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“ When you are in doubt, be still, and
wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with
courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until
the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists—as it surely
will. Then act with courage. ”
— Ponca Chief White Eagle
August 30, 2011
Dependence on antibiotics has spawned a plethora of
antibiotic resistant pathogens, such as MRSA bacteria, which are
becoming epidemic. Most, not all, of those antibiotic resistant
microbes were generated in hospitals. Some doctors and hospital
administrators are forced into looking at copper and silver to
effectively minimize antibiotic resistant strains of pathogens.
But if you are looking for a skeptic to dismiss the risks
posed by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, then
look elsewhere.
"The continuing increase in concentration of carbon dioxide
could pose large risks as described by the IPCC," he said.
"(That) does not justify the misstatement of the risks of
climate change."
Nearly 2,000 of the 4,000 wind turbines in operation, many of
which are nearly 30 years old, will be replaced over the next
four years with about 100 huge state-of-the-art turbines that,
at 430 feet, stand taller than the tallest coast redwood trees.
For every new turbine installed, 23 of the old ones will be
removed -- a dramatic drop expected to significantly reduce the
number of birds killed each year.
“America” also results from two words being joined together:
Ame (love) and rica (riches, wealth). In the
Portuguese language for example, ame is the command
form of love, or, in other words “love!” We find rica
in such names as Costa Rica (rich coast) and Puerto Rico (rich
port). Ame Rica in other words is, “love riches and wealth.” And
what is the love of riches and wealth? Greed?
Areas surrounding Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
could remain uninhabitable for decades due to high radiation,
the government warned on Saturday as it struggles to clean up
after the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Few things are more useful than edged weapons. The utility
and value of edged weaponry in a survival or critical
self-defense situation is second to none. The key to best
benefit from this utility is to be able to build a portfolio of
edged weapons and learn to care for them and to understand how
to use them.
Western states could generate big economic and public health
dividends by more aggressively pursuing a low-carbon,
clean-energy strategy that relies on renewable energy,
conservation and smart grid technologies, according to a new
report from the Grid West Group.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization today urged
heightened readiness and surveillance amid signs that a mutant
strain of the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus is spreading in Asia
and beyond.
From the outset of the EU sovereign-debt crisis, we’ve
maintained that Greece, Ireland, and Portugal’s fiscal woes
would have scant effect on the EU and global economy. The three
bailed-out nations’ gross domestic products (GDP) accounted for
only 6% of the Eurozone’s GDP in 2010.
But Italy is a different story.
The “Salty Dogs” of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23
flew the high-performance jet trainer on a biofuel mixture of
petroleum-based JP-5 jet fuel and plant-based camelina. The high
oil content of the camelina seed makes it a valuable source of
renewable and sustainable energy.
To determine whether it will work, state geologists are using
a $21.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to look
for geothermal prospects throughout the country. Exploration
efforts include studying underground temperatures, heat flow and
thermal conductivity of rocks to determine whether geothermal
energy is the right answer.
Hackers have obtained a digital
certificate good for any Google website from a Dutch certificate
provider, a security researcher said today.
Criminals could use the certificate to conduct
"man-in-the-middle" attacks targeting users of Gmail, Google's
search engine or any other service operated by the Mountain
View, Calif. company.
Only 11 nuclear reactors will be operating in Japan with a
combined power generation capacity of 9.864 GW in early
September, which represents 20% of the country's total installed
capacity of 48.96 GW spread over 54 reactors, according to
Platts calculations Tuesday.
In 1976, funerary objects and nearly 10,000-year-old human
remains were unearthed during renovation work at the UCSD
chancellor’s house in La Jolla, California. For years, the KCRC
has been trying to have those ancestral remains repatriated in
accordance with the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Friday new efficiency
standards for refrigerators it says will cut the energy use of
most new models by 25 percent.
A typical refrigerator in 2014 will use about one-fifth as
much electricity as one from the mid-1970s, the department said
in a release Friday.
Vermont struggled with its worst flooding in 80 years and
reconnaissance teams scoured Massachusetts to assess the
devastation on Monday after a weakened Hurricane Irene slammed
an already soaked New England with torrential rain.
Makers are using pitch control mechanisms and PV technology
to boost performance. Capitalizing on growing interest in
renewable energy resources in the global arena, China suppliers
of wind turbines or power systems are expanding their selections
to include upscale models.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission later this year will provide
nuclear plants with a seismic analysis software tool and require
all of the nation's 104 reactors to assess their earthquake
risks.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has asked the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security to reimburse the state $350 million to cover
costs of imprisoning illegal immigrants.
The question -- what size earthquakes can U.S. nuclear power
plants withstand -- seems urgent in light of this week's
surprising magnitude-5.8 quake on the East Coast. Alas, there's
no simple answer and that worries industry critics.
A top Libyan rebel commander said on Sunday insurgent forces
were 30 kilometres west of Moamer Gaddafi’s hometown bastion of
Sirte and 100 kilometres away to the east after seizing Bin
Jawad.
The solar garden's size brings economies of scale, while also
allowing people to buy solar with a fairly small initial
investment (the minimum purchase is two panels, which costs
$1,100).
A 5-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system installed on the Baker
house in Santa Fe in 2008 powers all the family's electrical
needs and an electric vehicle, plus it brings in a check for
about $100 a month from Public Service Company of New Mexico.
The frustrating search for a shady spot to park is about to
get easier. But the new trees being planted at nine big parking
lots in the San Jose, Calif., area aren't leafy green saplings,
they're big silver specimens with 12-foot-tall trunks and broad
steel canopies that will shield cars from the sun -- and produce
solar power.
Investors are paying less for equities than they have during
every recession since Ronald Reagan was president amid growing
concern that the economy is on the edge of another recession.
Iran’s suicide rate has shot up 17 percent in the past two
years as the radical Islamic government seeks to crush “any sign
of joy” among Iranians.
On average, 10 Iranians take their lives each day, according
to a government official.
Sustainability is a central theme in off-the-grid living, and
as technology advances, it becomes easier to access the
sustainability one desires at a cost that’s relatively
inexpensive to prior years.
However, this proliferation of access to energy and value in
acquisition also brings looseness in the mindset of those who
participate in it. Suddenly, those who have access to energy
alternatives seem to take for granted the amount of energy
available. They get, perhaps, a bit sloppy...
I see it basically as a result of two
interrelated phenomena—the European integration process on the
one hand, and the evolution of the European economic and social
system on the other—both of which have been undergoing a
fundamental change in the context of the “brave new world” of
our permissive, anti-market, redistributive society, a society
that has forgotten the ideas on which the greatness of Europe
was built.
It would be a tremendous mistake for anyone to assume that a
reserve status currency can remain the reserve status currency,
regardless of the underlying macro policies. The death of the
British pound sterling in the early to mid-1900s is a case in
point.
Plaintiff lawyers claimed a victory on Friday when a federal
judge overseeing hundreds of lawsuits against BP and others over
last year's big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico allowed much of
the case to move ahead, including punitive damages claims.
Consumer spending rose to $88.4 billion, a 0.5 percent increase
from June when adjusting for inflation. The Commerce Department
also revised its June numbers, showing a 0.1 percent decline in
spending, rather than a 0.2 decline.
Many U.S. states have given up waiting on the federal
government to fully support achieving energy independence in the
country. Among many locally-sponsored programs, Hawaii and Iowa
have taken large steps toward using alternative energy to
provide power for their citizens.
German carmaker Volkswagen will boost its planned commitment
to renewable energy, investing almost 1 billion euros ($1.44
billion) in the production of environmentally friendly energy
over two years, the Financial Times Deutschland reported.
August 26, 2011
In a huge public blow to the electoral fortunes of both
President Obama and the Democratic Party, the president of the
AFL-CIO said Thursday that organized labor is preparing to ditch
Democrats and go it alone in building up its own grassroots
structure.
US commercial crude stocks declined 3.342 million barrels as
imports dropped 735,000 b/d to 8.941 million b/d and inputs to
refineries climbed, an analysis of the oil data released Tuesday
by the American Petroleum Institute showed.
The federal government must pay $142 million to Southern
California Edison to pay for construction of spent nuclear fuel
containers, an appeals court said Wednesday.
So-called "business as usual" is neither sustainable, nor
even possible, for much longer. Out-of-control energy
corporations, Wall Street, the Pentagon, agribusiness/biotech
corporations, and indentured politicians have driven us to the
brink. They tell us: don't worry; trust the experts, things will
soon return to "normal." But reality and common sense tell a
different story.
Horne stated: “the portions of the Voting Rights Act
requiring preclearance of all voting changes are either archaic,
not based in fact, or subject to completely subjective
enforcement based on the whim of federal authorities. Arizona
has been subjected to enforcement actions for problems that were
either corrected nearly 40 years ago and have not been repeated,
or penalized for alleged violations that have no basis in the
Constitution. That needs to stop.”
Imprelis, a weed-control herbicide that has made headlines
this summer for apparently killing thousands of trees
nationwide, is causing concern among the composting community.
Biomass Crop Assistance Program Deadline Approaches for All
Project Areas
We now live in one of the most economically uncertain times
in all of history. One day the market is up because of good
economic news. The next day, the market is down because of bad
economic news. The swings are so wild... and frequent... that
it's hard to tell which direction our economy is headed.
For proof of this, look no further than the huge gains and
losses posted on the DOW over the last couple of weeks. (These
numbers are rounded to the nearest whole point.)
- August 8 - down 635 points
- August 9 - up 430 points
- August 10 - down 520 points
- August 11 - up 423 points
Repeated denials by the Chinese government that it is behind
attacks on American websites appear to have been undermined by a
report on state television.
A 10-second clip shown on the
military affairs station CCTV7 shows Col. Du Wenlong, a
researcher at the Chinese army’s Academy of Military Sciences
giving a detailed analysis of cybersecurity issues.
Clean Edge Jobs is the premier source for clean-tech job
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Providing clean, renewable energy to the 1.4 billion people
who are living without electricity is the No. 1 priority of the
United Nations, the secretary general of the U.N. said during a
visit Aug. 24 to the U.S. Department of Energy's National
Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Clouds are amazing to watch and intricate in their formation
and interactions with the atmosphere.
Research from CERN involving University of Leeds
scientists provides news insights into cloud formation in the
atmosphere.
Deb Smith, owner of the boatyard on Spa Creek, said the
business switched to the reusable energy source several months
ago after two years of research. So far, she's estimated she's
saved between 10 and 15 percent in energy costs.
During the Bush administration, the White House worked to
prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from
protecting us from formaldehyde pollution, smog, and global
warming. In fact, White House officials secretly
manipulated or suppressed EPA scientific analysis on each of
these issues and many others.
And we all
suffered for it.
The fear of having a mechanical drill crammed into one's
mouth is enough to keep many people from regularly seeing a
dentist. New technology developed by researchers at the
University of Leeds that is based on knowledge of how the tooth
forms in the first place could soon be providing a pain-free way
of tackling the first signs of tooth decay.
The plan offers the Obama administration an opportunity to
counter Republican claims that EPA is imposing new regulations
without thinking about their effect on the ailing economy. But
industry and business groups quickly dismissed the plan Tuesday,
arguing it does not go far enough.
It is not surprising that FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg
would use blatant and deceptive propaganda to attack the dietary
supplement industry. As a self-proclaimed “zealot for the
advancement of regulatory science,” Hamburg would like the
consumer public to believe the earth is flat—and that dietary
supplements cannot prevent and help treat disease. She is
well-educated in science, especially neuropharmacology and the
new genomic science, thus it poses a dilemma for her when study
after study demonstrates the power of dietary supplement
ingredients.
NASA opened an energy efficient office building at Langley
Research Center in Hampton. The Navy is running boats on biofuel
in Norfolk.
But those efforts only go so far as NASA, the Department of
Defense -- and every other federal agency under White House
orders to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent by 2020 --
struggle to meet the goal.
Only four of 54 member nations attend the African Union
donors conference in Ethiopia, aimed at raising money to ease
the crisis in the Horn of Africa.
Anthropologists like to say that if you can find the source
of law in a given culture, you can then find that culture's god.
In our own culture, that of the United States, the
Judeo-Christian God and His law have been the foundational basis
for our Declaration of Independence, our Bill of Rights, our
Constitution, and subsequent laws.
Until we came to the middle of the 20th century, that is.
The world's established forests remove 2.4 billion tonnes of
carbon per year from the atmosphere – equivalent to one third of
current annual fossil fuel emissions – according to new research
published today in the journal Science.
This is the first time volumes of the greenhouse gas absorbed
from the atmosphere by tropical, temperate and boreal forests
have been so clearly identified.
Scientists and doctors are calling for a new national policy
in Japan that mandates the testing of food, soil, water, and the
air for radioactivity still being emitted from Fukushima's
heavily damaged Daiichi nuclear power plant.
"The government and TEPCO have not reported the total amount
of the released radioactivity yet," said Kodama, who believes
things are far worse than even the recent detection of extremely
high radiation levels at the plant.
Depleting water supplies, coupled with increasing water
demand, are driving the global market for desalination
technology, which is expected to reach $52.4 billion by 2020, up
320.3% from $12.5 billion in 2010.
The continuing increase in the level of carbon dioxide and
other "greenhouse gases" in the Earth's atmosphere has been
identified as a cause for serious concern because it may
radically accelerate changes in the Earth's climate. Developing
an effective strategy for managing the planet's greenhouse gases
is complicated by the many and varied sources of such gases,
some natural, some man-made, as well as the mechanisms that
capture and "sequester" the gases.
The home improvements could pay for themselves in 11 years,
if electricity prices increase at a 4 percent inflation rate --
or even sooner if electric rates increase by more because of
rising fuel costs.
A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is
likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted
with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals.
Libyan crude oil output is likely to resume within three to
four months after the end of hostilities at a rate of
300,000-400,000 b/d initially and rise to 1 million b/d within a
year or less, Shokri Ghanem, the former chairman of the National
Oil Corporation and de facto oil minister, said August 22.
Scientists have yet to discover, or classify, about 90
percent of the plant and animal species on Earth, which is
estimated to be home to just under 9 million species, a study
says.
When not in use, the vehicle sits parked on supports. Once
the driver climbs in and powers up its proprietary gyro/flywheel
system, however, the gyroscopic effect kicks in and the vehicle
automatically raises itself to an upright position.
an unusual star called a pulsar known as PSR J1719-1438
located 4,000 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens
in our Milky Way galaxy.
Pulsars are small spinning stars only around 20 km (12 miles)
in diameter that emit a beam of radio waves. As the star spins,
the emitted radio waves sweep repeatedly over Earth where radio
telescopes are able to detect a regular pattern of radio pulses.
Iranian authorities began to systematically seize and destroy
Bibles after a Shiite cleric issued an urgent warning about the
spread of Christianity.
