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Most municipalities and
countries can’t afford to do
flash desalination. It’s
very expensive and very
energy-intensive. Over the
last 20 years, with the
onset of membrane filtration
and reverse osmosis and
these kinds of processes and
innovations, we’ve been able
to make desalination much
more affordable and much
more manageable. The plant
that’s coming online for
Carlsbad is an example of
the latest generation of
desalination technology.
There are a lot of good
reasons to be sure to have
some capsules of activated
charcoal on hand, which can
be found at any health food
store. It is a
well-established antidote to
poisons and toxins, as well
as having properties of
whitening teeth, assisting
with digestive issues and
acne treatment.
Frantic and freezing,
survivors are begging for
food and blankets Tuesday
after a severe earthquake
struck Pakistan and
Afghanistan, killing more
than 360 people in the two
neighboring countries.
The magnitude 7.5 quake
earthquake hit Badakshan
Province in northeastern
Afghanistan Monday, also
rocking a large area of
Pakistan.
She can't predict, but said
fossil fuel diversification
through new technologies and
opportunities is ahead. Coal
will still be needed. NETL
research will develop high
tech-energy resources
through such means as
capturing carbon. Different
technologies will require
slight changes to the
workforce.
There's good news about the
possible thaw of Ohio's
frozen renewable-energy and
energy-efficiency
benchmarks. First,
Republican Gov. John Kasich
remains opposed to
continuing the freeze beyond
its scheduled 2017
expiration. Second, the
General Assembly evidently
won't debate, until next
year, bids to weaken the
benchmarks or extend the
wrongheaded freeze -
ensuring a measured
discussion instead of a rush
to judgment.
It was the world’s most
ambitious social-engineering
project—and one of the most
controversial. But on Oct.
29, after more than three
decades, China finally ended
its one-child family
planning policy, allowing
all Chinese couples to have
two children, according to
the official Xinhua News
Agency.
Duke Energy began delivering
the first truckloads of coal
ash to the storage site in
Moncure Wednesday, according
to a company spokesman, who
added that the number of
daily deliveries is expected
to increase in the coming
weeks.
Several US companies have
sought permission from the
Obama administration to
export crude oil to
European, Asian, African and
Latin American countries,
but have been rejected
because they have failed to
qualify for strict
exemptions to long-standing
crude export restrictions, a
key administration official
said Thursday.
Don’t forget to drink a good
amount of purified water,
get enough sleep, moderately
exercise and reduce
emotional stressors in your
life to help boost immune
response.
Genocide was
happening in real time and
it was probably terrible
news to have to deliver.
Yet, it was only by
delivering this terrible
news that some of the
villagers were able to
survive. Otherwise,
everybody woulda stayed and
not known about the epidemic
until it was too late.
Delivering that
terrible news literally
saved Native people.
There’s a school of thought
in spiritual circles that
ascribes to the idea that
everything that happens in
our lives — the blissful
things, the growth edge
things, the horrid things —
all happens with purpose.
This spiritual teaching
suggests that everything
reflected in our lives is
the result of our conscious
or unconscious desires, and
that when things aren’t
going our way, it’s because
the blueprint of the
subconscious actually
desires the very thing we
think we don’t want...
The European Parliament
on Wednesday rejected a
draft law that would have
allowed member states to ban
the use of EU-approved
genetically modified food
and feed on their territory,
a step welcomed by the GM
industry.
GM crops are extremely
divisive in Europe and a
majority of the 28 European
Union nations has requested
opt-outs from authorizations
to grow GM crops under a
separate law agreed in
March.
Researchers have been adding
seeds to the Svalbard Global
Seed Vault – or Doomsday
Vault – since 2008. Now, for
the first time, they’ve
taken seeds out.
“If we choose to put
immoral people — and they
are on both sides. If we
choose to put immoral people
in, my prediction is we will
not be destroyed,” Beck
said. “We will turn into the
darkest nation ever to grace
the Earth.”
“We are going to be a
very bad nation because of
the things we have at our
disposal,” he added.
Connected to the
electromagnetic head via the
handle is a capacitive touch
sensor attached to an
Arduino Pro Mini board and
solid state relay which,
altogether serves as a
switching device; that is,
when someone touches the
handle, the device switches
on and, in turn, generates a
strong magnetic field.
The House of
Representatives voted
overwhelmingly to renew the
Export-Import Bank’s charter
on Tuesday, but the path for
the trade lender’s ultimate
revival remained unclear in
the Senate, where Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell
opposes it.
The 313-118
vote, which included a
majority of House
Republicans and nearly all
Democrats, aims to put EXIM
back in business offering
new loans and guarantees for
U.S. exports through Sept.
30, 2019 with some reforms.
Evidence that Earth was hit
by two solar storms – 10
times larger than those
observed recently – 1,000
years ago. If they occurred
today, they’d have
devastating effects on power
supplies, satellites and
communications.
Why is it that we can’t
replicate the E-Cat or the
Hot Cat? Are we really such
lousy replicators, or are
there other reasons?
Recently Andrea Rossi
published his first patent
and we found that additional
lithium was missing from
replicators’ recipes. Some
replicators
immediately tested
reactors,with additional
lithium but again with no
positive results. Clearly,
the patent does contain
important ingredients and
information to start a LENR
reaction and without it, it
would not work, but we are
so far still missing
important information.
Perhaps Rossi still keeps
some secrets to himself!
Car hackers rejoice: today
the Library of Congress
approved copyright law
exemptions that will allow
you to modify the software
on your car for purposes of
security research,
maintenance, or repair. The
catch is that the exemptions
don’t take effect for
another year.
Data from NASA's
TIMED mission is
forcing us to
reassess our
knowledge of the
relationship between
the Earth's lower
and upper atmosphere
(Credit: NASA)
NASA has
analyzed 14 years worth
of data collected by its
Thermosphere,
Inonosphere, Mesosphere
Energetics and Dynamics
(TIMED) satellite,
revealing a surprisingly
fast increase in carbon
dioxide levels in the
upper atmosphere. The
stats also reveal that
the gas is more
localized to the
Northern Hemisphere than
predicted by climate
models.
Nearly half of the U.S.
Senate supports a resolution
to challenge the Obama
administration's regulation
cutting carbon emissions
from power plants, the core
of the United States'
broader climate change
strategy, sponsors of the
measure said on Tuesday.
The Congressional Battery
Energy Storage Caucus, led
by Representatives Chris
Collins (R-NY) and Mark
Takano (D-CA), which is
dedicated to expanding the
markets for energy storage
and educating fellow Members
of Congress on how policy
can remove impediments to
greater use of storage
systems, has officially
launched.
Northrop Grumman Corp., shut
out of prime contracts for
U.S. warplanes since the B-2
in the 1980s, won a Pentagon
sweepstakes valued at as
much as $80 billion to build
the Air Force’s Long-Range
Strike Bomber.
Efforts
by El Paso Electric Co. to
create a separate rate class
for solar residential
customers in New Mexico have
been halted.
The New Mexico Public
Regulation Commission, on a
3-2 vote at its weekly
meeting Wednesday in Santa
Fe, approved an order to
deny El Paso Electric from
including solar residential
customers as a separate
class in a proposed rate
increase case the utility
has filed in New Mexico.
Despite the current
environment that is creating
opportunities for
innovation, almost half of
oil and gas executives admit
they have fallen short of
their innovation goals,
according to a new report
from Lloyd's Register
Energy, an integrity,
compliance and specialist
risk consulting services
group.
Yesterday afternoon, the
United States Senate voted
74 to 21 to pass the
Cybersecurity Information
Sharing Act (CISA), which
would allow companies to
share cybersecurity threats
with the Department of
Homeland Security, the FBI
and NSA.
Thirty-seven Republican
senators voted against
protecting the environment
19 different times—every
single opportunity they
had—during last week's
contentious vote to
fast-track approval of the
Keystone XL pipeline. Across
the aisle, 32 Democrats
voted pro-environment 100
percent of the time.
It may seem straight out of
"Star Trek," but it's real:
Scientists have created a
sonic "tractor beam" that
can pull, push and pirouette
objects that levitate in
thin air.
Solar activity is expected
to be low with a chance for
M-class flares on days one,
two, and three (30 Oct, 31
Oct, 01 Nov). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on days one
and two (30 Oct, 31 Oct) and
quiet to unsettled levels on
day three (01 Nov).
Salt is
to blame for widespread
power outages in Hampton
Roads Tuesday and Wednesday,
a Dominion Virginia Power
spokeswoman said.
Nearly 60,000 customers
have lost power since
Tuesday afternoon when salt
on the lines caused
equipment to fail, and in
some cases sparked fires,
according to spokeswoman
Bonita Harris.
The stomachs of a
whopping 90 percent of the
world's seabirds contain
plastic that they have
eaten, and by 2050 the
number could be at 99 or 100
percent, according to recent
findings. And it could kill
them.
Shell's talks with the
Iranian government ahead of
the expected lifting of
international sanctions on
Tehran remain focused on its
$2 billion debt with the oil
and gas-rich country rather
than potential new projects,
its chief executive Ben van
Beurden said Thursday.
The Small and Unimportant
“No matter how small and
unimportant what we are
doing may seem, if we do it
well, it may soon become the
step that will lead us to
better things.” ― Channing
Pollock
Spain's government has
recently approved a new
national law on
self-consumption of energy
that taxes solar
installations
disproportionately. Most
notably, the majority of
self-consumers will be also
taxed for the electricity
they generate and consume in
their premises, via their
own PV systems
A new study carried out by
the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA)
suggests that when the
universe was between two to
four billion years old, the
elements used to create
everything from the largest
star to the human race were
evenly spread across a vast
area of the cosmos. The
study focused on an enormous
structure of galaxies known
as the Virgo Galaxy Cluster,
which sits roughly 54
million light years from
Earth and harbors over 2,000
galaxies.
