By: Mark Adam

Mark Adam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:20:21 +0000

Sir, you are in NYC I think. Have you ever looked at the possibility of Quebec(the part of Canada directly north of you)becoming NY’s source of clean Hydrogen. I’ll let you crunch numbers(all available at Hydro Quebec’s website) but I think NY has a cheap, clean source of H. Someone just has to convince them to get into the biz. How ’bout you?

By: Leslie Erganian

Leslie Erganian — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:58:42 +0000

Just happened upon your site and had a story that speaks to your title Dark Enough to See the Stars. I live in Santa Clara, California, just across the Guadelupe River from San Jose. Besides the outcropping of Cisco buildings that lie low and green topped across the river, the other distinguishing feature to San Jose is that the entire city uses yellow street lights. I thought it odd and vaguely creepy when I first moved here. After a trip up the hill to the Lick Mill observatory, one of the 10 best observatories in the US, I began to think differently, you see the astronomers up there encouraged the city to go yellow and in so doing go green (sulfer bulbs require less energy) and to go dark (the observatory can filter out a single colored light source, but cannot filter out a wide spectrum bulb) therefore allowing the skies above San Jose (with a filter at least) to remain dark enough to see the stars.

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