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The Bloom Box (energy fuel cell)
Post Date: 2010-02-22 18:19:50 by farmfriend
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The Bloom Box February 21, 2010 5:00 PM Large corporations have been testing a new device that can generate power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid. Will we have one in every home someday? Video:http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6228923n&tag=api
Departing climate chief pessimistic on Cancún
Post Date: 2010-02-21 03:31:47 by buckeroo
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Hopes that the world’s biggest polluters will strike a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions this year have been dashed by the outgoing United Nations official in charge of the talks. Yvo de Boer, whose unexpected resignation as the UN’s climate change chief this week dismayed policymakers and campaigners, said there was a “big question mark” over whether a meeting of the world’s biggest economies in December would produce a treaty to tackle global warming.
USC Gets $25M Grant To Study Below Earth's Surface
Post Date: 2010-02-21 00:40:37 by buckeroo
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LOS ANGELES (CBS) 53; USC is getting a 25 million dollar grant to study the "world of life" below the earth's surface. The grant is from the National Science Foundation and it will help the university create a new science and technology center called The Center For Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations. The center will study life forms that live below the earth's surface including soils, aquifers, and rocks underneath the ocean's floor. Among the center's goals are to advance the tools needed for sea sub- seafloor biosphere research; train and educate a new and diverse generation of undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral deep sub-seafloor researchers ...
Garbage in, fuel out.
Post Date: 2010-02-19 23:21:02 by Armadillo
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Load municipal solid waste into this machine and get power and high grade fuel in return. Sound like a dream? It's being tested by the army. They have 72 guaranteed foreign contracts so far, but none in the U.S. For a couple of years, Green Power, Inc (GPI) has had a 100 ton per day model plant in Pasco, Washington that turns municipal solid waste (MSW) and other like feedstock such as biomass into high grade fuel. This technology enables the replacement of limited, fossil-based oil with fuel that comes from garbage, which can be thought of as a form of free, sustainable energy, because as long as there are people on the planet, there will be waste. What's more, usually communities ...
Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul
Post Date: 2010-02-18 07:34:26 by James Deffenbach
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Poster Comment:On the subject of "global warming," this guy is great. He scares Al Gore to death and Al will NOT debate him.
U.S. Owns Up to Secret Hunt for Sunken Soviet Sub
Post Date: 2010-02-14 12:03:01 by Jethro Tull
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WASHINGTON – In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could of the wreck and made off to Hawaii with its purloined prize. Now, Washington is owning up to Project Azorian, a brazen mission from the days of high-stakes — and high-seas — Cold War rivalry. After more than 30 years of refusing to confirm the barest facts of what the world already knew, the CIA has released an internal account of Project Azorian, though with juicy details taken out. The account surfaced Friday at the hands of private researchers from the National Security Archive who ...
49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii's the holdout
Post Date: 2010-02-14 10:46:23 by christine
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Forty-nine states have snow now, from the Gulf Coast's Redneck Riviera to the skyscrapers of Dallas. The lone holdout? Hawaii. Although snow falls every winter on Hawaii's two tallest volcanoes, the National Weather Service in Honolulu said there was no snow in the state Friday. SCIENCE FAIR: January was Earth's warmest on record Snow had even fallen in the Florida Panhandle and along the South Carolina coast. However, snow has been lighter than usual in New England. Forecasters say El Nino has driven many of this year's storms southward. Weather service meteorologist Brian Korty says it's extremely rare to have so many states with snow.
Ancient Greenland gene map has a surprise
Post Date: 2010-02-11 14:01:51 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have sequenced the DNA from four frozen hairs of a Greenlander who died 4,000 years ago in a study they say takes genetic technology into several new realms. Surprisingly, the long-dead man appears to have originated in Siberia and is unrelated to modern Greenlanders, Morten Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues found. "This provides evidence for a migration from Siberia into the New World some 5,500 years ago, independent of that giving rise to the modern Native Americans and Inuit," the researchers wrote in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. Not only can the findings help transform the study of archeology, but ...
