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Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects
Post Date: 2008-06-28 15:40:02 by farmfriend
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So sad that environmental rules are getting in the way of all those renewable resources. Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects By DAN FROSCH Published: June 27, 2008 DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years. The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions of acres it oversees in six Western states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. But ...
Stoners, Like, Totally Solve Nation's Air Travel Problems
Post Date: 2008-06-27 20:44:00 by tom007
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Stoners, Like, Totally Solve Nation's Air Travel Problems By Chuck Squatriglia EmailJune 25, 2008 | 2:53:24 PMCategories: Air Travel, Airports, Autopia WTF? Dept. Upinsmoke_5 Air travel is a total hassle, man, and marijuana advocates in Denver say everyone would find the normally excruciating process a lot more pleasant if they could enjoy a few bong hits before boarding. It might even help solve a few of the problems that airlines have been experiencing lately. The way they see it, if people can knock a few back before a flight, they should be able to spark one up. They're calling on airports nationwide to install marijuana lounges. "All we're saying is, in light of ...
Volcanic eruptions reshape Arctic ocean floor: study
Post Date: 2008-06-27 18:31:34 by farmfriend
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Volcanic eruptions reshape Arctic ocean floor: study PARIS (AFP) - Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday. The eruptions -- as big as the one that buried Pompei -- took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an underwater mountain chain snaking 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia. Scientists suspected even at the time that a simultaneous series of earthquakes were linked to these volcanic spasms. But when a team led of scientists led by Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in ...
Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole
Post Date: 2008-06-27 17:35:07 by FormerLurker
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Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole By Steve Connor, Science EditorFriday, 27 June 2008 It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer. "From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ...
North Pole Could be Ice-Free This Summer
Post Date: 2008-06-27 17:17:45 by FormerLurker
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North Pole Could be Ice-Free This SummerBy Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience Managing Editor posted: 26 June 2008 10:34 pm ET Arctic sea ice could break apart completely at the North Pole this year, allowing ships to sail over the normally frozen top of the world. The potential landmark thaw — the first time in human history the pole would be ice-free — is a stark sign of global warming, according to an article Friday on the web site of the The Independent, a London newspaper. "Symbolically it is hugely important," said Mark Serreze of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado. "There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water." ...
AN INTERESTING HISTORY LESSON.
Post Date: 2008-06-27 16:06:53 by Rotara
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Railroad tracks. This is fascinating. Be sure to read the final paragraph; your understanding of it will depend on the earlier part of the content. The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England , and En glish expatriates built the US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs ...
Sun goes longer than normal without producing sunspots
Post Date: 2008-06-26 22:34:37 by Horse
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BOZEMAN -- The sun has been laying low for the past couple of years, producing no sunspots and giving a break to satellites. That's good news for people who scramble when space weather interferes with their technology, but it became a point of discussion for the scientists who attended an international solar conference at Montana State University. Approximately 100 scientists from Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and North America gathered June 1-6 to talk about "Solar Variability, Earth's Climate and the Space Environment." The scientists said periods of inactivity are normal for the sun, but this period has gone on longer than usual. "It continues to be ...
Climate change: Learning to think like a geologist
Post Date: 2008-06-25 17:34:01 by farmfriend
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Climate change: Learning to think like a geologist Paul MacRae, June 24, 2008 Most geologists aren’t part of Al Gore’s “100 per cent consensus” of scientists that humans are the principal cause of global warming and that we have to take drastic steps to deal with it. For example, in March 2008, a poll of Alberta’s 51,000 geologists found that only 26 per cent believe humans are the main cause of global warming. Forty-five per cent believe both humans and nature are causing climate change, and 68 per cent don’t think the debate is “over,” as Gore would like the public to believe.1 The position of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists is ...
Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-06-25 02:36:28 by RickyJ
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THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity. What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot. Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously. All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley ...
