Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Photos via Boston Just about everyone has been cautiously celebrating the news that the underwater geyser of oil at the Deepwater Horizon source has finally been capped (for now). So I hate to interrupt any momentary lapses of relief with ill news like this: The toll on wildlife and ecosystems in the Gulf continues to be devastating. Just yesterday, ...
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Photos via Boston With the tentatively good news breaking that the oil flow has been halted -- according to BP at least -- it may be time to return the focus to the devastation the spill has wrought. A good place as any to start is with the wildlife. The birds and sea turtles that have fallen victim to ...
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Image via Reuters Most can be forgiven for having long since given up on keeping track of the technical details of BP's various containment efforts: All the junk shots or top hats or containment domes or gerbil blasts or what have you. But it's time to start paying attention again, since this latest attempt has the highest chance ... ...
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photo: Joost J Bakker via flickr You'd have to be living in a cave since the beginning of the BP oil spill to not have heard, or made, statements about never letting this sort of environmental disaster happen again and kicking our oil addiction . There have even been checklists 50 items deep of ways you can use less ...
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Image via Boston Here's a handy infographic to bring you up to speed on the cleanup operations following the April 20th explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig . Also included are easily digestible stats on how much, approximately, operations have cost thus far. It's brief and to the point, and makes for a solid quick reference point. Infographic ...
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As expected, the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill has grown weaker still, relinquishing an economy-wide cap on carbon emissions and instead targeting only the utility sector for greenhouse gas reductions starting in 2013. And that's still apparently too controversial for this Senate, as the conventional wisdom says not even a utility-only bill can get enough votes to pass. So here's what ...
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We've seen testimony of fisherman after fisherman and Gulf Coast resident after Gulf Coast resident lament the woes inflicted upon their home by the BP spill. So how does one go about setting himself apart from the crowd at yet another Oil Spill Commission hearing? You grab a guitar and belt out a song you wrote about the oil ...
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Image via Kid K Adam Dillon was a contractor for BP, and worked to help coordinate the spill cleanup of effort. His first appearance on television found him chasing reporters of a spill-impacted sight in the middle of a news segment for WDSU in New Orleans. Now, the tides have turned, and Dillon is willfully going to the press ...
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(Image altered to protect the innocent.) Image credit: Luke Montgomery and Nate Guidas As evidenced when BP failed f***ing booming school , an unmitigated disaster like the oil spill occurring in the Gulf of Mexico can provoke some pretty strong language. (Not to mention some idiotic remarks from BP CEO Tony Hayward .) Now a group of activists wants ...
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Oil spill cleanup vehicle photo: US Coast Guard via flickr Coming through a variety of sources all through the afternoon, not the least of which is the AP talking to Obama administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity, is word that a new offshore oil drilling moratorium will be issued--a little more than two weeks after Here is the ...
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Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
