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Bits o’ interesting bits from the Gartner group:<\/p>\n

  • 62% of Canada’s power comes from hydroelecteric. Only 10% in the US comes from hydro — and only 3% of dams are set up to capture it. <\/p>\n
  • In the 1990s, 41,799 US soldiers were discharged for obesity. <\/p>\n
  • In a poll of Americans, 97% said that obeying your conscience <\/i>was a sign of strong character. 92% said obeying those in authority <\/i>was a sign of strong character. <\/p>\n
  • 5% of American power consumption is from equipment that is “off.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Bits o’ interesting bits from the Gartner group: 62% of Canada’s power comes from hydroelecteric. Only 10% in the US comes from hydro — and only 3% of dams are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16162,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-08-november-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":1127,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 08 November 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Nov-09 5:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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