Today on Planet 100: San Francisco’s Radiation Warning (Video)
published June 17, 2010 and has No Comments
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Read more...The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
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?
Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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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How About 90% More Efficient Air Conditioning?
published June 17, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Pat Corkery/NREL The National Renewable Energy Lab has Done It! As Lloyd and other sensible people keep pointing out , if our buildings and cities were better designed, we would need a lot less air conditioning, and in many cases none at all. That should be goal #1. But because it's doubtful that's ubiquitous A/C is going away ...
Read more...CO2 Linked To Ice Ages & Past Global Climate Changes
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photo: Dominic Alves via flickr Taking a look back to past global climate changes, researchers led by Timothy Herbert of Brown University have determined that for at least the past 2.7 million years tropical temperatures have "changed in lockstep" with the cyclical spread and retreat of ice sheets, and that CO2 has been the main factor dictating global climate ...
Read more...Will Biodegrading Oil And Natural Gas From BP Gusher Expand The Gulf Dead Zone?
published June 16, 2010 and has No Comments
Satellite view of the Gulf oil spill as of 12 June 2010 (partial excerpt). Image credit: SkyTruth, via NASA. So far, I have read only unsupported speculation about the Gulf 'Dead Zone' potentially expanding as a result of increased biological oxygen demand (BOD) from oil and natural gas. It is plausible - assuming phytoplankton blooms are not reduced somehow ...
Read more...First Biofuel-Powered Helicopter Flight Made by Royal Netherlands Air Force
published June 16, 2010 and has No Comments
The Apache AH-64D deployed by the US in Iraq; the same type as used in the Netherlands' test flight. Photo: Wikipedia . Aviation biofuels continue to gain momentum, with both commercial airlines and the military all conducting test flights and in general finding them more efficient than petroleum-based fuels. While we're still The rest is here: First Biofuel-Powered Helicopter Flight ...
Read more...Illinois Plastic Recycler Faces Criminal Water Pollution Charges
published June 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Plastic scrap bundles. Image credit: AaronPennFiles Recycling businesses, especially start-ups, need to be closely watched by Federal and State authorities to avoid the misery of huge messes left, fires and explosions, and water pollution. There is a long history of such problems justifying close regulation. It continues, as we see in this example reported by Environment News Service : ...
Read more...GMO Crop Takes Over Thousands of Acres in Germany
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Image via Science Daily "The Biggest GM Crop Scandal in Germany to Date" A genetically modified strain of maize classified as NK603 -- one that is explicitly banned in the European Union -- has been unleashed in Germany. The crop has been unwittingly planted on nearly 7,500 acres so far, and is continuing to spread. The source of the ...
Read more...Los Angeles, Without the Cars (Video)
published June 4, 2010 and has No Comments
Screen grab from Running on Empty video by Ross Chin. You can watch the video below. The best kind of art makes us see the world differently. Ross Ching created a video of something almost impossible to conceive: Los Angeles without cars. He used time-lapse techniques to capture the movements of clouds, people, traffic lights... But no cars. They ...
Read more...Powering Medical Devices with Your Organs
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Image via Vintage Collection and Technology Review Generating power via the motion of our bodies has captivated researchers for some time now. Scientists are working on developing everything from fabrics that can be sewn into energy-ha... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to read the rest: Powering Medical Devices with Your Organs
Read more...Transplanting Coral As a Cheap, Easy Way to Restore Reefs?
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Photo via NOAA Could restoring damaged reefs be as easy as super gluing corals to new shelves and ledges? Perhaps so, according to research done by Dr. Graham Forrester from the University of Rhode Island, and a team of scientists, students and locals who worked to restore a dead reef in White Bay in the British Virgin Islands. After ...
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The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To Work With industrial Relics, Graffiti and All 2012-02-08
The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
More in this category ...Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
