Many people who use computers regularly will recognize the saying “garbage in — garbage out.” In these days of intensive search for alternative ways to create power, the words have become “garbage in — energy out,” as a number of power plants burn garbage instead of fossil fuels. The first power plant in the U.S. to burn garbage was the Union Electric Company in St. Louis, Missouri, on this day in 1972. The U.S. now burns about 14 percent of its trash, compared to the 54 percent of the world leader, Denmark. Coal, natural gas, and nuclear power currently generate most electricity used in the U.S. Over 4 trillion kilowatt hours are generated, of which almost 19 billion are created by incinerating waste. Profile America is in its 16th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Looking for the Vance County Board of Commissioners April 8th agenda and meeting packet? Look no further than the County’s own web-site. Our intrepid editor no longer needs to go to the County Administration office to pick-up a printed copy of the agenda, spend half a day scanning that copy into a PDF file for us to download. The County Manager, actually his very talented and able administrator, created the PDF and made that copy available for all to access directly from the County’s very one web-site.
Commissioners received new laptops two weeks ago and this week the public agenda items for their monthly meeting is available on the web. What could happen next; public involvement and attendance to commissioners meetings?
Use this link to download your own copy:
http://www.vancecounty.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MASTER-FILE.pdf
It would be great if the Vance County web site was kept more current than the City of Henderson site. I quit checking the Henderson site a couple of years ago, which was a couple of years behind then. In a world full of information, getting current local information is like counting hen’s teeth. I’ve decided there is a conspiracy involved here and it is called Keeping the Ignorant Ignorant…or shutting out the world.