GOING GREEN = $4 PER GALLON
Post Date: 2008-06-22 14:27:27 by Rotara
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You hear it everywhere now. On the nightly news; in car ads; in government reports; at the super market. Instructions on how to "reduce your carbon footprint," "save the planet" and "go green" are the new national mantras for behavior modification of our daily lives. It's interesting to note that as the nation jumps on the "go green" band wagon, more Americans are beginning to feel that the American Dream is passing them by. "Fewer Americans now than at any time in the last half century believe they're moving forward in life," concluded a recent report by the Pew Research Center. The report went on to say that today's economic ...
Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
Post Date: 2008-06-21 08:03:38 by Ada
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Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide 'renewable petroleum' Some diesel fuel produced by genetically modified bugs “Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.” He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on ...
SARA CONNER HAS FAILED ; THE BRITS JUST BUILT SKYNET
Post Date: 2008-06-16 14:46:44 by MING THE MERCILESS
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With the launch of a new communications satellite, the British military has completed a highly advanced network that will allow robotic military units to be controlled at long range. Sound vaguely familiar? They actually named the thing Skynet. When the T-1000s come knocking, keep an eye out for the "Made in UK" sticker. Skynet 5 is the latest iteration of a global communications system deployed by....... io9.com/5016092/sarah-con...british-just-built-skynet
Tired of being tracked by Google? Try this!
Post Date: 2008-06-14 22:39:55 by Elliott Jackalope
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I decided that I'm not fond of the idea of Google keeping eternal logs on my web searches, so I found this alternative. It's called "Scroogle", at www.scroogle.org - here's a link you can use for their "Scraper" service. www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos
Post Date: 2008-06-11 00:02:29 by Indrid Cold
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YouTube videos that show a group of friends apparently cooking kernels of popcorn with their cellphones have been viewed more than a million times since they were uploaded last week. The clever parlor trick (see embedded clip) looks amazing enough, but there's a hitch: It's not physically possible, according to University of Virginia physics professor Louis Bloomfield. "[The videos] are cute," said Bloomfield in a phone conversation Monday. "But that's never gonna happen." In a microwave oven, energy excites the water inside popcorn kernels until it turns into highly pressurized gas, causing the kernels to pop. If mobile phones emitted that much energy, ...
Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots
Post Date: 2008-06-10 21:52:10 by farmfriend
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Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots ScienceDaily (Jun. 9, 2008) — The sun has been lying low for the past couple of years, producing no sunspots and giving a break to satellites. That's good news for people who scramble when space weather interferes with their technology, but it became a point of discussion for the scientists who attended an international solar conference at Montana State University. Approximately 100 scientists from Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and North America gathered June 1-6 to talk about "Solar Variability, Earth's Climate and the Space Environment." The scientists said periods of inactivity are normal for the sun, ...
HAARP
Post Date: 2008-06-10 17:01:46 by angle
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This is a U.S. Government Computer System This computer system operates as a world wide web server to provide information to the public concerning unclassified programs only. You may freely access all of the files and images that have been made available on the various home pages hosted by this server. Spend as much or as little time as you wish but remember that this is a U. S. Government computer system. This system is monitored to ensure proper operation, to verify the functioning of applicable security features, and for other like purposes. Use of this service constitutes consent to such monitoring. Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information; to defeat or circumvent ...
Bringing the Noise to Silent Killer Hybrids
Post Date: 2008-06-10 14:02:08 by scrapper2
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Hybrid and electric vehicles have been called "silent killers" because they run so quietly that pedestrians and bicyclists can't hear 'em coming and get plowed. It's a big enough problem that Congress is looking into it, and a pair of Stanford University students have developed a pretty novel way to bring the noise to hybrids. Their solution? Slap some speakers under wheel wells and crank up the "vroom-vroom" noise. It's an elegant solution. But is the sound of an engine the best they could come up with? The fact hybrids and electric vehicles are so quiet is a serious problem that's getting a lot of press these days. An 8-year-old Minneapolis boy ...
I know a math teacher who is now teaching programing
Post Date: 2008-06-10 12:11:26 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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All his students have personal computers. He can see what each student has on their PC from his PC. Do I need to proceed anymore or can you think for yourself?
