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Hydro can meet most of today's power needs
Post Date: 2015-05-28 06:12:58 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... Present CC is reversible and we can control climate YOU MAY NEED LOTS OF POWER FOR DEVELOPING WATER SUPPLY NETWORKS. HERE IS THE METHOD TO HARNESS POWER AS MUCH AS YOU WANT, THEORETICALLY UNLIMITED. II. SOLUTION TO POWER CRISIS: RUNNING TURBINES IN SERIES LIMITLESS SOURCE OF ENERGY (BLUNDER IN HYDROPOWER ENGINEERING: CORRECTION MEANS END OF POWER CRISIS. (concise water meters to apply to ) If we make correction of the mistake there has been on hydropower engineering we wouldn't need any other sources of power at all. The cleanliest power will be available by cheapest possible way we can think of. Please avoid the most dangerous power source.) At present we are tapping only ...
Germany emits more of most potent greenhouse gas in 2014
Post Date: 2015-05-28 05:53:27 by Tatarewicz
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, the most potent of all greenhouse gases, rose 13 percent last year compared with 2013 levels, according to data from the federal statistics office published on Wednesday. Sulfur hexafluoride emissions increased by 104 tonnes to 916 tonnes in total last year, but were still 16 percent lower than 2012, the statistics office said. The most potent of all greenhouse gases, sulfur hexafluoride has a global warming effect some 22,800 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2) when compared over a 100-year period. It is mainly produced in industrial processes, such as the production of electronics and apparatus. Sulfur hexafluoride is one of ...
This portable capsule lets you live off the grid anywhere in the world
Post Date: 2015-05-27 05:45:48 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Love the great outdoors, but not quite ready to go Into The Wild-style and give up hot water and electricity just yet? Slovakian architects have just revealed a super-compact capsule that promises to deliver a nomadic lifestyle, with all the renewable-powered comforts of home. And we really want one. The whole thing is pretty cramped, measuring just 2.55 m x 4.45 m x 2.25 m, but it's designed to be entirely self-sufficient for two adults, and is kitted out with a retractable 750 W wind turbine and 2.6 square-metres of solar panels. The egg-shaped abode, which has been named the Ecocapsule, also has a 9,744 Watt hours battery to store all that power for a rainy (or ...
World has no choice but to decarbonize: U.N. climate chief
Post Date: 2015-05-27 01:01:31 by Tatarewicz
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Responding to climate change in the next 15 years is the world's "mega development project", given the need to invest trillions of dollars in infrastructure, creating jobs and economic stability, the United Nations' top climate change official said on Tuesday. "It makes fundamental economic sense" for countries to push forward on tackling climate change because of the benefits it will bring in terms of food, water and energy, as well as employment," Christiana Figueres told a carbon market conference in Barcelona. This, together with the speed at which businesses are acting on climate change and efforts to put a ...
Forty-Four Feet Captures Valdez STOL Competition
Post Date: 2015-05-26 22:24:58 by X-15
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May 14, 2015 - Some incredible performances were turned in last weekend at the annual Valdez STOL (short takeoff and landing) competition in Valdez, Alaska, held in conjunction with the 12th annual Valdez Fly-In and Air Show. Bobby Breeden, who was part of the first-ever STOL demonstrations at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014, needed only 44 feet of runway to take off - and land - in an experimental Glacier Cub, topping all others at Valdez and winning the Alternate Bush Class. Breeden paired a 24-foot takeoff with his second 20-foot landing of the day in less than ideal conditions including 14 knot winds. Other winning Valdez pilots were: •Shawn Holly, Soldotna, Alaska, Light Touring ...
Uploading human brain for eternal life is possible – Cambridge neuroscientist
Post Date: 2015-05-26 06:32:55 by Tatarewicz
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RT... People could “live inside a machine” by turning their brain into a program code once a computer capable of recreating some 100 trillion connections is built, a popular Cambridge neuroscientist said at a UK mass event this weekend. “People could probably live inside a machine. Potentially, I think it is definitely a possibility,” Dr Hannah Critchlow of the Cambridge Neuroscience said at the popular Hay Festival in Wales, as quoted by The Telegraph. Although the human brain is enormously complex, scientists are beginning to better understand its separate parts’ functions, Critchlow said, describing the brain as a complex circuit board. The scientist claimed ...