"While the U.S. is entering into a catastrophic financial and
economic phase," Iranian Brigadier-General Masoud Jazayeri
recently said in a speech to the Revolutionary Guards Corps
ground forces, "Iran can, with a serious offensive, emerge
economically and financially."
In the first half of 2010, the Italian solar PV market volume
was almost three times that of Germany, and Italy could become
the number one solar PV market in 2011 in terms of new
installations, SolarPlaza says.
A billion barrels here. A billion barrels there. Pretty soon
you're talking about a lot of oil.
When it comes to ExxonMobil's Julia discovery in the Gulf of
Mexico, however, the only projection the company actually has
ever provided is one vague word: "significant."
Construction activities have begun at an Illinois ethanol
plant that will demonstrate carbon capture and storage. The
project, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of
Fossil Energy, is the first large-scale integrated carbon
capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project funded by the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to move into the
construction phase.
"In the name of the martyrs …I proclaim the beginning …of the
work of the executive office in a free Tripoli as of this
moment," Ali Tarhouni, the council's finance minister, told
reporters in Tripoli.
Just when you thought the economic news couldn't get any
worse, a lower-than-expected corn crop yield is more than likely
going to keep corn prices at an all-time high for the next year.
And that just means ever-increasing food prices across the
board.
Disguised as an “International Arms Control Treaty” to fight
against “terrorism,” “insurgency” and “international crime
syndicates,” the UN Small Arms Treaty is in fact a massive,
GLOBAL gun control scheme.
When Excelsior Energy launched its ambitious, clean energy
project in 2001, the company touted it as a way to bring
much-needed jobs and investment to the Iron Range...But after
nearly a decade and receiving more than $40 million in public
money, Excelsior has little to show.
New Jersey on Thursday issued a one-year ban on hydraulic
fracturing, citing the need for more study of the technology
used to produce oil and gas from shale formations.
Hurricane Irene continued to make its way toward the East
Coast of the United States at press time on August 25 and was
expected to make landfall over the weekend. As the storm
approached, nuclear power plants in the expected path have begun
preparations.
The nuclear regulator said on Thursday that it will require
operators of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors to review their
earthquake risks as part of an ongoing update of seismic hazards
for power plants.
The removal of nuclear waste at the former Nuclear Materials
and Equipment Corp. waste dump is being met with mixed emotions
by neighbors of the Parks Township site.
Is the Lord trying to get our attention?
A report by two nonprofit environmental watchdog
organizations maintains that Illinois congressmen and the state
Environmental Protection Agency are not doing enough to protect
the state's citizens and environment from potential hazards of
coal-ash impoundments, including two in Vermilion County and one
in Douglas County.
numerous low-level B-class events, a slow-moving CME off the
east limb This CME does not appear to have an Earthward directed
component. Solar activity is expected to be low with a slight
chance for an M-class event all three days (26 - 28 August).by
day three (28 August), activity levels are expected to increase
to quiet to unsettled, with isolated active periods, due to a
geoeffective, recurrent coronal hole high speed stream.
The deep sea is in trouble. A recent study has found that
it's being damaged by human
activities, and that this is only likely to get
worse. Scientists are now calling for better management and
conservation of entire deep-sea ecosystems.
Like the Amazon, the river flows west to east, but is
considerably wider (200-400 kilometers) and moves at only a
fraction of the
speed of the giant surface river. The hidden river
— dubbed the Hamza after Pimentel's supervisor Valiya Hamza —
discharges into the Atlantic deep underground.
Diamond-Power skylight panels are designed to harness solar
energy, while reducing the solar heat load on buildings
Capacitors are able to charge and discharge more quickly than
batteries, and can do so hundreds of thousands of times.
Batteries, on the other hand, are able to store more energy than
capacitors.
Sending food scraps down the garbage disposal is more
environmentally friendly than landfilling the waste, a new study
has concluded. [ed: COMPOST!]
The Unit 2 reactor at PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant
in northeastern Pennsylvania shut down automatically at 10:46
a.m. Friday (8/19). The unit was operating at full power at the
time. The shutdown occurred during scheduled, routine equipment
surveillance; the cause is under investigation.
For the second time this month, the Texas power grid on
Wednesday was forced to curtail power to some industrial
customers, but avoided a wider power disruption as triple-digit
temperatures bake the state.
You’ve likely heard this argument before: “The wind doesn’t
always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine, so we can’t rely
on renewable energy.” However, a series of recent events
undermine the false dichotomy that renewable energies are
unreliable and that coal, nuclear and natural gas are reliable.
In the past two weeks, police investigated two incidents in
and around Butte in which NorthWestern Energy utility lines were
stolen from utility poles. Police suspect the line is being
taken and sold for scrap metal due to the value of copper.
Eating too many salty foods and getting little exercise is a
recipe for more than heart disease in older adults. According to
a Canadian study, it can also raise your risk for dementia.
Restoration of forest lands in the White Mountains impacted
by wildfires in the last couple of decades will soon be getting
some help from the newly completed Native Plant Nursery in
Canyon Day on the White Mountain Apache Reservation thanks to
cooperative efforts between the tribe and U.S. Forest Service.
Two new UC Irvine papers reach markedly different conclusions
about why methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, unexpectedly
leveled off near the end of the 20th century. They appear today
in the journal Nature.
Both note that after decades of increases due to worldwide
industry and agriculture, the tapering off of the hazardous
hydrocarbon in the atmosphere – which began in the 1980s – was
remarkable.
If energy is the lifeblood of the world economy, Ban argues
that renewable energy represents an infusion of humanity.
After a myriad of tests at the university´s lab in New Haven,
Conn., Anand found that Pestalotiopsis microspora could degrade
polyurethane, a potentially groundbreaking discovery for the
waste management industry.
The
eastern United States ramped up its alert on Friday ahead of
Hurricane Irene and New York City ordered evacuations of
vulnerable residents as the broad, menacing storm closed in on
the Atlantic coast.
Lax trade restrictions and high sugar prices should allow the
United States to overtake Brazil in ethanol exports during the
second half of 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration
said on Wednesday.
The August 23 earthquake that shook the East Coast is raising
concerns over the safety of U.S. nuclear power plants. Concerns
are heightened in light of the ongoing nuclear crisis at the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan after an earthquake
struck in March.
Refuse and recyclable material collection remains one of
America´s most dangerous jobs, according to new data from the
U.S. Department of Labor.
Electronic waste, or e-waste – which includes televisions and
computer monitors, VCRs and DVD players, cell phones, faxes,
copy machines and similar items – have accumulated in landfills
or empty lots for years.
It´s a widespread issue. In fact, e-waste is growing two to
three times faster than any other type of waste.
"Our asset just happened to be the breeze that blew over the
trash," said James Warner, CEO of the solid waste authority.
"It´s about being creative and assessing opportunity."
While the challenges of finding stable water supplies for
growing crops and raising animals are many — and vary from place
to place — investing in irrigation where it is possible,
improving the efficiency of agriculture's use of water, and
adopting water-smart farming practices can all help.
Cities & farms from Wyoming to Southern California could face
water shortages due to oil shale development in the Colorado
River Basin and a warming climate
August 23, 2011
Mom always had her favorite home remedies — didn’t everyone’s
mom believe in the power of chicken soup over a cold? — and
scientists have actually proved that some of her favorite home
remedies are as helpful as she believed. These traditional
remedies, passed down for generations, have held up to
scientific scrutiny:
"Yes we can," about 65 protesters chanted this morning as
they began a third day of sit-ins in front of the White House,
calling for President Barack Obama to reject a permit for the
Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Canada.
Farmers in Afghanistan's central Uruzgan province are crying
out for the government to provide sources of irrigation water,
saying it has not lived up to its promises to build reservoirs.
Officials say they are exploring possible solutions, but lack
the money to move forward on water provision or the shortage of
pesticides and other farming inputs.
Angry villagers stoned to death a local
Taliban commander and his bodyguard in southern Afghanistan
Sunday after the militants killed a 60-year-old man accused of
aiding the government, Afghan officials said.
It was a rare reversal of brutality aimed at the
Taliban and, some Afghan officials believe, suggests a
growing sense of security in an area where the
insurgency has lost ground to NATO forces in the last
two years.
Alternative fuel vehicles are growing in number, but limited
access to renewable fuels leaves them underused and largely
running on petrol, according to the U.S. Energy Information
Administration.
“Cost of Government Day” fell on Aug. 12 this year, meaning
the average American worked until that date to pay for
government spending and regulations.
The recent U.S. stock-market volatility has taken a
significant toll on the global investment psyche which will have
long-lasting effects.
As a "supercommittee" tries to
find $1.5 trillion in new deficit cuts this fall, Republicans
will be pressing a far more ambitious goal: passing an amendment
to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.
Bank of America Corp. is cutting 3,500 employees this quarter
and working on restructuring plans that will ax several thousand
more jobs, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times
reported citing people familiar with the situation.
Competition for trash volumes is intensifying around the
country as garbage companies look to protect their business in a
stubborn economy that continues to sputter along.
We now live in one of the most economically uncertain times
in all of history. One day the market is up because of good
economic news. The next day, the market is down because of bad
economic news. The swings are so wild... and frequent... that
it's hard to tell which direction our economy is headed
At the time BP finally capped the Macondo Well in the Gulf of
Mexico, there were concerns that the process had damaged the
seafloor. That fear is now materializing. BP’s Gulf Gusher may
be spewing again—and if so, there is no way to stop it. It will
continue until seafloor pressure and oil pressure have been
equalized, which may take decades.
The invading organism responsible for these deaths thrives in
warm water, and thus most commonly strikes between July and
September.
Much is said about the tremendous perils that exist in
today's rapidly changing world. But, far less attention is paid
to the enormous opportunities.
Perhaps the greatest
challenge and opportunity of all is the most basic – feeding
ourselves.
China's apparent oil demand increased 6.9% year on year in
July to 38.29 million mt, or an average of 9.05 million b/d, as
oil consumption appears to be recovering after scheduled
maintenance at refineries, Platts' analysis based on recent
statistics released by the government showed.
Clashes broke out early Monday near Moammar Gadhafi’s
compound in Tripoli, a day after rebels poured into the Libyan
capital in a stunning advance that met little resistance from
the regime’s defenders.
A new study in mongabay.com's
open access journal Tropical Conservation Science finds
that the premontane forests of Argentina and Bolivia are
susceptible to large-scale shifts due to climate change, losing
over half of the ecosystem to warmer temperatures.
In just three months handling construction and demolition
recycling in Tulare County, Calif., Peña´s Disposal Service has
taken that sector´s recycling rate from 56% to 82%.
Crude oil futures remain volatile as fears of a recession are
mixed with a firm supply and demand balance in the oil market,
Goldman Sachs analysts said Friday.
Over the course of the past year, you’ve most likely come
across strange stories regarding the tragic fates of those
connected with the BP oil disaster. When compiled, the stories
are all together shocking and disturbing. Is it possible that
the nine deaths and others affected who were
involved in different areas of disaster knowledge are just
random coincidences? Check into the details and decide for
yourself.
Biofuel retailer Propel Fuels has signed a multi-year
agreement with Pacific Convenience and Fuels (PC&F) to co-locate
its “Clean Fuel Points” with PC&F gas stations and convenience
stores throughout the Western U.S.
Best Buy and DoSomething.org have teamed up with Energy Star
for an electronic waste drive, with prizes awarded to various
individuals who bring in the most items or make the biggest
impact on their local community.
Exxon Mobil Corp. and the federal government are fighting
over one of the largest oil discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico
that could yield billions of dollars of crude in coming years,
according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
ExxonMobil has filed suit against the US Department of
Interior over its denial of extensions of three leases in the
ultra-deepwater Walker Ridge section of the Gulf of Mexico,
documents show.
Although electric vehicles can claim to be greener by
producing zero local emissions, the electricity used to charge
their batteries needs to come from somewhere. For most people,
that somewhere is usually a fossil fuel-powered power station,
lessening the green credentials of such vehicles. In an effort
to let drivers go the extra green mile, Ford and solar
technology company SunPower have teamed up to offer buyers of
Ford's upcoming EVs a discounted rooftop solar system to provide
enough renewable energy to offset the electricity used to charge
the vehicles.
The amount of radioactive material being emitted from the
damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has fallen to one-fifth
that of a month ago, the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric
Power Company said today.
The globe experienced its seventh warmest July since record
keeping began in 1880. July’s Arctic sea ice extent was the
smallest on record for that month since records began in 1979.
In their experiments, the scientists sandwiched a layer of
gold nanoparticles between two light-absorbing subcells in a
tandem polymer organic solar cell. This caused what is known as
a plasmonic effect, in which the particles created an
electromagnetic field that served to concentrate the light, so
that more of it could be absorbed by the subcells.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says the
conspirators who tried unsuccessfully to topple him in 1991
“were truly idiots” — and says current Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin is “pulling us back into the past.”
Her small venture was a place where anyone could trade stuff
and skills for other things and skills they needed, without a
single coin or banknote changing hands. Old clothes could be
traded in return for kitchen appliances, and car service
rendered in return for plumbing services, and so on.
Waste stored at transuranic waste sites around the country is
shipped to WIPP and permanently disposed in rooms mined out of
an ancient salt formation 2,150 feet below the surface. WIPP is
located 26 miles outside of Carlsbad, N.M.
A new study finds that pregnant women in Northern California
have the highest PBDE flame retardant exposures reported to date
among pregnant women worldwide. It also describes some of the
first evidence from humans that certain flame retardants may
interfere with thyroid hormone signaling during pregnancy, which
is critical to fetal brain development.
A human fecal bacterium kills coral, new research shows, and
U.S. scientists say this is a warning to Florida and the
Caribbean to protect prized reefs from sewage or face a threat
to a key pillar of their tourism.
Indigenous peoples who live in Tipnis are participating in a
month-long protest march against the road, which they claim
violates their right to self-governance.
"This march will end in La Paz, so that the government
understands and thinks about changing its attitude and changing
the route of the highway project," ...
Hurricane Irene could hit the Southeast United States as a major
Category 3 storm on the weekend after sweeping north of the
Dominican Republic and pummeling Puerto Rico on Monday,
forecasters said.
Study shows ample stover, straw available for cellulosic
production
This is a question we frequently encounter at trade shows or
through our website. The short answer is that there is no single
"conversion kit" that fits all vehicles or purposes.
When most people think of gravity motors they imagine rotors
with weights attached, unbalanced wheels, and spinning devices.
Their first thought is certainly not a column of water with
alternately pressurized chambers, floating to the top and then
sinking. However, this is how James Kwok's "Hidro" technology
works to produce a source of abundant and clean energy.