The former Nightline
anchor is sounding the alarm
about the potential for a
cyberattack against the U.S.
power grid that might leave
the country in darkness
without power as water,
food, fuel and sanitation
fade out.
Koppel explores the
scenario in a full-length
book called "Lights Out"
that makes the threat of
nuclear war look quaint.
Newport Beach-based real
estate firm Irvine Company
recently announced plans,
slated to get underway by
year's end at 20 Pacifica in
Irvine, to have the
batteries installed as
sources of energy storage at
its commercial buildings in
the city.
The Little Things
“Enjoy the little things,
for one day you may look
back and realize they were
the big things.” ― Robert
Brault
As the United States
government careens once more
to gridlock over paying its
bills—past, present, and
future—it might be a good
idea for Indians to pick
themselves up off the floor
and quit laughing. There’s
work to do.
The House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee
introduced a resolution
Tuesday to impeach IRS
Commissioner John Koskinen
over his actions in the tea
party targeting scandal,
including providing false
information to Congress and
the destruction of the
emails of former supervisor
Lois Lerner.
A U.S. appeals court on
Thursday refused to
immediately halt the
government's bulk collection
of millions of Americans'
phone records during a
"transition" period to a new
federal scheme that bans the
controversial anti-terrorism
surveillance.
Gross domestic product grew
at an annualised pace of
1.5% between July and
September, according to the
Department of Commerce, down
from a rate of 3.9% in the
second quarter.
During 1945 to 1980, nitrate
levels in large U.S. rivers
increased up to fivefold in
intensively managed
agricultural areas of the
Midwest, according to a new
U.S. Geological Survey
study. In recent decades,
nitrate changes have been
smaller and levels have
remained high in most of the
rivers studied.
The human mind is a
wonderful masterpiece that
has immense potential. Most
of the potential, however,
remains unused with most
people, since it is not us
who is in charge of things —
it is our mind that is
in control. Our Mind is
rushing through life with us
like a car running without a
driver, causing us constant
suffering and sorrow.
The development of these
mobile treatment sites,
known as nanotechnology
enabled water treatment
systems (NEWT), were
inspired by what director
and principal investigator
Pedro Alvarez saw as a
pressing global need.
“Yale University researchers
said the contamination of
drinking water wells near
Marcellus Shale fracking
sites they studied probably
came from chemical spills
along the surface, rather
than from any failures of
the underground well
casings,” the Wheeling
News Register
Morrisey said that if the
rule is adopted, utility
rates for West Virginians
will be "incredibly
expensive, not to mention
the impact of the loss of
jobs in the coal industry."
He claimed that the legal
precedent for enacting the
Clean Power Plan "simply
does not exist," and said
challenging the regulation
in the appellate court of
the D.C. Circuit will
provide opponents with a way
to challenge the EPA. "We'll
finally get our chance to
fight on the merits of the
proposed regulation," he
said.
The
electrical power grid is
particularly vulnerable to
these extra currents, which
can infiltrate high-voltage
transmission lines, causing
transformers to overheat and
possibly burn out.
Researchers from the United
Kingdom have just made a
major breakthrough in cancer
research by demonstrating
for the first time in
patient-derived colorectal
cell lines that a turmeric
extract (curcumin) is not
only an effective adjunct
agent to enhance
conventional chemotherapy,
but that it may be even more
effective on its own.
American workers are less
prepared for retirement than
they were at the beginning
of the millennium as the
number of companies offering
401(k) plans has declined,
according to a study of
Census data.
China's crude imports from
Russia surpassed those from
Saudi Arabia for the second
time to hit a new monthly
record high of 4.04 million
mt in September amid strong
spot buying.
September arrivals from
Russia jumped 42.3% year on
year and 31% from August,
making the country the top
crude supplier to China for
the month, according to
detailed data from China's
General Administration of
Customs released Friday.
A sequence of events led to
an Earth-directed asymmetric
halo CME on March 15,
2015. The events began with
a 14 degree long filament
eruption, centered near
S24W38, lifting off between
00:45 to 02:00 UTC. This was
followed by C2.4 flare at
00:41 UTC and a long
duration C9.1 at 02:13 UTC,
both from Region 2297.
House Republican leaders
introduced legislation just
before midnight on Monday,
finalizing a two-year budget
agreement between
Congressional leaders and
the White House. The
introduction sets up a vote
as early as Wednesday on the
bipartisan budget deal which
would increase military and
domestic spending and avert
a potentially catastrophic
default in exchange for
long-term spending cuts.
Because our atmosphere
absorbs most of these
dangerous rays, terrestrial
systems are fairly safe from
solar flares. But another
solar event called a
coronal mass ejection (CME)
can cause serious problems
for electrical systems here
on Earth. During a CME, the
fluctuations of the sun's
magnetic fields cause a
large portion of the surface
of the sun to expand
rapidly, ejecting billions
of tons of particles out
into space. Sometimes CMEs
accompany solar flares --
but not all solar flares
produce CMEs and not all
CMEs accompany solar flares.
Most often, the herbs (a
combination of one to 13
different plants) are added
to water and boiled. The
liquid is then separate from
the herbs and drunk as a
water decoction.
The herbs may also be
consumed in powdered form,
spray-dried concentrates,
pill form, or even “honey
pills,” which are “prepared
by combining powdered herbs
with concentrated decoctions
and honey to produce a small
herbal pill.”
Natural gas companies,
which require massive
amounts of water for
fracking, are trying to make
friends in the water sector.
These alliances may hold
benefits for water
customers.
“Some gas companies
working in the Marcellus and
Utica shales are paying to
extend public water lines
into rural areas to provide
the millions of gallons
needed for hydraulic
fracturing, or fracking, of
their wells, and in some
cases building treatment
plants as well,..
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power
(KHNP) is embarking on a
massive clean energy project
that can power as many as
71,500 Korean homes using
fuel cells...
"We've developed the
largest urban fuel cell site
in Korea and the largest
PAFC (phosphoric acid fuel
cell) generation project in
the world, reinforcing the
fact that fuel cells are the
premier clean energy
alternative in large
cities."
Gratitude
“Gratitude can transform
common days into
thanksgivings, turn routine
jobs into joy, and change
ordinary opportunities into
blessings.” ― William Arthur
Ward
Hang-in There
“The longer you hang in
there, the greater the
chance that something will
happen in your favor. No
matter how hard it seems,
the longer you persist, the
more likely your success.” ―
Jack Canfield
Is it plug-and-play, or does
it require a highly-trained
electrician to install? Is
there a period of
"conditioning"? Does it
power all appliances? What
about the appliances (e.g.
CFLs) that it doesn't power?
Will these factors be
intimidating? Do you know of
any reports of successful
installations?
Major, uncontrolled blood
loss can have major
ramifications everywhere
from the battlefield to the
operating theatre. While
blood-clotting medications
can be used to stem the
flow, often their purpose is
thwarted by conflicting
anti-coagulating drugs that
thin the blood instead. But
now scientists have
developed a promising new
hydrogel infused with snake
venom that is drawn to the
wound and shuts down
bleeding in a matter of
seconds.
US nuclear plant operators
are likely to announce the
permanent closure of
additional reactors in the
coming months for economic
reasons, Nuclear Energy
Institute President and CEO
Marvin Fertel said Monday.
The Sun and moon's
disruptive presence appears
to have kicked WT1190F onto
a path that will lead the
piece of space debris to
self-destruct in the Earth's
atmosphere.
Opponents of President
Barack Obama’s health care
overhaul are taking yet
another challenge to the law
to the Supreme Court, and
say they will be back with
more if this one fails.
A new appeal being filed
Monday by the Pacific Legal
Foundation contends the law
violates the provision of
the Constitution that
requires tax-raising bills
to originate in the House of
Representatives.
Pacific Legal Foundation
lawyer Timothy Sandefur said
the problem with the law is
just one example of how
“Obamacare is so
unconstitutional in so many
ways.”
OPEC members Iran and Saudi
Arabia, the top greenhouse
gas emitters yet to submit
national strategies for
tackling climate change, say
they will do so before a
U.N. summit in December in a
sign of widening
participation even by oil
producers.
You can call it the
fertilization cessation, and
scientists say it has had a
disruptive effect on
ecosystems around the world.
A study unveiled on
Monday showed that the
extinction or precipitous
population declines of large
land and sea mammals
starting at the end of the
last Ice Age and continuing
through today has deprived
ecosystems of a vital source
of fertilization in their
dung, urine and, after
death, decomposing bodies.
“Right now, the Fed pays
banks a quarter point on the
money they deposit at the
Fed, of which there is more
than $2.5 trillion sitting
idle. If the Fed eliminated
that payment, or more
aggressively, charged banks
to hold their money, the
banks would withdraw it
immediately in order not to
lose money on their cash
holdings and, hopefully find
better things to do with it,
like making more loans,”
Insana explained. In
extreme circumstances, the
Fed could do the same to
consumers, forcing them to
spend rather than save,
thereby juicing the economy,
Insana warned.
Previous estimates of
methane leakage in shale gas
production have been
"seriously over-estimated,"
according to a report
released Monday by British
free-market policy think
tank the Centre for Policy
Studies.
Methane, the
main component of natural
gas, has a high greenhouse
potential, and opponents
argue that even if one or
two percent of the gas
leaks, the advantage of
natural gas over coal would
be negated, it said.
Solar flare radiation plays
havoc on human behavior,
along with the power grids,
communication systems, and
navigation satellites.