Cow poo-powered bus sets land speed record
Post Date: 2015-05-26 01:24:25 by Tatarewicz
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READING, England, May 25 (UPI) -- The same bus model that typically transports residents of Reading, England around the city recently set a land speed record. The bus topped out at 76.785 miles per hour as it rounded the track at Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire. The kicker is -- the bus is powered by cow poo or, more accurately, bovine manure-derived biomethane. In honor of it's fecal fuel source, the bus is painted in black and white spots (like a cow). Bus Hound was built by Reading Buses, a transportation company in Southern England. The company's fleet features vehicles that normally don't break 56 miles per hour. "The code name for the bus itself is Bus ...
Why Uber's Self-Driving Car Test Is A Big Deal
Post Date: 2015-05-25 07:36:54 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Uber has been testing out its self-driving car in Pittsburgh that could change the way people look at transportation. Video provided by Newsy Related Videos Google's Self-Driving Car Has No Steering Wheel or Pedals TheStreet (May 28, 2014) — Google is unveiling its own prototype of a self-driving car in which there's no steering wheel or pedals. Instead, the electric-powered car is driven solely through computers and sensors. The only ... watch video Ford Reveals Automated Fusion Hybrid That Can Almost Drive Itself TFL Car (Dec. 14, 2013) — ( www.TFLcar.com ) The just revealed Automated Ford Fusion Hybrid looks like it has sprouted a pair of spinning ...
Sudden onset of ice loss in Antarctica so large it affects Earth's gravity field
Post Date: 2015-05-25 06:42:16 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... A group of scientists, led by a team from the University of Bristol, UK has observed a sudden increase of ice loss in a previously stable region of Antarctica. The research is published today in Science. Using measurements of the elevation of the Antarctic ice sheet made by a suite of satellites, the researchers found that the Southern Antarctic Peninsula showed no signs of change up to 2009. Around 2009, multiple glaciers along a vast coastal expanse, measuring some 750km in length, suddenly started to shed ice into the ocean at a nearly constant rate of 60 cubic km, or about 55 trillion litres of water, each year. This makes the region the second largest contributor to ...
China launches support project to attract scientific talents
Post Date: 2015-05-25 06:22:40 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will launch a new project to attract and support urgently needed talents, according to an announcement on Monday. Titled "New 100-Talent", the project aims to attract 100 scientists worldwide, who are most urgently needed in cutting-edge fields in China and have the potential to make international breakthroughs, according to the CAS. The project will include financial and support staff to the leading figures who have achieved innovation so that they can continue to yield new findings in science and help cultivate young research fellows. The young talents under the age of 35 with outstanding potential in ...
Here's why it'll take us decades to master nuclear fusion
Post Date: 2015-05-25 01:51:57 by Tatarewicz
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. SCIENCEALERT This article was written by Matthew Hole, from the Australian National University and Igor Bray, from Curtin University, and was originally published by The Conversation. It's part of their worldwide series on the Future of Nuclear, and you can read the rest of the series here. Nuclear fusion is what powers the Sun and the stars - unleashing huge amounts of energy through the binding together of light elements such as hydrogen and helium. If fusion power were harnessed directly on Earth, it could produce inexhaustible clean power, using seawater as the main fuel, with no greenhouse gas emissions, no proliferation risk, and no risk of catastrophic accidents. Radioactive ...
Construction on world's largest floating solar power plant completed in Japan
Post Date: 2015-05-25 00:38:11 by Tatarewicz
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OSAKA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The construction on a 2.3-megawatt floating solar power plant has been completed on Sunday in Hyogo prefecture, western Japan, which is the world's largest floating solar power plant in terms of output. The plant, coinvested by electronics giant Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation, is expected to generate 2, 680 megawatt hours (MWh) every year. According to Kyocera, floating solar plants are superior to their land-based equivalents because of the cooling effects of the water, which allow the plants to have better power generating efficiency. "As solar power is booming in Japan, land available for large solar plants is hard to ...
