was sponsored by the University of Georgia and the Garden Clubs of Georgia.
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Batteries vs. fossil fuels
Another battery entry, Ambri with a liquid metal battery and $50 million startup funding, understands it’s the battery market vs. fossil fuels. And batteries plus sun, wind, and water power will win.
Jeff McMahon, Forbes, 4 June 2015,
Want To Build A Better Battery? Don’t Talk To Battery Experts,
Like Tesla’s Powerpack, Ambri’s liquid-metal battery is designed to provide grid-level storage that can supplement intermittent renewables like solar and wind, making a grid that depends on renewables as reliable as one that depends on fossil fuels or nuclear reactors.
Wednesday night, [Ambri founder MIT Professor Donald] Sadoway welcomed Tesla’s entry to the grid-level battery industry. The competition, he said, is not between batteries, but between batteries and fossil fuels.
Videos: Doublewide, Commercial, Professional, Residential, Landscape, Stormwater, Suburban, Agriculture, Schools, and Moody @ GLPC 2015-05-26
The Planning Commission said at its 26 May 2015 meeting
that it needed at least a month more to review
Lowndes County’s proposed changes to the Moody Activity Zoning (MAZ)
Districts, which is why
the County Commission is pushing back the schedule on that.
Another big item is REZ-2015-11 The Orchard at Stone Creek, yet another subdivision on Old US 41 N, this one due west of Nelson Hill on Val Del.
Here’s the agenda. Below are links to each of the LAKE videos of the agenda items, followed by a video playlist. Continue reading
Water, septic, sewer, utilties, Lowndes Middle School @ LCC 2015-06-08
What are these complicated Moody Activity Zoning Districts amendments to the land development code that involve many maps and tables that county staff are not showing the public, even though one of the stated reasons is residential dwellings and family ties land divisions?
What has Lowndes Middle School done for water and sewer until now,
when
it’s finally asking to connect to Valdosta utilities because
Lowndes County utilities are too far away?
Plus two water well and septic rezonings on
Mt. Zion Rd
and
Touchton Rd,
and
water and sewer for 24 acres of The Orchard at Stone Creek, Tillman Crossing Rd.
And
Utility Relocation for the Replacement of Franks Creek Bridge on Morven Road.
Many bids, including for Paving on Coppage Road; staff recommends the Scruggs bid.
Here’s the agenda, which this time (unlike last) at least does have the one- or two-page agenda item sheets, but is still lacking the rest of the board packet.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 8,2015, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Building and billboard locations @ ZBOA 2015-06-02
Today at 2:30 PM,
Fairway is back with a new billboard request.
Also in the county, a
building location variance.
Since
Laverne Gaskins declined to be reappointed,
there’s a new ZBOA member.
John Hogan III, who ran for Valdosta City Council in 2015,
was appointed to ZBOA by that Council 7 May 2015. Continue reading
Videos: Billboard and building locations @ ZBOA 2015-05-05
Last month,
Unscheduled:
Laverne Gaskins announced she did not want to be reappointed to ZBOA.
Fairway got to put its
billboard
back up at the new overpass, but only at 50 feet high.
Plus in the county, a
building location variance
and a
Family Ties variance
were both approved unanimously.
They meet again today at 2:30PM. Continue reading
Award to Superintendent of Valdosta Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
Some good news about Valdosta wastewater.
City of Valdosta PR, 29 May 2015, Henderson Wins TopOp Award,
Harold Henderson (left) was honored at the May 21 City Council
meeting by Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent Keith
Martin for recently being selected as the Georgia Association of
Water Professionals (GAWP) TopOp for District 7, which represents
over 300 wastewater plant operators in the southwest and
south-central Georgia region. Henderson, who has worked as an
operator at the Mud Creek Plant for over 12 years, was recognized
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Videos: GEFA, road abandonment, bids, and water @ LCC 2015-05-26
The County Manager said it’s “in the hands of the clerk, if you’d like to look at it” for at least two documents, so not only did
the agenda on the web lack even the one-sheet agenda item writeups,
Commissioners weren’t provided copies of contracts they were being asked to approve.
They vote this same evening, and the
Planning Commission also meets 5:30 PM Tuesday.
The GEFA Loan Modification turns out to be about Continue reading
Shareholders demand Southern Company stop supporting climate change denial 2015-05-27
It’s not just us gnats anymore, Southern Company now has yellowflies
giving it the business about converting from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
That’s smart business, since SO
called out solar power in its own 2014 Annual Report
for increased revenues in both 2013 and 2014.
Tomorrow at Callaway Gardens, stockholders including me will vote.
Dave Williams, Atlanta Business Chronicle, 15 May 2015, Southern shareholders to consider ‘green’ vote, Continue reading
Remember the troops by enlisting solar power to prevent wars
This Memorial Day let’s honor those who have served and those who have fallen
by getting on with removing one of the major causes of war:
fossil fuels.
The U.S. military is putting its money where its mouth is in buying
solar power.
Especially now that
HB 57 is law and enables solar financing,
the rest of us can do the same.
And that will prevent casualties and prevent wars.
WTOC Staff, 15 May 2015, Ft. Stewart breaks ground on renewable energy solar project,
There will be nearly 140,000 solar panels covering about 200 acres. Georgia Power owns and operates the solar panels, and all of the energy generated will go to Georgia Power to be equally distributed to people across the region who use Georgia Power, including MidCoast Regional Airport, Fort Stewart, and any other residential customers.
“Let me put a little bit into perspective; so the Army is the largest utility consumer in the United States, we buy more utility services than anyone else, even WalMart,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Richard Kidd said.
Why is the U.S. military doing this? Continue reading