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April
29, 2011
"In beauty, this begins.
In beauty the Day arrives.
I will protect myself with this Corn Pollen.
I will protect myself with this Eagle Feather.
I will protect myself with my Prayers.
I will live a Beautiful Life.
May my children be raised in Beauty.
May my children be Protected in Beauty.
May my Thoughts be Beautiful.
May I speak in Beauty.
Beauty before me.
Beauty behind me.
Beauty Above me.
Beauty Beneath me.
Beauty All Around me.
I AM Beauty.
I Walk in Beauty.
It is Finished in Beauty.
It is Finished in Beauty.
It is Finished in Beauty."
(Navajo Morning Song)
Electric cars are just beginning to hit U.S. highways but, if
the most recent Nielsen Energy Survey is any indication, they
should receive a huge welcome. An overwhelming 85% of American
consumers say they would be interested in purchasing a plug-in
electric vehicle; either right away (3%), when their current car
needs replacement (57%) or when the technology is proven and
becomes mainstream (25%).
Analysing data on pika distribution across 110 years, as well as
62 years of data on regional climate, the study's authors
demonstrated that the American pika's distribution throughout
the Great Basin is changing at an increasingly rapid rate.
He is a confidential informant and
ex-felon. He lives among drug dealers and corrupt officials
along the U.S.-Mexican border. And after a year on the job, he
is calling it quits.
While wind and solar generally grab the lion's share of
headlines on renewable energy, there are less celebrated,
untapped renewable energy resources that can add to the U.S.'s
energy mix. One example is a form of waste-to-energy.
Modern diesel cars may not be as clean as previously thought,
say some experts as regulators try to roll out industry
standards to satisfy "green" consumers.
The Federal Trade Commission has recently created new and
arbitrary requirements for ANY food or dietary supplement
health-related claim—and is enforcing them—in direct violation
of federal law.
Yet while the FDA stalls and hedges on the safety of these
substances, Americans are exposed to untested combinations of
food additives, dyes, preservatives, and chemicals on a daily
basis. Indeed, for the vast majority of Americans consuming
industrial foods, a veritable chemical cocktail enters their
bodies every day and according to the GAO report, "FDA is not
systematically ensuring the continued safety of current GRAS
substances."
Since the gulf disaster, BP has “gifted” near gulf cities with
tens of millions in the form of gadgets and gear like tasers,
brand new SUVs, iPads and other laptops. This gift spree has
virtually nothing to do with disaster cleanup efforts or helping
victims.
Murry and Cindy Gerber, philanthropists from Pittsburgh, are
making a coast-to-coast trip in a natural gas-powered Hummer to
draw public attention to the fact that NGVs provide a great
option for consumers looking for cleaner and cheaper alternative
fuel for their vehicles.
A new front has been opened
in the war on renewable energy, this time in federal court in
Colorado. A group has challenged the constitutionality of a
state renewable energy standard, which was passed by referendum
in 2004 and twice increased by the state legislature since.
A month after voters approved creating a new watchdog for the
Department of Water and Power, city officials are trying to sort
out how to get started, acknowledging the ballot measure left
most of the bureaucratic details to the City Council's
discretion.
US crude stocks rose a larger-than-expected 6.156 million
barrels to 363.125 million barrels as imports surged 1.213
million b/d to 9.266 million b/d the week ending April 22, an
analysis of the oil data released Wednesday by the US Energy
information Administration showed.
Eight in 10 state residents ages 50 and older say they are
concerned about the rising cost of electricity and a majority of
respondents think they are paying too much, according to a
survey released Tuesday by AARP Connecticut.
Last month, when President Obama unveiled the Better Buildings
Initiative to provide incentives for businesses to become more
energy efficient, we were reminded how efficiency is a critical,
but often overlooked component of our national energy policy.
Sure, lots of people drive hybrid cars, and use energy-efficient
light bulbs in their homes. But beyond this low-hanging fruit,
there remains a lot of waste to address.
One year ago, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) challenged the manufacturing industry to
improve the energy efficiency of their facilities by 10 percent
or more within five years. Since that time, 240 manufacturing
sites have responded to the Energy Star Challenge for Industry
and 34 sites have improved their energy efficiency by 10 percent
or more.
FBI agents combating international cybercrime are currently
battling hackers on two new fronts -- from a remote corner of
China to the virtual battlefields of "Call of Duty" emanating
from the family playroom.
Huge reserves of natural gas can help the United States cut its
dependence on coal but environmental issues over its extraction
loom large, the head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Energy Initiative said on Wednesday.
At Sandia's largest cafeteria, a leftover burrito will be sent
off to eventually help some backyard garden bloom. When someone
leaves a bit of lunch behind at Thunderbird Café, employees send
it out for composting.
Silver soared to an all-time high Thursday and gold rose to
another record, as a falling dollar and signs that the Federal
Reserve would maintain a loose monetary policy boosted precious
metals' appeal as a hedge against inflation and economic
uncertainty.
Google Inc has not given up on its goal of making renewable
energy cheaper than coal for consumers but it is not predicting
victory soon, its director of green business operations said.
All this on the back of the numerous severe weather events in
2010, beginning with severe
snowstorms in the Eastern United States, the flooding in
Tennessee (especially Nashville), Arkansas, etc. Of course the
flooding in the US was miniscule compared to what happened in
Pakistan last year:
As well as a heavy toll on the Japanese people, the cumulated
effects of the March 11th earthquake, tsunami and the series of
nuclear facility accidents that ensued mean a shortage in both
power and silicon output at wafer fabs. In collaboration with EE
Times Japan and EE Times US, we have centralized all the latest
news about the repercussions of the earthquake on the Japanese
and global electronics industry.
Environmental activists are accusing state Rep. John Keenan of
using "backdoor" politics to try to keep the city's aging,
coal-burning power plant running.
Although amended, it is still too vague and ultimately
considered a bad bill, even by the folks who effected its
amendment.
The world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters do not expect a
legally-binding deal to tackle climate change at talks in South
Africa in December, two leading climate envoys said on
Wednesday.
Last year, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) announced that they had successfully used
carbon nanotubes for "funneling" and concentrating electrons in
photovoltaic cells – this meant that smaller solar cells created
using the nanotubes could produce as much or more electricity
than larger conventional cells. Now, the efficiency of these
nanotube solar cells is being boosted further ... with the help
of a virus.
“Seed sovereignty is the foundation of food sovereignty. Seed
freedom is the foundation of food freedom. The great seed
robbery threatens both. It must be stopped.” Monsanto’s crime
against India is nothing short of devastating.
Coal is likely to remain the dominant source of American
electricity for decades to come, according to a new report from
the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration.
EIA's American Energy Outlook 2011 predicts that, absent overly
stringent new federal regulations, electricity generation from
coal will increase by 25 percent from 2009 to 2035 and that coal
will generate 43 percent of America's electricity in 2035.
Most states offer philosophical or religious exemptions from
compulsory vaccination. In some states, religious exceptions
include personal religious beliefs, whereas other states require
the individual to be a member of a religion whose written texts
explicitly prohibit invasive medical procedures. Even in states
with exemptions, there are generally only two options: be
vaccinated on the schedule recommended by CDC, or else get no
vaccines at all. These laws do not allow for modified vaccine
schedules or selectively vaccinating for some, but not other
diseases
In a crowded public meeting, residents, politicians and
activists urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to
enforce tough emission rules on the power plant, which New
Jersey says spewed 30,000 tons of sulfur dioxide over four
counties in 2009.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will continue to conduct extra
safety inspections at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
because the plant has failed to make improvements in areas
previously cited by the federal agency, officials said in a
recent assessment letter to plant owner Southern California
Edison.
The U.S. government should rethink plans for a multi-billion
dollar plutonium complex at Los Alamos after the recent nuclear
catastrophe in Japan and the discovery of increased seismic risk
in New Mexico, nuclear watchdog groups said.
Consumers are feeling the pinch at the pump as gasoline prices
head north even before peak summer driving demand hits.
Rachel Carson is turning in her grave… Who knew that all her
sacrifice and diligent research involving the deadly effects of
pesticides on nature would be brushed away by an article from
croplife.org that pesticides are actually good for you! Forget
Carson’s “Silent Spring,” because not only are pesticides
harmless, they actually provide health benefits to the
environment, animals, and humans…?
In Arctic Canada, climate change is vaporizing vast expanses of
snow and ice. Northern Native peoples depend on these frozen
vistas to support the animals and marine creatures that define
the traditional Inuit way of life. But given the regions’
remoteness, what could replace that life?
Much is made about the importance of place among indigenous
nations. It is true that place is very significant. The Navajo
live within four sacred mountains. Other nations have sacred
places or land that was granted to the people through creation
or migration teachings. The land is sacred because it is a gift
from the creator. Indigenous peoples recognize their own land,
and respect the land of other nations. Land and place has
special or sacred meaning because specific locations often have
ceremonial or holy significance.
American Electric Power's residential customers are
apparently responding to higher gasoline prices by adjusting the
thermostat.
AEP, one of the nation's largest power generators, reported
last week that residential sales of electricity fell 4.6 percent
in the first quarter as gasoline prices rose toward $4 a gallon.
To what lengths will a company go to warn consumers about
dangerous chemical ingredients? Method, the naturally-derived
cleaning products company, is about to celebrate its 10 year
anniversary.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the
Western coalition attacking Libya on Tuesday, saying it had
neither a right nor a mandate to kill Moammar Gadhafi.
What You Need to Know, What You Need to
Do, What You Are NOT Being Told
Recession drove industrialized nations' greenhouse gas emissions
down 5.6 percent in 2009 but analysts said the plunge may be a
brief, misleading sign of progress in slowing climate change.
The nation's 25 most smoggy cities improved air quality over the
last year, but half the nation's residents still live with
unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to an American Lung
Association report released on Wednesday.
Several C-class events were observed..a slight chance for
M-class event. Solar wind speed increased from around 320
- 360 km/s, behind a 12 hour bump in density. The geomagnetic
field is expected to remain at mostly quiet levels for day 1 (29
April) of the forecast period. On days 2 and 3 (30 April - 01
May), unsettled to active levels with isolated periods of minor
storming are expected, due to the arrival of a coronal hole
high-speed stream.
If Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, had his way, the Federal Reserve’s
first post-FOMC meeting press conference Wednesday would be its
last.
Ron Paul is in. That’s the word from the libertarian-leaning
Republican congressman from Texas, who said on Fox News Monday
night that he plans to announce his presidential exploratory
committee Tuesday afternoon in Iowa.
The Wisconsin Republican told constituents at a
Waterford, Wis., town hall meeting that he agreed that
federal oil subsidies ought to end.
“We’re talking about reforming the safety net,
the welfare system; we also want to get rid of corporate
welfare. And corporate welfare goes to agribusiness companies,
energy companies, financial services companies, so we propose to
repeal all that,” Ryan said in response to a question about oil
subsidies.
The Government of Saskatchewan has approved construction of the
Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration
Project - among the first commercial-scale carbon capture and
storage facilities in the world.
This fully automated facility – capable of producing about 1 GW
of thin-film solar modules – is the result of more than three
decades of research and development by an oil company, which
hopes to eventually generate 50% of its revenue from sales of
renewable energy products and services.
Green energy advocates are pushing for a change in state law to
allow solar power producers to sell electricity directly to
homeowners and businesses.
A cloud is a visible mass of water droplets or frozen ice
crystals suspended in the Earth's atmosphere above the surface
of the Earth or other planetary body. On a cloudy day the
surface under the clouds appears darker and cooler. Atmospheric
scientists trying to pin down how clouds curb the
amount of sunlight available to warm the earth have found that
it depends on the wavelength of sunlight being measured.
Are you interested in building a Tesla Coil to produce stunning
effects that violate the "established" laws of physics, but are
somewhat less than technically savvy than a rocket scientist?
Then you are in luck, because this article is for you!
Along with great lectures will be many demonstrations of leading
energy and health technologies at the July 28-31 conference in
Albuquerque, including (possibly) Rohner's noble gas engine,
Tesla wireless power, HHO augmentation for power, Rodin coils, a
Keely motor, Bedini motor, and more...
Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven Southern
states, killing at least 295 people and causing billions of
dollars of damage in some of the deadliest twisters in U.S.
history.
The underwater kites move 10 times faster than the tidal flow at
any given time. Speed and energy have a cubic relationship,
whereby a kite moving 10 times the speed of the surrounding
water yields 1,000 times the energy of the flow on the kites.
To no one's surprise, the Fed maintained the Fed funds target in
the range of 0% to 0.25% today. Additionally, the post-meeting
announcement reaffirmed the commitment to complete the program
to buy $600 billion of longer-term Treasury securities by the
end of the second quarter...
The vaccination question is a hotly debated topic, even in the
natural health community. It doesn’t help when vaccine companies
have blatant conflicts of interest and the studies supporting
their safety may be fraudulent!
Here is the copy of President Barack Obama's long-form birth
certificate that the White House released today:
Weiss Ratings, an arm of Jupiter, Fla., research firm Weiss
Research, has initiated coverage of sovereign nation debt by
ranking U.S. debt at “C,” a level it calls “two notches above
junk” status.
The sighting of North Atlantic right whales in Nantucket Sound
this week has tripped another round of debate over whether the
proposed Cape Wind project would put the endangered animals at
risk.
I wish I had the exact answer to this blog post's question, but
I can only make some educated observations and solutions. Most
research regarding consumer attitudes toward solar is generally
PV related, rather than solar hot water related. At the same
time, solar hot water has some obvious challenges, especially in
the residential space. Here are four challenges and some
corresponding solutions.
Yemen's political opposition accepted a deal Tuesday that would
see President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down in 30 days, bringing
to an end the country's three-month-long crisis.
April
26, 2011
"In beauty, this begins.
In beauty the Day arrives.
I will protect myself with this Corn Pollen.
I will protect myself with this Eagle Feather.
I will protect myself with my Prayers.
I will live a Beautiful Life.
May my children be raised in Beauty.
May my children be Protected in Beauty.
May my Thoughts be Beautiful.
May I speak in Beauty.
Beauty before me.
Beauty behind me.
Beauty Above me.
Beauty Beneath me.
Beauty All Around me.
I AM Beauty.
I Walk in Beauty.
It is Finished in Beauty.
It is Finished in Beauty.
It is Finished in Beauty."
The Nissan Leaf proudly advertises that it can go 100 miles on a
single charge. Chevrolet, Toyota, and other car companies have promoted
their plug-in gas-electric hybrids as the more rational alternative,
since you can switch to the gasoline option when you need extra range.
But what if charging your electric car were as easy as filling your gas
tank?
Five Ways To Keep Stormwater From Polluting The Environment
Adjusted for inflation, stock prices topped out in the late
1990s and have never really moved higher. Is that a surprise?
Remember when the vaccine mercury/autism link was supposedly
debunked? Poul Thorsen, a Danish scientist who coordinated the
CDC-funded “debunking” studies, was indicted on April 13th for
13 counts of fraud and 9 counts of money-laundering. Charges
relate to his work for the CDC to study correlations between
thimerosal (mercury-based vaccine preservative) and the
increased rates of autism, among other infant and childhood
disabilities he studied. He allegedly stole around $1 million
from Atlanta’s CDC autism research money.
Commodities prices are surging -- from oil
to cotton to grains to gold. These higher costs pose challenges for
companies in industries like apparel, food retailing and appliances as
they try to pass on price increases without alienating consumers still
weary from a recession and the threat posed by high unemployment. At the
same time, higher commodities prices raise the specter of a spike in
inflation down the road, a major concern for policymakers and the
Federal Reserve.
BP has agreed to provide $1 billion toward early restoration
projects in the Gulf of Mexico to address injuries to natural
resources caused by latest year's oil spill, the largest in U.S.
history.
