Some Items That Crossed My Desk

Hi everyone, I have been fighting illness for nearly two weeks and so I don't have as much fresh content as I would like. 

However, I do have some concise material from others that I think you will enjoy reading. 

• Thanks to 'green' energy, Germany may have to go back to heating its homes with wood this winter. Worse, they are going to close their three remaining -- carbon free -- nuclear power plants. 

And, when you hear the USA is closing coal plants to "stop global warming," you may wish to consider.