Tsinghua University and Hewlett-Packard announce joint venture
Post Date: 2015-05-24 23:31:21 by Tatarewicz
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Want... The corporate arm of China's Tsinghua University announced a joint venture deal with Hewlett-Packard (HP) on computer servers, storage and technology services on May 21. Under the agreement, Tsinghua Holding's Unisplendour (Tsinghua Unigroup) will acquire a 51% stake in a new company called H3C, taking over HP's servers, storage and technology services in China. Tsinghua will acquire the H3C stake for around US$2.5 billion, while HP's management teams in China, including those on the H3C venture, will remain largely unchanged. HP will maintain full control of its enterprise services, personal computer business and other operations in China, while H3C will become ...
Philips' Magnifier Engine Can Slash Your Electric Bill By More Than 70% Almost Overnight - Guaranteed!
Post Date: 2015-05-23 12:22:02 by BTP Holdings
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FINALLY REVEALED: Philips' Magnifier Engine Can Slash Your Electric Bill By More Than 70% Almost Overnight - Guaranteed! My name is Darren Holman. In a couple minutes you'll see how I took a magnifying glass, which my kids used to fry ants on the sidewalk… Used it to power my entire home, and slashed my energy bill by more than 70%, under 3 weeks. Now I know it may be hard to believe, but this may change your mind: You're going to see how an invention developed by Philips Electronics in the 1950’s (yes, that same Philips Electronics selling DVD players at Walmart)… before they eventually decided to hide their breakthrough and keep it a secret… ...
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees: How soon will robots take over the world?
Post Date: 2015-05-21 19:01:59 by Ada
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An explosion in artificial intelligence has sent us hurtling towards a post- human future, warns Martin Rees In Davos a few years ago, I met a well-known Indian tycoon. Knowing I had the title Astronomer Royal, he asked: “Do you do the Queen’s horoscopes?” I responded, with a straight face: “If she wanted one, I’m the person she’d ask.” He then seemed eager to hear my predictions. I told him that markets would fluctuate and that there would be trouble in the Middle East. He paid rapt attention to these insights. But I then came clean. I said I was just an astronomer, not an astrologer. He immediately lost all interest in my predictions. And rightly so: ...
Taiwan develops method of making biofuel from microalgae
Post Date: 2015-05-20 23:34:57 by Tatarewicz
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Want...Taiwanese researchers have developed a system that uses microalgae cultivated in partially treated wastewater as a feedstock for biomedicine and biofuel production, providing huge business opportunities. It took a research team at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology five years to develop the microalgae cultivation and biodiesel production system, which took top prize in the university category in a national energy innovation competition last year. The technology has also begun attracting attention from the academic and business sectors from home and abroad, said Tsai Wen-tien, director of the university's Graduate Institute of Bioresources and the team leader. ...
China Plans First Ever Landing on the Dark Side of the Moon
Post Date: 2015-05-20 00:46:23 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... What lies on the dark side of the moon? The ruined civilization of our lunar forbearers? A pile of overplayed Pink Floyd records? The most exclusive Airbnb in the galaxy? China’s on the case, launching the first expedition of its kind, a journey to the moon’s untapped hemisphere. The closest extraterrestrial body, the moon has done much to shape our history and mythologies. It’s been associated with Artemis and Greek conceptions of rebirth. It’s also connected with Chang’e, the Chinese goddess of the moon. Hence the name of China’s latest probe, the Chang’e-4. The mission, part of China’s Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP), plans to land ...
Brasscheck out on a limb: "The earth is flat"
Post Date: 2015-05-19 10:22:21 by NeoconsNailed
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What's going on here? BrasscheckTV, though semiliberaloid, offers one of the great free email subscriptions. It's one of the very few I keep. Most of their shows bust the new world order, the warfare state, growing tyranny et al. What do you make of this one -- actual suppressed science, a joke, or a capitulation to the brainwashing and disinfo field? Remember, now, the system lies to us about terrorism, the Holocaust(TM), pot, global warming, "native Americans", all of the biggest news events, and lots more. We've seen quite credible accounts of how we never really did a moon landing (including a Brasscheck vid of top astonauts acting really, really weird in a public ...