One of the most feared spiders in North America is the subject a
new study that aims to predict its distribution and how that
distribution may be affected by
climate changes. When provoked, the spider, commonly known as
the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa), injects powerful venom that can
kill the tissues at the site of the bite. This can lead to a painful
deep sore and occasional scarring.
Collectively, the large IOU's reported that they served 17.9
percent of their electricity with RPS eligible generation.
Home is where the heart is. It's also probably where a lot of stink
bugs are right now, crawling out from cracks and crevices. They were
somehow introduced into Allentown, Pa. from Asia in the 1990s, and have
been spreading ever since, reaching seemingly plague-like proportions in
the mid-Atlantic states. But an
experiment is underway to re-introduce the stink bug
to its mortal enemy: a parasitic Asian wasp.
Queuing at the gas pump is no fun, but imagine if everyone in
the line was taking hours, not minutes, to top up the tank.
Climate change could cut water flow in some of the American West's
biggest river basins -- including the Rio Grande and the Colorado -- by
up to 20 percent this century, the Interior Department reported on
Monday.
This steep drop in stream flow is projected for parts of the West
that have seen marked increases in population and droughts over recent
decades...
Coal
provides about 45% of U.S. electricity, yet up to 20% of
the nation's coal generation could be retired in the
next two decades. What will replace that?
Consumer confidence rose for a fourth
consecutive week as Americans became less pessimistic about the state of
economy and their personal finances.
As if a gaping budget hole, struggling schools and crime concerns
weren't enough for Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, aldermen on Thursday added
to his plate a controversial proposal to regulate pollution-spewing
coal-fired power plants.
Women are entering menopause earlier and earlier. Sadly, many
are losing the functioning of their ovaries before they reach their
forties. Although hopeful, the news of advances in assisted
conception is hardly joyful and reassuring, especially considering
all the expenses.
This week the United Nations General Assembly discussed
international standards that grant nature equal rights to
humans. Similar protocols have been adopted by over a dozen U.S.
municipalities, as well as Bolivia and Ecuador. Renowned
environmentalists Maude Barlow and Vandana Shiva join us. Says
Shiva, "Most civilizations of the world, for most of human
history, have seen the world in terms of relatedness and
connection," says Shiva. "And if there's one thing the rights of
Mother Earth is waking us to, is: we are all connected."
A proposed coal gasification plant promises to bring in 200 jobs and
give this quiet pocket of southwest Indiana a leg up.
The Falkland Islands could become the world's first territory to be
mainly powered by a revolutionary combination of wind power and electric
car batteries.
The FBI has informed families of the miners who died at Massey
Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine that they may be the victims of a federal
crime, the Gazette has learned.
When Iron Eyes Cody, the Italian-cum-Native who first brought
Americans’ attention to the problem of litter, shed that single
tear after being hit with garbage, he could not know that he was
at the cutting edge of a national ecological
consciousness-raising.
“Radiation is leaking every day now… When you see those clouds of
smoke coming out of the unit, that’s not steam, that’s radioactive
steam. So, they’re releasing radioactivity as a airborne” -Arnie
Gundersen, nuclear expert
I had a nightmare that the world was conspiring against the
United States and that we had the makings of doomsday scenario
beginning to play out.
The company's 135 patents represented nearly 14%
of the 1,881 U.S. patents obtained by 700 organizations in 2010.
Internal combustion engines are likely to remain in widespread
use for some time yet, but it's possible that we may be bidding
adieu to that most iconic of engine parts, the spark plug.
No new legislation, but big regulatory changes
Access to water is a pressing global issue: the World Health
Organization and UNICEF estimate that nearly 900 million people
worldwide live without safe drinking water.
Plug-in electric vehicles may just be entering the market, but
most U.S. consumers are ready to buy them. E Source recently
analyzed data from the Nielsen Energy Survey and found that 85
percent of U.S. consumers say they would purchase a
battery-driven car either right away...
A task force formed by President Obama in response to skyrocketing
gasoline prices will examine the role that speculators and index traders
play in oil futures markets.
KUNA - considered the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OAPEC), the fluctuations in the exchange rate of the
dollar and the decline in value against other major currencies,
affecting the value of the proceeds of the oil-exporting
countries, and strongly contributed to the rise in crude prices
in world markets at this stage
Keeping your environment hygienic is important. Cleaning
can be relaxing and rewarding. Where cleanliness is next to
godliness it can also mean despair, but not for the reasons you
might think. In a seemingly backward way, scientists are
deducing depression caused by too much cleaning.
High oil prices and environmental and economic security concerns
have triggered interest in using algae-derived oils as an
alternative to fossil fuels.
But growing algae — or any other biofuel source — can require a
lot of water.
Children exposed in the womb to substantial levels of neurotoxic
pesticides have somewhat lower IQs by the time they enter school than
do kids with virtually no exposure. A trio of studies screened women for
compounds in blood or urine that mark exposure to organophosphate
pesticides such as chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion.
Twenty-five years after one of four nuclear power plants at Chernobyl
exploded, employees of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working
to reduce the dangers remaining from the accident.
Europeans and Americans have become less concerned with climate
change in recent years. But concern among people in Latin America
and sub-Saharan Africa has grown, Gallup polling shows.
Globally, the number of people who say they view climate change
as a threat has remained steady over the last several years.
Organizations are making a concerted
effort to buy information technology (IT) products that are power
consumption friendly and easy to dispose of, according to new research
released this week by CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT
industry.
SOME FAVORITE VIRGINIANS OF MINE who inspired
and crafted our federal Constitution—Mason, Madison, Jefferson, and
Henry—also drafted the Constitution of Virginia. And in the latter, they
included a critical statement that said, “No free government, nor the
blessings of liberty, can be preserved . . . but by frequent recurrence
to fundamental principles.”
It seems that total cumulative installed power capacity from
renewable sources passed up nuclear for the first time in 2010,
according to the draft version of a new report coming out soon by
the Worldwatch Institute, The World Nuclear Industry Status
Report 2010-2011.
Even though drilling resumed in the US Gulf of Mexico earlier than
widely projected following the Macondo oil spill, two prominent energy
agencies have said their forecasts of production deferrals resulting
from the federal deepwater drilling ban and slow permitting afterward
are likely to remain unchanged from those they released last year.
slight chance for a M-class flare, he geomagnetic field is forecast to be mostly quiet on days 1 and 2 (26-27 April), and quiet to unsettled with a chance for active conditions on day 3 (28 April) due to recurrent coronal hole effects.
"It's just that I wanted to become green," Jeff Katz said. The owner
of a Kona Ice franchise -- a mobile Hawaiian shaved ice truck that can
be rented for events -- added, "I'm tired of supporting all these oil
companies."
Sometimes
Ron Paul seems too good to be true. For decades he has
championed the cause of liberty and sound monetary and
geopolitical policy. He has done this in the very heart of the
Leviathan state even as the federal government has accelerated
its expansion in the postwar years. Further Dr. Paul has
repeatedly presented his case in print in clear language.
In bleakly immense numbers, billions of bees, birds and bats
continue to perish. These massive, mysterious pollinator
exterminations are steadily stinging our food supply and the whole
of the natural world.
One out of every three bites of food that we consume is directly
linked to
pollinators. Thus, as the bees go, so go we.
Potassium Iodide (KI) is useful for only a few days (most
experts agree that it can be safely taken for about 8 days).
But the radiation from Fukushima and possibly from Onagawa as
well, will, in all eventualities, pour out for months, years,
decades, perhaps for longer than that. So when do you
start taking the KI which you should NOT take on a long term
basis?
Silver climbed to an all-time high as investors sought to protect
their wealth against accelerating inflation and a weaker dollar.
Gold also rose to a record.
The study found that homes with solar panels sold for an extra
$5.50 per watt of solar power installed, for an average of $17,000
more per house.
"Ninety-seven percent of the energy is still left in the rods," he
said. "Only 3 percent is used. I think it would be advantageous to
continue to push for recycling. The energy is sitting there to be used,
and I think the technology is there. It's government regulations and
convincing the right people to do what needs to be done."
States’ policies are important to solar and wind energy
development and in reducing energy use says a new report from the
U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL). The findings are in report, State of the States
2010: The Role of Policy in Clean Energy Market Transformation.
Virginia’s attorney general had asked the Supreme Court to bypass the
usual appeals process by allowing his state's challenge to the Obama
health-care reform law to proceed directly to the high court.
BIOGAS IS IN THE STARTING POINT
of an exponential growth curve, according to a
white paper from the Global Intelligence
Alliance. The United States could follow the
global trend with a greater number of biogas to
energy facilities if policy and economics were
to align.
If all goes as planned for the G-20 this year, leaders of the world’s
most powerful economies will convene to issue bold proclamations, talk
past each other, and quietly
agree to do virtually nothing. The stakes might be a little higher
now, though, as the political poker table will be stacked with millions
of the world’s hungriest people. Guess who’ll come away empty handed?
Despite increased injections of cooling water, the water
temperature is rising in a spent fuel pool at the damaged
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan's Pacific coast.
30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.80 percent with an
average 0.7 point for the week ending April 21, 2011, down from last
week when it averaged 4.91 percent. Last year at this time, the
30-year FRM averaged 5.07 percent.
These included "poor maintenance" of electrical equipment that
may have ignited the explosion; bypassing of gas alarms and
automatic shutdown systems that could prevent an explosion; and
a "lack of training of personnel" on when and how to shut down
engines and disconnect the mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU)
from the well to avoid a gas explosion...
Last August, Federal Judge Jeffrey White issued a stinging
rebuke to the USDA for its process on approving new genetically
modified seeds. He ruled that the agency’s practice of
“deregulating” novel seed varieties without first performing an
environmental impact study violated the National Environmental
Policy Act.
The target of Judge White’s ire was the USDA’s 2005 approval of
Monsanto’s Roundup Ready sugar beets, engineered to withstand doses
of the company’s own herbicide.
"Even if we permitted the hell out of everything tomorrow -- every
pending permit, some permits that haven't even been filed yet -- it
would not have a material effect on gas prices," Bromwich said. "That's
the simple, clear reality."
As the crisis at Japan's crippled
Fukushima Daiichi plant continues to unfold, every bit of news that
trickles out deepens the debate about nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear
activists point to smoldering reactors and radioactive drinking water as
reason enough to abandon nuclear power permanently. Others say the fact
that the aging plant survived a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and 46-foot
tsunami without greater damage signals its ability to withstand major
disruptions.
New home sales in the US jumped 11.1% to 300,000 annualized
units in March, beating market expectations for an increase to
280,000 units. While this represents a solid monthly gain, it
follows the slowest pace of sales since recordkeeping began in
1963 at 270,000 annualized units in February (initially reported
as 250,000 units) and represents the seventh-slowest pace of
sales on record.
Passionate environmentalists are beginning to realize that the
only way to affect real change is by becoming sustainable
individuals through self-sufficiency. This focus on individual
empowerment will naturally lead to increased liberty, as it
minimizes the tactics used by mega-cartels and government to
control our core needs of food, electricity, or medicine. Living
in an environmentally and socially sustainable world should be
an obvious goal, but it won’t work if imposed at the barrel of a
gun.
April
22, 2011
Remember:
Walking
on unpredictable and uneven surfaces can improve balance and
help reduce risk of falling
For 200 area residents immersed in southeastern Lenawee County's
contentious battle over wind turbines and their anticipated noise, a
dueling lecture in audiology was disguised as a special Riga Township
meeting Tuesday night.
This Earth Day, Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet team
recommends 15 ways that agriculture can address environmental challenges
while also alleviating hunger, reducing malnutrition, and lifting people
out of poverty.
We took ’em to court—and we won!
A federal court has found the FDA’s stance against vitamin
health claims to be unconstitutional!
On April 13, the United States
District Court for the District of Columbia held that the FDA’s
denial of two health claims—which dealt with the ability of
antioxidant vitamins to reduce the risk of cancer—was
unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
The basic technology for creating a flat solar panel is similar
to that for creating a silicon chip wafer. Efficiency doesn't
double every year, as chip capacities have. But they're not
locked into a ceiling either, as we once thought.
It is important to arm our people with the knowledge to combat
predatory lenders. It is common for predatory lenders, those
with outrageous fees and extraordinarily high interest rates, to
operate in border towns of reservations where they prey on the
desperate monetary needs of low-income people.
At least, that's what Mayor Bloomberg is hoping with a plan being
unveiled today to cover 250 of the city's 3,000 acres of shuttered
landfills with solar panels capable of powering as many as 50,000
homes.
Bolivia today marked the International Day of Mother Earth with
a ceremony in the Plaza Murillo, the center of political power.
An ancient ritual shared center stage with speeches in which
authorities in this Andean nation extolled the Law of Mother
Earth - the world's first legislation that grants to all nature
rights equal to humans.
Construction of Cape Wind, the 130-turbine wind farm set to be built
off the coast of Massachusetts, could begin as early as the fall,
according to US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, who announced
approval of the project's construction and operations plan Tuesday.
The labor shortage is not a new challenge for China's export
manufacturing industry. The current deficit, however, is said to
be more severe than in past years. In fact, one month after the
annual spring festival, more than 90 percent of factories are
estimated to still be 10 to 30 percent short of workers. This
deficit is 3 percent higher than in 2010.
Recent events in Japan have brought new attention to how
national energy systems are vulnerable to natural disasters.
But, one risk has largely flown under the radar: climate change.
Considerable scientific research has looked at how our energy
choices are threatening the climate, but much less attention has
been paid to the other side of the equation.
As
biased as most of the medical community is against Integrative
Medicine, which includes natural health approaches, it’s heartening
indeed that both Texas and Nevada may recognize it and even set up
boards that understand it!
There has been a flurry of maintenance and renovation projects at the
Jasper County Courthouse lately. Windows are being replaced to prevent
leaks, painters are working on freshening up the scrollwork and other
artwork inside, and the basement has been virtually gutted. Now, during
the historic building's centennial year, the board of supervisors is
thinking about replacing the aging heating and cooling system as well.
The Department of Energy will hold a public meeting in North Augusta
tonight to elicit feedback from the community on potential options for
the disposal of Greater-than-Class C Low-Level Radioactive Waste.
Throughout its 40 plus year history Earth Day has been a rallying
point for millions of personal acts intended to help save the
environment.
Earth may be able to recover from rising
carbon
dioxide emissions faster than previously thought,
according to evidence from a prehistoric event analyzed by a Purdue
University-led team.
The future of trucks came to Jacksonville recently to give power
utility and area government officials a taste of power -- electric
power, that is.
A research team at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland has announced they have
come upon a new catalyst for electrolysis to
split hydrogen out of water..
For all the exciting innovation in clean tech today,
debate about energy and climate policies crucial to the
market remain stuck in eat-your-vegetables mode. What’s
interesting is how some people keep saying no, even as they
grab a second helping of spinach.
Turning off the lights, dialing down the thermostat, cutting back the
air conditioner and wearing sweaters or bathing suits indoors won't cut
energy use enough to keep the power grid humming, according to energy
officials and activists.
The fiber-optic laser-based sensor system precisely measures the
deflection of the barrel relative to the sight and automatically
adjusts the crosshairs to match the true position of the barrel.
Fort Bliss' environmental "bootprint" -- even during an unprecedented
expansion as it transforms into a major armor and light infantry post --
has provided a model of sustainability, say Pentagon officials.
Thousands of gallons of frack water spilled from a Chesapeake
Energy natural gas well near Canton, PA, that ruptured late Tuesday
evening.
The contaminated water got into a nearby stream before crews
could stop the leak. Seven families were forced to evacuate the
area.
The U.S. dollar sagged to a three-year low against major currencies
Thursday and gold surged to a new high as investors flocked to
investments that are less reliant on the U.S. economy.
"2010 was the warmest year on record. And it was warm. We were
on the phone one day with our 350 crew in Pakistan and one of
them said, 'It's hot out here today,' and I was surprised to
hear him say it because it's usually hot in Pakistan during the
summer. He said, no it's really hot. We just set the new, all
time Asia temperature record, 129 degrees. That kind of heat
melts the arctic.