Japan's lower house of parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to
promote investment in solar and other renewable energy sources
as politicians took a step toward the prime minister's goal of
reducing reliance on nuclear power.
In a little-known effort, General Electric has successfully
tested laser enrichment for two years and is seeking federal
permission to build a $1 billion plant that would make reactor
fuel by the ton.
That might be good news for the nuclear industry. But critics
fear that if the work succeeds and the secret gets out, rogue
states and terrorists could make bomb fuel in much smaller
plants that are difficult to detect
Mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began August 22 with the
launch of a tool to enable 7,000 industrial emitters and
suppliers submit data electronically.
Maui County, Hawaii, wants to stop "wasting" methane from the
Central Maul Landfill and begin using it for electricity.
Eight beaches in on Long Island’s Atlantic Beach were closed
Friday after medical waste washed ashore.Lifeguards donned
protective gear and cleaned up dozens of pill bottles, syringes
and other medical waste...
Meditation can wipe away the day's stress, bringing with it
inner peace. See how you can easily learn to practice meditation
whenever you need it most.
Monsanto used its wiles for over 15 years to make sure that
its seeds and products are the ones that farmers use
exclusively. Monstrosity made sure that it appeared to be a
bargain – farmers couldn’t resist the “innovation” of RoundUp
resistant crops.
Farmers now know they reaped a raw deal.
Bolstering the charge that debt-ridden California is an
overregulated “nanny state,” a bill placed before the
legislature requires hotels to discard flat sheets and use only
fitted sheets instead.
An international team of researchers, including physical
oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(WHOI), has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean
circulation system off Iceland that could significantly
influence the ocean's response to climate change in previously
unforeseen ways.
World Consumed 87.4 Million Barrels Per Day in 2010
By now, we’ve all seen that the Federal Reserve’s
“Quantitative Easing 2” program hasn't been a success.
They printed money that went into the banks. The banks held some
of it in reserves and invested most of it in U.S. Treasurys. The
banks made money off of “free money” deposited by the Federal
Reserve.
In a world increasingly concerned with waste, the smart
manufacturers are identifying ways of utilizing the by-products
of manufacturing and creating two products from one process. One
example - a graduate student in agriculture at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem has developed a way of creating foam
from the waste from paper mills, radically reducing waste from
paper production and creating two products that are highly
valuable and in demand.
Painful osteoarthritis is a major health threat for millions
of Americans. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 46
million American adults have been diagnosed with some form of
arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus, or fibromyalgia.
In fact, 50 percent of adults aged 65 and older report they’ve
been given a diagnosis of arthritis by a doctor.
Despite a struggling domestic economy, the US solar
photovoltaic (PV) market will double in 2011, according to the
latest Solarbuzz® United States PV Market Report. 2011
growth rates vary significantly by market segment, an outcome of
the vast movements in incentives and policies at the federal,
state and local government level over the past 12 months.
Current weekly financial output from Dallas Fed.
long duration C1 event, several B-class flares, Solar
activity is expected to be low with a slight chance for moderate
activity.The geomagnetic field was quiet to unsettled,
consistent with effects from a weak coronal hole high speed
stream.
Stocks will likely decline over the next few months, thanks
to several European countries that imposed bans on short selling
last week. That’s because every instance of banning short
selling has proven to be self-defeating.
Created by Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, the 600-ton
“Birth of a New World,” which depicts a colossal Columbus
standing in a (relatively) small boat with three sails, was
rejected by numerous American cities.
A major problem with plant health is soil health! With soil
health there are two different areas to consider—nutrition and
biological. I, for one, used to have squash bugs greater than
anyone could have attempted to “squash” when we moved to a new
location. A new buzz phrase out there is “BALANCED NUTRITION”
Global stocks fell again Friday as fears of a possible U.S.
recession combined with ongoing worries over Europe's debt
crisis, which is stoking acute fears over the continent's
banking sector.
A new study has found that sniffer dogs can reliably detect
lung cancer in the breath of patients
More than 2,200 people have been killed since the start of
mass protests in Syria in mid-March, the U.N. High Commissioner
for Human Rights said on Monday.
How old the Moon and Earth? New research using a technique
that measures the isotopes of lead and neodymium in lunar
crustal rocks shows that the moon and Earth may be millions of
years younger than originally thought.
With noisy human activity on the world's oceans disrupting
the well-being of marine creatures, the United Nations is
hosting a meeting to launch a decade-long investigation into the
problem.
U.S. emissions of the main greenhouse gas rebounded nearly 4
percent last year as factories ran harder while the economy
recovered and as consumers boost air conditioning during the hot
summer, the government said on Thursday.
An independent federal agency that regulates the interstate
transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil, has issued a
rule designed at its heart to ensure there is enough electric
transmission being planned to meet future US electricity needs
and that there are processes for determining who pays for
certain new power lines.
Despite what you hear in the media, we are NOT winning the
war against cancer. Far from it . . .
In fact, you have a 1 in 4 chance of dying from
cancer.
Plants and animals are responding up to three times faster to
climate change than previously estimated, as wildlife shifts to
cooler altitudes and latitudes, researchers said on Thursday.
Scientists have reported this decade on individual species
that moved toward the poles or uphill as their traditional
habitats shifted due to global warming, but this study analyzed
data on over 2,000 species to get a more comprehensive picture.
August 19, 2011
US crude oil stocks declined 1.7 million barrels during the
week that ended August 12 while commercial inventories rose
4.233 million barrels as a result of 5.914 million barrels
moving out of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), an
analysis of the weekly oil data released Wednesday by the Energy
Information Administration (EIA) showed.
Whether’s California’s law
turns out to be wishful thinking or forward leadership is yet to
be known. But the policy will get a chance to play out and will
provide a potential playbook for the rest of the nation.
The issue is simple: We want the president to block
construction of Keystone XL, a pipeline that would carry oil
from the tar sands of northern Alberta down to the Gulf of
Mexico. We have, not surprisingly, concerns about potential
spills and environmental degradation from construction of the
pipeline. But those tar sands are also the second-largest pool
of carbon in the atmosphere
It's official: Voters in Boulder will decide the city's
"energy future" this fall.
The Boulder City Council unanimously gave final approval
Tuesday night to two ballot measures that will allow voters to
decide in November whether the city should break free from Xcel
Energy and form its own electric utility.
China’s Big Pharma is literally making a killing from a new
endeavor. According to a South Korean SBS TV documentary team,
their industry is selling pills with ground dead babies as
stamina boosters.
China's marine authorities expressed growing frustration at
the failure of a unit of ConocoPhillips to contain a two-month
oil spill that has spread across the northeast coast and again
urged it to halt the leak by the end of August.
By far the single most personally valuable perk to a Member
of Congress is his or her pension plan. Lawmakers began coverage
under the government’s pension system in 1942, but suspended
their participation until after World War II.
In fact, the 2007 law does not ban incandescent bulbs. It
bans manufacture of old-fashioned incandescent bulbs.
Women account for 75 percent of the agricultural producers in
sub-Saharan Africa, but the majority of women farmers are living
on only $1.25 per day, according to researchers from the
Worldwatch Institute. "The lack of access to information
technology and the inability to connect rural enterprises to
banks can prevent women from obtaining vital financial
services,"...
Energy storage has long been touted as the silver bullet
needed for widespread renewable energy adoption but costs have
remained high. Today, several projects hold promise.
Fuel leaked from Enterprise Products Partners' natural gas
liquids pipeline into the Missouri River in Iowa has dissipated
or evaporated with little chance of recovery, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Tuesday.
Billionaire investor George Soros said a collapse of the euro
may spark a global financial crisis in a “new Great Depression,”
L’Hebdo magazine reported, citing an interview.
Taxpayers are likely to foot the bill for at least $26
million in pensions for former Members of Congress this year,
even as Congress embraces austerity by curbing its annual pay
raises and voting to slash office budgets.
I sponsored the National Right to Work Act to free U.S.
workers from forced unionization and break Big Labor's
multi-billion dollar political machine forever.
The amount of radioactive material being emitted from the
damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has fallen to one-fifth
that of a month ago, the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric
Power Company said today.
Scientists and doctors are calling for a new national policy
in Japan that mandates the testing of food, soil, water, and the
air for radioactivity still being emitted from Fukushima's
heavily damaged Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Muammar Gaddafi urged Libyans Monday to
free the country from "traitors," as rebels in the west began to
strangle a major lifeline to his capital.
A giant South American rodent weighing at least 100 pounds
(45 kgs) was spotted at a waste-water treatment facility in
California recently before disappearing in the brush, according
to a wildlife official.
Environmental groups say a study shows U.S. regulations are
inadequate to protect public health and drinking water, near on
coal ash disposal sites.
The Mississippi River at Natchez could eventually become home
to underwater windmills -- a cutting edge mechanism that
produces green-friendly energy.
Japan's Hokkaido Electric Power Co won local backing on
Wednesday for commercial operation of a nuclear reactor that has
been operating in a grey zone, removing uncertainty over its
status as Japan weighs the need for a steady supply of
electricity against worries over the safety of atomic power.
The Federal Reserve used to tell us how many dollars were in
circulation, but in March of 2006, it stopped. A sane man would
deduce that it wanted to hide how much inflation it was
generating, but, no, this sudden opacity was merely a cost
cutting measure, so explained the Fed, the profligate, money
pumping Fed.
Cars that plug into solar panels for electricity or run on
hydrogen may sound like something found only on the pages of
science fiction novels, but engineers at the U.S. Department of
Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are
driving these futuristic vehicles today.
Failure to react to repeated signs of problems with BP Plc's
Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and bypassing basic well
control standards caused last year's deadly blowout, the flag
state for the drilling rig that exploded and sank said on
Wednesday.
Fast-melting Arctic sea ice appears to be pushing walruses to
haul themselves out onto land, and many are moving around the
area where oil leases have been sold, the U.S. Geological Survey
reports
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) has agreed to
make extensive improvements to its sewer systems and treatment
plants, at an estimated cost of $4.7B over 23 years, to
eliminate illegal overflows of untreated raw sewage, including
basement backups, and to reduce pollution levels in urban rivers
and streams,...
Choogie Kingfisher, a Kituwah-Cherokee storyteller, tells a
group of listeners the story of “The Creator” on the Cherokee
Reservation in Cherokee, North Carolina July 29, 2011.
In a resolution issued today, the National Congress of
American Indians (NCAI) has declared its official opposition to
the Keystone XL Pipeline.
By the year 2030, demand for water is projected to exceed supply
by 40 percent and half the world's population is likely to live
in areas of high water stress.
In an environment of rapid population growth and climate
change, government agencies charged with managing water
resources are increasingly concerned with water-related
disruptions.
The two most common neurodegenerative disorders are
Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar
degeneration (FTLD). Both create serious
impairments for the aging mind. A new study from researchers at
the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) takes a look at genes
within the aging and diseased
brain.
The Obama administration today announced it will no longer
actively seek to deport illegal immigrants who don’t have
criminal records and that it will review all existing
deportation cases involving non-criminal immigrants on a
case-by-case basis.
Peru's new center-left government said Wednesday it is
temporarily suspending its modest U.S.-funded coca eradication
program to re-evaluate strategy.
The 65-year-old got up, and in the bedroom of his central
Phoenix home, he came face to face with a burglar.
"You just don't know," said Willy. "Someone brave enough to
break into a house, they're capable of doing anything."
A NASA
research document came to the conclusion that
“house plants can purify and rejuvenate air within our houses
and workplaces, safeguarding us all from any side effects
connected with prevalent toxins such as formaldehyde, ammonia
and also benzene.”
A growing body of recent
research indicates that, in Earth's warming
climate, there is no "tipping point," or threshold warm
temperature, beyond which polar sea ice cannot recover if
temperatures come back down. New University of Washington
research indicates that even if Earth warmed enough to melt all
polar sea ice, the ice could recover if the planet cooled again.
The TVA board's decision today on whether to move forward on
Bellefonte comes just five months after a devastating Japanese
earthquake raised new questions about the future of nuclear
power
Libyan rebels launched an assault on an oil refinery on
Wednesday to drive the last remaining troops loyal to Muammar
Gaddafi out of a city on Tripoli's outskirts and consolidate
a siege of the capital
The number of US parents who live together without marrying
has increased twelvefold since 1970, according to a report
released yesterday that says children now are more likely to
have unmarried parents than divorced parents.
Solar activity is expected to be low with a chance for
moderate activity. produced five M-class events including
an M9 and CME on 04 August. The geomagnetic field was
quiet and the ambient solar wind unremarkable. A recurrent
coronal hole high speed stream is expected to become
geoeffective on Day 3 (21 Aug)
Rollercoaster financial markets and the worst riots Britain
has seen in decades have made it quite a week for a time of year
that is usually so dead the newspapers are filled with "silly
season" tales of amusing pet antics.
Everyone is pointing fingers -- at blundering politicians,
hooded thugs, disaffected youths, bumbling police and greedy
bankers -- but could the cause for all the madness really be the
star at the center of our solar system?
Congress created the Federal Employees Retirement System
(FERS) in 1986, and it became effective on January 1, 1987.
Since that time, new Federal civilian employees who have
retirement coverage are covered by FERS.
U.S. Congress salaries and benefits have been the source of
taxpayer unhappiness and myths over the years. Here are some
facts for your consideration.
If retired under the special provision for Members of
Congress or Congressional Employees 2.5% of your high-3
average salary multiplied by your years and months of service...
A Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower says the
regulator destroyed files over the past several years related to
inquiries into possible suspicious activities at banks and hedge
funds, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The power industry will
likely increase the share of natural gas in the fuel mix because
of the carbon footprint of natural gas-fired generation and
because it can be built more quickly and easily than coal,
nuclear, or hydro and will benefit from credible expectations of
lower long-term natural gas prices,”...
Oil major Royal Dutch Shell said a large volume of oil
remained in its leaking pipeline, raising the possibility that
Britain's worse oil spill for a decade could worsen, but said
the extra amount would only seep out in a worse case scenario.
U.S. stocks tumbled amid growing concern the global economy
is slowing and speculation that European banks lack enough
capital, while hopes for more stimulus from the Federal Reserve
receded. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 500
points, or more than 4.5 percent, in early trading.
...finds that state regulations
regarding coal ash disposal are inadequate to protect public
health and drinking water supplies for nearby communities. The
information comes as federal regulations--the first of their
kind--are under attack by a hostile Congress bent on derailing
any effort to ensure strong, federally enforceable safeguards
for coal ash, America's second largest industrial waste stream.
It appears that bees experience very real, very human
feelings. At least that’s the vibe they emanated to recent
researchers.
"The impact of war is self-evident,
since economically it is exactly the same as if the nation were
to drop a part of its capital into the ocean"
-- Karl Marx,
While it’s true that some of our Founders were hard or soft
Deists, our first president was definitely a faith-filled man in
the traditional sense of the word, and stated so publically
many, many times.