Researchers have found
correlations between mood
swings, depression and
suicides when solar flare
radiation is present.
Solar flares hit Earth on
Tuesday, but few noticed.
The solar storm or sunspot
activity have made the
Northern Lights effect
possible, as previously
noted by the Inquisitr.
While many around the nation
are debating the Blood Moon
prophecy and the best
vantage points to watch the
expected eclipse on Friday,
others are more keenly
focused on the vulnerability
of the power grid.
NOAH recorded the
geomagnetic shock of the
Tuesday solar storm at a
level 4 – the storm scale
tops out at level 5. The
solar flares stemming from
the active and massive
sunspots hit earth about 15
hours earlier than expected.
Scientists have only been
able to view, track, and
understand solar flares for
about the last 20 years.
America barely dodged a
direct hit by a solar flare
in 2012. All modern
amenities would have ceased
to exist for at least weeks
or months due to the solar
flare, according to
University of Colorado
Laboratory of Atmospheric
and Space Physics Director
Dr. Daniel Baker.
Daniel T'seleie, an
indigenous activist in
Canada's far north, is
campaigning to help his
people wean themselves from
a worrying dependence on
imported fuel and food,
recover old traditions and
win greater autonomy from
the government.
Solar flares produce high
energy particles and
radiation that are dangerous
to living organisms.
However, at the surface of
the Earth we are well
protected from the effects
of solar flares and other
solar activity by the
Earth's magnetic field and
atmosphere. The most
dangerous emissions from
flares are energetic charged
particles (primarily
high-energy protons) and
electromagnetic radiation
(primarily x-rays).
According to the
research, most of the
184,000 global deaths are
from people who die of
diabetes due to the
consumption of“sugar-sweetened
beverages”(SSBs).
Another 45,000 die
globally from cardiovascular
diseases caused by sugary
drink consumption, and 6,450
people die from cancers
linked to sugar-laden
beverages.
There is mounting evidence
that the human race is
evolving towards becoming
more compassionate and
collaborative since our
survival counts on these
things. In fact, the reasons
given by a growing group of
psychologists as to why we
humans are as successful at
surviving and thriving as we
are, is because of our
nurturing, altruistic, and
compassionate traits. ..
Humankind is the largely
unwitting victim of a
frequency war on our
consciousness that has been
waged for decades, if not
millennia. The goal has
clearly been to keep us as
gullible and subservient as
possible, through
multifarious means.
The Mind
“The mind is a powerful
force. It can enslave us or
empower us. It can plunge us
into the depths of misery or
take us to the heights of
ecstasy. Learn to use the
power wisely.” ― David
Cuschieri
In order for Saudi Arabia
to break even, they must
charge approximately $106
per barrel of oil. Currently
the price of oil is around
$45 per barrel. This
certainly is not good for
Saudi Arabia’s future
economy.
“Snoopy can figure out where
you live, where you work,
where you’ve traveled to …
If you’re not using SSL or
you’re using a bad app that
doesn’t encrypt traffic,
then we can start pulling up
cookies and usernames and
passwords,” he added.
Solar maximum is years past,
yet the sun has been
remarkably active lately. Is
the sunspot cycle broken? ..
"It's hard to be sure what's
normal and what's not,"
notes Hathaway. "Astronomers
have been observing x-rays
from the sun for only 35
years--or three solar
cycles. We can't draw good
statistical conclusions from
so few data."
The use of fractional
banking by private bankers,
although morally
questionable, was a boon to
society because it allowed
and facilitated the loaning
of money. This, as a matter
of course, fueled
development of our modern
industrialized society.
However, every blessing has
a downside and as things
are, the downside to private
fractional banking is
significant and far
reaching. How terrible and
far reaching it is, is a
well-kept secret by the
banking industry. As a
result, very few people
understand how fractional
banking really works or how
deplorable the downside to
its use is.
Toxic algae blooms
sometimes have ambitious
travel itineraries,
migrating through states and
into previously unaffected
water districts. The upshot
is that utility operators
who have never faced the
toxic problem will need to
be prepared for this
possibility.
Plant operators are
urging cities to pay close
attention to toxic algae
blooms after a massive
growth hit the Ohio River
and snaked its way
downstream. The toxic algae
outbreak travelled over 600
miles, through four states.
An oil price of $80/b would
be "ideal" as the global
economy moves towards higher
growth, the UAE's minister
of Economy, Sultan
al-Mansouri said Sunday as
his government approved a
lower federal budget for
2016.
Anticipating a
pickup in the global economy
in the second half of 2016,
Mansouri told journalists in
Abu Dhabi the world could
not afford to let oil stay
at the current level of
around $50/b.
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency will
formally issue carbon
regulations for power plants
on Friday, opening the door
to a wave of lawsuits from
states and industry groups.
The U.S. Navy is preparing
to sail a warship near
artificial islands built by
China in the South China Sea
in a long-anticipated
challenge to what it
considers Beijing’s
“excessive claim” of
sovereignty in those waters,
two U.S. officials said
Monday.
Studies that link
Genetically Modified (GM)
food to multiple human
health ailments are not the
only thing that has millions
of people questioning the
production of GM food. There
is fact that previously
classified secret government
documents exist which
show how the Bush
administration developed
ways to retaliate against
countries that were refusing
to use GM seeds, for
example. If
information about our food
needs to be concealed from
the public domain, then
something has gone seriously
wrong with the food
industry. It’s great to have
an organization like
WikiLeaks shed some light
into the world that’s been
hidden from us for so many
years.
Roman Catholic leaders
from around the world made
an unprecedented joint
appeal on Monday to a
forthcoming U.N. conference
on climate change to produce
"a truly transformational"
agreement to stem global
warming.
The Catholic cardinals,
patriarchs and bishops
signed the appeal in the
Vatican, saying climate
change had to address social
justice and that any
agreement must be fair and
ensure the poor and most
vulnerable were not sold
short.
For many years now, a lot of
people have been talking
about “The Shift,” this
mysterious transformation of
human consciousness that is
supposedly underway. Ever
since the end of the Mayan
calendar in December of
2102, New Age types tend to
twitter away about the
evolution of the species,
the revolution of love, and
other hopeful but fuzzy
seeming changes in what it
means to be human. I want to
take a minute to help us all
ground this floaty notion a
bit.
50 ppm gasoil barges hit a
seven-month low Wednesday,
as logistical issues on
German waterways that have
plagued the Northwest
European barge market for
months coupled with
uninspiring end-user demand
weakened the market further.
After all standard
treatment options had
proved ineffective, Hibbitt
turned to cannabis oil as a
last resort, and to date has
been cancer free since
January.
Energy is a major concern in
rural Alaska. Households in
many regions spend over 20
percent of their annual
income on heat and
electricity. In some
communities, more than half
of average household income
goes toward home heat and
electricity. Although many
of these homes consume very
little electricity, electric
rates and fuel costs are
high, and the cold climate
means that lots of energy is
required to heat even
energy-efficient homes.
It was a day of cultural
pride, stirring speeches and
partnerships for positive
social change.
The 48th celebration of
California Native American
Day brought nearly 70 tribal
leaders and hundreds of
participants to the capitol
in Sacramento on September
25. The event showcased
cultural traditions and
highlighted challenges
tribes are facing, including
water rights protection,
veterans’ needs and efforts
to ban racist mascots in
schools.
Chuck Norris is frustrated
over the health risks caused
by the world’s most popular
weedkiller....
While some countries
scrambled to ban Monsanto’s
herbicide shortly after the
announcement, nations like
the United States did
nothing to prevent the
further use and spread of
the incredibly toxic
concoction.
World leaders gathering in
Paris in December for the
21st annual UN Climate
Conference, COP21, are
expected to sign a
legally-binding
international agreement to
limit global warming to no
more than 2 degrees Celsius
above pre-industrial levels.
The coal ash will be
delivered to lined
structural landfills, two of
which are in Central
Carolina. Brooks said the
Brickhaven Mine in Moncure
is slated to begin receiving
shipments of coal ash as
early as next week, but the
Colon Mine site in Lee
County is not as far along
in the development process
and might not be operational
until 2017.
Tibet's exiled leaders,
including the Dalai Lama,
said on Tuesday two-thirds
of the glaciers in their
mountain homeland may
disappear by 2050 because of
climate change and demanded
a stake in international
climate talks later this
year.
The Tibetan plateau,
which has the largest store
of ice outside the North and
South Pole, has experienced
rising temperatures of 1.3
Celsius over the past five
decades, three times the
global average, the
leadership said in a
statement.
The world’s multi-lateral
development banks have
pledged to boost climate
finance by committing a
total of US$100 billion a
year by 2020 to help
developing countries
mitigate and adapt to
Earth’s warming climate.
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA)
Clean Power Plan (CPP) could
result in the retirement of
at least 4,000 MW of
coal-fired generation
capacity in the ERCOT
region, as early as 2022,
according to an updated
analysis of the impacts of
the CPP by the Electric
Reliability Council of Texas
(ERCOT).
The study, to be published
in Water Resources Research
on October 20, demonstrates
that fractures in
surrounding rock produced by
the hydraulic fracturing
process are able to connect
to preexisting, abandoned
oil and gas wells, common in
fracking areas, which can
provide a pathway to the
surface for methane.
The U.S. needs to be more
aggressive in putting
critical energy
infrastructure out of reach
of cyberattacks, a top
official of the government's
Idaho National Laboratory
warned lawmakers.
