A Lost Kesh

This long Easter weekend P & I were in the beautiful Cotswolds region. As we were preparing to leave the hotel on day 2 of our trip, P was frantically looking for something all over the room. Then she asked me "Have you seen my comb?" to which I replied "Maybe it got lost in the Comb Mela".
That was my contribution to aid the search :)

Gone with the wind

If you live in London, you couldn't have possible escaped seeing those Big Black Bins labeled as "Big Black Bins" (duh! Thanks, Ken), specifically mean to collect recyclable waste. UK as a country is quite crazy about being green. I think it was taken to the extreme recently with the councils wanting to charge households by the amount of waste they generate and also penalize them if they dumped anything recyclable in the general rubbish. Prince Charles recently gave a recorded speech as a hologram in Abu Dhabi to reduce carbon footprint. The UK government has made a commitment to generate 10% of its energy demand from renewable sources such as wind energy by the end of 2010.
So, green is good is the general perception. Wind energy is good. Windfarms help generate electricity, and it's a reality. There are companies now that provide electricity via windfarms.
But, this has to be optimized with the age-old wise adage "Too much is too bad". Last week, 10000 homes in UK were left without electricty. Why? Rain and high winds!!! So, how high can the wind be without killing the electricity that it can provide? It probably makes a good PhD topic for multi-objective optimization.
I guess we humans are not very different from wind. Neither are stable when they are high.