A bill is now sitting on the desk of Governor Jan Brewer
allowing out of state insurance companies to sell policies in
Arizona. It would be the first bill of its kind to pass in
the nation. Letting insurance companies sell across state
lines is at the core of the Republican approach to making health
care affordable by injecting competition into the process.
As usual, the vested interests are fighting to preserve their
comfortable niche offering high cost policies with no out of
state competition to Arizona consumers
Can states sue to force C02 cuts?
Hidden file reveals iPhone tracking and recording your movements
The Japanese government will enforce a no-entry zone within 20
kilometers (12.5 miles) of the battered Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant from midnight Thursday, Chief Cabinet
Secretary Yukio Edano announced today. People entering the area
could be fined
Censorship of the truth about what is really going on at the
crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility has been taken to a
whole new level of corruption.
Japan's nuclear reactor crisis has forced the postponement of a
world championship triathlon race in Yokohama next month because of
radiation fears, the International Triathlon Union (ITU) said on
Tuesday.
Add four drops in your
daily drinking water..for new energy.
Despite an unusually hazy sky, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman flashed
a beaming message Monday morning to celebrate the completion of a new
energy-saving program that harnesses Southern Nevada's abundant
sunshine.
Some of the most prized fish on the menus of prestigious European
restaurants are faced with extinction because too many are being
caught, according to a report issued Tuesday.
What is an Island? Land that is surrounded by water. Islands are
always being created and sometimes destroyed. Earth has 657 more
barrier islands than previously thought, according to a new
global survey by researchers from Duke University and Meredith
College.
Goodluck Jonathan was declared the winner of Nigeria's
presidential elections on April 18 in a landmark vote that led
to protests across the country's largely Muslim north.
Products certified to this program have been tested and verified
to ensure they effectively remove Cryptosporidium, bacteria and
viruses in drinking water that are known to cause
gastrointestinal illness. The Dow Chemical Company's
ultrafiltration product (DOW SFD-2880 module) is among the first
to earn certification from NSF International for Cryptosporidium
removal.
In a speech at Northern Virginia Community College outside Washington,
President Obama also brought up oil company profits -- to be announced
in the next few days -- but did not actually blame oil companies as the
reason behind the increase.
Piously posturing as the savior of Medicare, President Obama lashed out
at the House Republicans for embracing the budget proposed by Budget
Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). But a comparison of the
president's own plans for Medicare with those in the Ryan budget shows
that the Democratic cuts are far more immediate and drastic than
anything in the GOP proposal.
As the Obama administration promotes an ambitious new
goal to produce 80 percent of the nation’s energy from clean
resources by 2035, Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal 2012
would slash funding for hydropower research and development
by 21 percent.
The cost of offshore wind turbines could be cut by a third through
the use of new approaches, according to the UK Energy Technologies
Institutes (ETI).
Organic PV (OPV), polymer-based solar that can be integrated
into building materials, paints and clothing, is often hailed as
the next step in solar technology. But don't expect OPV to make
a splash yet: A new report out from Lux Research projects the
market will only grow to $159 million in the next decade.
Nearly half of those who die from heart attacks each year NEVER
show prior symptoms of heart disease.
Keith and Camilla Spadafino have an attractive 1940s Inglewood home
with energy-efficient windows and a colorful garden, but they've learned
a secret side of their house -- for free.
He
uncovered little-known environmental "triggers" that cause brain
inflammation and cognitive decline � and the simple steps anyone can
take to increase brain energy . . . improve brain blood flow . . .
reduce free radical damage . . . and promote repair of a damaged
brain.
West Virginians and Virginians visited the headquarters of one of the
nation's largest coal companies to demand the cessation of mountaintop
removal operations.
The Department of Energy held the first of nine public hearings
nationwide Tuesday night in North Augusta to hear input on the
Environmental Impact Statement detailing options for the disposal of
Greater than Class C and GTCC-like low-level radioactive waste.
active region producing multiple C-class events,slight chance for M-class activity, the latest coronal hole high-speed stream continue to wane. Solar wind speeds, as measured by the ACE spacecraft, have decreased from 500 - 440 km/s., The geomagnetic field is expected to be at mostly quiet levels for the next three days (22-24 April).
While both methods have proven successful in rendering very
small objects invisible in specific wavelengths of light by
bending and channeling light around them, both techniques
require the "cloak" to be orders of magnitude larger than the
object being concealed. Researchers are now reporting progress
in overcoming this size limitation using a technology known as a
"carpet cloak."
China needs to pay closer attention to threats of earthquakes and
landslides in areas where it plans to build hydropower projects, an
energy official said.
Royal Dutch Shell Nigeria says it paid about $3.8 billion in taxes
and royalties to the Nigerian government from its offshore and deepwater
oil operations between 2006 and 2010.
In the early 1900s, scientists discovered that each person
belonged to one of four blood types. Now they have discovered a
new way to classify humanity: by bacteria. Each human being is
host to thousands of different species of microbes. Yet a group
of scientists now report just three distinct ecosystems in the
guts of people they have studied.
To the Editor: The closeness of a revolution here in American is
real. People are getting tired of all the excuses our “government
officials” are giving us. Excuses of how to “fix” problems,
introducing “new legislation,” arguing with others “dumb founded”
politicians, trying to remove our “constitutional” rights, etc.
The
gyrocopter is to the helicopter what the microlight is to
traditional small aircraft. Invented in 1923 by Spaniard Juan de
la Cierva, the gyrocopter uses quite a different layout to the
helicopter to give it stability at low speed. It is cheap to
run, takes off and lands on a ridiculously small footprint, and
has a powered pusher propeller in addition to an unpowered main
rotor.
When one is entrenched in a paradigm, it is difficult for those
involved or simply outside observing to pinpoint its makings. A
major example, why do the common medical practices touted to
help us actually harm us when there are plenty of non-harmful
methods?
'The amounts of lithium that the Latin American women are
ingesting via their drinking water are perhaps a tenth of what a
patient would take daily for bipolar disorder,...
The meltdown at a Japanese nuclear power plant after a large
earthquake and tsunami rocked the island nation last month drew more
than 100 people to a lecture Wednesday by UC Santa Cruz lecturer Daniel
Hirsch.
As he prepared to visit Chernobyl 25 years after the world's
worst nuclear disaster, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
outlined a five-step plan to strengthen global nuclear safety.
In view of the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan, Ban's plan
emphasizes "the new nexus between natural disasters and nuclear
safety," and "requires the active cooperation of the nuclear
industry."
As the USD has declined, the price of oil has risen. Why is
this? In a nutshell, this inverse relationship exists
because global oil prices are denominated in dollars. Thus, as
the USD declines, oil producers are paid fewer ‘units’ of
foreign currency in exchange for oil. They must compensate for
this decline in real revenues by raising the price of oil (in
dollars).
Existing home sales in the US rose 3.7% to an annualized pace of
5.10 million units in March, retracing a portion of the previous
month’s larger than expected 8.9% decline to 4.92 million
(initially reported as 4.88 million). The increase in the pace
of sales was slightly larger than expected as market
expectations were for sales to increase to 5.00 million in the
month.
A blowout at a Pennsylvania natural gas well late Tuesday could
heighten concerns about the safety of a controversial process to extract
gas from shale rock.
The accident comes at a sensitive time for energy drillers, exactly
one year after an explosion that led to the massive BP
Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and just as regulators mull whether to
allow the technique in New York state.
A group of high-flying academic, industry and government types
met in Washington on Monday for the latest attempt by US
offshore drilling regulators to reform deepwater operations with
the goal of preventing another disaster on the scale of the
runaway Macondo well.
U.S. researchers have developed a way to avoid the use of expensive
platinum in hydrogen fuel cells, the environmentally friendly devices
that might replace current power sources in everything from personal
data devices to automobiles, according to a paper to be published Friday
in journal Science.
New technologies are having a dramatic impact on a couple of
key measures for US E&P efficiency according to a recent report
by Oppenheimer's Fadel Gheit, who finds reserve replacement
rates rising as finding costs are falling.
Keeping At It: Debbie Stabenow, the U.S. senator who has led a
long effort to halt the disposal of Canadian waste in Michigan, is now
proposing charging a fee of $500
per truckload of trash coming across the border.
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys.” P. J O'Rourke
The S&P says the US debt outlook is ugly and not expected to
improve. The
S&P considers 4% growth to be their optimistic scenario, and
doesn’t see long-term deficits even optimistically to drop below 4%:
The exploitation of geothermal energy as a sustainable and almost
inexhaustible source of base load energy is regarded as a technology
of the future. In recent years, the number of countries with
geothermal programmes has risen from 46 to 71. At present, these
countries have an installed capacity of over 10 GW, producing almost
70 TWh of energy per year.
April
19, 2011
Remember:
Walking
on unpredictable and uneven surfaces can improve balance and
help reduce risk of falling
There is growing evidence that one of the
most common effects of aging is a progressive loss of mitochondrial
function — that is, our cells have more and more difficulty making
energy efficiently. When this occurs, the mitochondria begin to
produce enormous numbers of free radicals.
Most people have
heard of ethanol. Most folks are not familiar with
algae. Those in the business of growing algae as a
replacement to petroleum want to change that and
they want to start by getting Congress to give them
parity in the existing tax code.
For the renewable energy sector, it’s a wonder either wind or
solar power is still standing.
Austere budgets and small government have become Capitol Hill
credos, and clean energy technology champions are scrambling to
secure the tax breaks and loan guarantees they’ve depended on
over the past decade to drive investments.
Arizona, which has shown little reluctance in bucking the
federal government, is again plowing controversial ground, this
time as its Legislature passed a bill to require President Obama
and other presidential candidates to prove they were born in the
United States before their names can appear on the state’s
ballot.
It would have allowed the state's top election official, the
secretary of state, to determine whether candidates met citizenship
requirements to hold the office of president.
China is set to account for 42% of the region's total primary
energy demand in 2035, down slightly from 44% in 2008, while
India's share is seen rising to 18% from 11%...
One year on, oil from the largest spill in U.S. history clogs
wetlands, pollutes the ocean and endangers wildlife, not to mention
the toll it has inflicted on the coastal economies of Florida,
Mississippi, Alabama and especially Louisiana.
Gulf troops will stay indefinitely in Bahrain as a counter to
perceived threats from Iran, which the island kingdom's Sunni
rulers have used as a reason for their harsh crackdown on the
country's Shiite opposition.
The US' Bakken Shale oil field, which spans Montana and North
Dakota, has become so prolific that at least one big independent
operator there estimates industry's output potential there at a
whopping 1.2 million b/d by year-end 2016.
The QIS5 study showed a smaller than expected increase in the
number of companies failing to meet their Solvency Capital
Requirement (SCR), the threshold below which regulators will be
required to intervene.
Dominion Virginia
Power is converting three of its coal plants to those
that can use biomass, or in this case, wood chips that
it says will result in less pollution. If approved by
local regulators, the project could get going in two
years -- and become a harbinger of things to come in the
utility sector.
Negative health effects from the chronic inhalation of polluted
air are well known to cause cardio-respiratory disease. It can
be particularly damaging to seniors, children, and people with
asthma.
The town is in a waiting game again on working on wind power
development.
The race to build a clean energy economy in the U.S. has run into
roadblocks on Capitol Hill, leaving states and the private sector with
little federal support as they try to transform this vision into
reality.
China is often
seen as the eventual
leader in
all the cleantech space with the
United States relegated to second place, or worse.
But investors in the arena said we can reclaim
leadership, and they did so by reframing the
discussion.
While a special someone blowing on the back of your neck is
likely to get you hot and bothered, the CoolWare Personal
Cooling System uses a similar technique to do just the opposite.
Constructed from anodized aluminum, the device is designed to
sit around your neck and blow water-cooled air to help you beat
the heat when you can't get inside to some air-conditioned
comfort.
Ever hear someone scolded for their curse-laden language when
they hurt themselves? Those finger-waggers who say cursing
doesn't help now should bite their tongues, then perhaps cuss to
make it better.
From this we have learned that victory is hollow if it
does not bring lasting peace and security for our people. We
have learned that when defeated, our people are devastated
for generations.
Although Congress and President Obama have offered proposals to slash
about $4 trillion from future deficits, S&P said those plans are far
apart on how to achieve the budget reductions, and resolution of the
differences may not occur until after the 2012 presidential election —
not soon enough to prevent a downgrade.
Stossel boldly, yet with tragic ignorance, argues for the
Bureau’s abolition with no regard for the consequences. Many,
like Stossel, may contemplate why the BIA still exists if tribal
self-determination is the goal. The answer is that the Bureau
still exists because it was bargained for by the tribes.
Countless treaties, executive orders, and agreements between
tribes and the United States provided that the federal
government would indefinitely be bound to a federal trust
responsibility, which includes the administration of a number of
programs for tribes.
Entergy has asked the US District Court for the District of Vermont
to issue an order barring the state from forcing its Vermont Yankee
nuclear plant to shut permanently in less than a year, the New
Orleans-based utility said Monday.
The Show Low Main Street Farmers’ Market and Art Walk faced many
challenges in its first season, including high winds, continuous
construction on the Deuce of Clubs, location and pricing confusion and
more.
They persevered, and are back to try again.
Barack Obama raised a record-shattering $750 million on his way to
winning the 2008 presidential election. But that stunning flood of
cash has triggered an investigation by the Federal Election
Commission, which is taking a detailed look at the campaign's
records and transactions.
Kayenta Township (Ariz.) is the first tribal community in the
U.S. to adopt the International Green Construction Code (IGCC),
a building code designed to reduce the environmental impact of
construction projects while keeping safety measures intact and
enforceable.
A local investor group that wants to build a nuclear power plant in
western Fresno County didn't get the letter of support it was seeking
this week from Kings County supervisors.
National Grid is continuing to explore a cleanup of toxic pollution
left behind from the gaslight era, when coal was converted into a gas at
a plant on Linden Street Extension from the 1880s until shortly after
World War II.
Melted fuel rod fragments have sunk to the bottoms of three reactors
at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant and could theoretically burn through
the pressure vessels if emergency water-pumping operations are seriously
disrupted, the Atomic Energy Society of Japan said Friday.
There’s a bit of
a boomlet going on in the geothermal industry, with
the number of states with active projects going from
four to 15 in about a less than a decade. That’s
according to the Geothermal Energy Association, the
trade organization that just released its annual
report.
An iceberg's crash into an Antarctic glacier last year cracked
off a huge swathe of ice, bringing to light a vast span of the
Southern Ocean and providing scientists with a chance to conduct
experiments that may help understand climate change.
Kristine Uhlman will present preliminary results of a study of the
age and chemical characteristics of water in the C aquifer in the
Snowflake-Concho area. Uhlman is NEMO Program Director at the Water
Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona.
The latest data indicates that prices soared in March at an annual rate
of 6.5 percent, by far the highest increase in decades. Half of
the increase was in energy prices and one half point in higher food
costs. While the Federal Reserve Board focuses on the "core"
inflation rate, that excludes these volatile items, American consumers
dip into the same pocketbook to pay for food and fuel that they use to
pay other prices.
With the excitement surrounding shale gas having spurred a bit
of a problem -- too much of it -- every company in the world
says it is turning its focus to the liquids coming out of the
ground
Most industries suffer when gas prices climb, but hybrid car dealers
gear up for more sales.
Institutional investment managers
increasingly see inflation as likely in the near future, with oil prices
and market volatility also rising over the next six months, according to
a quarterly survey conducted by Northern Trust.
James Kwok's "Hidro+" commercially available
technology allows for energy to be harvested from gravity induced
pressure differentials in columns of water. "Ash" from Panacea-BOCAF
recently visited Hidro+, witnessed a demonstration, and
performed tests. Two Australian universities have also confirmed Kwok's
claims.
Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.
(TEPCO) hopes it will be able to achieve cold shutdown of its
crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant within six to nine
months, the company said on Sunday.