For decades, the items sat
hidden by shadows and
foliage. Then a recent hike
through a forest outside the
former Stutthof Nazi
concentration camp in Poland
revealed the disturbing
sight: previously unknown
artifacts, including
hundreds of pairs of shoes,
belts, and strips of
prisoner uniforms, up to a
foot deep, spread across
hundreds of square yards
Hydraulic fracturing can
cause nearby abandoned oil
wells to leak methane,
according to a study
published on Tuesday in the
peer-reviewed Water
Resources Research journal,
marking a potentially large
source of unrecorded
greenhouse gas emissions.
***
“The only way to have a
friend is to be one.” ―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
King's College London (KCL)
researchers have identified
a gene that regulates nerve
function, and could be
switched off as part of a
new Parkinson's treatment.
The breakthrough was made by
studying the disease in
fruit flies, and
significantly furthers our
understanding of the
degenerative condition.
The Hawaii Public Utilities
Commission (PUC) recently
issued a ruling ending net
energy metering (NEM) for
all new solar customers in
the state. Now, new
customers will have a choice
to make between two new
tariffs: a "grid-supply"
option and a "self-supply"
option. ..Neither is as
favorable to solar PV as the
net energy metering tariffs
of today.
Drug makers hid a
significant amount of
negative data on flu
drug Tamiflu from the
public
The Cochrane
Collaboration put in a
four-year effort,
including a Freedom of
Information suit, to
uncover the hidden
documents (all 160,000+
pages of them)
The uncovered evidence
does not support claims
that Tamiflu lowers the
risk of flu
complications
The benefits of Tamiflu
do not appear to
outweigh the risks or
justify governments
stockpiling the drug
More than 167,000 hectares
of coastland -- about 0.6%
of the country's total area
-- are projected to go
underwater in the
Philippines, especially in
low-lying island
communities, according to
research by the University
of the Philippines.
The nuclear deal will be
rendered void if any future
sanctions are imposed on
Iran by any country, or
under any pretext --
including "human rights" and
"alleged support of
terrorism," according to the
letter.
The letter lists a series of
nine key conditions before
saying, "The motion passed
by the National Security
Council ... adhering to the
points mentioned, is
approved."
Yes, 59 percent of
respondents think science
and religion are "often in
conflict," while 38 percent
find them "mostly
compatible."
But scratch the surface,
and that conflict dissolves.
When asked how science
clashes with their own
beliefs, most Americans say
it's not a problem: just 30
percent say their personal
faith conflicts with
science.
In the
nationwide survey of 1,015
adults, conducted by
telephone from Oct. 7 to
Oct. 11, 58 percent of
respondents backed legal
marijuana use.
The findings maintained
the upward trend of support
for legalization documented
over the past half century.
Only 12 percent favored
legalization in 1969, Gallup
said.
The
Republican
leader got
unanimous
consent
Thursday to
schedule a
vote on
final
passage of
the
Cybersecurity
Information
Sharing Act
(CISA) for
Tuesday
afternoon.
But even with
McConnell's maneuvering,
the legislation still
has hurdles to overcome
before senators can take
a final vote on the
legislation.
The researchers compared
data on fish movements
obtained from pop-up
satellite tags affixed to
the highly migratory fish
alongside maps of the heat
stored in the upper ocean.
“Using an advanced
optimization algorithm and
OHC maps, we developed a
method to greatly improve
geolocation accuracy and
refine fish movement tracks
derived from satellite
tags,..
Off Grid Electric conducts
door-to-door sales through a
team that travels to rural
parts of East Africa. The
product includes more than
just solar; also providing
customers with efficient
appliances such LED lights,
radio and TVs.
Oklahoma earthquakes may
have been related to oil
production activities as
early as the 1930s, a study
released this week by the
U.S. Geological Survey said.
Oklahoma has seen a surge
in seismic activity in
recent years and is
recording 2.5 earthquakes
daily of a magnitude 3 or
greater, a rate 600 times
greater than observed before
2008, the Oklahoma
Geological Survey said in
April.
Climate change is a reality
and more people believe it
now than just six months
ago. That is according to an
energy poll from the
University of Texas at
Austin.
Pain
“You will never ever be
successful, until you turn
your pain into greatness,
until you allow your pain to
push you from where you are
to push you to where you
need to be. Stop running
from your pain and embrace
your pain. Your pain is
going to be a part of your
prize, a part of your
product. I challenge you to
push yourself.” ― Eric
Thomas
"After talking with so many
of you, and hearing your
words of encouragement, I
believe we are ready to move
forward as a one, united
team," Ryan said in a letter
to colleagues. "And I am
ready and eager to be our
speaker."
Tucson Electric Power (TEP)
has completed construction
of a new 500-kilovolt (kV)
transmission line in Pinal
County that will strengthen
service reliability for
customers in Southern
Arizona -- but the work does
not end there...
The line is expected to be
energized in November --
once a $61 million expansion
of the Tortolita Substation
is complete.
A placebo is an inert
substance that has no
effect on your body. In
medical research,
placebos are used as
controls against which
the effects of drugs are
measured
In US trials, people’s
response to placebos has
gotten significantly
stronger over time,
which is making it more
difficult to develop new
painkillers
Previous research has
noted that the placebo
response appears to be
increasing in trials
involving
antidepressants and
antipsychotics. Here,
the placebo effect is
rising across the world
Battles over the placement
of power lines are an
emerging problem for the
U.S. clean energy industry,
which casts itself as a
friend of the environment
but suddenly finds itself
vilified by landowners.
Vladimir Putin used a rare
visit to Moscow by Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad to
talk up the Kremlin's
potential to help broker a
political settlement to the
crisis as he tried to show
the West Russia has become a
major player in the Middle
East.
C4 event observed.
Solar activity is expected
to be low with a chance for
M-class flares on days one,
two, and three (23 Oct, 24
Oct, 25 Oct). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on day one (23 Oct),
quiet to minor storm levels
on day two (24 Oct) and
unsettled to minor storm
levels on day three (25
Oct).
A Russian military unit
will be permanently
stationed in the Arctic by
2018, the defense minister
said on Thursday.
Sergei Shoigu told
Russian news agencies on
Thursday that the "creation
and arming" of the Arctic
military unit should be
completed by 2018. Shoigu
also said Russia is building
several new bases in the
Arctic as well as rebuilding
six Soviet-era air bases
there.
Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, a
compounding-drug firm, said
it would begin selling its
own version of the generic
drug pyrimethamine, which
Turing was marketing under
the name Daraprim. Shkreli
was roundly criticized last
month after his company
raised the price for the
drug from $13.50 a pill to
$750 a pill after acquiring
the patent.
October 13th is National No
Bra Day, a day when women
are encouraged to NOT wear
their bra. Perhaps those who
invented the day, in order
to promote breast cancer
awareness and help raise
money for research, knew
they could better
attract attention by asking
women to ditch their
brassiere. But, who knew
that not wearing a bra could
actually be better for our
breasts?
New
industrial scale solar
arrays in California are
displacing natural
scrublands along with
pastures and farms, says a
new analysis of big solar
power plants.
The study released Monday
by the Carnegie Institution
of Science relies on an
exhaustive database of
existing and pending solar
sites, and found that less
than 15 percent were located
on land already disrupted by
human development.
The Alliance for Solar
Choice LLP has filed suit in
Hawaii state court against
Gov. David Ige and the state
Public Utilities Commission,
challenging the state
agency's decision to curtail
a solar incentive program
that credits residents for
the excess energy their
solar systems send to the
grid.
The
city's first community solar
garden is expected to be
completed by this time next
year.
The St. Cloud City
Council approved Monday
rezoning a 37-acre tract of
land northeast of the
wastewater treatment plant
from a planned industrial
district to a planned unit
development.
The
Tennessee Valley Authority,
which has cut the premiums
it pays for small-scale
solar power in each of the
past four years, could again
trim what it pays customers
who generate electricity
from the sun next year based
upon a new assessment of the
value of solar power.
TVA on Tuesday released a
32-page analysis of solar
power and distributed energy
that concludes that the
overall value of solar power
is 40 percent less than what
TVA has been paying some
solar producers.
***
“The only limits to the
possibilities in your life
tomorrow are the buts you
use today.” ― Les Brown
The United States is leading
a shift away from using coal
among leading industrialized
democracies, with Japan the
main laggard in policies
that will help to combat
climate change, according to
a study on Wednesday.
The virtual event will offer
students the unique
opportunity to meet U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator Gina
McCarthy, be transported to
EPA headquarters in
Washington, D.C., and engage
in a virtual discussion on
how energy use affects the
planet's climate.
The Department of the
Interior along with
Assistant Secretary-Indian
Affairs Kevin K. Washburn
continues to make tribal
sovereignty and
self-determination something
all federally recognized
tribes can obtain.
Federal regulators have
approved an operating
license for TVA's Watts Bar
Unit 2, allowing the first
new American nuclear plant
to begin operation in nearly
two decades.
US railroads originated
95,822 coal carloads during
the week that ended
Saturday, down 2.9% from the
prior week and 13.4% from
the year-ago week, the
Association of American
Railroads said Wednesday.
With coal stockpiles
growing at US utilities
largely because of low
natural gas prices, coal
demand has declined. The
weekly total was the lowest
since the week that ended
July 11, and marked the 17th
week this year that coal
carloads have dipped below
100,000. Weekly coal
carloads never dipped below
100,000 in 2014.
Year-to-date US coal carload
originations total nearly
4.2 million, down 9.4%
compared with the same
period a year ago.
There is a seismic shift
taking place in U.S. and
world energy markets. The
promise of affordable, clean
wind power is no longer a
distant dream. It's a
reality customers are
demanding, and we are
delivering, today. There are
a number of key drivers –
the environment, climate
change, energy security,
technology and energy
policies. But most important
is price. The real cost of
wind energy has dropped 58
percent in the last five
years.
