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Reid announces 1st hybrid geothermal/solar plant

Sen. Harry Reid kicked off the fourth annual clean energy conference today by announcing the inauguration of the first-ever hybrid geothermal and solar plant, combining Nevada’s two most homegrown forms of renewable energy in a single power-generating project.

The plant, which will be situated about 75 miles outside of Reno, will generate an additional 24 megawatts of power and create about 150 installation jobs, according to Enel Green Power North America President Francesco Venturini.

More of this please.  Renewable energy that creates jobs and doesn’t harm the environment.  Repubs must hate this.

Read more at The Las Vegas Sun.

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Iowa Tea Party books then cancels Christine O’Donnell

From CNN: Organizers for Saturday’s tea party rally in Iowa Tuesday blamed an internal miscommunication over the event’s schedule for rescinding a speaking slot Tuesday for former Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell.

Ken Crow, founder of the Tea Party of America, said initially he was “under the assumption we had an open slot” after her supporters had inquired Monday about whether she could speak.

O’Donnell is on a national speaking tour for her book, “Troublemaker.”

After the request for her to appear at the event was made to a fellow organizer, Crow looked at the speaking agenda and thought there was space for her. She was informed Monday she could speak, event co-organizer Charlie Gruschow told CNN Monday night.
Tuesday morning it was determined there was not enough time for her, Crow said.

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Joey Kovar of MTVs The Real World takes it off for Playgirl

Joey Kovar, who appeared on “Celebrity Rehab 3” and the Hollywood edition of MTV’s long-running reality series ‘The Real World,’ has taken it all off for Playgirl and claims he’s hotter than the guys on Jersey Shore.

Apparently his online profile from ‘The Real World’ has been viewed 68 million times.

Kovar is also taking jabs at his ‘Jersey Shore’ rivals by claiming to be the hottest Italiano. “I’m more muscular than them, I’m tanner than them,” he says. “The Jersey Shore‘ guys have nothing on me.”

Kovar was allegedly paid $20,000 to bare all. The issue of Playgirl with Kovar’s pictures will be available September 13, but check out a few advance pics from the shoot below.

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Remember when the gov’t helped people in times of disaster? Cantor says not without budget cuts.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) today stood by his call that no more money be allocated for disaster relief unless it is offset by spending cuts elsewhere.

FEMA will need more funds than it currently has to address the devastation from this weekend’s Hurricane Irene. Cantor took this position following the tornadoes that devastated Joplin, Missouri and elsewhere in the spring and summer, and after last week’s earthquake, the epicenter for which was in his district, but the hurricane’s level of destruction is far beyond that of those disasters.

Cantor told Fox News that while “we’re going to find the money,” “we’re just going to need to make sure that there are savings elsewhere to do so.”

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How A Do-Nothing Congress Can Almost Eliminate The Deficit

From ThinkProgress.org: Center for American Progress Director for Tax and Budget Policy Michael Linden notes that “if Congress does not pass any new fiscal policies between now and January 2013, the federal budget deficit will dwindle to just 1.6 percent of gross domestic product — the largest measure of our economy — by 2014, and continue dropping.  Similarly, debt as a share of GDP will peak at 73 percent in 2013 and then decline down to 61 percent by 2021.”

The decrease would be due to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the triggered spending cuts that were included in the debt ceiling deal going into effect, as well as the enactment of various policies that Congress always puts off, like the alternative minimum tax.

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Michele Bachmann – hurricanes and earthquakes are about politics

Speaking in Florida, Michele Bachmann assigned political motive to natural disaster as she told a group that recent events like Hurricane Irene were messages to her to cut the federal budget:

“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”

Bachmann’s campaign later insisted the congresswoman was joking.

The full measure of Hurricane Irene’s fury came into focus Monday as the death toll jumped to 38, New England towns battled epic floods and millions faced the dispiriting prospect of several days without electricity.

Quite the “joking” topic, isn’t it?

Can I say the only good thing about Rick Perry is he will save us all from a Bachmann Presidency…