Many workers in the aftermath of the
Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe report chronic symptoms they can't
explain. Some of the workers were hired by BP to install booms like the
ones above to contain the oil.
The concentrating solar power (CSP) industry in North America has
experienced setbacks in recent months, including a number of large
CSP projects facing lawsuits or being replaced by solar photovoltaic
(PV) projects.
Mexico has authorised a field trial of genetically modified (GM)
maize that could lead to commercialisation of the crop, sparking
debate about the effects on the country's unique maize
biodiversity.
Corporate officials who control safety practices at coal mines could
be more easily held accountable for violations and accidents, under
legislation introduced Friday in the U.S. House.
A respected economic expert is warning that a recession is definite
by December and that U.S. stock prices are going to plunge, thanks
to Federal Reserve strategies and the soaring price of crude.
Medical Monopoly is becoming a more finely tuned machine every
day. It is no coincidence that other states are suddenly
creating bills to criminalize naturopathic practices and other
holistic modalities like ayurvedic, midwifery, aromatherapy, and
more.
Prior to making a major announcement in the coming days, Angel
Labs is releasing some archival photos and videos of a 2005 press
conference and of a 2001 Ford Focus modified to run on their 14-inch
engine in 2004, using air. That MYT engine had previously run on
diesel.
Natural gas’
stature may get undercut. A new study says it is responsible for
a lot more greenhouse gas emissions than either coal or oil.
Funding from DOE's Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) is
enabling NREL to partner with the Army to jump start the "Army
Vision for Net Zero" program. All agencies in the federal
government are looking for ways to meet mandates to reduce
energy as a result of Executive Order 13514...
1,000,000
- Number of years for there to
be a
radiation-related fatality
at a Japanese nuclear plant
according to the goals put forth
by the
Japanese Nuclear Safety
Commission in 2003.
8 -
Number of years into the million
year period before the Fukushima
accident in Japan
OBM-Global's "MAFG" is alleged to produce abundant and clean
energy, by combining the principles of gravity, momentum, and
centrifugal force. They plan to lease, rather than sell the generators,
starting with a 240 kW and 1 MW system commencing later this month, with
the first installations in June.
OPEC president Iran pledged at the
beginning of March that the oil producer group stood ready to boost
output if the political unrest in Libya were to lead to a supply
shortage.
Sarah Palin says Wisconsin's governor is doing the right thing
by demanding more concessions from public employees' unions.
two low-level C-class events, egion 1193 has remained rather stable but
continues to grow in sunspot number and magnetic complexity.hance for M-class events,
uiet levels were observed till around 18/0634Z when
a 24 nT Sudden Impulse (SI) was observed by the Boulder magnetometer. Following the arrival of this shock, mostly unsettled levels were observed. active periods is expected on days 2 and 3 (20-21 April), due to the forecasted arrival of a coronal hole high speed stream.
"Our monitoring network is very, very limited. We feel more
observation is needed."
Such measurement could warn of possible climate tipping points,
scientists said in papers published by Britain's science academy,
the Royal Society.
While the change looking back six years is dramatic, the industry
is no longer growing in leaps and bounds. In the spring of 2007, the
map showed 57 plants under construction. This spring there are only
three conventional starch/sugar platform ethanol plants under
construction, and all three are completing projects halted during
the difficult economic times in 2007-’08.
Since the President is not going to sign a bill repealing his
health-care law any time soon, those of us who oppose the law are
trying to blunt the measure's impact.
More Americans have killed themselves in
times of financial hardship than in times of prosperity, said a US
study of suicide rates and the business cycle from 1928 to 2007
released Thursday.
Less than one week after the consumer electronics industry vowed
to do better on collecting, reusing or recycling end-of-life
products, Dell has announced that it took in about 150 million
pounds of unwanted technology in fiscal year 2011.
Must-see 21-minute excerpt of Josh Fox' "Gasland" documentary gives a
glimpse into the horrific world people face who live in vicinity of
certain fracking operations, with water that catches fire; severe
headaches and neurotoxicity; hair falling out; animal, fish and human
deaths. Fracking imposes the most severe environmental degradation of
any energy type; and is replete with criminal cover-ups of its dangers.
(YouTube; February 4, 2011)
Scientists are becoming increasingly interested in such
biomedical technologies and how they would impact prisoners and
“global love.” They want you to imagine a prisonless world and more
global generosity with the help of moral manipulating drugs.
Turkey's prime minister says his government will write a new
constitution that will strengthen democracy and freedoms, if
re-elected in June.
United Nations diplomats on Wednesday will set aside pressing
issues of international peace and security to devote an entire
day debating the rights of “Mother Earth.”
Over the years, conservation groups have engaged in a tug of war over
matters of cleaner air and clearer water, often pitted against powerful
business interests.
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Monday that he agrees with Saudi
Arabian oil minister Ali Naimi's comment Sunday that there is excess
crude on the market.
The U.S. nuclear industry is turning up the power on old reactors,
spurring quiet debate over the safety of pushing aging equipment beyond
its original specifications.
Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) called for Congress to act on energy
policy Tuesday, saying the U.S. is "like an ostrich" with its
head in the sand ignoring the dangers of climate change.
Overall inflation continues to kick out sizeable monthly
increases rising a solid, although expected, 0.5% in March,
thereby matching a similar-sized increase in February. Most of
the upward pressure came from energy prices, which rose 3.5% in
the month although there was another surprisingly large 0.8%
increase in food prices
Drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria
linked to a wide range of human diseases, are present in meat and
poultry from U.S. grocery stores at unexpectedly high rates,
according to a nationwide study by the Translational Genomics
Research Institute (TGen).
Support for the environment is widespread in Virginia and across the
country, and that support is growing, experts say.
"Everybody's starting to be greener,"...
Increasing Vitamin D intake could significantly lower the
risk of developing the leading cause of blindness, research
suggests.
Rapidly warming ocean temperatures in some parts of the world
could be pushing some fish species to the limit, stunting their
growth, increasing stress and raising the risk of death, a study
shows.
N.J. Beach Roundup: Among the record haul of 475,000 pieces of
litter collected from New Jersey beaches last year were some fairly odd
items, according to this Associated Press
report.
What was the weirdest item recovered, you ask? That's a toughie. I
think my vote would come down to a tie between the bag of heroin and the
plastic cow. And, oh yeah, I almost forgot: the kitchen sink.
April
15, 2011
Remember:
Walking
on unpredictable and uneven surfaces can improve balance and
help reduce risk of falling
Renowned medical expert warns that the fish (and some of the seafood)
you're eating may contain high levels of a number of less-than-healthy
compounds.
When disaster strikes, many rush out and buy the saving grace
without exactly knowing its proper use or why they are buying it. We
often don’t think of something like radiation exposure until there
is a looming threat. But, there are steps we can take all along to
minimize and reverse damage from the many forms of radiation we
encounter everyday.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency budget for this year
will be cut 16 percent under government-wide reductions unveiled on
Tuesday.
...to discuss EPA’s role in monitoring for radiation associated
with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant emergency in
Japan and the possible implications for the United States.
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US gasoline stocks fell seven million barrels to 209.679 million
barrels for the week ending April 8, with a rebound in demand keeping
inventories on a downward trajectory, an analysis of the data released
Wednesday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed.
Analysts polled by Platts had projected a more modest decline of 1.25
million barrels.
APTN’s new documentary series Down2Earth
explores indigenous solutions to man-made environmental
problems, sharing environmental success stories that can
give viewers ideas on how to implement solutions on their
own turf. Director and producer Barbara Hager will accept
her award at the Green Living Show on April 16.
The battle over presidential candidates' birth certificates took
its first legislative turn when Arizona’s Senate approved a bill
requiring all presidential candidates to provide documentation
proving they
were
born in the United States before getting on the state ballot.
Bolivia is preparing to pass a new law that could lead to
citizens challenging environmental destruction in court.
A plutonium waste reserve in the United Kingdom awaits reprocessing
and sale, but in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster nobody wants
it, officials say.
American politicians act like children when it comes to
crafting energy policy, says former Shell President John
Hofmeister. And it needs to stop.
After three years of growth, new wind power installations in the US
fell steeply last year from 2009 levels, leading China to overtake it
and become the world leader in installed wind power capacity. The
American Wind Energy Association claims that the global recession and
weak electricity prices weighed on the industry, but can increased
efficiency help the sector recover?
The Eco Fire Pot Stove is designed to allow women in developing
nations to cook using relatively clean-burning fuel, instead of
toxic smoke-producing wood or kerosene.
Solar Junction, a developer of high efficiency multi-junction
cells for the concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) market, announced
it has set a world-record for 43.5 percent efficiency on a
commercial-ready production cell.
It has long been thought that, even though light has electric
and magnetic components, the effects of the magnetic field are
so weak that they could effectively be ignored. Now researchers
at the
University of Michigan (U-M) have discovered that under the
right conditions, a light field can generate magnetic effects
that are 100 million times stronger than previously expected.
Conditions for crops and livestock are growing more dire by the
day in the U.S. Southwest as drought continues to grip the region.
Texas is a tinderbox, pastureland for hungry cattle is drying up,
and prospects are deteriorating rapidly for wheat, corn, cotton and
other crops.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a
settlement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to resolve
alleged Clean Air Act violations at 11 of its coal-fired plants
in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
European Union governments should be allowed to ban the growing
of genetically modified (GM) crops based on environmental concerns
including the prevention of "super weeds," EU lawmakers said on
Tuesday.
Critics of GM crops say herbicides used in conjunction with the
plants -- such as Monsanto Co's Roundup Ready -- promote widespread
weed resistance, or super weeds
The radiation risk from Fukushima is "no longer negligable,"
says CRIIRAD, the French research authority on radioactivity. It
is now warning expectant mothers and young children to avoid
drinking milk or rainwater. They should also avoid certain types
of vegetables and cheese due to the dangerously high levels of
radiation they may contain thanks to the radioactive
fallout spreading across the globe.
European concerns about the safety of nuclear power were notched up
this week after Japan raised its assessment of the crisis at its
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the highest level. Advocates
argue nuclear energy is critical, though, in the fight against global
warming.
Nitrogen is needed to feed a growing world population but
pollutes air, soil and water.
The study, carried out by 200 experts from 21 countries and 89
organizations, estimates that the annual cost of damage caused by
nitrogen across Europe is £60 - £280B (€70 - €320B), more than
double the extra income gained from using nitrogen fertilizers in
European agriculture.
Conservationists are angered and disappointed by the deal struck
between Congress and the Obama administration to authorize the
federal budget for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year.
Protection for clean water, for wild lands, and for endangered
wolves will be lost if the continuing budget resolution is
enacted as it now stands.
High oil prices could push the U.S. economy back into a recession,
and even if they don't, they'll dampen growth, says Martin
Feldstein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.
"It certainly could happen," Feldstein tells CNBC when asked if a
recession were possible.
The revelation that natural gas drilling companies are dumping
radioactive waste water into our rivers virtually unregulated was
shocking enough, but now the New York Times is reporting that
radioactive sludge is being used for fertilizer on our nation’s farms.
You heard right: radioactive fertilizer– a direct line to the
food chain.
"The reality is that no grocery store in the
United States, no matter what size or type of business, can
claim they are GE-free.
There are extensive sources within the article as well to help
document it. The article details that NISA finally has
officially disclosed leaks in the #1-#3 reactors at Fukushima.
In addition, new admissions of isotopes are hinted at in the
latest press release, which seems to indicate additional and
undisclosed radioactive isotopes oozing from the reactors. Kyodo
ran a more detailed story on the strontium release, and Reuters
barely covered it.
Google has chipped in a US$168 million investment in what
will be the world's largest
solar power tower plant. To be located on 3,600 acres of land in
the Mojave Desert in southeastern California,..
A stunning Congressional Budget Office report revealing that the
so-called $38 billion in budget cuts made last week will only result
in $352 million in savings this year has touched off a backlash from
the conservative grass-roots base of the GOP that could make future
bargains that much more difficult.
Amid a Congress of baby steps, Paul Ryan strides like a giant.
In a party of timidity, hand-wringing and hesitation, Michele Bachmann
roars like a lioness.
Investors have pumped new cash into green funds, betting that
fresh doubts over oil and nuclear power will energize companies
marketing solar, wind and other fuel solutions.
A coalition of 45 groups and individuals has asked the US Nuclear
Regulatory Commission to "immediately suspend" all licensing of new
nuclear power reactors and license renewals for operating reactors
"until the the agency completes a thorough post-Fukushima reactor crisis
examination," the coalition said Thursday.
...billions of its dollars are at stake if the Fukushima event
causes the "nuclear renaissance" to slow down appears to be
evident from the industry's attacks on its critics, even in the
face of an unresolved and escalating disaster at the reactor
complex at Fukushima.
The U.S. is set to have the largest budget deficit of major
developed economies this year and should narrow it now rather than
face tough adjustments in the next two years, the International
Monetary Fund said.
Rapid growth in solar photovoltaics has brought installation costs
within sight of $1 per watt for large projects and closer to
competing with fossil fuels.
Iran said it is ready to install centrifuges at a newly built
uranium-enrichment site near the capital, Tehran, press reports said
Tuesday.
Japan's battered northeastern coast suffered many large tsunamis
in the past and nuclear power stations there should have been built
to withstand these huge walls of water, a scientist said on
Thursday.
So, there’s the resolution. Corrupt bribes and kickbacks to
foreign officials and doctors will cost a drop in the bucket, and
companies like J&J can carry out their influence. Meanwhile, the
federal government won’t really bust them, they just want some of
the loot. Some doctors can continue prescribing to patients based on
the highest bidding supplier.
Take a family that includes a brother best described as a Swiss Army
Knife-type of engineer, a second brother who spent two years at a
Web 2.0 startup in Spain and an angel investor dad with $1 million
to back his kids' idea and you just might end up with a company like
Morgan Solar, a startup based in Toronto with a plan to drive down
the cost of concentrating solar photovoltaics by rethinking the
optics.
This normally bustling city was nearly deserted Tuesday as rebel
fighters pressed on to the oil port of Brega, taking advantage
of recent NATO airstrikes that pushed forces loyal to
Moammar Gadhafi farther west.
A combination of forest byproducts and crustacean shells may be
the key to removing radioactive materials from drinking water,
researchers from North Carolina State University have found.
Community officials in southeast New
Mexico want to expand a nuclear-waste storage facility deep inside
an ancient salt bed to play a bigger role in handling spent fuel from
U.S. reactors, a problem now under the spotlight due to the Japanese
nuclear crisis.
Cambodia's decades of war has made the country's poor electricity
infrastructure even worse, leaving millions of Cambodians in
constant struggle for lighting. But that is now changing. With
declining prices of solar technology and the introduction of
low-income oriented payment options, villagers are increasingly
harnessing the sun to power their wooden huts.
A cheap and simply structured wind-power plant proved more resistant
to natural disasters than nuclear plants.
The wind plant 50 meters off the coast of Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture,
survived the massive March 11 tsunami and is now running at full
capacity supplying electricity to Tokyo Electric Power Co., which was
greatly compromised when the waves crippled the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
plant.
'Dramatic increase in the
violence and techniques' seen from Somali pirates
Piracy hit an all-time high worldwide in the first three months of 2011
led by a surge in incidents off the coast of Somalia, a maritime
watchdog said Thursday.
C-class flares, light chance for M-class flares, The geomagnetic field was at quiet levels..
Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Wednesday
pushed a trio of bills through a congressional committee that would
boost offshore oil drilling and ease some regulations on oil
companies.
The owner of Millstone Power Station sought to reassure concerned
residents Monday night that it is working to put potentially vulnerable
spent fuel from one closed reactor into safe, dry storage on site.
Yet another test of Andrea Rossi's Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat) has
been performed on a 4.5 kW version near the University of Bologna. This
time a new set of observers were present, one of which is the chairman
of the Swedish Skeptics Society, who confirmed that Copper is being
formed from Hydrogen and Nickel -- cold fusion!