Climate Fight Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze
Post Date: 2010-02-11 05:18:38 by Disgusted
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Climate Fight Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze By JOHN M. BRODER Published: February 10, 2010 WASHINGTON — As millions of people along the East Coast hole up in their snowbound homes, the two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments. Skeptics of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of dangerous human-driven climate change — this looks more like global cooling, they taunt. Most climate scientists respond that the ferocious storms are consistent with forecasts that a heating planet will produce more frequent and more intense weather events. But some independent climate experts say the ...
Is There Nothing E. coli Cannot Do? The Borg Edition
Post Date: 2010-02-09 11:32:12 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Anthony Lane on Darwin Infecting Big Think Is There Nothing E. coli Cannot Do? The Borg Edition In my book Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, I describe how this humble germ helped make modern biology possible–and, in the process, has been engineered to do all sorts of remarkable things. In 2008, I blogged a fresh example, courtesy of Jeff Hasty and his colleagues. They retooled the bacteria to flash in clock-like rhythms. Now Hasty has taken another step forward, rejiggering E. coli so that millions of bacteria can flash in waves. The new paper’s in Nature, and the journal put together a lovely video of the bacteria in hive-mind performance. Check it out below.
The global warming guerrillas
Post Date: 2010-02-09 06:30:25 by Ada
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Matt Ridley salutes the bloggers who changed the climate debate. While most of Fleet Street kowtowed to the green lobby, online amateurs uncovered the spin and deception that finally cracked the consensus Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? ‘Climategate’ proves the opposite to be true. It was amateur bloggers who scented the exaggerations, distortions and corruptions in the climate establishment; whereas newspaper reporters, even after the scandal broke, played poodle to their ...
Cars.gov allows .gov to take over your computer
Post Date: 2010-02-07 12:54:26 by Lod
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Global Warming Update
Post Date: 2010-02-04 06:31:23 by Ada
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, in an hour-long television documentary titled "Global Warming: The Other Side," presents evidence that our National Climatic Data Center has been manipulating weather data just as the now disgraced and under investigation British University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit. The NCDC is a division of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Its manipulated climate data is used by the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, which is a division of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration. John Coleman's blockbuster five-part series can be seen at ...
Rare film: CHEMTRAILS up close
Post Date: 2010-02-04 04:05:27 by X-15
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No cookies or JavaScript? No worries. You can be tracked anyway.
Post Date: 2010-02-03 01:05:16 by X-15
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I’m not quite sure how to feel about this one. The web developer in me is saying “Whoa! That’s so cool!” While the web surfer in me is saying “Ew.. I’m leaking data everywhere.. How gross…” Digital civil rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (of recent Net neutrality and Facebook privacy battles) has released an eye-opening online tool called Panopticlick, designed to demonstrate exactly how uniquely identifiable you are — even if you’re diligent enough to take some of the most commonly prescribed privacy measures. Conventional wisdom holds that if you disable scripting and refuse to accept cookies, you’ll be denying web sites ...
Global warming science implodes overseas: American media silent
Post Date: 2010-02-01 20:38:27 by abraxas
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Global warming science implodes overseas: American media silent Rick Moran The revelations have been nothing short of jaw dropping. Dozens - yes dozens - of claims made in the IPCC 2007 report on climate change that was supposed to represent the "consensus" of 2500 of the world's climate scientists have been shown to be bogus, or faulty, or not properly vetted, or simply pulled out of thin air. We know this because newspapers in Great Britain are doing their job; vetting the 2007 report item by item, coming up with shocking news about global warming claims that formed the basis of argument by climate change advocates who were pressuring the US and western industrialized ...
Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells
Post Date: 2010-02-01 20:27:32 by abraxas
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Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells Journalist Rebecca Skloot’s new book investigates how a poor black tobacco farmer had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine. Medical researchers use laboratory-grown human cells to learn the intricacies of how cells work and test theories about the causes and treatment of diseases. The cell lines they need are “immortal”—they can grow indefinitely, be frozen for decades, divided into different batches and shared among scientists. In 1951, a scientist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, created the first immortal human cell line with a tissue sample taken from a young black woman with cervical cancer. ...