Smart grid technology,
solar PV, evolving policy
and the ever-increasing
expectations of customers
have given rise to what are
known as energy "prosumers,"
a mashup of producer and
consumer.
These consumers seek to
participate actively in the
energy market. They're
wielding their growing
ability to control or shift
their usage, or to produce
(and even sell) their own
power, in order to save
money and help the
environment.
Actress Candice Cameron Bure
was unabashed in her
impassioned defense of the
right of Americans to
voluntarily pray in public
on Monday’s edition of “The
View.” Her point of view
stood in stark contrast to
that of co-host
Raven-Symone, whose body
language alone made that
much clear.
A Greatful Heart
“A grateful heart is a
beginning of greatness. It
is an expression of
humility. It is a foundation
for the development of such
virtues as prayer, faith,
courage, contentment,
happiness, love, and
well-being.” ― James E.
Faust
Treasury Secretary Jacob J.
Lew tried to increase
pressure on lawmakers to
raise the nation's debt
limit before a Nov. 3
deadline, warning that he
feared an accidental federal
government default if they
wait too long.
NASA says 2015 TB145 is the
biggest known asteroid to
sweep near Earth until 2027.
It’ll pass at 1.3 times the
moon’s distance and be
visible through telescopes!
“See, Bernie, you always say
that, and I think even the
Republicans are not for
income inequality,” Maher
argued. “They hear that but
it doesn’t compute that
that’s going to be solved by
socialism. Socialism is the
programs they already like.
They like social security.
That’s socialism. They like
Medicare, they like the
[Department of Veteran
Affairs], they like the
military. It’s already a
socialist country.”
A federal court dealt a
major blow to the
government’s water policy
ambitions last week by
ordering the agency to halt
implementation of a
controversial new
regulation, the centerpiece
of its clean water efforts
during the Obama
administration.
Diesel fumes may be reducing
the availability of almost
half the most common flower
odours that bees use to find
their food, new research has
found.
The new
findings suggest that toxic
nitrous oxide (NOx) in
diesel exhausts could be
having an even greater
effect on bees’ ability to
smell out flowers than was
previously thought.
There are as many reasons to
stay put in a worst case
scenario as there are to
leave one’s comfort and home
environment. This can be
grouped into several
categories, each having a
pro and con for both bugging
in and bugging out, as well
as to the nature of the
disaster of whether it is of
a natural type or a man-made
type of disaster.
Researchers discovered that
ants infected with a deadly
fungus will ingest a
naturally occurring — albeit
pro-oxidative — molecule
known as hydrogen peroxide
when offered in combination
with honey, presumably in
order to medicate
themselves:
Effective immediately,
utilities will be required
to put in place a plan to
control "fugitive" dust, or
ash that blows away while
it's being transported or
stored and could end up in
streams. Within 30 days,
those dust-control plans
must be posted online so
they are available for
review by the public.
Mosaic Fertilizer, one
of the world’s largest
phosphate mining and
fertilizer companies,
agreed to a $2-billion
settlement with the US
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
The EPA accused Mosaic
of improper storage and
disposal of waste from
the production of
phosphoric and sulfuric
acids, key components of
fertilizers
Fluorosilicic acid,
another hazardous waste
product of the
fertilizer industry, is
sold to US
municipalities to be
added to drinking water
for the purposes of
water fluoridation
A former Massey executive
testified Thursday that he
felt constant pressure from
his boss, former Massey
Energy CEO Don Blankenship,
to produce coal, even if
that meant disregarding
safety standards.
Friend
“The only way to have a
friend is to be one.” ―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first study to
investigate the effects of
neonicotinoid insecticides
on honey bee queens finds
that these chemicals may
contribute to bee colony
mortality by affecting queen
health. It strengthens calls
for more thorough
environmental risk
assessments of these widely
used pesticides to protect
bees.
Humility
“Humility is the true key to
success. Successful people
lose their way at times.
They often embrace and
overindulge from the fruits
of success. Humility halts
this arrogance and
self-indulging trap. Humble
people share the credit and
wealth, remaining focused
and hungry to continue the
journey of success.” ― Rick
Pitino
The United States
approved conditional
sanctions waivers for Iran
on Sunday, though it
cautioned they would not
take effect until Tehran has
curbed its nuclear program
as required under a historic
nuclear deal reached in
Vienna on July 14.
"Today marks an
important milestone toward
preventing Iran from
obtaining a nuclear weapon
and ensuring its nuclear
program is exclusively
peaceful going forward,"
U.S. President Barack Obama
said in a White House
statement.
"Today, reports on
statements made by a
Department of Homeland
Security official who cited
ISIS as the sources of
ongoing attempts to attack
the U.S. electricity grid
are disturbing. According to
officials ISIS is engaging
in pen testing of our
nation's electric utility
grid with little success. No
solace should be taken in
the fact that ISIS has been
unsuccessful. ISIS need only
be successful once to have
catastrophic impact on
regional electricity supply.
Dr. Diane Harper was a
leading expert responsible
for the Phase II and Phase
III safety and effectiveness
studies which secured the
approval of the human
papilloma virus (HPV)
vaccines, Gardasil™ and
Cervarix™. Dr. Harper also
authored many of the
published, scholarly papers
about the vaccines. She is
now the latest in a long
string of experts who are
pressing the red alert
button on the devastating
consequences and irrelevancy
of these vaccines.
The internationally
recognized parliament will
not sign the agreement to
form a unity government
because the U.N. refused to
exclude amendments added by
the Islamist authorities
without its consent,
government spokesman Farraj
Abu Hashem told The
Associated Press.
“It is believed that this
reopening may have been as a
result from the heavy rains
in the area,” USA Today
reported, citing the fire
department.
Sinkholes are correlated
with groundwater pumping.
“If pumping results in a
lowering of groundwater
levels, then underground
structural failure, and
thus, sinkholes, can occur,”
the U.S. Geological Survey
explains
Effective treatment for
autism is desperately
needed, but the medical
establishment has been
largely unsuccessful. This
is why parents of autistic
children, such as Kerri
Rivera, often have no choice
but to take matters into
their own hands when
learning to cope with
raising an autistic child.
To share her amazing
discoveries in treating
autism with the world she
wrote the book Healing
the Symptoms Known as Autism,
which explains the treatment
protocol she developed.
Crude oil fell about 4
percent on Monday after a
tumble in gasoline futures
added pressure to a market
slumping on slower growth in
China and signs that Iranian
oil will return to the
market soon following
implementation of its
nuclear deal.
A stronger
dollar and softer equity
markets on Wall Street added
weight to the petroleum
complex, traders said.
C3 event observed.
Solar Activity Forecast:
Solar activity is expected
to be low with a chance for
M-class flares on days one,
two, and three (20 Oct, 21
Oct, 22 Oct).
Geophysical Activity
Forecast: The geomagnetic
field is expected to be at
mostly quiet levels on day
one (20 Oct), quiet to
active levels on day two (21
Oct) and quiet to unsettled
levels on day three (22
Oct).
The Worst Thing
“The worst thing that
happens to you may be the
best thing for you if you
don't let it get the best of
you.” ― Will Rogers
One of the strongest
selling points for
eating organic food is
the fact that doing so
can significantly lower
your exposure to
pesticides and other
harmful chemicals used
in conventional
agriculture
Both the International
Federation of Gynecology
and Obstetrics and a US
Endocrine Society task
force warn that
pesticides pose a major
threat to human health,
and should be avoided by
everyone
Recent studies confirm
that eating an organic
diet can significantly
reduce your toxic load
Toyota Motor Corp
(7203.T) set what it called
an ambitious target to sell
30,000 fuel-cell vehicles a
year by the end of the
decade under a plan to cut
carbon emissions nearly to
zero by 2050.
Toyota, which is betting
heavily on fuel-cell
technology as carmakers rush
to develop environmentally
friendly vehicles,..
I know how difficult it can
be to trust something you
cannot see, and maybe even
something that has
disappointed you or let you
down in the past. This idea
of trust was foreign to me
as well, for much of my
life.
Three months ago when an
earthquake rattled Mickey
Hart's office, the Crescent,
Oklahoma public school
superintendent didn't know
what to do...
While common in California
and other states where
quakes are frequent, such
drills are still relatively
new in the central United
States. But they are gaining
in popularity as earthquake
activity surges in both
frequency and intensity.
Personal injury law firms
around the United States are
lining up plaintiffs for
what they say could be "mass
tort" actions against
agrichemical giant Monsanto
Co that claim the company's
Roundup herbicide has caused
cancer in farm workers and
others exposed to the
chemical.
Much of the U.S. South
can expect a cooler and
wetter winter, while warmer
than usual temperatures are
likely across many northern
and western states, as a
strong El Niño weather
pattern shaped a government
weather outlook issued on
Thursday.
More rain and snow are
likely across the nation's
southern regions, extending
from central California to
Texas and Florida and up the
East Coast to southern New
England, according to the
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA).
One of Europe's biggest
glaciers, the Great Aletsch,
coils 23 km (14 miles)
through the Swiss Alps - and
yet this mighty river of ice
could almost vanish in the
lifetimes of people born
today because of climate
change.
The glacier, 900 meters
(2,950 feet) thick at one
point, has retreated about 3
km (1.9 miles) since 1870
and that pace is quickening,
as with many other glaciers
around the globe.
That is feeding more
water into the oceans and
raising world sea levels.
The week-on-week decline
comes as US utility
stockpiles remain relatively
strong compared with 2014.
Bentek Energy last week
estimated US coal stockpiles
at 154 million st, up more
than 20% from last year.
Bentek is a unit of Platts.
The discovery of a hidden
chemistry classroom at the
University of Virginia sheds
light on the shift from
religion to science as a
central principle of
education at US
universities.