An abundant source of U.S. natural gas widely seen as a cleaner
alternative to oil and coal is in reality the fossil fuel that
creates the most greenhouse gas emissions, a study concludes.
New solar power projects are transforming a Superfund site in south
Sacramento and a wastewater treatment plant in Auburn into sources of
green energy.
But it is Stossel’s foolish use of the word “helped” that
unintentionally (and unfortunately) reminds us of our
history.
Just six years after the creation of the B.I.A., in 1830,
President Andrew Jackson delivered his second message
address to Congress. If you want to really understand
how the United States “helped” American Indians, take a look
back at what our then-Commander in Chief said about the
policy of the forced removal of Indian tribes from their
homes in the East:
Scotland could cut its greenhouse gas emissions by half in two
decades using currently available practices and technologies, a
university report says.
...certain senators have attempted to undermine the Clean Air
Act by working to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) from reducing dangerous global warming emissions.
The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant said Wednesday it
was still working on a detailed plan to end the country's
nuclear crisis a month after it began, as tests showed radiation
levels in the sea near the complex had spiked
Trump plans to say on the NBC show that he will be holding a press
conference a few days after the May 15th show. At that press
conference in the Trump Tower in New York, Trump will be announcing
his candidacy for the presidency.
Some of Trump's proposals fall way outside the political
mainstream. But his message that America needs radical change draws
support from some voters dismayed by diminished economic prospects
at home and growing challenges to U.S. power abroad.
It may only be one of the first steps in the debate over a proposal
to place two wind turbines on Dennis Water District property, but it was
a doozy.
The Tennessee Valley Authority Thursday said it will shut 18 of its
aging coal-fired power plant units, which have a combined capacity of
2,700 MW, by 2018 as part of an agreement it reached with the US
Environmental Protection Agency to resolve alleged violations of the
Clean Air Act.
The April 8 raid targeted the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran,
which seeks to overthrow Iran's clerical leaders. The group won refuge
at Camp Ashraf years ago during the regime of Saddam Hussein, who saw
them as a convenient ally against Iran. But since then, the exiles have
become an irritant to Iraq's new Shiite-led government, which is trying
to bolster ties with Iran.
30-year fixed-rate mortgage
(FRM) averaged 4.91 percent with an average 0.6 point for the week
ending April 14, 2011, up from last week when it averaged 4.87
percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.07
percent.
The Obama administration said on Wednesday it will "take a fresh
look" at plans issued under the prior Bush administration to develop
commercial oil shale and tar sands in three U.S. states.
For large parts of eastern Japan that were not directly hit
by the tsunami on 11 March 2011, including the nation’s capital,
the current state of affairs feels very much like a dry-run for
peak oil. This is not to belittle the tragic loss of life and
the dire situation facing many survivors left without homes and
livelihoods. Rather, the aim here is to reflect upon the
post-disaster events and compare them with those normally
associated with the worst-case scenarios for peak oil.
“Drugs are to blame, we need stronger drugs!” is essentially the
new double speak from the World Health Organization (WHO)
regarding all the augmenting worldwide resistant superbug
threats.
Healthy food guru Jamie Oliver of “Jamie Oliver’s Food
Revolution” TV series, runs into roadblocks when he tries reform
school cafeterias. Even though parents and administration in
L.A. were yearning for him to revolutionize their cafeterias...
The unregulated wind-energy industry is expanding rapidly across
Oklahoma, causing concern among wildlife officials about the location of
wind farms and towering turbines.
Arizona came late to the wind development party in the West, with
no utility-scale project energized until 2009. But activity is
picking up in the northern part of the state, with new facilities on
the way, accompanied by a growth spurt in opposition to some wind
projects.
One of the best-known clichés of industry is that bigger is
better – that a larger plant is more efficient, reliable and
cost-effective than a smaller one would be. We've heard that
observation from many folks in the utility business. They know
the advantages of wind power, but some assume that a large wind
farm will somehow automatically be better than a small one or a
distributed series of small ones.
For the first time ever, the US Congress has removed an animal from
the
Endangered Species List, a process typically done by a federal,
non-political, science-based agency. The action by the US
Congress sets a new precedent for altering the Endangered
Species List based on political influence...
Ukranian inventor, Professor Bolotov, has developed a cold
fusion reactor based on the transmutation of Zirconium to other
elements. He claims a system could have an input of 5 kW and an output
of 200 kW. This is from a system that only costs 10,000 euro to build.
It was demonstrated for academic review on March 25.
April
12, 2011
Remember:
Walking
on unpredictable and uneven surfaces can improve balance and
help reduce risk of falling
Strontium 90, a major waste component, is one of the more
dangerous radioactive fission materials created within a nuclear
reactor. It is present in the approximately 80 million gallons of
radioactive waste sludge stored in the United States alone.
Yesterday, multitudes took to the streets in more than 40
Mexican cities - and in protests by Mexicans and their friends
at consulates and embassies in Europe, North America and South
America - to demand an end to the violence wrought by the
US-imposed "war on drugs."
What? You haven't heard about this?
Philippine Inventor Ismael Aviso is breaking down barriers as
he continues to develop his ambient energy technology. He is now
powering AC motors with DC current and in doing so has solved the issue
of overheating in his system. It just takes 0.8 amps at 240 Volts
(~200 Watts) to run an 18.5 kW motor during start-up and under load.
I have discovered in excess of 50 tax documents containing any
given combination of Social Security numbers, credit card
information, names, addresses, tax IDs, and phone numbers being
made available online.
Business Matchmaking, Inc. has compiled the results
of multiple airline tests of oil from the little known
non-edible plant Jatropha as a potential substitute for
traditional jet fuel with impressive results.
Today, when Boulder residents flip on their lights or turn on their
clothes dryers, about 11 percent of the electricity flowing through the
outlet comes from wind farms.
California Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday will sign a bill that
requires the state's load serving entities to source 33% of their
electricity from renewable resources by 2020, under the US' most
aggressive renewable portfolio standard, his office said Monday.
Critics say it's a chemical that could cause infertility or cancer,
while others see it speeding the growth of super weeds and causing
worrying changes to plants and soil. Backers say it is safe and has
made a big contribution to food production
...rare earths – a relatively obscure set of industrial
minerals, oxides and metals – became the stuff of high
international attention and intrigue. It became common knowledge
that China controls about 97% of the world’s rare earths output.
Overnight, the dire industrial and political implications of
that geological monopoly became apparent.
As Congress considers whether to block rules limiting air pollutants,
a new report finds that Pennsylvania's coal-fired power plants emit more
smog-producing pollution than any state except Texas.
Among other things, Einstein's theory of special relativity says
that as an object's velocity increases, time as experienced by
the object will slow down when compared to another object
traveling at a lower velocity. This means that a "relatively"
short round trip on a space ship traveling at close to the speed
of light would see you arrive home having aged less than those
back on Earth
Electric car buyers have a huge benefit in their minuscule fuel
costs, but they're bypassing one little thing -- paying for roads.
...tap water industry was worried enough about the contaminant
to conduct its own extensive survey in 2004 that found clear
evidence of widespread chromium-6 pollution in untreated source
water. The survey
The exposure in the Western media of a
new Iranian documentary film,
“The Coming Is
Near” (also translated, ”The Coming Is Upon Us”) about the
imminent arrival of the so-called Islamic messiah known as the Twelfth
Imam and a soon-coming apocalyptic war with Israel and the West is
apparently causing turmoil within the regime in Tehran. It has led
to the sudden demotion over the weekend of President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad’s chief of staff because of his involvement with the film,
and sharp criticism from the top Shia Islamic cleric in Iraq.
Two of the most well-known penguin species in Antarctica --
chinstraps and Adelies -- are under pressure because a warmer
climate has cut deeply into their main food source, shrimp-like
creatures called krill.
“We have partnered with many organizations who share our
philosophy to protect the environment forever and the new Travel
Green Wisconsin Program will also become part of our annual
event.
Geothermal energy is an obvious fit in Northern Nevada, a region
teeming with underground reservoirs of 300-degree brine waiting
to be harnessed as electricity. In some places, the scalding
water bubbles to the surface unaided
The German government should cancel its plans to extend the run-times
of the country's nuclear reactors after nuclear operators decided to
stop payments into a renewable energy fund, environment minister Norbert
Roettgen said in an interview Monday.
President Barack Obama wants Congress to double spending, to $900
million next year, on a conservation fund used to buy property for the
federal government: even though the government already owns three out of
every 10 acres in the country.
If governments had to balance their books, the pressure to
overspend would be greatly reduced, and more minds would be
concentrated on thinking about what government was really there
to do, and about the nasty business of how to pay for it without
passing the bill on to our children.
If Curt Johnson of Branford could tell people one reassuring thing
about creating a home that's environmentally friendly, he'd say, "You
don't have to be rich to be green."
California voters passed a funding bill for a high-speed rail project
based on lowball cost estimates and wildly inflated ridership
predictions, according to a new report.
A defunct landfill could have a green future if borough officials can
block Public Service Electric and Gas Co.'s installation of
electricity-generating solar panels on utility poles.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan wants to make public all
registered firearm owners through the state’s Freedom of Information
Act. Opponents say public disclosure could increase crime.
Eight years since the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraqis
still only have power for a few hours a day, one of the main sources
of public discontent toward the authorities who have failed to
tackle the problem despite windfall oil revenues.
Troops loyal to Ivory Coast leader Alassane Ouattara have
captured his besieged rival Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan, France's
ambassador, Jean-Marc Simon, says.
Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo has been captured by
fighters backing the country's internationally recognized president.
At the pump, right now, E85 is running approximately $3.07/gallon.
At the CNG station right now the cost of CNG is running approx $2.30
To fully charge and all electric vehicle it cost approx $3.00 a
day.
When the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan was knocked
out with one mighty wave, the all-but-forgotten anti-nuke movement
suddenly powered up in the U.S.
Japan raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to
the highest, matching the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, after
increasing radiation prompted the government to widen the
evacuation zone and aftershocks rocked the country.
Last month's massive earthquake that devastated Japan's northeast
shifted the seabed near the epicenter by 24 meters (79 ft), the
coast guard said.
The 9.0 magnitude quake was one of the biggest ever recorded.
The movement is four times larger than any previous land shift
recorded in Japan.
Four people have died and more than 100 were injured in the 7.1
magnitude earthquake that rocked the northeast coast of Japan's
Honshu island on Thursday, the second quake stronger than 7.0 to
hit the area in less than a month.
“I remain steadfast in my belief that Arizona and
other states have a sovereign right and obligation to protect their
citizens and enforce immigration law in accordance with federal
statute,” said Governor Jan Brewer. “Monday’s decision by the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold Judge Bolton’s suspension of key
provisions of SB 1070 does harm to the safety and well-being of
Arizonans who suffer the negative effects of illegal immigration.”
Farmers and cowboys may not be friends, but farmers and truckers
should be. They should be allies at least, as neither will be
too happy with higher fuel costs this year, despite playing a
part in driving diesel prices up.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been savaged by the media because he
stood up for taxpaying Americans everywhere like you and me.
OPEC's ability to export as much crude as the rest of the world would
like is threatened by the rapid growth in regional demand for crude in
the Middle East, a leading US energy economist told a conference in
Boulder, Colorado on Monday.
I listened as Huber discoursed with erudition and eloquence upon
industrial farming practices that may be impacting nearly every
morsel of food produced on the planet, and that subsequently may
also be having staggeringly serious health consequences for
plants, animals, and human beings.
Sixteen veterans of the nuclear industry and nuclear power regulation
have called for tougher nuclear safety rules to be set and enforced
worldwide, in a bid to prevent another severe accident such as those
that befell Three Mile Island-2 in the US in 1979, Chernobyl-4 in the
former USSR in 1986, and Japan's Fukushima-1 station this year.
At TVA's three operating nuclear plants near Chattanooga, more than
2,544 metric tons of highly radioactive spent fuel are being held in
cooling pools -- far more than what is in the reactors themselves.
...plant biomagnetism has been little studied. Searching for
magnetic fields produced by plants may sound strange, but
physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, are
seriously looking for biomagnetism in plants using some of the
most sensitive magnetic detectors available.
The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in
Europe are no longer "negligible," according to
CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity. The NGO is advising
pregnant women and
infants against "risky behaviour," such as consuming
fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves.
Unfortunately indium is a rare metal and available supplies
could run out in as little as ten years. This has prompted
researchers to search for alternatives...
The number of "adverse events" in hospitals — injuries caused by
medical error — could be 10 times es greater than previously thought, a
new study reveals.
America's wind power industry grew by 15 percent in 2010 and provided
26 percent of all new electric generating capacity in the United States,
according to the American Wind Energy Association. The report said the
wind industry added 5,116 megawatts of capacity in 2010 That left wind
installations with 40,181 megawatts, enough to supply electricity for
over 10 million American homes.
B9.2 flare, CME , C-class flare, chance for C-class flares for the next three days (12 - 14 April).,Solar wind speeds measured at the ACE Spacecraft increased from approximately 360 km/s to approximately 420 km/s in response to a coronal hole high-speed stream..
Former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani says oil prices could
soar to at least $200 or even to $300 a barrel if Saudi Arabia suffers
serious political unrest.
Nuclear meltdowns. Oil spills. More strife in Africa and the
Middle East. GMO tainted crops. So what else could happen?
Unfortunately, another problem has surfaced that has scientists
calling for the "urgent need for global action". This time, it's
worrisome news about a gene that turns bacteria into not just
superbugs -- but SUPER superbugs.
Nanoparticles have added yet another string to their microscopic
bows with a new study showing that the addition of alumina
nanoparticles can improve the performance and combustion of
biodiesel, while producing fewer emissions.
Embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has agreed in principle
to stop all hostilities in his North African nation and allow
outside forces to help keep the peace, his government and
African Union mediators said Monday in a joint statement.
Amazingly, they thrive after forest fires, even after they burn
themselves. To go along with the plant's hardiness and the
berry's deliciousness, blueberries offer great health benefits.
The U.S. nuclear safety regulator said on Monday it is
investigating how three workers at a nuclear power plant in Nebraska
were accidentally exposed to radiation last week.
Turkey is in talks with Iraq over the possible construction of a gas
pipeline to carry Iraqi gas to Turkey and on to Europe, a spokesman for
Turkey's energy ministry confirmed Monday.
SortBot: Forbes.com
reports that a company in
Finland, ZenRobotics, is developing a robot capable of separating
recyclables from garbage. It still has a ways to go, but it sounds like
they´re headed in the right direction:
Ronald Reagan's son Michael Reagan is hosting a new series of videos
that explore how the 40th president of the United States would deal with
today's issues —"What Would Reagan Do?"
April
8, 2011
Remember:
Walking
on unpredictable and uneven surfaces can improve balance and
help reduce risk of falling
Japan was shaken by a severe magnitude 7.1 earthquake Thursday
night off the northeastern coast of Honshu island, the same area
struck March 11 by the worst earthquake and tsunami in the
history of this quake-prone island chain.
Legal scholars following the Macondo oil spill damages case
against BP said Thursday that the company's most recent court
filings indicate a possible new angle of defense: lax government
oversight.
China is on track to install as much as 18 GWs of wind-power
capacity this year as the world's second-biggest economy continues
to diversify its energy resources, according to officials at Chinese
Renewable Energy Industry Association
Safety checks of nuclear power plants in China, ordered by the
government in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, must
focus on the plants' ability to prevent and resist flooding, a key
government official said Thursday.
Officials in Waukesha County on Thursday said a final review of
paperwork and records from a closely watched Wisconsin Supreme
Court election uncovered thousands of uncounted votes, a
potentially stunning development that could upend the contest.