Steorn Overunity Demonstration Completed
Post Date: 2010-01-31 14:09:39 by gengis gandhi
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Steorn Overunity Demonstration Completed Today's demonstration summarized the findings of 1) no back EMF, 2) no component degradation (e.g. Gauss diminishing) to produce the effect, and 3) inductance gain (energy being harvested from somewhere). With this final demonstration, the technology is now being released to developers to prepare the technology for market. by Sterling D. Allan Pure Energy Systems News Copyright © 2010 Steorn CEO, Sean McCarthy during the Jan. 30, 2010 demonstration. Steorn did their "overunity demo" of their e-Orbo technology today at the Waterways building in Dublin, Ireland where they have had several copies of their electromagnetic ...
Facts conveniently brushed over by the global warming fanatics [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-01-31 12:23:41 by buckeroo
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Here are 10 anti-commandments, 10 selected facts about global warming which have been largely ignored amid the orthodoxies to which we are subjected every day. All these anti-commandments are either true or backed by scientific opinion. All can also be hotly contested. 1. The pin-up species of global warming, the polar bear, is increasing in number, not decreasing. 2. The US President, Barack Obama, supports building nuclear power plants. Last week, in his State of the Union address, he said: ''To create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this ...
Russia flexes military power with 'futuristic' fighter jet
Post Date: 2010-01-30 14:46:03 by Ferret Mike
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Russia returned to the global stage Friday as a first-rank military and technological power by launching a 'fifth generation' fighter plane, with futuristic characteristics of stealth, sustained supersonic cruise, and integrated weapons. A new Russian T-50 fighter lands at an airfield of the Sukhoi aircraft manufacturing plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur January 23. The new fighter aircraft is by some seen as Russia's response to U.S. advances in military aviation. Sukhoi Press Service/Reuters Moscow Vladimir Putin is jubilant, the Russian aviation industry is filled with pride, and even normally skeptical military experts say they're truly impressed by reports Friday that ...
Scientists broke the law by hiding climate change data: But legal loophole means they won't be prosecuted
Post Date: 2010-01-29 12:25:40 by Jethro Tull
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Scientists broke the law by hiding climate change data: But legal loophole means they won't be prosecuted By David Derbyshire Last updated at 11:21 PM on 28th January 2010 Comments (141) Add to My Stories Accused: Professor Phil Jones asked a colleague to delete emails relating to a report by the IPCC Scientist at the heart of the 'Climategate' email scandal broke the law when they refused to give raw data to the public, the privacy watchdog has ruled. The Information Commissioner's office said University of East Anglia researchers breached the Freedom of Information Act when handling requests from climate change sceptics. But the scientists will escape prosecution ...
Patek Philippe - Birth of a Legend
Post Date: 2010-01-29 02:41:04 by X-15
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Poster Comment:The making of a Swiss wristwatch from Patek Philippe.
Apple Unveils the iPad
Post Date: 2010-01-28 22:06:09 by Itistoolate
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Steve Jobs introduces tech giant's latest product
Was mysterious jellyfish in sky caused by space satellite reflecting Northern Lights?
Post Date: 2010-01-28 19:44:37 by farmfriend
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Was mysterious jellyfish in sky caused by space satellite reflecting Northern Lights? By Claire Bates Last updated at 1:57 AM on 28th January 2010 A strange jellyfish-shaped object spotted hanging in the sky over Norway, may have been caused by light from the aurora being bounced off a space satellite, experts say. If proven it will be the first known case of a satellite reflecting the Northern Lights. The mysterious phenomenon was photographed last week by amateur photographer Per-Arne Milkalsen over Andenesm, Norway. The photographer became fascinated with aurorae after working at a rocket launch site in the far north of Norway for 25 years. The northern lights are often visible ...
Water vapour could be behind warming slowdown
Post Date: 2010-01-28 19:24:05 by farmfriend
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Water vapour could be behind warming slowdown Mysterious changes in the stratosphere may have offset greenhouse effect. Jeff Tollefson A puzzling drop in the amount of water vapour high in the Earth's atmosphere is now on the list of possible culprits causing average global temperatures to flatten out over the past decade, despite ever-increasing greenhouse-gas emissions. Although the decade spanning 2000 to 2009 ranks as the warmest on record, average temperatures largely levelled off following two decades of rapid increases. Researchers have previously eyed everything from the Sun and oceans to random variability in order to explain the pause, which sceptics have claimed shows ...
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