Spanish researchers are developing bladeless wind turbines
Post Date: 2015-05-18 01:38:02 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A Spanish company called Vortex Bladeless has come up with bladeless wind turbine technology that seeks to provide more energy for less, and address the criticisms aimed at traditional wind farms - particularly where wildlife is concerned. With blades that spin at speeds of more than 320 km/h (200 miles/hour), wind turbines haven’t been the best news for the birds that live around them. While for the most part, the damage is fairly minimal, one wind farm in particular, Altamont Pass in California, US, has drawn the ire of local residents because of the 1,300 birds of prey - including eagles, falcons, hawks - that are killed each year as they try to migrate through ...
Microsoft: Humans have shorter attention span than a goldfish
Post Date: 2015-05-18 01:24:59 by Tatarewicz
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UPI... TORONTO, May 15 (UPI) -- A small study by researchers at Microsoft has found the human attention span is shortening. At just 8 seconds, they say it is now shorter than the attention span of the average goldfish. The study, which featured a combination of surveys and mind games, was an apparently genuine attempt by scientists with the software company to better understand how mobile technology has affected attention span. More than 100 volunteers in Canada responded to a questionnaire and played cognitive games designed to quantify attention spans. While answering questions and playing games, participants were monitored by electroencephalography (EEG), a non-invasive method for ...
Hacker took control of United flight and flew jet sideways, FBI affidavit says
Post Date: 2015-05-16 21:29:38 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK, May 16 (UPI) -- A security researcher suspected of hacking into computerized systems aboard a United Airlines Boeing 737 from Denver to Chicago last month told federal authorities that he once manipulated a jetliner's flight controls to steer the plane sideways, an FBI agent's affidavit states. Chris Roberts, a security researcher with One World Labs, was met by FBI agents after exiting a United flight in Syracuse, N.Y., on April 15 for a tweet posted on his account that suggested he may have hacked into a flight's entertainment system -- activity that he'd supposedly told agents previously that he would stop doing. The details of Roberts's alleged in-flight ...
Stefan Marivov's Free Energy Generator
Post Date: 2015-05-16 11:52:47 by BTP Holdings
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Watch the video at source. They want $37 for the blueprints.
The solar road in the Netherlands is working even better than expected
Post Date: 2015-05-16 07:50:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The Netherlands made headlines last year when it built the world's first solar road - an energy-harvesting bike path paved with glass-coated solar panels. Now, six months into the trial, engineers say the system is working even better than expected, with the 70-metre test bike path generating 3,000 kWh, or enough electricity to power a small household for a year. "If we translate this to an annual yield, we expect more than the 70kwh per square metre per year," Sten de Wit, spokesman for SolaRoad, the group behind the project, told Tarek Bazley at Al Jazeera. So just imagine the potential if we covered all our roads in the stuff. It’s this kind of ...
Short Supply: US About to Run Out of Old-Style IP Addresses
Post Date: 2015-05-15 02:03:41 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... At some point within the next few months, the US will have used up its share of all the Internet addresses that were created over thirty years ago, causing headaches for firms with the switch to a newer, expanded protocol. The original batch of about 4.3 billion IP addresses created in 1981 has dwindled and is nearing exhaustion, the Wall Street Journal Reports. Asia scooped up the last of their share of that batch in 2011, and Europe did the same about a year later. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is really really worried that his friend, Google cofounder Larry Page, has adopted some destructive interests - destructive for humanity, that is. © Flickr/ NVIDIA Corporation Elon Musk ...
Google robots army may turn against human race: SpaceX CEO
Post Date: 2015-05-14 07:38:42 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX CEO is worried that Google may “accidentally” create an evil robot army that can turn against the human race. Google's intensive research into robotics could "produce something evil by accident," technology entrepreneur Elon Musk said in a new self-titled authorized biography, The Independent reported on Wednesday. Musk is the CEO at the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) and electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors and one of the founders of Pay Pal online payments system. Without clearly specifying any ultimate purpose, Google started to acquire robotics companies such as Boston Dynamics, which ...
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