The plumes of smoke rising, and radiation leaking, from
Japan's Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear reactor provoke a visceral reaction. But the
crisis should not persuade Americans to abandon nuclear power
For all the exciting innovation in clean tech today,
debate about energy and climate policies crucial to the
market remain stuck in eat-your-vegetables mode. What’s
interesting is how some people keep saying no, even as they
grab a second helping of spinach.
Innovations in America’s ethanol industry are constantly
delivering new ways to reduce water and energy consumption
at the plant, coax more energy out of the feedstock and cut
greenhouse gas emissions through use of renewable energy.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says it has started injecting
nitrogen gas into the containment vessel of a reactor at the
crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to prevent
hydrogen gas from exploding inside the vessel.
With billions of pounds of meat and bone meal going to waste in
landfills after a government ban on its use in cattle feed,
scientists today described development of a process for using
that so-called meat and bone meal to make partially
biodegradable plastic that does not require raw materials made
from oil or natural gas.
Pilgrim Nuclear Station in Plymouth is proceeding with a $65 million
plan to more safely store some of its nuclear fuel waste, but for some
who attended a Statehouse hearing Wednesday on nuclear safety, the move
is too little too late.
Ivory Coast’s internationally recognised president Alassane
Ouattara ordered a blockade around his rival Laurent Gbagbo’s
residence where he remained holed up Friday, as more gunfire
shook Abidjan.
Workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are
being exposed to levels of radiation so high that monitoring
devices are useless, a worker measuring radiation at the plant
told NHK television today.
A global effort to raise $100 billion for investment in projects that
tackle climate change and cut emissions in developing countries "will be
challenging but can...can be done," a staff working document published
by the European Commission Friday concludes.
“a shutdown is looking ever more likely.” Even in the event of a
“shutdown,” reminds the article, the federal government’s essential
services, those “operations necessary for the safety of human life and
protection of property,” would carry on.
It’s telling, though, that government employees “who protect …
elements of the money and banking system” are among those “essential”
workers. In light of a potential “shutdown,
As the federal government braced for a widely anticipated shutdown at
midnight EDT Friday (0400 GMT Saturday), the US Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission apparently will be able to continue operating for
at least another two weeks, an agency spokesman said Thursday.
Natural gas storage inventories in the US producing region hit another
all-time high in the week that ended April 1, creating worry among some
traders and analysts that facilities could reach capacity well before
the refill season ends November 1.
30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.87 percent with an
average 0.7 point for the week ending April 7, 2011, upfrom last
week when it averaged 4.86 percent. Last year at this time, the
30-year FRM averaged 5.21 percent.
Walmart reported recently that it has eliminated more than 80
percent of the waste that would go to landfills from its
operations in California. The company's comprehensive waste
reduction program that produced these results is now being
implemented across Walmart's 4,400 stores, Sam's Club locations
and distribution centers in the U.S., moving it closer to its
global goal of creating zero waste.
California is still a very important solar market; however, it's
losing ground to a diverse range of up-and-coming states.
While the tsunami-caused nuclear plant emergency in Japan is leading
to reassessments of nuclear energy policy around the world, in Africa,
experts say challenges remain the same as before. They say limits to
expanding nuclear power on the continent are of a financial nature, as
well as related to fears of political instability.
Arizona Public Service Co. announces a request for proposal for
energy generated from small renewable projects.
The energy must come from projects with capacity between two and 15
megawatts with a commercial operation date by Dec. 31, 2013, for solar
and wind projects and by Dec. 31, 2014, for all other technologies.
The oceanographers said yesterday that the unusual
accumulation has been caused by Siberian and Canadian rivers
dumping more water into the Arctic and from melting sea ice.
Both are consequences of global warming.
Long a consideration in the Antarctic, ozone levels in the Arctic
are now a cause for concern
The ozone layer has
seen unprecedented damage in the Arctic this winter due to cold
weather in the upper atmosphere.
No one knows. And that's what scares some people.
Proposed state legislation would provide a huge jump-start for
development of solar power in Texas by providing rebates for projects
ranging from home rooftop panels to commercial installations, backers
say.
While we are diverted by
the opera-bouffe spectacle of the civil war in Libya’s desert, a genuine
tragedy—and potential geopolitical trainwreck—is unfolding in Bahrain.
Total will not buy Libyan crude sold by the rebel National
Transitional Council (NTC) for the time being, CEO Christophe de
Margerie said Wednesday, explaining that the company was currently
complying with international laws governing dealings with Libya.
Along with its push for wind and solar power, China seeks to use
the energy in biomass to meet a portion of the country's
heating, power and transportation needs.
The Metropolitan TulsaTransit Authority (MTTA) of Tulsa, Oklahoma
has awarded Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE) a contract to
design, build, operate and maintain a compressed natural gas (CNG)
fueling station to support the agency's growing fleet of CNG-powered
buses and paratransit vehicles.
Students at Michigan Technological University have designed and
constructed their own mini-smokestack to showcase a new method
for scrubbing carbon dioxide from emissions.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and
Enforcement has signed off on eight drilling permits and one
exploration plan since it gave the first one to Noble Energy on
February 28.
During detailed filter analyses from 12 RadNet air monitor
locations across the nation, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) identified trace amounts of radioactive isotopes
consistent with the Japanese nuclear incident.
Even after airstrikes pounded holes in his garden, even after
fighters encircled his home and stormed the gates, Laurent Gbagbo
did not budge Wednesday from the bunker where he remains holed up.
If House Republicans accept a "compromise" of less than $61 billion in
budget cuts, it will demonstrate that they will never really make good
on their sole bargaining chip -- a government shutdown. If they don't do
it over the continuing resolution (CR), they won't do it over the debt
limit or the 2012 budget.
Libyan government forces unleashed a withering
bombardment of rebels outside a key oil town Tuesday as an
Obama administration envoy met with the opposition
leadership in its de facto capital, a possible step toward
diplomatic recognition.
A new, unknown disease that almost exactly mimics HIV/AIDS is
spreading rapidly in parts of China. Many cases have gone
unreported because the victims repeatedly test negative for HIV
and the disease is undefined.
The U.S. is running deficits somewhere between one and one and a half
trillion dollars, and in Washington the Republicans and Democrats are
still squabbling over petty change.
The
Republicans are pushing $40 billion in “cuts” as a compromise to prevent
a “government shutdown.” It is hard to keep track of the exact
partisan positions....
Milk and cookies will have a new dynamic if the latest GM
cows are accepted into future markets. Chinese scientists have bred
300 cattle with human genes to attempt to create milk equivalent to
human breast milk. It’s being promoted as “an alternative to
conventional instant formula.” Since when is breast milk from human
breasts so unorthodox?
According to the medical journal The Lancet,
approximately 20 million low birth-weight and premature babies
are born around the world every year. Of those, about 4 million
die within four weeks. Many of those deaths take place because
the infants can't maintain a high enough body temperature on
their own...
Despite tricky times of late, innovations in aerodynamics, drive
train and intelligent operation – should help drive the cost of wind
energy back down again.
Wind power was the preferred technology for investments
in the global clean energy sector last year, attracting € 67
billion, says a new report issued earlier this week.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials say at least one leak at the
Fukushima plant that was allowing radiation to seep into the ocean
appears to be plugged. High radiation readings in fish prompt new safety
standards on consumption.
If you own a gun in Illinois, take precautions. The state
attorney general, Lisa Madigan, wants to release the names of guns
owners in response to an Associated Press request. Publication of
that list would tell the criminal class where the guns are, which
could be useful to two different sorts of lawbreakers: gun thieves
who want to know where the guns are and burglars who want to know
where they are not.
Kansas appears to have grabbed the momentum in its long-running
legal dispute with Nebraska over flows in the depleted Republican
River.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to reopen Kansas'
lawsuit with Nebraska,..
reflected by increasing surface and subsurface ocean
temperatures across the equatorial Pacific Ocean
The Journal of the American Medical Association that cell phone
use can alter brain activity. Though it doesn’t come right out
and say “cancer,” the article focuses on warning of cell phone
use and ways to combat radiation exposure.
Just when companies have finally stepped up hiring, rising
oil prices are threatening to halt the U.S. economy's gains.
Some economists are scaling back their estimates for growth
this year, in part because flat wages have left households
struggling to pay higher gasoline prices.
Oil has topped $108 a barrel, the highest price since 2008.
Regular unleaded gasoline now goes for an average $3.69 a
gallon...
Natural gas vehicle use and infrastructure in California
is expanding, which comes as great news as oil prices per barrel
have soared in the last few months.
Although computer models of wind flow over terrain have improved
dramatically in the past few years, there is still no substitute for
data recorded at the site.
Senate Republicans are floating a new proposal to break the political
log-jam over landowner rights vs. property-condemnation powers of
transmission-line developers -- but so far, they're not finding any
takers.
Researchers at Wake Forest University have developed a new
type of polymer solar-thermal device that combines photovoltaics
with a system that captures the Sun's infrared radiation to
generate heating. By taking advantage of both
heat and light, researchers say the device could deliver up
to 40 percent savings on the cost of heating, as well as helping
reduce power bills by producing electricity..
The political faith in nuclear power appears to be
relatively unshaken at the moment, with opinion leaders on both the left
and right cautioning against overreaction and politicians in both
parties swearing continued fealty to the federal campaign to jump-start
new construction orders.
This is unfortunate — not necessarily because nuclear power plants
are a catastrophic meltdown waiting to happen — but because nuclear
power makes no sense from an economic perspective and the political
campaign to ram these plants down the market's throat threatens
catastrophic harm to both taxpayers and ratepayers.
OPEC ministers on Wednesday brushed aside worries that inflated fuel
prices will slow economic growth, saying there was little more they can
do to rein in $120-a-barrel crude.
"As Congress continues to battle over this year's
budget, House Budget chairman Paul Ryan released a blueprint today
to guide Republican fiscal policies for years to come. Ryan's budget
proposes spending cuts, tax reforms, and the restructuring of
entitlement programs.
Portugal needs to
resort to financial aid from the European Union to overcome its
financial troubles, Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos said
on Wednesday.
Yuma property owners are feeling "bullied and pressured" to grant a
utility company an easement on their property for construction of a
69,000-volt (kV) power line.
A coalition of solar power activists have issued a report criticizing
the solar development efforts of the federal government as too narrow
and environmentally harmful.
Four C-class flares, A CME was observed with a speed of
approximately 548 km/s, not expected to be geoeffective. A
second CME was observed, with an approximate speed of 824
km/s.This CME is also not expected to be geoeffective. The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet levels on days
one and two (08-09 April).
Activity is expected to increase
on day three (10 April) due to a
coronal hole high-speed
stream.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives proposed trimming
federal energy programs -- but did not specify where, or by how much
specific programs would be cut -- in their budget outline for fiscal
2012.
Billing changes for people producing electricity from the sun with
solar panels on their roofs will kill future investment in that type of
renewable energy, say those who already have spent hard-earned money on
photovoltaic projects.
Salt River Project, a utility that is not regulated by the Arizona
Corporation Commission, has launched a public process to revise its
voluntary 'Sustainable Portfolio Principles.'
Assigned by the Soviet government to study the accident's fallout,
Manzurova visited an abandoned nursery school and found a bony dog
sleeping on a child's cot. Its sagging, bleeding skin showed evidence of
radiation burns. Through clouded eyes, the dog looked sadly at her.
Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to restart two oil-fired
units at its earthquake-hit Kashima thermal power plant Friday, which
would increase its total power supply capacity to 40.5 GW, company
officials said Thursday.
Under the Keynesian paradigm, if monetary authorities cannot
stimulate private spending by forcing down interest rates, then
the only other avenue is for the government to borrow and create
new money, and spend on its own projects. If the first option
does not work, the second, by definition, must.
The Potomac powercrats are proposing that we all be charged a
Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) tax because (surprise!) we don't
pay enough at the pump to finance highway infrastructure.
This would require that all highway vehicles be equipped with
onboard trackers that record everyone's mileage and
(coincidentally?) pinpoint our whereabouts at all times.
For most people, taxation is a burden that's accepted in
large part because they know the alternative is worse. As a
friend pointed out, it is like dealing with someone who holds
you up in a back alley. To put up a fight can be fatal, and, up
to a point, almost everyone can tolerate the loss. But as the
economist Arthur Laffer observed, everyone has a point at which
no further taxation can be lived with. Kind of like pain – we
all can put up with some of it and will not succumb until the
level is just too high. But it is never a good thing.
The CSU Team initially releases a pre-Season Tropical Outlook in
December, for the upcoming Hurricane Season. Several other
forecast services then use this outlook as the foundation for their
outlooks in the Spring, perhaps adjusting a number or two
here/there, or tossing in a different causal explanation.
In this environment, look for companies emphasizing lower costs
and vertical integration (e.g. Trina Solar, Suntech) to benefit,
with more vulnerability felt by higher-cost suppliers...
Trump was asked why he continues to focus Obama’s birth
certificate, as the main issue in America today is the fiscal
crisis. After brandishing his credentials, and saying he
probably would make a decision on a presidential run by June, he
said it is critical the issue be resolved
Embattled leader says he's
negotiating cease-fire, denies surrender
A new air-quality measuring instrument invented by Pat Arnott
and Ian Arnold of the University of Nevada, Reno that is more
economical, more portable and more accurate than older
technologies has been licensed for commercial development by
Droplet Measurement Technologies of Boulder, Colo.
Two years ago, George Soros said he wanted to reorganize the
entire global economic system. In two short weeks, he is going to
start - and no one seems to have noticed.
On April 8, a group he's funded with $50 million is holding a
major economic conference and Soros's goal for such an event is
to "establish new international rules" and "reform the currency
system."
Local homeowner David McAlister's February electric bill was $1.12.
McAlister lives in a 2,008 square-foot-home.
Indeed, life has been pretty good since he installed a 36-panel,
roof-mounted solar system in August at his house on Chess Terrace
Street.
"I think it's one of the best things I've ever done," McAlister said.
Look up the
phrase "a unique form of domestic terrorism" on a search engine and you
will turn up a story about a man whom the US government is trying to
cage from now until the time of his death.
And his crime?
His unique form of terrorism? He minted silver and copper coins and sold
them.
Bowing to pressure from business groups worried about an
avalanche of paperwork, the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to rescind
a tax-reporting requirement included in last year's healthcare
overhaul law.
The proposed V164 would have a 7.0 MW capacity, twice that of
its predecessor, the 3.0 MW V112. The awesome 164 meter (538 ft)
diameter rotor would eclipse the size of the current
titleholder...
Coating concrete destined to rebuild America's crumbling bridges
and roadways with some of the millions of tons of ash left over
from burning coal could extend the life of those structures by
decades, saving billions of dollars of taxpayer money...
Everyone keeps talking about a possible
governmentshut down on Friday, April 8 as though it
is a bad thing. Someone will get the blame. The president or the
Republicans or Democrats will suffer at the polls. The planets will fall
out of alignment. Reporters might run out of things to pontificate upon.
"Leaving Facebook? It was a Kafkaesque nightmare!"
says Sean McTiernan, a 20-something
Dublin arts journalist, who tried to quit the social
network but found that Facebook really didn't want him
to leave.
Sure, you might get a carpool sticker and a tax
break. But if you buy an electric car, will it make much
environmental difference?
Experts say that depends on three factors: What were
you driving before? How is your electricity generated?
And how many other electric cars are going to be sold?
Spain saw wind power become its main source of electricity
generation last month, underscoring the country's progress in
becoming one of Europe's greenest nations.
April
5, 2011
Remember:
Walking
on unpredictable and uneven surfaces can improve balance and
help reduce risk of falling
Preliminary Earthquake Report
It had all the trademarks of a protest rally Friday afternoon -- a
crowd carrying hand-lettered signs against nuclear power, guitar players
singing folk songs and people gathering signatures on petitions.
Radioactive iodine absorption
should be blocked by saturating receptor sites to protect the
thyroid in the event of radioactive iodine contamination of
food, water, air, etc
Private forecaster Accuweather.com has forecast an above-average
2011 Atlantic hurricane season with a greater threat to Gulf of
Mexico oil production areas.
