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CBLL INTERNET
Searching for Order in this World of Entropy

Welcome to CBLL Internet

Hello! Welcome to CBLL.net. My name is Corey Johnson and I run this web site from a server at home via a cable-broadband connection to the internet. I have a weblog, Decelerating Delta S, which focuses mostly on environmental/sustainability issues with a concetration on energy and societal attitudes towards energy-related issues. I have also written a few articles about this and other various subjects.

Read about the slogan, Searching for Order in this World of Entropy

* Content

The COAL Question

With global climate change, mining concerns, growing demand for energy, energy security, and new technologies all arriving at the forefront, we must once again, as William Stanley Jevons did in 1866, ask ourselves "THE COAL QUESTION".

Ever wonder about those coal ads on TV?

Coal Swarm
Check out "America's Power" and others at Coal Swarm portal on coal issues.

* THE SYSTEM

Have you ever wondered how a web site got to you?

Your request enters Penn's Woods onboard a fiber-optic cable, unless you happen to be here already. Some coal is dug up in Clearfield County. It is shipped on rails to Snyder County where it is burnt and its heat of combustion turned into electrical energy at Sunbury Generation, near where Thomas Edison installed one of the first electric light systems. Wires carry the energy to Andreas, where moving electrons signify binary digits. A battery provides electron flow when the utility supply happens to fail. After entering the network of our ISP, fiber optic cables carry your request to the local cable modem CMTS near Selinsgrove, PA. The request then enters the cable system, and travels across coaxial cable until reaching the SurfBoard SB5100 cable modem, which brdiges it across to the broadband router then to Andreas. Apache HTTP Server greets you, happily seeking for the requested page on the disk and using a PHP program to assemble all of the necessary file and database information into the finished page. Gzip then compresses the page to lighten its travel back to your home base, whether that be a PC on the end of an ADSL link in Tromsø, Norway or a laptop in a WiFi hotspot Cafe in Invercargill, New Zealand.

 

Last Modified: June 11, 2008. 00:37:22 am