The result? The scientists estimated the average change in
Earth's radius to be 0.004 inches (0.1 millimeters) per year, or
about the thickness of a human hair, a rate considered
statistically insignificant.
This month, the rare infection killed a 16-year-old Florida
girl, who fell ill after swimming, and a 9-year-old Virginia
boy, who died a week after he went to a fishing day camp. The
boy had been dunked the first day of camp, his mother told the
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
STRONG explosions rocked Tripoli early today as Muammar
Gaddafi's shaky regime called for an immediate ceasefire in
Libya and rebels claimed control of a key oil refinery not far
from the capital.
The Obama administration Tuesday announced a $510 million
plan to spur development of advanced biofuels, focusing on
production of drop-in fuels for aviation and marine
transportation.
The average rate for a 30-year fixed loan dropped to 4.15
percent in the week ended today from 4.32 percent, the McLean,
Virginia-based mortgage financier said in a statement today.
That was the lowest in more than 50 years, Freddie Mac said. The
average 15-year rate fell to 3.36 percent from 3.5 percent.
Manufacturing near your market has inherent advantages. But this
past week's news shows that other factors can easily trump
location.
The United States has already tied its yearly record for
billion-dollar weather disasters and the cumulative tab from
floods, tornadoes and heat waves has hit $35 billion, the
National Weather Service said on Wednesday.
And it's only August, with the bulk of the hurricane season
still ahead.
Israeli firm Emefcy's technology that
uses naturally occurring bacteria in a biogenic reactor to treat
wastewater and feeds resulting energy to the grid has attracted
international attention from investors.
As the world population increases at a tremendous pace the
primary water global supplies will need to grow by 41% until
2025, points out a recent report issued by the European
Commission. Wastewater reuse and recycling ought to play a major
part ...
Obstacles to
Small-Scale Agriculture in the US
"In the future, more people will
have to grow their own food" has become a truism among pundits
and observers who are paying attention to the changing state of
western industrial civilization, and of the U.S. in particular.
The famine in the Horn of Africa is manmade - the result of
artificially high prices for food and civil conflict, the World
Bank's lead economist for Kenya Wolfgang Fengler told Reuters
Tuesday.
"This crisis is manmade," Fengler said in a telephone
interview. "Droughts have occurred over and again, but you need
bad policymaking for that to lead to a famine."
Yemeni opposition groups and protest leaders have formed a
national council to step up pressure on Yemeni president Ali
Abdullah Saleh to relinquish power.
Mass protests calling on Saleh to step
down have been roiling Yemen for months. In June, Saleh was
badly wounded in an attack on his palace compund.
August 16, 2011
Sixteen electric-vehicle charging stations being installed at
Pima County libraries this month are part of a network of 125
stations slated for the entire Tucson area by the end of 2011,
officials said Friday.
The removal of nearly 500,000 tons of contaminated soil has
been completed from the Hanford Site in southwest Washington
state by a U.S. Department of Energy contractor, the department
said.
At a press conference on July 21, New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he was
contributing $50 million to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal
Campaign. Michael Brune, head of the Sierra Club, called it a
“game changer”. It is that, but it also could push the United
States, and indeed the world, to a tipping point on the climate
issue.
Some 12.4 million people in the drought-hit Horn of Africa -
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia - are facing severe food
and water shortages and need international emergency assistance
to survive. The region is facing the worst drought in 60 years.
Underwater ‘windmills’ may feed power grid
A federal appeals court panel on Friday struck down the
requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul
package that virtually all Americans must carry health insurance
or face penalties.
The U.S. Army is forming a task force to work with developers
that may spend as much as $7.1 billion over the next decade to
build renewable power plants at U.S. military sites.
Australian farmers demanded greater protection against coal
seam gas miners eyeing their land for exploration as a political
fight surrounding the $70 billion gas industry on Monday
threatened to splinter the surging conservative opposition.
Jay Listen is aiming to power his new house without buying
electricity.
Warren Buffett has been buying amid this week's sharp
declines in the market, and has not yet seen anything that
suggests another downturn is emerging, the legendary investor
told Fortune magazine.
The rioting, looting and plunder
that started in Tottenham on Saturday has now spread like
wildfire throughout the capital. Shops were broken into,
properties vandalized, and flats and vehicles set alight by
gangs of mostly young men...
JAMA’s editor calls fraudulent medical research a ‘scar on
the moral body of science’. But it’s really just part of an
entire system of fraud in medicine.Medical science is rampant
with fraud.
Looks like banana peels have the last laugh. Once a prop for
pranks with seemingly no value after doing it’s job of
protecting the mashable fruit within, researchers have found its
higher calling: water purification.
Authorities in northeastern China on Sunday ordered a
petrochemical plant to be shut down immediately after thousands
of people demonstrated, demanding the relocation of the factory
at the center of a toxic spill scare, state media said.
China's dependence on imported oil rose to 55.2% in the first
five months of this year, from 55% in 2010 and 33% in 2009, the
official news agency Xinhua reported Sunday, citing figures from
the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
China will double its solar capacity to around 2 gigawatts
(GW) by the end of the year as the world's largest solar-panel
maker ramps up domestic installation, a local paper said on
Saturday citing a government-linked think tank.
Conservation groups on Saturday asked a federal appellate
court to stop upcoming hunts in Montana and Idaho that target
more than 1,000 wolves.
PA- The Corbett administration is de-emphasizing renewable
energy and energy conservation, eliminating programs created by
previous Democratic and Republican administrations as it focuses
on natural gas energy from booming Marcellus Shale.
Debt-ridden California has lost more than 610,000
manufacturing jobs in the past 10 years thanks in large part to
the high taxes and regulatory burden imposed by the Democrats.
A devastating drought deepened over the last week in many
areas, spreading through more of the Plains and going into the
Midwest as triple-digit temperatures baked already thirsty crops
and livestock.
A state court has said that North Carolina's power plants can
burn whole trees harvested for fuel and count the lumber toward
their mandate to use green energy resources.
New Environmental Protection Agency regulations for
coal-fired power plants will raise the risk of blackouts and
lead to higher electricity bills for many Americans.
A federal judge in Oregon has found
that the Obama administration's attempt to make federal
hydroelectric power projects in the Northwest safer for
protected salmon violates the Endangered Species Act, wire
services reported.
The legacy of George Washington's centuries-old logging
venture in the Great Dismal Swamp is contributing to the
possible demise of a valuable ecosystem as a barely contained
fire burns on the Virginia-North Carolina border, experts say.
...more residents favor climate change policy, want to cut
greenhouse gas emissions and believe they are already
experiencing the effects of global warming.
“This is a clear mandate that people want to move beyond
dirty energy,”...
Post-heart attack hearts will never fully return to their
previous condition. However, a new treatment developed at Tel
Aviv University (TAU) by Professor Uri Oron using stem cells has
the ability to restore heart function and
health.
I grow wildflowers. Part of the price one pays for enjoying
the beauty of an organic flower garden is spending a
considerable amount of time pulling weeds.
A new study shows that as climate change enhances
tree growth in tropical forests, the resulting
increase in litterfall could stimulate soil micro-organisms
leading to a release of stored
soil
carbon.
An explosion has closed the Iran-Turkey gas pipeline, a
spokesman for the Turkish energy ministry told Platts Friday.
The official said the explosion, which is suspected to have
been the result of sabotage...
A federal judge denied a motion sought by an environmental
group to halt on-going construction of a $2 billion solar
project on public land in northeast San Bernardino County to
protect desert tortoises and other wildlife in the path of the
project.
Inasmuch as the thrust of this
narrative is meant to be about the honor, nobleness, and
benevolence of heroism, be forewarned. In its effort to
reveal the essential goodness that resides in the hearts of most
human beings, it also inexorably exposes the vilest evil that
festers in the minds of a few.
Despite news articles and medical organizations harping that
the autism-vaccine link was debunked, mounting evidence to
support the link continues to grow.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
recently demonstrated a microwave technique for performing
quantum entanglement, opening the door for inexpensive quantum
computers to perform what so far only been possible with
expensive lasers.
Over the past 30 years, and in particular in the past decade,
ethanol production has quietly become increasingly efficient.
From improvements in corn production to greater efficiencies at
ethanol biorefineries, America’s leading renewable fuel is
providing more with less.
An unstoppable conveyor belt of rain drenched the Northeast
and Mid-Atlantic on Monday, adding to record-breaking
precipitation that triggered flood watches and a local state of
emergency at the start of the workweek.
With President Barack Obama’s overall approval ratings
hovering around all-time lows, one group remains strongly
supportive of Obama and his performance on the job: Muslim
Americans.
"Cancer is an out-of-control epidemic, and conventional
treatments don't work," says Raymond Francis, an MIT-trained
scientist and chairman of The Project to End Disease. The reason
that the "war on cancer" is a failure is that conventional
treatments only treat the symptoms and side effects of cancer
and not the biological process that causes it in the first
place...
Most of the nation — from seaside suburbs to our national
parks - has experienced
health-threatening "bad air" days this year
due to smog pollution, according to a new analysis of government
air pollution data by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
There have been many releases of oil over the years. They
are caused by many variables. Those caused by human error or
unexpected accident can only be partially prevented by better
design. Those that are the result of predicable design or
mechanical failure can be prevented.
Evaporative cooling allows
increasing power generation from air cooled facilities by as
much as 30% during the hot hours of the day.
The implementation of this system
in the moderate to dry climates, especially in the High Desert,
generates more energy per year than water cooled systems with a
fraction of the water and chemical consumption of a traditional
water cooled system.
Throughout human history unsustainable agricultural practices
have turned fragile ecosystems into wastelands and left people
starving. During the Dust Bowl, American farmers learned the
consequences of removing the deep rooted grasses from the Great
Plains when the soil blew away in tremendous dust storms.
Pimco co-CIO Bill Gross says the level of U.S. debt isn't the
real problem.
"While our debt crisis is real and promises
to grow to Frankenstein proportions in future years, debt is not
the disease — it is a symptom," Gross writes in The Washington
Post — insufficient consumption and investment is the disease.
"Debt has been simply an abused sovereign and private market
antidote to sustain it," says Gross. "We and our global market
competitors are and have been experiencing a lack of aggregate
demand for several decades."
The name responsible for the existence of this engine is
Angel Labs, and the man behind the creation itself is Raphial
Morgado. What he invented is called the “MYTTM
Engine,” and it’s one of the most promising efficiency-related
developments in the last ten years.
The United States isn’t merely double-dipping back into
recession, but worse — it's in the early stages of a depression
that will strangle the economy possibly for years to come, says
Robert Prechter, president of Elliott Wave International.
That means investors need to stock up on cash and other
funds whose strategy is to succeed in a bear market, Prechter
says.
A scientist has proposed a 'fluid flow cloak,' which might
reduce the drag on ships' hulls by tricking the surrounding
water into standing still
The Federal Department of Transportation is pushing for a
move to require anyone on a farming operation to obtain
commercial drivers licenses to use typical farming equipment.
The solar market is projected to grow in terms of megawatts
installed in Asia and North America, but revenues will stay flat
as price declines outpace volume growth.
C3 flare, C-class events likely, The geomagnetic field was
quiet to active during the past 24 hours with a brief minor
storm period. continued influence of a coronal hole high
speed stream. ACE solar wind data indicated velocities up
to 560 km/s,. The geomagnetic field is expected to be
quiet to unsettled with a chance for active conditions on days 1
and 2 (16-17 Aug).
The
heavy use of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide appears to be causing
harmful changes in soil and potentially hindering yields of the
genetically modified crops that farmers are cultivating, a
government scientist said on Friday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked Standard and
Poor’s to hand over a list of people who knew the agency was
going to downgrade U.S. ratings before it was announced to see
if possible insider trading took place.
If you're like me, you don't reach for the medicine bottle
the first time you feel a twinge of pain. We're all aware that
over-the-counter medicines and prescription medicines contain an
element of risk, especially for long-term use. And if you're a
chronic pain patient like I am, you have to assess that risk
even more stringently.
Royal Dutch Shell said an oil leak from a ruptured pipeline
into the North Sea was slowing but refused to say how much oil
has already leaked into the sea.
The oil leak began on Wednesday, on a flow pipeline system
that serves the Shell-operated Gannet Alpha platform in the
North Sea. But UK authorities say that Shell did not report the
leak until Friday and by then more than 200 tonnes of oil had
entered the sea.
Shipments of Internet-enabled consumer electronics devices, a
category including a wide range of products—from televisions to
video game consoles, to Blu-ray players—will surge to 503.6
million units in 2013, up from 161 million in 2010. In
comparison, PC shipments during the same period will amount to
433.7 million, up from 345.4 million.
Outdated power plant cooling systems take a major toll on
fish and other wildlife in the upper Mississippi River,
according to a Sierra Club report released Thursday.
The report refers to the plants' open-cycle cooling systems
as "giant fish blenders" that also spew out heated water harmful
to aquatic habitats.
Wearable electronics generally take the form of clothing
embedded with electronics or miniature electronic devices that
can be worn close to the body for purposes such as medical
monitoring and communications. Now engineers have developed a
device that places electronic components onto an ultra-thin
skin-like patch that can be mounted directly onto the skin...
An alternative energy project off the Sonoma County coast
that local officials just two years ago hailed as a way to
increase renewable energy sources has come to a quiet end.
Experts are warning that the fall stink bug plague is
returning with a vengeance; this time as unwelcome house guests.
They are not known to carry disease but they do bite, cause
massive crop damage, are evasive because they can fly, and when
squashed emit a horrible garbage-like stench.
A new study on the impact of food waste disposal systems
reveals that scraping food waste into an in-sink disposer is a
better environmental choice than landfills for reducing global
warming potential. And choosing the sink over a commercial
composting operation can offer energy-saving advantages.
Kids who get lots of antibiotics from
their doctors are more likely to harbor the MRSA superbug,
although it's still rare, a new study of British youngsters has
found.
While that doesn't prove the drugs are
to blame for the antibiotic-resistant bacterium, it would make
biological sense, researchers say.
Flagstaff officials confirmed on Thursday that the
Flagstaff-based manufacturer of small wind turbines has declined
to take the federal funds out of concerns that the company might
not be able to meet the terms of the complex, multi-year
agreement.
For the first time, we're exposing the hushed-up truth about
a secret, fast-acting compound that could completely redefine
pain relief as we know it.
This new film offers an explanation about why some people
have been having the sensation that "Time is Speeding Up", tying
in Hopi and Mayan Prophecies, indicating that we are on the cusp
of great changes. Some things (especially fixed dates) to be
taken with a grain of salt, but still interesting.