Microsoft has issued a
"critical" patch for every
supported version of
Windows.
The software giant said
in its monthly security
bulletin as part of its
so-called Patch Tuesday that
Windows Vista and later,
including Windows 10,
require patching from a
serious remote code
execution flaw in Internet
Explorer.
A couple of years ago, a
ten year old Ohio Amish girl
was being treated for
non-Hodgkin lymphoma at
Akron Children’s Hospital.
After the first round, she
was extremely ill and begged
her parents to stop the
“treatment”.
The parents prayed for
guidance then decided they
should withdraw their
daughter from that hospital
and receive a second opinion
for treatment. That request
alone has led to medical
kidnapping of minors
throughout the nation,
probably because second
opinion is code in their
minds for alternative
natural cancer treatments.
The Kyushu Electric Power
Company reactivated its No.
2 reactor at the Sendai
nuclear power plant in
southwestern Japan on
Thursday morning, making it
the second reactor to come
online under the country's
stricter safety standards
introduced after the March
2011 Fukushima nuclear
accident, Jiji Press has
reported.
Citing “sources” who
recently attended a dinner
with Bill Clinton, author Ed
Klein said the former
president thinks Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-Fla.) poses the
biggest 2016 threat to
Hillary.
“The easiest thing to be in
the world is you. The most
difficult thing to be is
what other people want you
to be. Don't let them put
you in that position.” ― Leo
Buscaglia
Levelized cost of
electricity analysis for H2
2015 shows onshore wind to
be fully competitive against
gas and coal in some parts
of the world, while solar is
closing the gap.
Texas rancher Ken Aderholt
said he emerged frustrated
from a Tuesday night Bureau
of Land Management meeting
in Fort Worth — full of many
of the same unanswered
questions and growing
concerns about the land
that’s been in his family
for over 70 years.
“Humility is the true key to
success. Successful people
lose their way at times.
They often embrace and
overindulge from the fruits
of success. Humility halts
this arrogance and
self-indulging trap. Humble
people share the credit and
wealth, remaining focused
and hungry to continue the
journey of success.” ― Rick
Pitino
Iran's parliament passed a
bill on Tuesday supporting a
nuclear deal with world
powers, signaling a victory
for the government over
conservative opponents of
the agreement and clearing
the way for it to be
implemented.
What did we learn from
the Democratic presidential
debates? We learned that
Hillary Clinton hates Edward
Snowden, loves the Patriot
Act, and considers “the
Iranians” among her biggest
enemies. In short, we
learned that she may very
well be Lindsey Graham in
drag.
And we also learned what
many already knew: that she
considers herself above the
law. What we didn’t know,
however, but do now, is that
Bernie Sanders agrees with
her. Or, as he put it:
The former
professional wrestler,
Minnesota governor and host
of the “Conspiracy Theories”
TV program appeared Tuesday
night for a panel discussion
“The Nightly Show” to
discuss the presidential
race.
Host Larry Wilmore said
the dynamics of the race
suggested voters were
attracted to “unlikely
candidates” like Donald
Trump and Bernie Sanders —
each of whom Ventura said
had a real shot at winning.
As California significantly
expands its renewable energy
goals and clean-energy
storage capacity,
investor-owned utility
Southern California Edison
(SCE) has joined the charge
to accelerate breakthrough
energy storage technologies.
The landmark case, which
held firearm retailers
responsible for disregarding
the potential harm of their
sales, is only the second of
its kind nationwide — and
the first to rule against
the gun store.
Assistant Attorney General
John Carlin, head of the
department's national
security division, said that
while the international
terror threat occupies the
public attention, federal
officials remain just as
concerned about the prospect
of violence from Americans
motivated by anti-government
views and racist ideologies.
By the end of 2016, New
Mexico will be producing
another 165 megawatts of
solar electricity from three
large-scale generating
facilities scheduled to come
online near Roswell and
Deming.
"We're proud to be
recognized as a national
leader in the area of power
electronics research and
security," said Alan
Mantooth , Distinguished
Professor of electrical
engineering. "The impact of
this work is tremendous. All
too frequently we are
hearing of how foreign
entities are hacking into
U.S. computer systems. This
center's mission is directly
focused on protecting
America's electric energy
delivery system, and we are
pleased to have a great team
with which to approach these
challenges.
The
owner of the Bay State's
only nuclear power plant
blamed state energy policies
for creating impossible
economic conditions as it
announced it would shut down
the Plymouth plant within
four years, eliminating a
huge chunk of the state's
capacity to generate clean
energy.
"When you have other
folks making decisions on
renewables, on preference
power from Canada, on
subsidization of gas
pipelines ... you are
basically picking winners
and losers," said Bill Mohl,
..
An independent analysis
conducted by ICF
International (ICF), a
leading energy industry
research firm, estimates
that emissions of the potent
greenhouse gas methane from
the Canadian oil and gas
sector can be reduced by 45
per cent below projected
2020 levels, all while using
existing technologies.
C3 event observed.
Solar Activity Forecast:
Solar activity is expected
to be low with a chance for
M-class flares on days one,
two, and three (16 Oct, 17
Oct, 18 Oct). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
minor storm levels on day
one (16 Oct) and quiet to
active levels on days two
and three (17 Oct, 18 Oct).
“The marvelous richness of
human experience would lose
something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations
to overcome. The hilltop
hour would not be half so
wonderful if there were no
dark valleys to traverse.” ―
Helen Keller
Powered by 16 solar
panels and about 200 pounds
of batteries, the craft can
easily reach the maximum
canal speed of five miles
per hour, he said. He is
using both lithium batteries
(40 pounds) and lead
batteries (160 pounds) to
see which are better, and is
leaning toward lithium.
"The boat has no fuel
cost, makes no noise, and
emits no smells," he said.
He built the prototype out
of his own pocket, and with
some donated parts, like the
solar panels themselves and
the steel bow of a derelict
sailboat.
A state Public Service
Commission hearing last week
made it clear that there is
still strong resistance from
utilities about integrating
electricity produced by
rooftop solar panels into
the power grid.
While the black-and-white
image might look like
abstract art, it’s actually
what British researchers
used to study why some
people might experience
hallucinations.
Fragile? The Earth has
withstood massive tectonic
shifts, volcanoes, even
meteor strikes that have
decimated whole ecosystems
full of life. Yet, it has
always recovered all on it’s
own, without the meager help
of self-righteous humans. I
believe we should be good
stewards of our world, just
not the A-retentive version
the humanity haters wish us
to be.
Most so-called portable air
conditioners stretch the
definition of "portable,"
but the Evapolar isn't one
of them. In a form factor
about the same size and
weight as a small toaster,
the unit packs an
evaporative cooling system
to cool and humidify the
air, while an evaporative
nanomaterial based on basalt
fibers that was developed
for the Russian military
helps purify the air.
Turkey has
warned the United States and
Russia it will not tolerate
Kurdish territorial gains by
Kurdish militia close to its
frontiers in north-western
Syria, two senior officials
said.
"This is clear cut for us
and there is no joking about
it," one official said of
the possibility of Syrian
Kurdish militia crossing the
Euphrates to extend control
along Turkish borders from
Iraq's Kurdistan region
towards the Mediterranean
coast.
Nestle Waters pipes water
out of the San Bernardino
National Forest using a
permit that lists an
expiration date of 1988.
Three advocacy groups are
suing the
U.S. Forest Service,
accusing the agency of
breaking federal laws by
allowing Nestle — the
largest bottled water
company in the nation — to
pipe water out of a national
forest for 27 years without
reviewing or renewing its
permit.
In 2011, global population
reached 7 billion mark.
Today – October 12, 2015 –
it stands at more than 7.3
billion, according to United
Nations estimates. ..
And, of course, human
population is still growing.
Driven by growth in
developing countries,
population is expected to
reach 8.5 billion by 2030.
It should reach around 9.7
billion in 2050, with India
expected to become the
largest country in
population size, surpassing
China around 2022, while
Nigeria could surpass the
United States by 2050
Like many things — the food
industry, the
medical-pharmaceutical
establishment, the
mainstream media — the
hidden corporate/bankers
who control our
governments have also
standardized the education
system through funding.
“In 1492, the natives
discovered they were
Indians, discovered they
lived in America, discovered
they were naked, discovered
that the Sin existed,
discovered they owed
allegiance to a King and
Kingdom from another world
and a God from another sky,
and that this God had
invented the guilty and the
dress, and had sent to be
burnt alive who worships the
Sun the Moon the Earth and
the Rain that wets it.”
~ Eduardo Galeano
According to a report by
the International
Federation of Gynecology
and Obstetrics, chemical
exposures from
pesticides, air
pollutants, and plastic
chemicals represent a
major threat to human
health and reproduction
An Endocrine Society
task force has issued a
scientific statement on
endocrine-disrupting
chemicals, noting that
everyone needs to take
proactive steps to avoid
them
Phthalates can be
absorbed transdermally,
through your skin, via
ambient air. Phthalates
in vinyl flooring can
make pregnant women more
susceptible to high
blood pressure and heart
disease
China has raised its solar
power installation target
for 2015 by 30 percent from
its previous goal, state
media reported, potentially
adding to overcapacity as
insufficient grid capacity
remains a hurdle for the new
plants to deliver power.
Colorado has been a leader
in clean technology in
recent years, ranking fifth
in the nation in Clean
Edge's Clean Tech Leadership
Index from 2010 through 2013
edition.
German prompt power posted
strong gains for a second
session Wednesday as lower
wind infeed forecasts
combined with ongoing
reductions in nuclear
capacity, pushing prices to
a high not seen since late
July.