The threat of a meltdown at nuclear reactors in Japan has
prompted scrutiny of renewable power options by many nations as
growing public unease pushes top consumers to either go slow or halt
any immediate expansion in nuclear power.
It explains how the current wars and revolutions in Iraq, Egypt,
Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and elsewhere throughout the Middle
East and North Africa are signs consistent with Shia Islamic End
Times teaching that the Twelfth Imam (or Mahdi) and Jesus will
soon appear on earth to usher in the destruction of Israel, the
establishment of an Islamic caliphate (kingdom), and the end of
days.
A bill that could remove a big procedural hurdle for new interstate
power lines through Arizona is praised by supporters as a way to
streamline what they see as a tedious, expensive review.
Have you ever been to the doctor because you were feeling
something was not right only to be told that there is nothing
wrong with you according to your blood work?
Sounding not at all like a Washington politician, Vanguard
Funds founder and former CEO John Bogle says the budget deficit
problems associated with Social Security are actually pretty
easy to solve.
"We need some minor adjustments you'd scarcely notice," such as
indexing to prices rather than wages and increasing the
retirement age to 70, Bogle tells CNBC.
It is a stupid, false choice to say that the Republicans in the House
have either to accept the split-the-difference compromise proposed by
the Senate on the Continuing Resolution battle or shut down the entire
federal government. Nonsense!
Cattle ranchers in southwestern Alberta have suspected it for a long
time and now, GPS tracking equipment confirms it: wolf packs in
the area are making cow meat a substantial part of their diets.
China, the world's largest solar panel exporter, is likely to boast
10 gigawatts (gW) of solar power capacity by 2015 from the current 1 gW,
doubling its existing target amid rising doubts about the safety of
nuclear power.
The
CEPGI tracks the granting of patents in the Clean Energy
sector and monitors important technological breakthroughs in
this field..
Consumer confidence in the U.S. rose for
the first time in five weeks as Americans said their finances were in
better shape.
The couple says their baby was kept at
the hospital against their will after a nurse contacted social
services for what they describe as an "unjustified reason."t;
Attorney General, Eric Holder, has already
said this is one of his major issues. He does not believe
the 2nd Amendment gives individuals the right to bear arms.
Economists Gary Becker and John Taylor join former Secretary
of Labor George Shultz in calling for a strategy for economic
growth, full employment, and deficit reduction — all without
inflation.
Past efforts by nuclear power plant operators, regulators and
International Atomic Energy Agency member states to improve nuclear
safety worldwide were "clearly not sufficient" to prevent the
catastrophic accident that has befallen Japan's Fukushima I nuclear
plant, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said in Vienna Monday.
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn is engaged in a high-stakes feud
with fellow conservatives who are doing whatever they can to
protect a home-grown interest: ethanol.
Construction of the millennium hydropower plant, the biggest
hydropower plant in Africa yet, officially launched today in Benishangul
Gumuz Regional State [western Ethiopia].
An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border
Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered
to reduce -- at times even stop -- arrests of illegal immigrants
caught trying to cross the U.S. border.
France, with its heavy reliance on nuclear power for electricity, is
taking another look at its industry after the Japanese crisis, French
officials said.
French forces in coordination with the
United Nations took over the
Ivory Coast’s primary airport in the main city of Abidjan on Sunday
so that planes could land and foreigners could be evacuated as fighting
between the forces of rival presidents showed no sign of abating.
Companies’ increasing reliance on international trade as a
source of revenue growth is helping the world’s biggest banks
rebuild client relationships and reclaim corporate banking
business lost during the global financial crisis. These gains
are coming at the expense of local banks...
Just three years ago, a study conducted by the University of
Westminster, London, determined that the "hygenic" warm air hand
dryers commonly found in public washrooms actually left users
with more bacteria on their hands than if they'd simply
used paper towels. Now, it seems that the good name of
hands-free electronic-eye faucets is being similarly besmirched
Pistachio grower and processor Chuck Nichols ripped out six acres of
nut trees this year and replaced them with a new commodity: solar power.
While most home appliances have become more efficient over the
past 30 years, the average U.S. household uses many more
consumer electronics — in particular, personal computers,
televisions and related devices, according to data released
today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
The Japanese government has decided to exempt Tokyo Electric Power
Company from the need to conduct environmental impact studies before
expanding and building power plants using fossil fuels, a government
official said Tuesday.
Kuwait believes $90-$100/barrel is a fair price for crude, Farouk
Zanki, the chief executive of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation,
said Monday.
Republican lawmakers on Thursday pressed the Obama administration
on its decision to stop work on a permanent nuclear waste storage
site inside Yucca Mountain, Nevada, launching a formal probe and
grilling the nuclear regulator on Capitol Hill.
While Gov. Martin O'Malley labors to overcome lawmakers' reluctance
to subsidize huge wind turbines off Ocean City, another bill is steaming
ahead with incentives for facilities that make energy by burning trash.
All existing nuclear plants, and the planned $13 billion
ITER hot fusion project, are based on the "atoms for
peace" idea of adapting militaryy bomb technology to
civilian use. The tens of billions in research dollars that
have been spent have clouded the judgment of leaders in the
nuclear science community causing irrational denial of the
work being done at low energy levels.
Medicaid squandered $329 million in a single year by paying for
costly brand-name drugs when much cheaper generic versions were
available
The nation's accelerating shift from incandescent bulbs to a new
generation of energy-efficient lighting is raising an environmental
concern -- the release of tons of mercury every year.
Milk and other staples like mushrooms and berries are still
contaminated in parts of Ukraine by radioactive fallout from
Chernobyl, 25 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster,
Greenpeace said on Sunday.
U.S. Agrees to Continue Combat Missions; Lack of U.S. Strikes
Blamed for Rebel Losses
While hydrogen fuel
cells are a long-term vision, advocates of natural
gas-fueled vehicles say that they can start now doing
their part. To that end, those same proponents say that
vehicle manufacturers must get behind the idea and
produce products that are as good as those that use
petroleum. The government, furthermore, must also
endorse the idea through tax-favored legislation to
promote the cars, the fuel source and the fueling
infrastructure
New diets for cows and sheep could reduce their greenhouse gas
emissions, research funded by the British government's department
for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) shows.
PlasmERG Inc., which has demonstrated a noble gas plasma
expansion motor that can provide clean, cheap, and reliable power; is
gearing up for commercial production, pending patent approval and
adequate financing.
In the wake of
Japan’s earthquake and tsunami, thought leaders here in
the United States are largely united that nuclear energy
will undergo serious reviews and potential changes,
which will cause delays.
You can pay your bills or you can be a global policeman, but you
can't do both. Not in 2011.
The ordinance all but outlaws commercial solar arrays, confines any
ground-based system to just 5 percent of the total lot, and largely
prohibit buildings from generating more power than they need.
It is hard to disentangle the twin impacts of economic downturn and
piracy. However, the drop in tanker traffic is likely to reflect more
the former than the latter.
Political support may be holding for nuclear power and offshore
oil, despite the Fukushima and Macondo disasters, as decision-makers
confront climate change and dwindling domestic energy reserves.
Almost two-thirds of voters in three presidential battleground
states — Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania — want the Environmental
Protection Agency to set greenhouse gas standards for industrial
facilities, according to a green group's poll released ahead of
Senate votes on whether to strip EPA’s authority.
Free Radicals are like robbers which are deficient in energy.
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Nuclear radiation from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power plant in Japan has been detected in milk in Spokane, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration have announced.
The large decline in emissions in 2009 was driven by the
economic downturn, combined with an ongoing trend toward a less
energy-intensive economy and a decrease in the carbon-intensity
of the energy supply," said EIA Administrator Richard Newell.
The
Ponca Tribe’s recently reopened tannery revitalizes a
centuries-old tribal craft that it hopes will serve as an
economic boon....
Multiple CME's,A long duration B-class event, Solar activity is expected to be very low to low with a slight chance for moderate activity (isolatedd
M-class event) The geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels. ACE solar wind data showed wind speeds decreasing from approximately 600 km/s to approximately 460/km/s as the coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) effects wane.
The solar power business in Minnesota is booming, thanks to
clean-energy subsidies and lower prices for photovoltaic cells.
Imagine never again having to charge your mobile phone or
portable music device using a wall plug and batteries, but
instead be able to charge such devices simply by moving your
body. Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT)
say that their breakthrough discovery could revolutionize the
way portable electronic devices are powered, and may one day
eliminate the need for external charging systems.
World Health Day is April 7, and the
American Cancer Society wants to help you stay healthy by
reminding you about the quality and safety of the food you eat.
Pesticides are helpful in boosting efficient plant yield and
preventing insects from harming plant life. But concerns still
arise over pesticides being used for produce consumed by humans,
so here are some tips on how to avoid pesticide ingestion from
the American Cancer Society’s health guidebook,
Nutrition for Cancer Survivors (2010).
Half-life refers to how long it takes for radioactive material
to lose half of its radioactivity. In spite of extensive blood
quantum research and years of containment, social science has
not yet determined the half-life of Indians. My cousin Ray
Sixkiller is a living example of the problem
The act of fasting has different meanings to different
groups, but is generally used for purging sins from our body or
sacrificing our comfort for those who sacrificed for us. Fasting
also has interesting beneficial health effects. A new study from
the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Utah has
demonstrated that periodic fasting is good for your health and
your heart.
There are numerous cities across the United States which can be
considered "cleantech capitals." With a large array of renewable
resources, a dedication by businesses and homeowners to become more
energy efficient, and a large hub for research and development, a lot
can be accomplished when it comes to creating new, efficient and
sustainable clean technologies.
Computer hackers gained access to the email addresses of
customers of several large US banks and other companies in a
potentially huge data breach at US online marketing firm
Epsilon.
Weekly oil data from the US Energy Information Administration and the
American Petroleum Institute should show a build of about 1.3 million
barrels in US commercial crude stocks for the reporting week ended April
1, analysts polled by Platts said Monday.
U.S. farmers say they will plant some of the biggest corn and
soybean crops ever this spring, racing to keep pace with
unrelenting global demand that's rapidly depleting stockpiles
and driving up food costs
The United States now ranks near the bottom of the list of advanced
economies for its high school dropout rate — 23..3 percent of American
students do not receive a high school diploma.
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Friday named six senior managers
and staff to a task force that will examine the agency's regulatory
programs and how they are implemented in the wake of the disaster at
Japan's Fukushima I nuclear plant.
Plans for nuclear power investment in the United States will be
sidelined but not derailed by the problems Japan is having with the
Fukushima nuclear plant, experts said in a panel discussion on
Thursday.
Representative Doc Hastings, the pro-drilling Republican from
Washington who heads the House Natural Resources Committee, said
this week he was starting to notice a curious pattern. Whenever
his committee hauls a regulator to Capitol Hill, drilling
permits seemed to precede the appearance.
Payroll employment in March rose a solid 216,000 in March and
compared to market expectations of a 190,000 increase. The
increase followed upwardly revised gains in February of 194,000
(previously 192,000) and January of 68,000 (previously 63,000).
U.S. public support for expanding nuclear power appears to be
slipping after Japan's nuclear crisis while New York's governor said
on Tuesday an aging plant near New York City will be the top
priority in a federal review of earthquake risk to such facilities.
Until 2008, the U.S. held the top position in the world in
private investment of clean
energy, but its position is deteriorating.
In 2010, China took the top spot, followed by Germany
The rain has fallen, the snow is packed deep on the mountains,
and now the drought is over. Time to crank up the sprinklers, right?
Nope. The giant snowpack is a relief, but let's continue to
conserve.
More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing,
farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined.
"Probably the best place to be in this situation [economic
collapse precipitated by peak oil and a changing climate] would
be on a subsistence farm in a village in Sub-Saharan Africa or
someplace that's not much effected by what happens in the rest
of the world.
Wildfires fed off what were described as "perfect" conditions
for burning again on Monday across drought-stricken Texas and
nearby states.
The bipartisan
leadership of a Senate committee is taking another crack
at a national clean energy standard. And they’ve set up
a discussion framework to help determine what that
standard might include.
A 26-year-old U.K. woman is faced with choosing whether to sit
or stand for the rest of her life as her body slowly turns to
stone...
April
1, 2011
Remember:
Walking on
unpredictable and uneven surfaces can improve balance and help reduce
risk of falling.
30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.86 percent with an
average 0.7 point for the week ending March 31, 2011, upfrom
last week when it averaged 4.81 percent. Last year at this time,
the 30-year FRM averaged 5.08 percent.
Aircraft condensation trails criss-crossing the sky may be
warming the planet on a normal day more than the carbon dioxide
emitted by all planes since the Wright Brothers' first flight in
1903, a study said on Tuesday.
Last year's record-breaking drought across the Amazon Basin has
turned nearly a million square miles of green rainforest to
brown, finds a new mapping study based on NASA satellite data.
Crude stocks at Cushing, Oklahoma – delivery point for the New York
Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) crude oil futures contracts – hit an
all-time high of 41.886 million barrels, up 1.689 million barrels, for
the week ending March 25, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA)
said Wednesday.
Nowhere is the problem of deforestation greater than in the tropical
regions of the world. Specifically,
Southeast
Asia, which has vast tracts of primal rain forests, is
at risk from excessive logging. Recently, governments in that region
have come under pressure from environmentalists to conserve what
forests they have left. Officials in the state of
Sarawak, the Malaysian region of Borneo, have said that 70 percent of
their forest cover has been preserved. However, after a review using
Google Earth images, indications are that deforestation is much more
widespread than is being claimed.
California lawmakers on Tuesday voted to raise the state's
renewable energy goals, passing a bill that would require a third of
electricity to come from sources such as solar and wind by 2020.
This is possibly our biggest infection control dilemma yet.
Although cases of this bacterial infection has been on the rise
worldwide for the last 10 years, there is an alarming spread
recently across the US. Thirty-five states have reported the
outbreak, but there could be more in states not required to
report it.
As nuclear workers in Japan struggle to contain radiation from the
Fukushima reactor, world attention is turning back to Chernobyl,
Ukraine. There, people prepare to mark the 25th anniversary of the
explosion that blew the roof off Reactor Number 4.
China and other emerging nations such as Brazil and India are
becoming leaders in science to rival traditional "scientific
superpowers" like the United States, Europe and Japan, a top British
academy said on Monday.
China is the world's leading investor in low-carbon energy
technology, a global study by a U.S. environmental polling organization
has shown.
The Union of Concerned Scientists and the town of Punxsutawney,
Pennsylvania
announced today that Groundhog Day will be pushed forward eight days
to January 25 in 2012 in recognition of the impact climate change has
had in the region..
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday signed a bill into law that opens
the door to more hydroelectric power generation operations in the state.
Arizona residents overwhelmingly support a move toward clean
energy and away from coal, and/or costly expenditures on
pollution control upgrades for aging coal-burning power plants,
according to a poll completed last month.
Elected officials from each of Arizona’s fifteen counties joined
together this week in vehement opposition to the state budget
passed by Senate lawmakers Wednesday evening, calling it, “an
irresponsible attack on county government.”
With tea party members clamoring outside the Capitol and Democrats
leveling charges of extremism inside, House Speaker John Boehner
shot down speculation Thursday that the GOP leadership has
compromised with the White House on budget cuts, proclaiming he’s
“not very interested” in abandoning his party’s grass-roots
conservatives in order to win a deal that centrist Democrats
support.
- Top oceanic wind speeds and wave heights have steadily
increased over the last 23 years.
- If the trend continues, major storms may become more
destructive in the coming decades.
- Climate change may or may not be to blame for the trend,
but faster winds could have climate consequences.
Egypt's military rulers said on Wednesday that the country's first
presidential elections since the ouster of longtime ruler
Hosni Mubarak will be held by November at the latest, giving the
country's emerging political groups up to eight months to organize.