We in the United States are very familiar with energy wars.
Our long-time national energy strategy, as former U.S. Sen. Gary
Hart points out, is to send our children off to kill and be
killed in foreign lands to protect our access to oil.
We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of that tragic
policy. Welcome to the age of the Solar Soldier, where a
photovoltaic cell is as important as an M-16 rifle.
U.S. government support for renewable energy may plunge from
record levels, setting back the use of wind and solar power
before they can compete on their own with oil, gas and coal.
“I don’t think the Fed can forecast two years in advance to
know that this is going to be the right policy for the next 24
months. Back in March they were optimistic about growth and now
we’re five months later and they’re pessimistic,” Siegel tells
CNBC. “I’m worried about that long-run credibility”
Food prices are skyrocketing all across the globe, and
there's no end in sight. The United Nations says food inflation
is currently at 30% a year, and the fast-eroding value of the
dollar is causing food prices to appear even higher (in contrast
to a weakening currency). As the dollar drops in value due to
runaway money printing at the Federal Reserve, the cost to
import foods from other nations looks to double in just the next
two years -- and possibly every two years thereafter.
Forgiveness is growing as a healing tool across all spectra
of faith and medicine. Although Oxford defines it as a pardon,
new researchers are quick to intercede that forgiveness is not a
full dismissal, condoning bad behavior, forgetting, or
necessitates reconciliation.
Whether regarded as a spiritual act or not, the results of
forgiveness are profound and visible.
Stimulus measures carried out by the Obama administration
masked the reality that the economy remains stuck in rut of slow
growth.
The electric wind turbines built 30 years ago, after the
1970s oil-price shocks increased interest in the industry, often
experienced serious problems. Some came apart in bad storms,
some did not work well, even in good weather, and still others
found insects piling up on the blades, slowing power production.
Bird deaths at some early wind farms were alarmingly high.
August 12, 2011
Not only are we willing to commit our own capital to such
well-structured hybrid transactions, we continue to find that
there is a strong core of lenders willing to provide liquidity
to these transactions in broader syndications."
A volcano that has been erupting for several days in Alaska's
Aleutian Islands may be preparing for a more explosive event,
scientists said on Wednesday.
Cleveland Volcano, a 5,676-foot peak located on Chuginadak
Island, about 940 miles southwest of Anchorage, has been in
low-level eruption since the end of July, the Alaska Volcano
Observatory said.
Markets in water rights are likely to evolve as a rising
population leads to shortages and climate change causes drought
and famine.
But they will be based on regional and ethical trading
practices and will differ from the bulk of commodity trade.
We've been fortunate in the water fuel and hydroxy research
community to not have more accidents than we have had.
The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March were
strong enough to send waves to Antarctica that broke a chunk of
ice twice the size of Manhattan off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf
some 8,100 miles (13,000 kilometers) away.
Pumped-storage facilities can enable countries to meet targets
for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and build clean renewable
energy capacity. In addition, these plants can provide many
stabilizing features to the grid, further enhancing their value.
The U.S. Forest Service told a Senate panel Wednesday that
work has already begun on recovery of forestland burned by the
Wallow Fire, ahead of a bill that would require that action.
Chemical makers must do more to prevent careless oversights
that have led to a recent increase in fatal errors, the head of
a key oversight panel said.
The $720 billion chemical industry makes the building blocks
for plastics, electronics, furniture, clothing and dozens of
other popular consumer products.
Two leukemia patients were cancer-free in three weeks after
being treated with genetically engineered versions of their own
immune cells, an early finding that could lead to a new approach
for treating the blood cancer.
Four Republican senators survived
recall votes while two were defeated by Democrats. Turnout was
strong, in some areas as heavy as in the last gubernatorial
race.
Thanks to its HI-5 recycling program, people in Hawaii
recycled more than 686 million containers from July 1, 2010 to
June 30, or about 76% of all beverage containers sold, according
to the Hawaii State Department of Health.
In the past, NOAA scientists were censored and told to change
their research on issues from global warming to endangered
species. While the draft policy would address some of these
problems, it needs to be further strengthened to better protect
those who report the abuse of science, give the public more
information about who is meeting with NOAA officials, and allow
us to hold agency officials accountable if they transgress.
Ford will announce today that it is teaming with an
established solar provider, SunPower, to sell a solar energy
system through Ford dealers in conjunction with the Focus
electric sedan that goes on sale later this year.
Evidence of radiation in the US was highly publicized
following the events in Fukushima, but not very much before.
Could it be that much of the radiation came from our own
sources? After all, America does host some of the world’s most
dangerous nuclear power plants.
So how did Strontium-90 wind up in the bones and flesh of
fish from a Vermont river months before the Fukushima events?
World oil markets now look more comfortable through the end
of this year as a result of the International Energy Agency's
oil stock release and higher crude production from OPEC, a
senior IEA official said on July 21 after the Paris-based agency
said it would not order a second release of oil from strategic
stockpiles.
In his first remarks relating to the oil cartel since taking
office last week, Rostam Ghasemi said Iran played an important
role on the international energy scene because of its large
hydrocarbon reserve base and that its policy within OPEC
centered on fair oil prices and production levels.
It marks a change of tack in a country which has until now
carefully avoided linking its fast growing, and now discredited,
nuclear power industry to its trauma as the only country to have
been attacked with atomic bombs.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) had released its most recent report in 2007. It forecasts
that the
Arctic
Ocean will have an ice-free summer by the year
2100. However, that finding has been contradicted by researchers
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). They say the
Arctic summer will be ice-free several decades earlier, within
many people’s lifetimes.
Economists may debate whether the United States is headed for
another recession, but there is a general consensus about one
thing: if it happens, Recession 2.0 would be worse than the last
and very difficult to escape.
Lakes, streams and wetlands are not isolated ecosystems, and
a Michigan State University professor and her colleagues are
pioneering a new field of research to show just how
interconnected they are to their surroundings.
NASA scientists have discovered new evidence that briny water
flows on Mars during its warmest months, raising chances that
life could exist on the Red Planet, the space agency said on
Thursda
While not delivering a knockout blow, the discovery of
penicillin in 1928 provided a potent weapon in the fight against
a wide range of bacterial infections.
A change in architecture is promising to close the gap
between semiconductor technology and battery technology, which
has traditionally lagged behind semiconductors due to its
dependence on unchangeable chemical reactions.
EPA scientists are using state-of-the-art DNA sequencing
technologies to research fecal bacterial communities that have
the potential to affect the U.S. beef and dairy industry, as
well as future recreational water quality monitoring
criteria..Results of this study show promise for pinpointing and
managing sources of fecal pollution not only in the U.S. but
worldwide.
Chinese citizens could once again enjoy LOL Cats on YouTube -
as well as content critical of the communist government - if a
new system developed by researchers at the University of
Michigan (U-M) and the University of Waterloo (UW) in Canada
were implemented.
The Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident has sparked
an unprecedented public debate on the nation's energy policy,
and prominent figures are weighing in.
New York's natural gas drillers should pay into a fund to
cover any cleanups or accidents, the state comptroller said on
Tuesday, ahead of the state's plan to review drilling
applications next year.
"The river is essential to industry, jobs, and is a magnet
for local residents and development," said Port Authority
president and CEO Will Friedman in a statement. "These grant
dollars help us contribute to river restoration and will promote
jobs, commerce and recreational activities."
OPEC's latest set of annual statistics from its member
countries show two particularly interesting developments.
First, Venezuela last year overtook Saudi Arabia as the
world's biggest holder of proven crude reserves.
Second, Nigeria overtook Iran as OPEC's second biggest exporter
after kingpin Saudi Arabia.
Results of a new study show that poultry raised on farms that
have shifted to organic practices have significantly lower
levels of antibiotic- and multi-drug resistant enterococci
bacteria.
While the term “organic" has a regulatory definition in the
United States, it’s more than just a word for many consumers and
producers—it’s a way of life. It runs the gamut from sustainable
farming and nutrient-dense produce to antibiotic- and
hormone-free goods and minimizing pesticide exposure.
Did you know that China imports most of our fruit juices,
mainly apple? Sometimes juice companies like Mott’s and Nestle’s
Juicy-Juice will have the countries of origin (including China)
stamped or listed on the back of the packages. Even Veryfine
brand claims to be an American classic, using Washington
apples…from China.
Conventional apple juice drinkers have unknowingly consumed
55 parts per billion arsenic levels for years even though the
EPA limits arsenic levels in drinking water at only 10 parts per
billion.
“The way we talk about a place or other entity reflects how
we feel, how we see, how we understand, and most important, how
we think in reference to it,” writes Tewa educator Gregory
Cajete. “Language itself is a reflection of how we organize and
perceive the world,” but it also “conditions the mind toward
particular ends. . . . Until recently, the power of language to
condition thought either toward participation with nature or
away from it has been largely ignored.”
Look, we may not see a Fukushima event here, but that doesn’t
mean we don’t have to worry about a nuclear accident, either.
The United States isn’t merely double-dipping back into
recession, but worse — it's in the early stages of a depression
that will strangle the economy possibly for years to come, says
Robert Prechter, president of Elliott Wave International.
First, the government attempts to take away their right to
engage in commerce and enter private contracts. Then, the
government vandalizes this buying club, steals their cash,
destroys their entire product inventory and steals the computers
from the store. The owners (and conspiring farmers) are arrested
at gunpoint and taken to jail without even being read their
rights. And finally, to top it off, they are slapped with a
gag order which prohibits them having their First Amendment
rights so that they might tell their side of the story.
The ideal new toilet facility for developing countries must
be self-sustained, affordable and without links to water, energy
or sewer lines.
A newly-released report indicates that the global hydropower
market is worth US56.51 billion this year.
x-ray flare, A CME was observed, CME is not expected to be
geoeffective. chance for a C class x-ray event throughout the
period., The geomagnetic field was quiet.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has just approved the
Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, a 550-megawatt (MW) solar power
project to be built in the California desert east of Palm
Springs. The solar-photovoltaic facility will create more than
630 jobs at peak construction and infuse an estimated $336
million into the local
economy.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu named a panel of seven experts
to a Natural Gas Subcommittee to his own Scientific Advisory
Board this spring, and tasked them with making recommendations
to instill public confidence in fracking and shale gas
extraction. Their recommendations will be released Thursday.
Those recommendations will mark the first time a federal
body has looked at fracking's effects on the environment and on
public opinion.
Like many of the president’s policies, this proposal appears
motivated more by electoral politics than sound scientific and
economic considerations. It also ignores the most obvious ways
to increase domestic supply and thus lower prices – allowing
more exploration and development of our own American resources –
in favor of what appears to be a political solution with
questionable effectiveness.
...the smoothing effect when the output from these five wind
sites was averaged.
Congress is on respite.
But the Environmental Protection Agency is on guard. Even before
the contentious debt deal the regulatory body has been on the
defensive and trying to fend off attacks from industry and those
lawmakers who feel the body has gone too far and too fast.
Standard & Poor’s lowered the AAA ratings of thousands of
municipal bonds tied to the federal government, including
housing securities and debt backed by leases, following its Aug.
5 downgrade of the U.S.
Large flat-bed trucks loaded down with bales of straw have
been seen all over the White Mountains for several weeks. Coming
from points in the West and Midwest, the trucks are bringing
mostly wheat straw to the Wallow Fire for a mulching project
that was born out of the ashes of the Rodeo-Chediski Fire.
The markets are in chaos. The U.S. government just lost its
triple A bond rating. And Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is on
the offensive, trying to reassure investors that the U.S. is
still the best place to make safe returns.
For decades, we've been hearing about how important energy
independence is. Whether you subscribe to the peak oil theory,
don't like your dollars going to Middle East nations that
support terrorists, or believe we need to use cleaner, greener
energy technologies ... energy independence solves a multitude
of problems.
The U.S. Army wants you, private investors, to install
large-scale renewable energy projects on its lands to meet a
goal of drawing 25% of electricity from clean sources by 2025.
We've gathered critical data on CSP markets in 2011 and 2012.
Based on information gathered from more than 50 interviews with
industry executives and rigorous analysis, we have the
definitive answers to help you apply the stats to your business.
...thorium, when heated by an external source, itself gives
off considerable heat. Thorium can be used to power a laser to
superheat water into steam, turning minature turbines that
create electricity to drive the car. In fact, according to
researchers, a single gram (1g) of thorium holds the equivalent
energy to 7,500 (!) gallons of gasoline, yet a gram of thorium
costs just 25 cents.
A fight is brewing over whether burning residential trash as
fuel to generate electricity will be considered renewable
energy, which would make the plants eligible for state
subsidies.
Markets are a mess and the future is cloudy, but there is
some value in stocks, he says.
An increase in oil production from unconventional shale plays
will drive total US crude oil production up in both 2011 and
2012, the Energy Information Administration said Tuesday in its
August Short-Term Energy Outlook.
The United States and European Union turned up the heat on
Libya, as fresh fighting erupted Wednesday along rebel lines at
the oil town of Brega and state television showed footage of a
son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, days after rebels reported
him dead.
Standing alongside the peacekeepers are members of an
American-run team of advisers, former military men who play a
little-known but key role in the war against al-Shabab.
Rapidly declining prices over the past two months due to
supply-chain adjustments are setting the stage for increased
demand across multiple segments of solar PV in the US, and
utilities are paving the way, calculates Solarbuzz in a new
report.
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia pressured Yemen's president to stay
in Saudi Arabia after he was released from a lengthy hospital
stay to treat wounds suffered in an assassination attempt,
according to Yemeni officials.
In a letter sent Tuesday, nearly every member of the US
Senate urged President Barack Obama to impose tight sanctions
against the Central Bank of Iran, a move that could potentially
impact Iranian oil exports.
Greece may have to move over. While global investors and
financial regulators have been transfixed in recent months on a
possible European debt crisis, Venezuela, a major oil exporter,
ranks just behind the cradle of Western civilization in terms of
the risk of defaulting on its debt and roiling global financial
markets.
This computer-generated footage produced by Dassault Systeme
simulates how an iceberg can be towed into warmer climates where
fresh water is much in demand.
Walmart Canada today announced it has installed a rooftop
solar power-generating system as well as a wind turbine at two
separate Walmart Canada locations in Ontario. Combined, these
projects represent an investment of approximately $2 million.
"On the surface, energy and water may seem to be separate
entities, but are actually deeply connected," said WEF Executive
Director Jeff Eger. "Municipal water and wastewater treatment
systems are among the most energy-intensive facilities but have
excellent potential to be net energy producers. In fact, it is
through its use of energy that the water sector has its greatest
opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help
mitigate a major source of climate change."
The human race has a problem in its relationship with the
environment. That problem is an intrinsic consequence of running
a technological civilisation on the surface of a planet and it's
one we were destined to face since long before perceiving it.