“The retired share of the
population has increased
more than we expected,”
Goldman economists Jan
Hatzius and David Mericle
said in an Oct. 10 report
obtained by Newsmax Finance.
“There has been an increase
in the share of prime-age
workers who report that they
do not want jobs.”
Jig’s up, America.
Christopher Columbus was a
genocidal madman. America’s
first and original
terrorist. And as our global
consciousness and awareness
of humanity expands, it is
time we give up defending
Christopher Columbus as
anything but otherwise.
While the conservative
coalition has just roughly
40 votes of the 218 needed
to elect a new House
speaker, it’s enough to
merit serious influence over
the vital decision.
Irritations
“Everything that irritates
us about others can lead us
to a better understanding of
ourselves.” ― Carl Jung
Iraq
said on Sunday its air force
had hit the meeting and had
also struck a convoy that
was carrying Baghdadi to
attend it. It said Baghdadi
had been driven away from
the convoy in an unknown
condition.The Iraqi
military's announcement was
the latest unconfirmed
report of the possible death
or injury of Baghdadi, who
has survived a year of
U.S.-led air strikes and
multi-sided wars in two
countries since proclaiming
himself caliph of all
Muslims after his forces
swept through most of
northern Iraq last year.
The state of Michigan has
for years turned to coal for
about half of its power
generation, according to the
U.S. Energy Information
Administration. Now, more
than two dozen of the
state’s coal plants are
slated for retirement in the
next five years.
Tax incentives for clean
energy have been on again,
off again for years.
Currently, they are off
again, but industry groups
are making sure the
legislation that provides
the extension of expired
and/or expiring tax
incentives for clean energy
technology remain at the
fore and moves in a positive
direction.
If anyone needs a
confirmation of this
energetic change we’re
experiencing as well as
expecting more of,
scientists have just
confirmed it. This is big
news and should be an
encouragement to many that
what we’ve been sensing
does indeed have a
confirmed, identifiable
physical counterpart
The US government has
directed all public and
private schools to
publish vaccination and
personal belief vaccine
exemption rates
The US Centers for
Disease Control (CDC)
has created a website
dedicated to
incentivizing all states
to use electronic
medical records and
vaccine tracking systems
to publish school
vaccination and personal
belief vaccine exemption
rates
Health officials in
California have gone one
step further: they also
“rate” schools from
“safest” to “most
vulnerable” using a
color-coded rating
system
If schools are going to
publish vaccine
exemption rates, they
should also publish
other personal health
care information, like
the percentage of
chronically ill students
on medication for
asthma, diabetes, ADHD,
epilepsy, anxiety,
bipolar disorder, and
depression
Roughly one in every four
fish sold for human
consumption in certain
California and Indonesian
markets contain plastic
fragments or textile fibers
in their guts, an
international team of
scientists has found.
Quality
“Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to
an environment where
excellence is expected.” ―
Steve Jobs
According to a new national
poll of U.S. homeowners,
Americans overwhelmingly
support extended renewable
energy incentives and a
majority rank solar as the
most important future energy
source -- across a range of
demographics and political
affiliations.
C3 event observed.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (13 Oct,
14 Oct, 15 Oct). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (13
Oct), unsettled to active
levels on day two (14 Oct)
and unsettled to minor storm
levels on day three (15
Oct).
From the Northern
Plains to the Southwestern
deserts, American Indian
groups are working to
correct historic falsehoods
and demanding
acknowledgement of what the
“discovery” of this
continent meant to and for
Indigenous Peoples.
The consiglieres serving the
electric utility industry
have been busier than ever
these past few years for all
of the well-known reasons:
the unrelenting blows of
competitors raining down on
the business model.
A Washington state court has
ordered a man who redirected
a river to pay restitution
of $50 a month into an
environmental fund, the
state's top lawyer said on
Monday...
Cayo used an excavator and
bulldozer to fill the river
channel near his home and
redirect the river, Ferguson
said, adding that, in all,
Cayo filled and graded
nearly 1.5 acres (0.6
hectares) of riverbed.
Energy is one of the biggest
household expenses for
American consumers, with
even broader implications on
the national economy and
environment, as demonstrated
by a new report by
WalletHub, which measures
the efficiency of car and
home energy consumption in
48 states.
In fact, an estimated $520
billion initial investment
on energy-efficiency
measures could save the
economy more than $1.2
trillion in the future and
potentially reduce annual
greenhouse gas emissions by
1.1 gigatons...
Governments took a step
towards greener economic
growth in 2014 but will need
to do far more to limit
rising temperatures to a
United Nations goal of two
degrees Celsius (3.6
Fahrenheit), a study by
accountancy firm PwC said on
Monday...
"The 2014 numbers suggest
a turning point" towards
making growth less dependent
on fossil fuels, said PwC, a
network of firms in 157
countries in assurance,
advisory and tax services.
Visitors to the Japanese
Gardens above the City of
Los Angeles’ Donald C.
Tillman Water Reclamation
Plant (DCT Water Reclamation
Plant) become more tranquil
as they stroll along the
walkways. DCT is one of the
few examples of a City whose
engineers have innovatively
combined technology with
serenity. With over eight
years of consistently low
maintenance operation of the
four Headworks MS1 Bar
Screens, DCT operators also
have the good fortune to
work in a peaceful setting.
The report, 'Africa 2030 - a
comprehensive roadmap for
Africa's energy transition'
reveals that a combination
of modern renewable
technology could feasibly
meet 22 per cent of Africa's
energy needs by 2030 - more
than a four-fold increase
from just five per cent in
2013
A 2002 federal program that
delivers fresh fruits and
vegetables to the country’s
poorest schools is now at
risk because of crony
capitalism. Lobbyists from
the frozen, fried, canned,
and dried food industries
are all jostling to have
their products included in
the government program, and
their efforts are paying
off. Reps. Bruce Poliquin
(R-ME) and Kurt Schrader
(D-OR) have recently
introduced legislation that
would broaden the Fresh
Fruit and Vegetable Program
to include frozen, canned,
dried, and pureed fruits and
vegetables.
The Conservative
leadership once advocated
powering 21st-century
Britain with a green
industrial revolution based
on the smart,
internet-linked,
decentralised technologies
being invested in by Silicon
Valley, China, and others.
Now, unified in majority
government, they seem intent
on the reverse: exploiting
shale gas, building new
nuclear facilities, and
actively undermining
clean-energy competition. It
is the new Labour leader who
offers the vision of a
renewable-powered UK economy
today, one maximally
efficient and optimally
wired, allowing avoidance of
both shale and new nuclear.
California Governor Jerry
Brown made clean energy
history with his signing of
Senate Bill 350 (SB 350),
the Clean Energy and
Pollution Reduction Act of
2015 authored by Senate
President pro Tempore Kevin
de León -- one of the
strongest renewable power
mandates in the country.
California's oversight of
wells where oil companies
dispose of wastewater
brought to the surface is
hindered by inadequate
staffing and poorly
organized paper records, a
state review of the program
said Thursday.
In a report to the state
legislature, California's
Department of Conservation
(DOC) found that wastewater
injection wells also suffer
from inconsistent
permitting, monitoring and
enforcement of their
construction and operation,
among other problems.
In a milestone for reducing
pollution and fossil fuel
use, Gov. Jerry Brown will
sign into law Wednesday a
bill that requires 50
percent of California's
electricity to come from
renewable sources like solar
and wind by 2030.
Across the U.S., local
zoning officials are making
it increasingly difficult
for people to go off the
grid, in some instances
threatening people with jail
time for collecting
rainwater or not hooking
into local utilities.
As zoning laws have
increasingly targeted the
off-grid lifestyle, many
have moved to the
Southwestern U.S. as an
escape from overzealous
zoning officials.
Nong Yousui from Dahua,
China has eyes that reflect
neon green when light is
shined on them. Doctors have
studied Nong’s amazing
eyesight since his dad took
him to hospital concerned
over his bright blue eyes.
“They told me he would grow
out of it and that his eyes
would stop glowing and turn
black like most Chinese
people but they never did”,
his Dad said
Coca-Cola has given $120
million to health
researchers, public
health organizations,
and other institutions
over the past five years
Research studies funded
by the beverage and
sugar industries are
five times more likely
to conclude there's "no
link" between sugary
beverages and weight
gain
Coca-Cola also funded a
front group to promote
the message that a lack
of exercise – not what
you’re eating and
drinking – is driving
obesity rates up,
despite evidence to the
contrary
After being profiled by
Idaho’s Gem County Sheriff’s
Office as potentially
dangerous
“constitutionalists” and
assaulted by deputies in a
guns-drawn, SWAT-style raid,
Michael and Marcela Cruz
have finally found peace and
security from
government-inflicted abuse –
but they had to leave the
“Land of the Free” to do it.
In the past few years
more professionals have come
forward to share a truth
that, for many people,
proves difficult to swallow.
One such authority is Dr.
Richard Horton, the current
editor-in-chief of the
Lancet – considered to be
one of the most well
respected peer-reviewed
medical journals in the
world.
Dr. Horton recently
published a statement
declaring that a lot of
published research is in
fact unreliable at best, if
not completely false.
In Denmark, for example,
more than half the total
power generation will come
from renewables like wind
and solar by 2020,
GlobalData predicts, as
Denmark aims for renewables
to become its main source of
power by 2030. The
government's target is 35
percent of the total supply
from renewables by 2020.
The company, called
Sourcewater, is looking to
facilitate the water needs
of the oil and gas industry
and in significant ways, it
manages to circumvent
traditional water delivery
systems.
Few people doubt, at
least publicly, that Hawaii
will be able to fulfill Gov.
David Ige's vision to rely
entirely on renewable power
generation sources by 2045.