Charging up electric vehicles on the road is easier and more
convenient now that Google has started adding charging station
locations to the Google Maps platform.
Hell has officially frozen over when I rise to defend the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The occasion is a question raised by the right
libertarian fringe in the person of John Stossel. “Why,”
Stossel asked, “is there a Bureau of Indian Affairs? There
is no Bureau of Puerto Rican Affairs or Black Affairs or
Irish Affairs. And no group in America has been more helped
by the government than the American Indians, because we have
the treaties, we stole their land. But 200 years later, no
group does worse.”
He got that last thing right, but let’s think about the
“help” we have gotten.
France and the United States are to help Japan in its battle to
contain radiation from a crippled nuclear complex where plutonium
finds have raised public alarm over the world's worst atomic crisis
since Chernobyl in 1986.
Spring has sprung-at least south of the northern tier of
states where snow still has a ban on it-and the grass has 'riz.
And so has the price of most foods, which is particularly
devastating just now when so many Americans are unemployed,
underemployed, retired or retiring, on declining or fixed
incomes and are having to choose between paying their mortgages,
credit card bills, car payments, and medical and utility bills
and eating enough and healthily. Many are eating more fast food,
prepared foods, junk food-all of which are also becoming more
expensive-or less food.
With new developments and pioneering technology, geothermal
energy is spreading throughout the United States, as described
in the yearly update on the geothermal industry from the
Geothermal Energy Association (GEA).
Companies should do more to report their impact on nature to help
curb damage that drains trillions of dollars a year from the world
economy, a leading U.N. expert said on Monday.
Harry Reid's right-hand man in the Senate tried to make a push for
nuclear reprocessing this morning that would seem to take the pressure
off Yucca Mountain, but the government's top nuclear energy officials
didn't seem to think too highly about its prospects.
I
installed a super cell HHO system with a pwm modulator which increased
the horsepower
and made it run much cleaner! I can tell the difference in the smell of
the exhaust also. I also
installed aturbocharger from an 84 Rabbit sedan. I'm proud of the
pictures of my little baby.
The Federal Reserve’s “highly accommodative” monetary policy is
partly to blame for rapidly increasing global commodity prices, said
Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig, who called on colleagues to
raise the benchmark interest rate toward 1 percent soon.
AARP lobbied for the new health care law and now it stands to
profit, House Republican lawmakers charged Wednesday as they
called for the IRS to investigate whether the powerful interest
group representing older Americans should be stripped of its
federal tax exemption.
University of Idaho nuclear engineering professor Akira Tokuhiro says
the international community should intervene in Japan's nuclear crisis
because "radiation knows no boundaries."t;
Plutonium found in soil at the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex
heightened alarm on Tuesday over Japan's protracted battle to
contain the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years.
Japan's shortage of electricity may last two or three years in the
wake of its nuclear-power crisis, posing a big challenge for the economy
and its people, professor Shigeyuki Abe of Doshisha University in Kyoto
said.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has decided to decommission the
four damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
plant, Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata said Wednesday. This is the first time the utility has said it will decommission the
four reactors, which were damaged by the tsunami unleashed by the
magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11.
Roughly 70 percent of offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of
Mexico and more than half of onshore leases on federal lands
remain idle, neither producing nor under active exploration and
development by companies who hold those leases, a new government
report shows.
A consortium of U.S. organic farmers and seed dealers filed suit
against global seed giant Monsanto Co. on Tuesday, in a move to
protect themselves from what they see as a growing threat in the
company's arsenal of genetically modified crops.
Our energy policy looks like a bubble.
Bubbles are a social phenomenon at least as much as they are a
financial phenomenon.
A intensively used river like the Ruhr serves as
drink- and process water catchment area for
several million people as well as for business
and industrial establishments. In addition it
is also a recipient of treated residential and
commercial waste waters. These waste waters
contain several organic micropollutants that
can not or only insufficiently be removed by
traditional waste water treatment in municipal
sewage.
A convoy of trucks carrying three 132-foot-long wind turbine blades
rolled through Ipswich yesterday, the start of a project eight years in
coming.
In the aftermath of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami
that devastated Japan on March 11, 2011, the country faces a
massive cleanup and rebuilding effort that will take years. To
assist in the dangerous task of clearing hazardous debris that
stretches for hundreds of miles along Japan's east coast, the
North American arm of global defense technology company
QinetiQ has announced it will provide unmanned vehicle
equipment and training to aid in the colossal undertaking..
Highly radioactive water found in tunnels under and outside
three reactor buildings is hindering work to restore the cooling
functions of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
And experts fear that the radioactive water is spilling into
surrounding soil and into the Pacific Ocean.
C2/Sf flare, C1 flare, Solar activity is expected to be low during the period (01 - 03 April) with a chance for moderate levels (isolated M-class).Geomagnetic activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on day 1 (01 April) due to possible coronal hole high-speed stream effects..
A growing El Paso needs more electricity, but people from the New
Mexico towns of Sunland Park and Anapra think it is someone else's turn
to breathe pollution expected from a proposed expansion of an El Paso
Electric Co. generation plant in their area.
Russian energy firms like Rosneft, Gazprom and Transneft are set to
see board-level changes as President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered his
government to remove ministers who supervise certain industries, from
the boards of companies in those spheres, in order to eliminate
"excessive influence" of state-run companies on the country's investment
climate.
"It puts criminals on the defense," said state Rep. Thad
Viers, R-Horry, a co-sponsor of the bill and the owner of about
25 firearms and a concealed weapons permit. "Criminals don't
know if you're carrying or not."t;
Voting has been temporarily postponed in the Senate on proposals
to stop, delay or pare back the Environmental Protection
Agency's regulation of greenhouse gases linked to climate change
problems.
The six-megawatt solar farm planned for about 40 acres of land off
Rabbit Road was thought to be an exciting, environmentally friendly
project by many, offering enough green energy to the local grid to
displace a half a million gallons of oil.
But...
When he set out on a trip to Cambodia in 2008, Industrial Design
student Jonathan Liow had no idea it was going to be a
life-changing experience. Upon seeing the poverty and poor
living conditions in that country, however, he decided that he
wanted to build things that could help people.
Imagine you're out to dinner with your spouse. When the
waiter comes, she says, "I'm trying to decide between the
house salad and the deep-fried twinkie. Which would you
recommend?" You might think many things, but "she sure knows
what she wants" is not one of them.
"During the winter months, contaminants accumulate in the snow,"
says Meyer, an expert on snow-bound organic contaminants and a
post-doctoral fellow at UTSC. "When the snow melts, these chemicals
are released into the environment at high concentrations."
For centuries the Northern Lights have entranced civilizations
with their beauty. That contiunes today as the AuroraMax project
is giving people around the world the opportunity to see the
lights live.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the "America's Next Top
Energy Innovator" challenge to make it easier for start-ups to license
the 15,000 patents and patent applications held by the agency's national
labs.
The U.S. nuclear energy industry will learn important lessons from
the Fukushima Daiichi accident and "identify additional steps we can and
will take to further improve safety at our nuclear plants," one of the
industry's leaders told a U.S. Senate committee today.
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for the country to
reduce oil imports by one-third within the next decade, warning
that the US cannot "afford to bet our long-term prosperity and
security on a resource that will eventually run out.
To me, if you want to
improve residential recycling, there's no better word than
incentive.
Sure, you can improve efficiencies and technologies. You can advocate
government mandates. You can hope that people will develop enough of a
conscience that they'll recycle because they want to make the world a
better place.
Those all can work under the right circumstances. But for my money, a
well-intentioned bribe works best
While most of us know it is theoretically possible for our
movements to be tracked by detecting which tower our mobile
phone is connected too, it might come as a shock to see just how
much of a digital footprint we leave as we go about our daily
lives.
March
30, 2011
Remember:
Walking on
unpredictable and uneven surfaces can improve balance and help reduce
risk of falling.
This is an unexpected edition with some gaps in coverage.
We have published ahead of our normal publishing time because we
wanted to give you the opportunity to participate in an event
that is scheduled to happen on Thursday, the 31st.
*****
Hoping this reaches you in time. It just came.
March 31, 12:00 noon in each time zone,
Dr. Masaru Emoto, water scientist of Japan, is asking
you
to meditate and pray for water.
He understands
that water has a consciousness
and can be helped when it is
in trouble.
Let us form a great mass consciousness for
helping the water.
WE CAN HELP.
Dr. Emoto asks you to say the following
phrase:
"The water of Fukushima Nuclear Plant,
we are sorry to make you suffer. Please forgive us. We thank
you, and we love you."
With your hands together in
prayer, he asks you to repeat the phrase three times, either
saying it aloud or in your mind.
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/hado_commentary110324.html
has a photograph of poisoned water and a photograph of a pure
water crystal after it has been given Love.
(Remember much of his works are found in
ArizonaEnergy.org's "Water Energy, please check these articles
for reference.)
As a reminder, the Pacific Ocean not
only has radiation in it
because of the March 11 earthquake,
but it also has other poisons
in it because of the tsunami
that pulled wreckage into the water.
At 12 noon, when you
are giving Love to the water, please also think
about Love
removing the other poisons.
Peace, Love, and Light,
Anne Beaumond
*****
Trump said he is asking for Obama to make his birth certificate
public, though he was not suggesting he believes the President
was born outside of the country.
U.S. researchers say they've developed a battery that can generate
electricity from the difference in salinity between fresh water and
seawater.
The bill that would take the state's sole coal-fired plant offline by
2025 continued its path to the House floor for finalization Monday
morning.
Food prices are rising, and food companies are concealing
price increases by selling smaller amounts for the same amount
of money.
Consumers themselves are noticing they're buying less food for
the same prices.
Highly contaminated water is escaping a damaged reactor at the
crippled nuclear power plant in Japan and could soon leak into
the ocean, the country’s nuclear regulator warned yesterday.
(SEE ABOVE REASON FOR OUR EARLIER EDITION OF NEWSLETTER.)
American foreign aid appropriations have escalated from about
$20 billion in 2000 to $50 billion today. Almost every single
nation on earth gets our foreign aid.
The U.S. EPA has agreed to grant a petitionfiled by a trio of
NGOs to withdraw the agency’s approval to use the super
greenhouse gas HFC-134a for air conditioning installed in new
automobiles.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently released a study
which indicates that levels of naturally occurring arsenic and
uranium exceed drinking water standards in some private drinking
water wells in central and northeastern Massachusetts.
One of the take-home messages of Solar Tech’s
report on
why we’re not marketing solar well is that we're failing to
convey that solar is now affordable. Only 11% of the
survey's respondents believed solar to be affordable, while 82%
perceived solar as expensive.
Europe burns heaps of garbage, getting lots of electricity and some
heat. The United States does not. Proponents say incineration shrinks
the waste and produces heat and electricity while reducing the need for
landfills and the diesel-drinking trucks tasked with taking trash to
often-distant burial grounds.
Toxic air pollutants from power plants—mercury, lead,
arsenic, and others—are linked to health problems such as
cancer, heart disease, neurological damage, birth defects,
asthma attacks, and even premature death. Mercury, for example,
is a potent neurotoxin that poses a threat to fetal and infant
brain development. And coal plants are far and away the greatest
source of mercury air emissions in the United States.
The Iraqi Oil Ministry Wednesday insisted that it was on track to
achieve a crude oil production target of 6.5 million b/d by 2014, and
disputed a recent IMF report suggesting a lower output rise because of
infrastructure challenges.
Japan's leader insisted Tuesday that the country was on "maximum
alert" to bring its nuclear crisis under control, but the spread of
radiation raised concerns about the ability of experts to stabilize the
crippled reactor complex.
President Barack Obama is under pressure from Congress to spell
out an exit strategy for the U.S. military in Libya and provide
a clear plan to end Col. Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year rule as the
American public remains fiercely divided over the war.
After reaching
orbit around Mercury on March 17,
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has sent back its first image of our
solar system's innermost planet.
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have
developed a system that uses microwaves to convert waste oil
into vehicle fuel
Japanese and global automotive production is being hit by
the lack of an airflow sensor, according market research firm IHS
Automotive. Global automobile production is likely to see a further
marked drop in vehicle production – beyond that due to missing
Japanese production – within a matter of weeks, the analyst said.
A hybrid, a gas/electric car, an all-electric vehicle, a plug-in
hybrid — what do all those words mean? Turns out, most Americans
don’t know the answer. Even though a new hybrid or electric car
seems to be launching on a weekly basis these days, a survey
conducted by research firm Synovate finds that a majority of new-car
buyers are still confused about the varied options available and
that the lack of knowledge could prove a significant barrier to
sales.
A massive wave of defaults in the U.S. municipal bond market never
materialized, but fears of such have sent investors scurrying from local
debt and freezing up the market in the process, experts say.
With each of his policies, Obama takes a gamble. If they work,
he's OK. If they don't, he's on the hook for the outcome.
Consider the extent of his exposure:
President Barack Obama will call later Wednesday for US oil imports
to be cut by one third within the next 10 years, senior White House
officials said.
Isolated B- and C-class flares were observed. no significant CME activityA geomagnetic sudden impulse (SI) was observed at 30/0018Z (12 nT, as measured by the Boulder USGS magnetometer). ACE solar wind data indicated the increased activity
Geomagnetic activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels during days 1 - 2 (31 March - 01 April) with a chance for brief active levels due to recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream effects. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet levels on day 3 (02 April) as coronal hole effects subside.
The United
States is quickly losing its international posture
with respect to investments in clean energy. That’s
the finding of the Pew Center, which says that China
and Germany have surpassed this country when it
comes to pursuing such things as wind and solar
energy.
A smoking motor in a service elevator at NextEra Energy Seabrook
nuclear power plant late yesterday morning led officials to declare an
"unusual event," although no flames ever sparked.
Representatives of The Citizenre Corporation, executives of the
Redding Electric Utility and members of the Redding City Council
gathered at a special event today to share the successful
results of a recent solar leasing initiative in Redding,
California
The Florida Senate unveiled its plan Monday to allow Florida's
electric companies to raise average customer bills $1.40 to $2.60 a
month to build solar and biomass energy plants for the next five
years.
The “brewery” model in algal biofuels ventures is known for
low-cost, high tech production using standard industrial
fermenters
Where there is cheap sugar, and cellulosic sugars from ag and
industrial waste, these commercial ventures will find
advantages. Where lower-cost, economically advantaged sugars are
available in the U.S., EU, China and India, expect increasing
military use for collaborative R&D deployment tests.
Generating electricity from river currents,
ocean waves and tides is a budding industry with great promise.
The Earth’s oceans and rivers could supply us with a lot of
clean energy, in theory.
The Conference Board’s measure of U.S. consumer confidence
dropped 8.6 points in March 2011 to 63.4 from February’s
surprisingly strong level of 72.0 (initially reported as 70.4).
Market expectations were for a more moderate decline in the
index to 65.0.
With all the media frenzy around the Japanese nuclear
situation, one topic hasn't been covered much: Why don't the
Japanese love fossil fuels? Not only have they pushed hard into
nuke but they're also world-beaters in photovoltaics, electric
vehicles, and energy efficiency. How come?
Spent nuclear fuel was improperly loaded into storage containers at
Dominion power's North Anna and Surry power plants, but company
officials say the public was not at risk.
A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday barred state officials from any
further implementation of a law that strips most public workers
of nearly all their collective bargaining rights.
The annual survey of cell manufacturers
published in the March 2011 issue of PHOTON International shows that the
PV industry increased global cell production to 27.2 gigawatts (GW) in
2010, which is as much as the output of the previous 4 years combined.
This incredibly large volume means an increase of 118-percent over the
12.5 GW produced in 2009 – the highest annual growth rate since PHOTON
International started tracking cell production in 1999.
Wafer thin and flexible - Wysips film technology allows light
to pass through a semi-cylindrical lens onto thin strips of
photovoltaic cells below, while also allowing the surface
underneath to show through
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