Now that we do perceive it, and everybody's talking about it, we
should start being more realistic about the historical context
of those discussions.
"Recycling facilities must consistently produce clean,
uniform material to secure long-term contracts at the best
rates," said Denise Gretz, vice president for Waste Management’s
Michigan and Ohio operations. "By operating our own facility, we
can control each stage of the processing cycle and continue to
build on our reputation for quality products."
August 9, 2011
As activists reported intense gunfire, mounting deaths and
mass detentions Monday in Syria, regional leaders stepped up
their criticism of the escalating violence.
The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration
keeps track of the daily changes to the spot prices. Power
Engineering figured out the monthly averages and has the
figures up to August 3, 2011.
A large coalition of public health, environmental, and good
government groups filed a petition (PDF) today demanding that
full health and safety information be made available for all of
the chemicals used in oil and gas development, including the
controversial process known as hydraulic fracturing, or
"fracking." Fracking is when oil and gas companies blast
millions of gallons of water treated with chemicals into the
ground to force oil and gas from hard-to-reach places deep
inside the earth.
General Electric and the University of Wyoming announced
Friday they have suspended plans to build a $100 million joint
clean coal research facility near Cheyenne amid uncertainty in
the nation's energy policy, lower
natural
gas prices and tepid demand for electricity.
The two-year-old U.S. recovery’s staying power may be
diminishing as consumers and the government pare spending, say
five of the nine economists on the academic panel that dates
recessions.
No state in the union was safe from July's blistering heat
wave, according to data from the U.S. National Climatic Data
Center.
Storms are brewing about 93 million miles (150 million
kilometers) away, and if one of them reaches Earth, it could
knock out communications, scramble GPS, and leave thousands
without power for weeks to months.
With newer advances in pesticides and fungicides, these are
blights and diseases we don't have to worry about anymore,
right? Unfortunately, no. We're seeing history repeat itself
this week.
“This decision by S&P is the latest consequence of the
out-of-control spending that has taken place in Washington for
decades." He added that “the spending binge has resulted in
job-destroying economic uncertainty and now threatens to send
destructive ripple effects across our credit markets.”
The Chinese government's official mouthpiece has published a
commentary attacking the United States for its handling of the
debt crisis.
The United States lost its top-tier AAA credit rating from
Standard & Poor's, drawing a blast of criticism on Saturday from
its biggest creditor China and deepening investors' alarm over
the euro zone's debt crisis.
Navajo and other Native people who live beneath the massive
grid that carries power from the Colorado Plateau to distant
cities have long criticized its creation of bad water and
polluted air, particularly because they may not have electricity
or running water themselves.
Creating crops with deeper roots could soak up much more
carbon dioxide from the air, help mankind fight global warming
and lead to more drought-tolerant varieties, a British scientist
says in a study.
Reaching a deal to extend
the debt limit turned into a classic political battle. As the
discussion continues to evolve, it is certain to become a clash
between those who think the older but more proven energy forms
should lead and those who espouse the growth of newer and
cleaner fuels.
Economists and budget experts believe the debt ceiling deal
is little more than a missed opportunity. The experts believe
that by avoiding cuts in entitlements or finding new streams of
revenue the deal failed to address the causes of the debt
problem...
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the
Department of Energy finalized a $967 million loan guarantee to
Agua Caliente Solar, LLC. The loan guarantee will support the
construction of the Agua Caliente Solar project, a 290-megawatt
photovoltaic solar generating facility in Yuma County,
Arizona...
During the debt ceiling debate, a lot of criticism was thrown
at Tea Party members for holding up a compromise. No question
that focusing so much on cutting spending rather than blindly
raising the debt ceiling, as we have done for so many years,
made it harder to raise the ceiling.
Drought worsened in the Midwest during the last week as
record-high temperatures stressed the developing corn and
soybean crops, while cotton and pastures eroded amid a historic
drought in the southern Plains.
Nearly 38 percent of the Midwest was "abnormally dry" as of
August 2, the climatologists said in a weekly report, the most
since December 2008.
Canadian researchers have recently discovered bedbugs
carrying methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
MRSA is a bacterial infection that is highly resistant to some
antibiotics and can be deadly if it reaches the bloodstream.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a national
partnership to protect Americans’ health by improving rural
drinking water and wastewater systems. Nationwide, small water
and sewage treatment facilities with limited funding and
resources face challenges due to rising costs and aging
equipment and pipes.
Wind energy will more than triple its power output by 2020
with 194 billion Euros invested in European onshore and offshore
wind farms in this decade", said Justin Wilkes, Policy Director
of EWEA. "This success is mainly driven by a strong EU
regulatory framework to 2020, which we need also after 2020".
To increase their vehicles' fuel economy, automakers will
have to reduce their weight.
Unlike in Europe, the aftershocks in the United States from
Japan's nuclear disaster caused by the March 11 earthquake are
more likely to be borne by existing nuclear plants than by
proposed new reactors, analysts say.
Libyan rebels in the western town of Zliten are said to be
low on ammunition but their peers are in control of the key
southwest town of Bir Ghanam which the regime claimed to have
retaken.
Price of oil comes down as Wall St. tumbles
No, Theodore Roosevelt hasn't been reincarnated.
But environmentalists playing defense all year against the
House GOP legislative agenda have found a few helpful friends
among a 240-member conference steeped in tea party influence.
This year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is roughly equal
to the land area of the state of New Jersey, scientists said
this week. At 6,765 square miles, this area of low oxygen is the
10th largest on record and is considered about average for the
past five years.
The trove of information was released on Saturday by a group
calling itself AntiSec. The release appears to be a reprisal for
an international crackdown on individuals associated with hacker
activist groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec.
The Texas power grid operator has scrambled this week to meet
soaring electricity demand in the face of a brutal heat wave,
and residents of the second most populous U.S. state are one
power plant shut-down away from rolling blackouts.
The 350 metric tonnes of toxic waste remaining at the former
Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India will be
incinerated by the Ministry of Defence, a senior government
official said Thursday.
Ghasemi's position as oil minister means he will preside over
OPEC meetings this year, because Iran holds the rotating
presidency of the 12-country cartel.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman
Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) launched an investigation Friday into a
series of closed-door meetings between Obama administration
officials and major automakers that resulted in beefed-up
vehicle fuel economy standards.
Evacuation advisories for areas 20 to 30 kilometers from the
damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be lifted
within weeks, according to a recovery timetable released on
Wednesday by the Japanese government. Areas closer than 20 km
will remain off-limits.
Some recruiters say they have all but eliminated their
spending on job boards, which often charge per job posting.
Others have found that although LinkedIn is more comprehensive
as a résumé database, candidates tend to value referrals from
Facebook connections much more, and are also easier to reach on
Facebook since they spend much more time there than on LinkedIn.
Last Friday, NASA's Juno spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas
V-551 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida
beginning its five-year, 1,740 million mile (2,800 million km)
journey to our solar system's largest planet, Jupiter.
Recently, an ancient strain of rice has risen in perceived
value and popularity, as the crop has become more threatened by
development of natural resources, industrialization and genetic
modification.
If using natural gas to garbage trucks is considered a home
run, then using natural gas created by decomposition of trash
and other organic waste could be viewed as a grand slam.
The U.S. may be upset over Standard and Poor's decision to
strip it of its AAA rating but will likely stick with the fiscal
and monetary policies that got the country in trouble in the
first place, says David Malpass, president of Encima Global and
former deputy assistant Treasury secretary in the Reagan
administration.
Duke University is on a roll, showing off yet another
potentially game-changing property of the exotic man-made
substances known as metamaterials. This time the property could
have deep consequences for the transmission of information via
light. Maybe the most important potential use of all.
More extreme weather was expected across the country on
Sunday, as parts of the Midwest and Northeast faced possible
flooding from slow-moving storms while blistering triple-digit
temperatures were expected in coastal Southeastern states.
The U.S. municipal market could prove more resilient than
feared in the face of Standard & Poor's historic downgrade of
the U.S. credit rating, analysts said.
Compressed natural gas-powered travel is no longer the sole
provenance of the socially aware or environmentally challenged.
The Navajo Nation has settled its allegations that a coal
mining company conspired with others to cheat the tribe out of
hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.
The tribe and Peabody Energy announced a settlement Thursday
that stemmed from a 1999 lawsuit the tribe filed in federal
court, but the terms are confidential.
Combining the prospect of low gas prices with the other
factors -- dwindling funds for loan guarantees, a divide between
the viability of merchant versus regulated nuclear new-build --
raises the question: How compelling is the need to build new
reactors?
Hydroelectric power has long been left out of renewable
energy counts, on the assumption that it creates some greenhouse
gas emissions as vegetation caught in damned rivers rots. But
that may be about to change..
Elimelech and Phillip and examine how seawater desalination
technology has advanced over the past 30 years, in what ways the
state-of-the-art technology can be improved, and if seawater
desalination is a sustainable technological solution to global
water shortages.
As long as The State exists, and continues to fund things
through coercive taxation, you and I will be paying for a lot of
things we didn't have any choice about funding. We are forced to
pay for public schools, libraries, museums, and public roads
whether we use them or not.
Heads of a host of federal agencies agreed Thursday to
develop environmental justice strategies that will protect the
health of people living in communities "overburdened" by
pollution.
Pollution from over 50 years of oil operations in the
Ogoniland region of Nigeria is poisoning communities by
contaminating their air, land and drinking water, an in-depth
scientific assessment by the United Nations Environment
Programme reveals.
According to a recent report, the parabolic trough collector
has the highest potential for cost reduction in solar field
plants, after O&M costs. Will innovation in the latest
generation of trough designs place CSP firmly in the global
energy mix?
It´s been baby steps for Philadelphia. But in four years, the
City of Brotherly Love has quadrupled its recycling rate.
The U.S. Postal Service, which predicts a $9 billion loss
this year, may ask Congress to raise its $15 billion debt limit
as a mandatory health-cost payment exhausts its cash, Postmaster
General Patrick Donahoe said
Rare earth materials are becoming increasingly rare as
dominant supplier China tightens restrictions on production,
essentially cutting already short-supply exports by a third.
"Desalination is another promising source of water,
especially for western states, and these programs deserve
federal support," Napolitano said. "If we can continue to
perfect the technologies and bring down the cost of producing
new water from the ocean, we will have a reliable, drought-proof
source of water and a powerful engine for economic growth.
largest x-ray flare of the period,Type II radio emission
(3284 km/s) and a Tenflare (300 sfu), a CME a speed of 1152
km/s. A slight chance for an isolated X flare and/or proton
event Further analysis of the CME observed in STEREO and SOHO
imagery is underway to determine its geoeffective potential.
“The new Republican majority seems intent on restoring the
robber-baron era where there were no controls on pollution from
power plants, oil refineries, and factories.”
US scientists say they have "fundamentally transformed" the
understanding of the genetics of schizophrenia.
In a ruling that proved beneficial for him and other farmers,
the Minnesota Court of Appeals found that encroaching pesticides
are a type of trespassing. He is able to sue for damages after
fighting multiple times to save his crops, destroyed by
neighboring farms and pesticide use.
States across the country are gradually forcing or cajoling
their electric companies into buying renewable energy, but the
trend has fallen flat in the Southeast.
The Obama administration has notified 39 Governors that they
cannot exempt their states from the controversial Secure
Communities Program, a fingerprinting program promoted as a way
to identify and deport dangerous criminals.
At least seven Atlantic hurricanes are expected during this
hurricane season, the national Climate Prediction Center said
today, raising its forecast by one from the pre-season outlook
issued in May.
The US Coast Guard said a portion of the Lower Mississippi
River remains closed Friday following the sinking of a barge
from a towing vessel.
Two publicly traded aircraft manufacturers and the
Inter-American Development Bank will jointly fund a
sustainability analysis of renewable jet fuel sourced from
Brazilian sugar cane.
What´s your stereotype of the "super green" consumer?
Syrian troops fired on mourners at a funeral and raided an
eastern city Sunday, killing at least 59 people in an
intensifying government crackdown on protesters. Outrage was
intensifying as well: Syria's Arab neighbors forcefully joined
the international chorus of condemnation against President
Bashar Assad's regime for the first time.
Even if we accept the Keynesian framework for the sake of
argument, we might wonder about an economy that is so fragile it
won’t survive modest reductions in the rate of increase in
government spending. Even the New York Times sees
what’s going on:
we are in the midst of a debt repudiation cycle which comes
every fifty or sixty years as debt piles up so high that
borrowers stop borrowing and lenders stop lending.
Gas and food prices skyrocketing... Decimated home values,
withering 401(k)s... Massive unemployment, the devaluing
dollar... Unraveling social safety net, confiscatory taxes...
The unrest was sparked by a police shooting, but some blamed
unemployment, insensitive policing and opportunistic looting for
the worst violence the city has seen in years.
Police and politicians insisted the disorder was the work of
a criminal minority and not a sign of social tensions or
security lapses ahead of the 2012 Games.
Shell's plan would allow the company to drill up to four
shallow water exploratory wells off Alaska's northern coast
beginning in July 2012.
While more thermal energy storage options have emerged for
concentrated solar power in recent months, few have made
tangible progress from the test phase to commercial-scale
readiness.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin
has essentially thrown in the towel on efforts to completely
seal the U.S.-Mexican border, saying that would require up to
half a million troops.
The United States was so dependent on foreign oil that by
2008 it imported two-thirds of what the country’s refineries
needed to produce enough gasoline, diesel and the other
petroleum products to meet the country’s needs.
But recently the federal Energy Information Administration
reported that in 2010 imports had fallen far more than many
realized — to 49 percent of the country’s needs.
What happened?
Graphical presentation by Dallas Fed.
Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC) yesterday released the results of its
Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), showing mortgage rates
dropping sharply amid falling bond yields and signs of a weaker
than expected economy. The 30-year fixed averaged 4.39 percent,
its lowest level for 2011. The 15-year fixed and 5-year ARM set
new historical record lows averaging 3.54 percent and 3.18
percent, respectivel
The U.S. had its AAA credit rating downgraded for the first
time by Standard & Poor’s on concern spending cuts agreed on by
lawmakers to raise the nation’s borrowing limit won’t be enough
to reduce record deficits.
The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for
the cost of weather-related disasters and the trend is expected
to worsen as climate change continues, officials and scientists
said on Thursday.
The year was 1940. The moment was one of the darkest in the
history of the English people. More than 300,000 British troops
suddenly found themselves pinned down in northern France. Nazi
forces were bearing down on them. The Brits didn't have enough
ammunition or supplies. At any moment, Hitler's forces would
launch a ferocious attack. ...So the King of England called for
a national day of prayer. That Sunday, an estimated 70 percent
of the British people showed up at churches all over the
country.
