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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The following piece, by Dana Nuccitelli, originally appeared in Skeptical Science . Now that the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) study results are in, and have confirmed the accuracy of the surface temperature record (see here and here ), those "skeptics" who spent years disputing the accuracy of the record despite all the evidence pointing to... Read the full ...
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Elvert Barnes / CC BY-SA 2.0 One of the reasons why there's been such a big push by TransCanada and the tar sands industry more broadly for the approval of the proposed and embattled Keystone XL pipeline , stretching from Canada to Texas, goes beyond the immediate profits of the pipeline and onto a much bigger issue: A coming ...
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Images via ZenRobotics When it comes to sorting recyclables from trash bound for the landfill, much of the work has to happen by the people throwing away the materials, before waste management comes to pick up trash bins. However, robotics companies are continually working on ways that trash-sorting robots can ensure fewer recyclables head into landfills. ZenRobotics, a Finnish ...
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Image via YouTube video screengrab This is just awesome. Holy Kaw points us to a great video where a flash mob shows a crowded mall why it's a good idea to recycle whenever you have the chance. Check out the video with the surprising end, and lots of interesting pop-up factoids, after the jump. ... Read the full story ...
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Image: NASA On March 7th, the Arctic sea ice most likely reached its maximum extent for the year -- signaling the beginning of the melt season -- and that maximum tied for the lowest ever seen on the satellite record. The maximum extent was 5.65 million square miles, which may sound like a lot, until you consider that's 463,000 ...
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Photo by Boaz Arad via Flickr Creative Commons At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco this week, a panel of experts was asked about whether or not companies still care about carbon accounting. While the topic had a lot of buzz around it a couple years ago, it seems to have quieted down over the past year, despite the ...
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GreenTech Media has an excellent guest post from Rick Defieux, looking at the positive factors in Asia and negative factors in the US that is helping countries in the east, namely China, catapult above the rest of the world in the realm of cleantech. "Evidence is mounting that government-subsidized R&D, beneficial manufacturing conditions and cheap capital are helping to ...
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Photo by Richard Monckton via Flickr Creative Commons The silk worms above are hard at work doing their thing. After they form cocoons, the cocoons will be collected and processed into silk threads, yarn and so on. However, part of that process includes dying the silk -- something that is water intensive and often involves chemicals that aren't so ...
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Press conference to announce anti nuclear energy protest in Chile. Photo: Greenpeace Chile . Although Latin American countries rely lightly on nuclear power (only Argentina, Brazil and Mexico have plants, which represent only 2% of the region's energy production), many countries had plans for new plants until this week: Read more here: Earthquake-Prone Chile Won't Give Up Nuclear Plans Yet
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Image via ShelterBox ShelterBox is sending kits to Japan to help with relief efforts. The packs are somewhat of a marvel when it comes to efficient packaging -- they pack 100 lbs of equipment in just 33 x 24 x 22 inch box. Take a look at what is included, and find out more about the conundrum of packing ...
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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 ...