Javan mud volcano triggered by drilling, not quake
Post Date: 2008-06-10 09:07:48 by angle
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A two-year-old mud volcano that is still spewing huge volumes of boiling mud, has displaced more than 30,000 people and caused millions of dollars in damage on the island of Java was triggered by the drilling of a gas exploration well, an international team of scientists has concluded. The most detailed scientific analysis to date of the mud volcano disproves the theory that an earthquake that happened two days before it erupted in East Java, Indonesia, was to blame. In the new analysis, the scientists outline and analyze a detailed record of operational incidents during the drilling of a gas exploration well, Banjar-Panji-1, that had been kept by oil and gas company Lapindo Brantas, ...
Military Supercomputer Sets Record
Post Date: 2008-06-09 18:08:31 by RickyJ
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SAN FRANCISCO — An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image I.B.M. The Roadrunner supercomputer costs $133 million and will be used to study nuclear weapons. The new machine is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the I.B.M. BlueGene/L, which is based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.The new $133 million supercomputer, called Roadrunner in a reference to the state bird of New Mexico, was devised and built by ...
WANT TO SAVE GAS?????
Post Date: 2008-06-08 10:22:21 by MING THE MERCILESS
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OK gang, I'm here to report my results from the MOMENTOMETER MPG device I told you about on here about 3 weeks back. 2004 Chrysler Town & Country Minivan I normally get about 280 mile out of a tank of gas with the first tank useing the device I got 303. On the second tank after I got used to the MOMENTOMETER I got 318 on a tank of gas. I burn 87 octane Shell or BP. It's a better quality gas but it should not matter to much. All of thye gas stations now are the same price by a couple of cents so why not burn the good stuff. Make sure your tires are filled properly and always keep your vehicle clean (less drag). Clean your fuel system to insure proper injector efficiency. I ...
The Ultimate Guide to Hypermiling: 100 Driving and Car Tips and Resources
Post Date: 2008-06-07 16:21:21 by Kamala
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The Ultimate Guide to Hypermiling: 100 Driving and Car Tips and Resources Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 10:08am by admin Hypermiling, or driving your car “in a manner that maximizes mileage,” has become more popular among drivers worldwide, as concerns over increasing gas prices and environmental issues heighten. Whether you’re trying to make a difference by helping the environment, or you’re just aiming to save a few more dollars at the pump each month, check out this ultimate guide to hypermiling, which provides tips and resources for smart driving. Driving Tips Below is a list of hypermiling tips that drivers can implement while behind the wheel. We recommend ...
Open Thread: WHY is this woman at Bilderberg?
Post Date: 2008-06-07 01:47:38 by Horse
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Martha J. Farah Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania EDUCATION Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.B., 1977, Metallurgy and Materials Science S.B., 1977, Philosophy Harvard University Ph.D., 1983, Experimental Psychology MIT and Boston University School of Medicine Postdoctoral studies, 1983-1985, Neuropsychology PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of Psychology, 1985-1992 University of Pennsylvania Professor of Psychology, 1992-present Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, 1999-present Adjunct Professor of Neurology, ...
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Is the Best Browser For Web -- For Now
Post Date: 2008-06-05 20:19:04 by TwentyTwelve
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Wall Street Journal Article PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY By WALTER S. MOSSBERG Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Is the Best Browser For Web -- For Now June 5, 2008 If you buy a new Windows Vista PC, it comes with a decent built-in Web browser, Internet Explorer 7. If you buy a new Macintosh computer, it comes with a decent built-in Web browser, Safari 3.0. So why would you want or need a different Web browser? WSJ's Walt Mossberg reviews the new version of Firefox Web browser, noting its speed, new features and security. That is the question that Mozilla, the nonprofit organization that makes the leading alternative browser, hopes to answer this month when it releases version 3.0 of its Firefox Web ...
Mobile phones expose human habits
Post Date: 2008-06-05 07:29:04 by Kamala
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Mobile phones expose human habits By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News People's movements were not as random as predicted The whereabouts of more than 100,000 mobile phone users have been tracked in an attempt to build a comprehensive picture of human movements. The study concludes that humans are creatures of habit, mostly visiting the same few spots time and time again. Most people also move less than 10km on a regular basis, according to the study published in the journal Nature. The results could be used to help prevent outbreaks of disease or forecast traffic, the scientists said. "It would be wonderful if every [mobile] carrier could give ...
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