The Supreme Court, the court that would hear any appeal, has
long held that products of nature are not patentable subject
matter. A gene, even once removed from the cell, remains a
product of nature. The patentholder did not “invent” the genetic
information it embodies, and we will continue to fight for that
principle.
August 5, 2011
There were few places for money to hide
Thursday as stock prices came hurtling down.
The steepest drop since the meltdown era of
2008 spared no sector in the stock market. Commodities were no
good as a safe haven and even gold and silver, favorites of the
pessimists, sustained losses too.
"On Saturday, we need to stop everything we're doing--stop
working, playing, entertaining ourselves, texting, emailing,
Facebooking, eating--and just spend it with the Lord in prayer
for our country."
In many ways, modern Israel is a
conundrum:
A new photovoltaic energy-conversion system developed at MIT
can be powered solely by heat, generating electricity with no
sunlight at all. While the principle involved is not new, a
novel way of engineering the surface of a material to convert
heat into precisely tuned wavelengths of light selected to match
the wavelengths that photovoltaic cells can best convert to
electricity makes the new system much more efficient than
previous versions. The key to this fine-tuned light emission,
described in the journal Physical Review A, lies in a material
with billions of nanoscale pits etched on its surface
Rich Scheben's journey began in New York and ended in
northwestern Montana, where he now lives off 150 beautiful acres
of land that is almost the embodiment of Eden. Wildlife abounds,
streams and creeks teem with fish, and greenhouses flourish with
vegetables and fruit. He left the hustle and bustle of urban
living in 1986 and has never looked back.
UNSW researchers have shown that they can safely destroy
hazardous industrial toxins in groundwater arising from PVC
plastic production by injecting naturally occurring bacteria
into a contaminated Sydney aquifer – an Australian first that
raises hope of cleaning up this and similarly polluted sites
around the country.
MIT researchers have found a way to improve the energy
density of a type of battery known as lithium-air (or
lithium-oxygen) batteries, producing a device that could
potentially pack several times more energy per pound than the
lithium-ion batteries that now dominate the market for
rechargeable devices in everything from cellphones to cars.
Late Tuesday night, the City Council approved language for
ballot questions that could fundamentally change where and how
the city gets its electricity for decades to come.
Chevron USA Inc. will investigate radium-contaminated soil at
the Mariano Lake Mine site, a former uranium mine located in the
Navajo Nation near Gallup, N.M., the U.S. EPA announced.
Supply-Chain Services Inc. will partner with the Chicago
Department of Environment to sponsor three residential
electronic collection events in the city’s northern communities
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 6.
The United States suffered first negative fallout as a
downgrade in credit rating by a Chinese rating agency on
Wednesday after the U.S. federal government announced the
national debt limit would be raised.
Southern lawmakers prepared to hit the ground running Monday
on a stalled severance bill that hands coal-producing counties a
bigger share of the revenue, with one new wrinkle.
The Oregon E-Cycles program, which collects electronic waste
throughout the state, is doing so at a faster pace in 2011 than
it did in the previous two years of the program, the Oregon
Department of Environmental Quality said.
The governor of Colorado on Tuesday announced a joint program
between the state and the oil and natural gas industry to
collect groundwater samples before and after hydraulic
fracturing operations, to test whether they are harmful to the
environment.
Covanta Energy Corp. will begin destroying collected
prescription drugs at its Tulsa, Okla., waste-to-energy plant
Judging by your keen attention
to the markets this week, we thought you might be interested in
comments on yesterday’s sell-off from John Prestbo, editor and
executive director of Dow Jones Indexes.
A common dream among optimistic Rossi watchers imagines
home-bound eCats leaping from factories to purr warm and cosy
under our stairs – someday soon. A number of Defkalion/Rossi
comments could easily lead us to that conclusion but I’ve never
been convinced we were reading the tealeaves correctly.
All of the latest weekly Niño index values were generally
near average
The majority of the value this year is in consumer electronic
applications, where energy harvesters have been used for some
time. In 2011, 1.6 million energy harvesters will be used in
wireless sensors, resulting in $13.75 million being spent on
those harvesters
Cost-effective, flexible standards rely on operators' ability
to capture and sell natural gas that currently escapes,
threatens air quality
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is
proposing a rule to advance the use of carbon capture and
sequestration (CCS) technologies, while protecting Americans’
health and the environment. CCS technologies allow carbon
dioxide (CO2) to be captured at stationary sources -
like coal-fired power plants and large industrial operations -
and injected underground for long-term storage in a process
called geologic sequestration.
Over the last several decades, thousands of farmers markets
have been popping up in cities and towns across the country,
benefiting local farmers, consumers and economies, but they
could be doing a lot better, according to a report released
today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). What’s holding
farmers markets back? Federal policies that favor industrial
agriculture at their expense.
A bipartisan deal to end a US tax credit for ethanol blending
has collapsed because the provisions of the agreement were not
included in legislation, which passed Congress Tuesday, to raise
the nation's debt ceiling.
Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries
scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon stocks
have been crashing off Canada’s West Coast, according to
documents obtained by Postmedia News.
In our country's spirited debate over energy, innovation and the
economy, perhaps no phrase has been uttered more often than
"green jobs." While the precise meaning of "green job" continues
to be a topic of debate, I would submit that jobs in the algae
industry are indeed at least a little shade of green. Or maybe
blue-green.
With the epic battle over the state budget finally behind
him, Brown's first major policy initiative aims to fulfill the
ambitious goal laid out in his campaign: to develop a
clean-energy economy in California.
I realized that he was only using words he had heard them
used by me and my travel agent husband.
Just like him then, kids today are increasingly using
recession-related vocabulary, reflecting the turbulent
economic climate they live in.
Mark Brownstein, deputy director of the energy program at the
Environmental Defense Fund, urged natural gas producers to
disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, improve
industry standards, and set specific goals to safeguard the
environment in an effort to win back public trust.
A Spanish study has proven that there are substances in
grapes that reduce cell damage and protect skin cells from the
sun’s ultraviolet radiation. This follows a previous study
finding an antioxidant in red wine and grapes that protects from
radiation sickness.
Cyber-warfare sounds like something from a science fiction
novel. It’s not. It’s reality. Cyber-security firm McAfee claims
to have uncovered a cyber-espionage campaign that’s been going
on for five years against more than 70 public and private
organizations in 14 countries.
The solar photovoltaics industry is gaining ground on wind
energy and closing the gap with wind power's previously
"unassailable lead" in renewables investment worldwide,
according to a new study, though other recent analyses indicate
that solar industry is being buffeted by market forces that
leave its immediate future uncertain.
...there is the question of whether the average American
politician even understands the current economic circumstance
well enough to judge right from wrong.
The current watchdog's cozy ties with the industry was widely
seen as a key contributing factor in Japan's failure to prevent
the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years
“These materials also demonstrate the ancient economic,
social and spiritual relationships of peoples all over Turtle
Island, who traded bone, horn, turquoise, metals, stones,
shells, and other items that they used in personal adornment,
among other things.
Forget about the Interior Department. The Obama
administration is increasingly using the Department of Justice
as its major pathway to achieve a lasting legacy in Indian
country by reducing the crime that runs rampant on many
reservations.
A divided US Congress is unlikely to pass broad energy
legislation between now and 2013 as lawmakers struggle to agree
on federal spending bills and focus increasingly on the 2012
election, Representative Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican,
said Wednesday.
Acidification caused by acid rain precipitation has been, and
remains, a major
environmental
issue because of its life-threatening effects
on biota, its global spread, and the prolonged recovery period
associated with it.
Libyan
rebels said on Wednesday they had fought off an attack on
positions around Zlitan, contradicting government claims of
victory in a town insurgents hope will pave the way for an
advance on the capital.
It's not hokum — massage therapy is real medicine without the
shots and pills. Research suggests it can boost immunity, help
sleeplessness, and more. And you don't even need a prescription,
even though some doctors "prescribe" it regularly for
themselves.
Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings affirmed their
AAA credit ratings for the U.S. while warning that the ratings
could be downgraded if lawmakers fail to enact debt reduction
measures and the economy weakens.
Recenty, the pundits were thinking that Ben Bernanke and the
Fed were going to lay down their weapons of mass inflation and
surrender peacefully to the recent barrage of bad economic news.
Facial recognition software, social networking and cloud
computing ... they're all technological advances that alone have
thrown up questions regarding privacy. According to a recent
Carnegie Mellon University study, however, the three
technologies can be combined to learn peoples' identities and
other personal information about them, starting with just a
photograph of their face.
Researchers at the Ningpo, China campus of the University of
Nottingham (UNNC) have created a new heat-regulating material
that could be used to cut the heating and cooling costs of
buildings.
Americans narrowly disapprove of the deficit reduction bill
agreed upon in Washington on Monday, but they disapprove of
Congress’ and President Obama’s handling of the debt ceiling
crisis by a wide margin, according to a Newsmax poll conducted
by InsiderAdvantage.
A new study co-authored by Columbia Engineering professor
Kartik Chandran and recently published in the journal,
Environmental Science & Technology, shows that reducing nitrogen
pollution generated by wastewater treatment plants can come with
"sizable" economic benefits, as well as the expected benefits
for the environment.
The violent collisions that make football so exciting come
with a big price: Every year between 100,000 and 300,000
concussions occur among players, many of them teenage boys. Some
of these victims go on to develop severe mental problems such as
chronic headaches, depression, or dementia.
Five nuclear waste storage sites have been cleaned and three
more are expected to be cleaned through the end of the calendar
year, the U.S. Department of Energy announced.
Pockets of lethal levels of radiation have been detected at
Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a fresh
reminder of the risks faced by workers battling to contain the
worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
New data from polling firm Gallup shows that out of all the
religious groups in the U.S., Muslims are most likely to reject
violence, followed by the non-religious atheists and agnostics.
Just under half of all Arizona mortgages were "under water"
in spring of this year, the second-highest percentage in the
nation, according to a report from a private research firm.
CoreLogic said only Nevada, at 63 percent, had a higher rate
of homes under water at the end of the first fiscal quarter of
2011...
Although we fought hard to make sure language was kept in
that bill “exempting” dietary supplements, the DSHEA Exemption,
(and you sent over 150,000 emails in one weekend!) we were not
holding out much hope that this massive increase in FDA power
would not be used against our freedom of choice… despite the
fact the the law is clear and the statute had specific exemption
language. We were specially worried about language in the Act
that would let FDA ban
interstate commerce in any FOOD that had ever been studied for
medical use.
An MIT doctoral student and a team of researchers have
carried out new experiments supporting a controversial theory
about water's behavior that could help explain some of its
mysteries.
Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels can reverse the
drying effects of predicted higher temperatures on semi-arid
rangelands, according to a study published in the journal
Nature by a team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
and university scientists.
For the past two years, customers of Florida's largest
electric companies have been paying to build new nuclear power
plants that have an escalating price tag and no guarantee of
completion.
After the third hottest year on record since 1936 in the
Arctic last year, ice cover has melted as much as 56 percent
more than average across northern shipping routes, making
navigation in the perilous waters "very easy," it said.
Meat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of turkey
after a government hunt for the source of a salmonella outbreak
that has killed one person in California and sickened dozens
more.
“Instead of helping struggling homeowners who need to sell
and willing home buyers who want to buy, lenders have created
man-made roadblocks that have caused real estate gridlock and
hindered a desperately needed housing recovery.”
The act would exempt hydropower projects generating less than
1.5 MW from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission permitting
rules.
Oppressive heat and record temperatures baked the southern
Central Plains on Wednesday with the mercury soaring to a
blistering 115 degrees in one Arkansas town, breaking a record
set in the 19th century.
A handful of Idaho wind energy developers will have to
negotiate how much they'll be paid for the energy they produce
after state regulators said again that they'll offer special
rates to only the smallest producers.
As the planet has gotten warmer, sea levels have been slowly
rising at an average rate of 1.8 mm per year since 1961. The
higher levels are caused by thermal expansion as well as from
melting land-based ice.
The 31-year-old Handl said he had
tried for months to set up a nuclear reactor at home and kept a
blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small
meltdown on his stove.
Texas set another all-time record for electricity consumption
Tuesday when demand in the blazing afternoon heat peaked at
67,929 megawatts from 4 to 5 p.m.
Depending on who you talk to, a new federal report on nuclear
waste disposal either offers a start at dealing with a growing
problem or merely kicks the can down the road on the
controversial issue of Yucca Mountain.
Over the past few months I've been reading many articles on
recruiting. Some have been geared towards recruiters, others for
job seekers. Throughout many of them, a consistent theme
emerges: unemployed workers are having a terrible time getting
an invitation to interview.
They can look benign from a distance -- solar panels
glistening in the sun or turbines gently churning with the
breeze to produce electricity for hundreds of thousands of
homes. But building and maintaining them can be hazardous.
(Jerusalem, Israel) The nations
are being shaken – physically, spiritually,
emotionally, financially, politically and in so many other ways.
There seems no end to the number of new applications for
plastics. Just this week a man in the UK received an artificial
plastic heart that will hopefully keep him alive long enough to
receive a natural one from a donor with the next few years.
This elegant design does away with many of the moving parts
and circulatory systems of conventional combustion engines that
lower their fuel-use efficiency, typically 15%. Dr. Müller is
obtaining efficiencies of 60% with the wave disc design and of
course the weight of the engine is greatly reduced.
In scenes reminiscent of the Great Depression these are the
ramshackle homes of the desperate and destitute U.S. families
who have set up their own 'Tent City' only an hour from
Manhattan.
They were in and out in 14 minutes -- yet they did about
$10,000 in damages July 27 that crews are still working to
repair.
And the reward for the heist? Maybe $200.
The report, “Thirsty for Answers: Preparing for the
Water-related Impacts of Climate Change in American Cities,”
found that climate change will impact water supplies and
waterways in communities across the country, with geography
often determining the specific effects. For the first time, this
peer-reviewed report has compiled the results of more than 75
scientific studies, data generated by government agencies, and
information gathered by other nonprofit organizations to analyze
how the impacts of climate change on water supplies and
waterways could affect 12 target cities:
The Colorado State University hurricane forecasting team on
Wednesday maintained its 2011 Atlantic hurricane season forecast
at nine hurricanes, with five of them expected to be major.
A new report finds that concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar
systems have distinct environmental advantages as compared with
other energy technologies, in most cases using less land, water
and materials than other solar technologies.
With several studies confirming PV's massive expansion, the
industry would seem poised for major new investments. But other
analyses offer cloudy forecasts for solar PV.
US Customs and Border Protection has cleared 21
foreign-flagged oil tankers to pick up crude from the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
One other
buyer of stockpiled oil awaits a waiver to the Jones Act, a
maritime law that prohibits foreign vessels from shipping cargo
between US ports.
"I would recommend you panic," was the advice of British
hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry on a television debate on the
financial crisis last year. This week the world's investors
could have seen themselves taking his advice. Fortunately, US
politicians finally managed to sign-off on allowing the US debt
ceiling to be raised to everyone's intense relief so Uncle Sam
can keep paying its bills - panic over right? Eh no.
The US Department of Energy plans to make $50 million
available under a new program to help solar-photovoltaic
manufacturing companies expand from pilot-projects to commercial
scale facilities.
Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC) yesterday released the results of its
Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), showing mortgage rates
dropping sharply amid falling bond yields and signs of a weaker
than expected economy. The 30-year fixed averaged 4.39 percent,
its lowest level for 2011. The 15-year fixed and 5-year ARM set
new historical record lows averaging 3.54 percent and 3.18
percent, respectively.
US regulators late Friday issued their 25th deepwater
drilling permit since the Macondo disaster, giving Statoil
permission to drill an exploratory well in the Walker Ridge area
of the Gulf of Mexico.
The committee of bond dealers and investors that advises the
U.S. Treasury said the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve
currency “appears to be slipping” in quarterly feedback
presented to the government.
Yeah, me neither.
Financial guru Robert Wiedemer tells Newsmax that the
American economy is facing a double-barreled threat — a
recession is “absolutely” coming and inflation will be the
“biggest problem” of all.
The U.S. wind industry declined by half last year, but a new
report puts the development slowdown in a different. Yes, 2010
wasn't so great, but the U.S. is still a world leader for the
technology.
Yale undergraduates have discovered organisms in Amazon
Rainforest fungi which can degrade polyurethanes. The discovery,
which is featured in the journal "Applied and Environmental
Microbiology," may lead to innovative ways to reduce waste in
the world´s landfills, the university said in a press release.
August 2, 2011
Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have
acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely
screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it.
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, in association
with the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Arizona
Department of Health Services, has issued a fish consumption
advisory recommending that people not eat certain fish caught
from a 51-mile stretch of Tonto Creek...
We've known since 1911 that aluminum is toxic to the brain, but
until recently, scientists assumed that aluminum was poorly
absorbed in the GI tract and wasn't a significant problem. It
became an issue after it began to be added to antacids in large
amounts.
More than 200 businesses urged a handful of governors Monday to
remain committed to a regional cap-and-trade program even as it
comes under attack from conservative groups.
The great
promise of a car fuel made from cheap, clean-burning prairie
grass or wood chips -- and not from expensive corn that feeds
the world -- is more mirage than reality.
With installed capacity at almost 40,000 megawatts by the end of
2010, PV cells produced enough electricity to power about 13
million households.
Oil companies keep placing their bets on shale-gas. They are not
snubbing petroleum. They are, however, choosing to diversify and
explore for a commodity that they once considered excess and
just burned off.
An independent, government-chartered organization, not the US
Department of Energy, should manage the country's spent fuel
program, according to a draft report ...
A string of recent events indicates that Amazonian deforestation
and violence against environmental activists are on the rise.
For the millions suffering through the recent heat waves
blanketing the United States, geothermal heating and cooling
systems may be of interest. Although such systems are by no
means new, they have experienced tremendous growth recently.
Utilities have been replacing old-school rotary electric
meters with computerized devices since 2008. Nearly all
residents in San Diego and Southwest Riverside County now have
the newer meters. But the meters have run into stiff opposition
in some parts of the state, in part over privacy concerns.
More than 460,000 Arizona units were vacant in 2010, a 61
percent increase over the previous decade, according to the
latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
A federal loan guarantee program for clean energy projects is
winding down in the current fiscal year as three large
conditional commitments were just announced.
More than 500,000 people are employed in "green" jobs in
California, and that number is expected to ramp up in the coming
years, according to a report released last week.
As the capital's debt-limit drama enters its final act today,
the last two solutions standing -- one Democratic, one GOP --
would slash long-term energy and environmental spending to a
degree comparable with the fiscally austere deal struck to avert
a springtime federal shutdown.
When it comes to bouncing back from injuries, dolphins may be
a step ahead of most mammals, including humans.
In fact, the same fatty layer that insulates them also lends
itself to faster recoveries from wounds.
On Friday Afternoon 7/29 Don
made landfall as a Tropical Depression, along the
southern Texas Gulf Coast (near Baffin Bay, between Corpus
Christi and Brownsville). It has now been over 1 year since the
USA has experienced a Tropical Storm landfall and almost 3 years
without a Hurricane landfall.
A historic Texas drought is driving bears into urban areas
searching for food and water, the latest in a series of bizarre
wildlife stories to come out of the deadly hot and dry weather
across the nation.
Energy Northwest has filed a second lawsuit for reimbursement
of its costs to build and operate temporary storage near
Richland for used nuclear power fuel.
The United States was self-sufficient in energy until the
late 1950s when energy consumption began to outpace domestic
production. At that point, the Nation began to import more
energy to meet its needs. In 2009, net imported energy
accounted for 24 percent of all energy consumed.
If the Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, opt for a deal with the Democrats to aim for big
spending cuts, in two phases, but to raise the debt limit so it
is out of the way until after the 2012 elections, how do we make
Obama agree to cuts?
Under hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," water, sand and
chemicals are injected into the ground to gain access to
valuable natural gas reserves.
The practice is
dramatically expanding in the United States, boosting the
natural gas industry while raising new concerns about the
technique’s environmental costs
In July, exceptional drought across the Lower 48 states hit
the highest levels in the history of the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Today, the International Codes Council released the final
version of updated energy codes for homes and businesses. The
widespread adoption of this updated code by local and state
governments, which are 30 percent more effective than the 2006
code, would save American homes and businesses $40 billion
annually in energy costs by 2030
It's a common misconception that preserving your own food is
a complicated, mysterious process that only the truly domestic
can understand. Just say the word "canning" and most people
conjure up images of old women in shapeless housedresses,
huddled over stoves in hot August kitchens.
State utility regulators approved Georgia Power's plans to
buy up to 50 megawatts of solar power -- enough to power about
50 SuperTargets -- by 2015.
A leading atmospheric physicist asserts that global warming,
rather than endangering food production as climate change
alarmists say, will likely increase production instead.
A General Motors Co unit has invested $7.5 million and taken
an undisclosed stake in Sunlogics Inc, helping the solar energy
systems manufacturer to establish plants in Michigan and Canada
and create 310 jobs at the small company.
Ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama and
congressional leaders announced a historic agreement Sunday
night on emergency legislation to avert the nation's first-ever
financial default.
GOP spending legislation for the State Department and foreign
operations announced Tuesday would end U.S. contributions to
multilateral funds designed to help poor nations battle climate
change.
Gov. Jerry Brown has come out against a lawsuit filed by an
environmental group contending that the federal government's
"fast track" approval of a solar energy project already under
construction in northeast San Bernardino County violated several
laws.
Areas of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma were under excessive
heat warnings with heat advisories issued for a large swath of
the central United States, according to the National Weather
Service.
The unrelenting heat in central and eastern states has led to
a slew of "Heat Superlatives" in 2011...
Crisis legislation to yank the nation past the threat of a
historic financial default sped through the House Monday night,
breaking weeks of deadlock.
Two studies offer new motivation for homeowners looking to go
green, but are daunted by the high cost of solar systems: The
units raise the value of houses when they're sold.
A wildfire that burned over 400 square miles of Alaska tundra
in the scorching summer of 2007 poured as much carbon into the
atmosphere as the entire Arctic normally absorbs each year,
according to a new study in the scientific journal Nature.
A growing number of American Electric Power customers in Ohio
are choosing alternative electricity providers, putting a dent
in the company's sales for the second quarter.
In the second quarter of 2011, 77 percent of homeowners who
refinanced their first-lien home mortgage either maintained
about the same loan amount or lowered their principal balance by
paying-in additional money at the closing table. Of these
borrowers, 51 percent maintained about the same loan amount, and
26 percent of refinancing homeowners reduced their principal
balance.
In recent years there has been a huge increase in production
and sales of LNG, with a 23% increase in shipments last year
alone, and LNG now accounting for 31% of global gas trade.
Japan's
nuclear power plant utilization rate fell to an average 33.9
percent in July, the lowest in at least 32 years, Reuters
calculations from trade ministry data showed on Monday, as
public worries over safety kept reactors offline after they had
completed routine maintenance.
The Japanese government is having second thoughts about
adding to its nuclear fleet. But the United States is moving in
the opposite direction and trying to ramp up here.
Japan will strive to avoid a complete shutdown of its 54
nuclear reactors and avert crippling power shortages in the near
term while charting plans to reduce the nation's dependence on
nuclear power, the government said on Friday.
The prohibition of marijuana in the US has led to an
"underground" cannabis industry in Mexico run primarily by
violent gangster cartels like the ones wreaking havoc at the
southern borders of Texas, Arizona, and California.
...their laughter stopped
when I sponsored the National Right to Work Act to free U.S.
workers from forced unionization and break Big Labor's
multi-billion dollar political machine forever.
ind turbines are back to transmitting power without
interference in the Northwest as the Bonneville Power
Administration has ended a 53-day curtailment period aimed at
balancing the grid amid high water flows. But whether that
policy benefited more than economics for BPA is now the subject
of dispute.
Aiken County and other parties filed a petition asking that
same court to compel the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to
consider the license application for the repository.
Hewn from rock, the cavernous cisterns which dot the desert
beyond Bethlehem have for centuries harvested winter rain to
provide shepherds and their flocks with water through summer.
When both of Russell Blaylock's parents died from Parkinson's
disease, this respected neurosurgeon set out to discover the
hidden causes of this devastating neurological disorder, which
now is reaching epidemic proportions. He uncovered
little-known environmental "triggers" that cause brain
inflammation and cognitive decline...
Poor project aggregation and a lack of data standardization
are among the factors keeping the energy efficiency marketplace
from fulfilling its potential, according to a report by the
Environmental Defense Fund.
Powered by earnings from its new power plant in Oak Creek and
this month's heat wave, Wisconsin Energy Corp. posted
better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter and boosted
its earnings outlook for the full year Thursday.
Solar activity is expected to be low to moderate with a
slight chance for a major event for the next three days (02-04
August). Region 1261 is the most likely source for a major
x-ray event and has a slight chance to produce an energetic
proton event. The geomagnetic field has been quiet to
unsettled. the coronal hole high speed stream has subsided
with wind speeds decreasing from 700 km/s to about 550 km/s
during the past 24 hours.
In back-to-back speeches on the Senate floor, Reid (D-Nev.)
called the compact an "historic, bipartisan compromise that ends
this dangerous standoff," while McConnell (R-Ky.) said there was
now a framework in place to "ensure significant cuts in
Washington spending."
A new study shows production continues to be astonishingly
energy-efficient in making biodiesel for diesel vehicles and
home heating, demonstrating its long-term sustainability.
Due to American sanctions, Iran can't collect some $30
billion owed by China for oil delivered by the Islamic Republic
— or $5 billion for oil sent to India.
Schneider Electric took the wraps off of a 1MW dual voltage
solar farm spanning six acres of its manufacturing plant in
Smyrna, Tennessee.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today the
creation of four additional Biomass Crop Assistance Program
(BCAP) project areas in six states to expand the availability of
non-food crops to be used in the manufacturing of liquid
biofuels. The four project areas set aside acres in California,
Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon and Washington for the
production of renewable energy crops.
Many of the sewer systems in New York
State and New Jersey and some in Puerto Rico are combined
systems that overflow during heavy rains. Controlling sewage
that gets washed into local waterways when it rains is critical
to protecting water quality.
Flaring of natural gas from wells is on the upswing in Texas
and North Dakota as oil and gas producers rush to develop new
shale plays, and critics are not happy about it.
The competition, run under the Environmental Protection
Agency’s Energy Star banner, has announced the current leaders
in each of 12 categories, measured as percentage reductions in
energy consumption.
"Smart" inverters for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations
will account for nearly 60% of the market by 2015, compared to
just 20% in 2010, according to a report.
In the wake of numerous pipeline spills and other accidents
in the past months, states are stepping up. Several of them are
injecting themselves into the question of their own ability to
regulate those lines...
A new study finds that people who chew their food more take
in fewer calories, which may help them control their weight
A new study by the Cato Institute confirms that there has
been a direct correlation between a metropolitan area's taxes
and its growth in population and employment over the last 30
years.
Last week, the electrical power grids in the Midwest,
Mid-Atlantic, and Texas shattered records for the highest demand
ever. The culprit, of course, was the heat wave that baked much
of the nation. Detroit suffered rolling blackouts, while Texas
endured controlled brownouts. Surges in demand strained the grid
all over the country to the breaking point, with numerous
small-scale outages.
The grid just can't keep up ... and unfortunately that's just
a taste of things to come.
Big Medicine and their political allies want to make us ALL
more dependent on government and the medical establishment.
Obamacare has only accelerated this process.
A transmission cost allocation blueprint endorsed by federal
regulators is inching closer toward resolution. The implications
for remote renewable energy generation and the ability to
transmit it to load are hard to overstate.
The gridlock in Congress over lifting the government's $14.3
trillion debt ceiling was an embarrassment and showed President
Barack Obama to be an incompetent leader whose only skill is
getting re-elected, says real estate investor Donald Trump.
The assassinations of scientists linked to Iran's nuclear
weapons program have raised the question: Who is killing the
scientists — Israeli agents, the Unnited States, or the Iranians
themselves?
US net petroleum imports climbed to 9.03 million b/d in May
as oil exports dipped to an average 2.642 million b/d from
April's 2.9 million b/d, which was a monthly record, data
released late Thursday by the US Energy Information
Administration shows.
The U.S. government should start using the $25 billion it has
collected for dealing with nuclear waste for its intended use
rather than hoarding it to reduce the deficit, a bipartisan
panel said on Friday.
The Nuclear Waste Fund is currently used to "reduce the
apparent deficit," the report said. It acknowledged that freeing
up the money would be politically difficult.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the
accuracy of natural gas production claims Marcellus Shale
operator have made in financial statements...
Maine's two largest Indian tribes are raising concerns about
a large wind power project proposed for eastern Maine, saying it
may interfere with sacred religious ceremonies dating back
10,000 years.
Wind energy could meet 15.7% of EU electricity demand by 2020
from 230 GW installed and 28.5% by 2030 from 400 GW installed,
European Wind Energy Association scenarios showed Tuesday.
Wind energy currently meets 5.3% of EU consumption from 84.3
GW installed.
The sacred land mapped out by the Oxford researchers is not
necessarily owned by a certain religious community, but rather
contains sacred connotations. They estimate that about fifteen
percent of all land on Earth is "sacred land", and eight percent
of all land is owned by a religious community. Much of the land
held sacred is forest.
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