At the same time, few
people know exactly how the
utilities that serve the
islands will accomplish that
tall order, or how many
millions of dollars it might
cost them and their
ratepayers.
If you’re an American,
you probably store eggs in
the refrigerator – and
wouldn’t think of doing it
any other way. Yet, the US
is one of the only countries
where chicken eggs are kept
refrigerated.
In much of Europe, for
instance, eggs are often
stored right on the counter,
at room temperature.
But then, US eggs would
be illegal in Europe due to
an egg-washing process that
may actually make them more
susceptible to contamination
with bacteria like
Salmonella.
A Minnesota green energy
entrepreneur has been in
jail since Friday all
because of a wind turbine
that once stood on his
property.
Jay Nygard, founder of Go
Green Energy, built the
29-foot-high turbine, which
has been likened to a giant
eggbeater, on his Orono,
Minn., property in 2010
despite being denied a
permit. Nygard and his
lawyer, who argue that
having a 1.5-kilowatt
turbine is a right -- rather
than a fixture subject to
zoning laws -- spent a year
fighting to keep it in
place.
“I challenge Hillary, take
away your Secret Service.
Take it away now! Take away
your Secret Service! Dismiss
them. Have no security
around you. Have no guns
around you, Hillary. I dare
you! I dare you,” the
Internet-news mogul said.
“Obama, same thing. Drop
your guns Obama. Take your
Secret Service away, Obama.
Take it all away. Leave the
White House unguarded,
Obama. Let everyone know
there are no guns on the
White House grounds Obama!”
Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on
Wednesday banned further
negotiations between Iran
and the United States,
putting the brakes on
moderates' hopes of ending
Iran's isolation after
reaching a nuclear deal with
world powers in July.
Khamenei, the highest
authority in the Islamic
Republic, said last month
there would be no more talks
with the United States after
the nuclear deal but had not
declared a ban.
A study, published in the
journal of Obesity Research
and Clinical Practice, found
that even if you ate the
same amount of calories and
exercised the same amount as
someone in 1988, it’s harder
to lose weight today than it
was back then.
His withdrawal rattled
fellow lawmakers,
particularly allies in
leadership. But addressing
reporters afterward,
McCarthy said he thinks the
party needs a "fresh
face."
Like the nation's electric
grid, the U.S. water grid is
aging and struggling to deal
with operating costs and
comply with regulatory
issues...
The curse side is pretty
clear, but the blessing?
While the industry does face
many challenges, respondents
clearly see technical
innovation as the big
opportunity for the sector,
paired with water management
and conservation. Technical
innovation presents a major
investment opportunity for
the water industry -- and is
also the main competitive
driver.
NASA scientists have used a
combination of satellite
data and ground-based
cameras to study pulsating
auroras, which appear as
flickering patches of bright
light in the night sky. The
research gave rise to an
unexpected discovery, with
the data revealing that
secondary electrons may play
a bigger part in the
occurrences than was
previously thought.
NATO's secretary-general on
Tuesday rejected Moscow's
claim that its military
incursion into alliance
airspace over Turkey wasn't
intentional or important,
saying there were two
separate incidents and "the
violation lasted for a long
time."
Technology solutions to
support renewable energy
integration are already
available, but challenges to
widespread global deployment
remain.
To develop a successful
national strategy on power
sector transformation,
policymakers must anticipate
the effects this
transformation will have on
economic development, energy
security and the environment
-- ensuring data collection
and energy planning tools
are in place, examine
existing flexibility
options, and secure human
capacity to develop and
adapt technologies to local
conditions.
The Obama
administration's push to cut
greenhouse gas pollution
from power plants by nearly
a third over the next 15
years has the energy
industry taking another look
at carbon capture and
storage techniques.
Known as CCS, the process
of taking carbon dioxide
from plant emissions and
injecting it underground has
not been used on a large
commercial scale in the
United States...
This year has brought a
significant shift in the
generating cost comparison
between renewable energy and
fossil fuels.
In some parts of the world,
onshore wind energy has
become fully competitive
with gas and coal, and solar
is closing the gap,
according to a levelized
cost of electricity (LCOE)
analysis for the second half
of 2015 by Bloomberg New
Energy Finance (BNEF).
Russian warships in the
Caspian Sea fired cruise
missiles Wednesday as Syrian
government troops launched a
ground offensive in central
Syria in the first major
combined air-and-ground
assault since Moscow began
its military campaign in the
country last week...
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash
Carter said Russia was
continuing to strike targets
other than Islamic State
militants, adding that he
was concerned about the
Syrian ground offensive
backed by Moscow’s airpower.
Sacred Space is
time and space we set aside,
or which spontaneously
arises, to experience a
depth, richness, and sense
of meaning that usually
escapes us in fast-paced
everyday life when we are
not as connected as we could
be with our body, intuition,
good thinking, compassion
and empathy, and other
emotions.
The Flandreau Santee
Sioux Tribe is blazing a new
trail for tribal nations. As
the first tribe to venture
into marijuana legalization
by opening the nation’s
first marijuana resort, the
tribe is ushering in new
possibilities for tribal
sovereignty. Even despite
the expected risks, tribal
leaders are pressing forward
with confidence.
A new study suggests a
possible reason: Elephants
have 20 times as many copies
of a key cancer-fighting
gene as humans.
Humans typically have
just two copies of a
tumor-blocking gene called
TP53, inheriting one from
their mother and one from
their father, said Joshua
Schiffman, co-author of the
study published Thursday in
JAMA.
San Diego Gas & Electric
, a subsidiary of Sempra,
believes solar customers
don't pay their fair share
of power-grid costs under
current tariffs, and has
proposed increased fees and
additional electricity
charges on solar customers.
Rooftop solar providers,
from local contractors to
national top seller
SolarCity , hope to extend
current tariff provisions
that provide a full retail
price credit for homemade
electricity.
Speaker of the House John
Boehner (R-Ohio) has
personally asked Rep. Paul
Ryan (R-Wis.) to reconsider
and run for speaker, a
source inside Boehner’s
office confirmed to TheBlaze
Thursday.
Federal workers’ pay and
benefits were 78 percent
higher than private
employees, who earned an
average of $52,688 less than
public sector workers last
year.
The study found that
federal government workers
earned an average of $84,153
in 2014, compared to the
private sector’s average of
$56,350.
In its 2016 budget,
the Swedish government has
allocated millions for
green-energy infrastructure,
at home and abroad. Could
other countries follow suit?
Industries making the
heaviest use of the
“third-party approach,”
in which front groups,
academics, and
“independent”
researchers are used to
promote an agenda, tend
to be industries that
are harmful to the
public
One recent
conflict-of-interest
scandal involves
Monsanto and University
of Florida professor
Kevin Folta, a vocal
advocate of genetically
modified organisms
(GMOs)
The most flagrant piece
of evidence against
Folta shows he not only
solicited funds from
Monsanto, he did so with
intent to hide the
financial connection
between them
It seems nearly everyone has
digestive issues these days.
Crohn’s, IBS, colitis,
celiac, and dozens of other
digestive disorders have
made an industry out of
sugar free, gluten free, and
dairy free products. So why
is it that those with
digestive issues can’t often
fully fix them and have to
follow a very strict diet or
suffer the painful
consequences?
The more than 5,500 inmates
set to go free in November
are among the first of what
could eventually be tens of
thousands eligible for
release. The U.S. Sentencing
Commission voted last year
to retroactively apply
substantially lower
recommended sentences for
those convicted of
drug-related felonies.
Apple cider vinegar
detoxifies and purifies
various organs in the body.
As a purifier, it breaks
down fatty, mucous and
phlegm deposits within the
body. By breaking down these
substances, it improves the
health and function of
organs such as the kidneys,
bladder, and liver.
The U.N. envoy for Libya has
proposed a national unity
government for Libya after
months of difficult talks
between the north African
country's two rival
governments, but now it's up
to the two parliaments and
Libyans themselves to
approve it.
US coal consumption for the
power sector will total an
estimated 781.4 million st
in 2015, down 8.2% from last
year and the lowest amount
since 1989, according to the
October edition of the US
Energy Information
Administration's Short Term
Energy Outlook released
Tuesday.
Deportations of criminal
immigrants have fallen to
the lowest levels since
President Barack Obama took
office in 2009, despite his
pledge to focus on finding
and deporting criminals
living in the country
illegally. The share of
criminal immigrants deported
in relation to overall
immigrants deported rose
slightly, from 56 percent to
59 percent.
The
overall total of 231,000
deportations generally does
not include Mexicans who
were caught at the border
and quickly returned home by
the U.S. Border Patrol. ..
A U.S. government weather
forecaster on Thursday
maintained its outlook for
strong El Niño conditions as
likely to continue through
the Northern Hemisphere into
2016, potentially roiling
global crops and commodities
prices.
The National Weather
Service's Climate Prediction
Center (CPC) again pegged
the likelihood of El Niño
conditions persisting
through the winter at about
95 percent, peaking in late
fall/early winter.
“Climate change is the
greatest threat to global
health in the 21st century,”
warned Dr. Margaret Chan,
director-general of the
World Health Organization
today.
“The evidence is
overwhelming: climate change
endangers human health,” Dr.
Chan declared, citing the
effects of extreme weather
events, infectious diseases,
diminishing water supplies,
and food insecurity.
“Solutions exist and we
need to act decisively to
change this trajectory,” she
stressed.
Matt Drudge warned in a rare
interview Tuesday that
future decisions on digital
copyright laws could stifle
free speech, including
putting an end to his
popular Drudge Report
website....
“I had a Supreme Court
justice tell me to my face
it’s over for me. Said,
‘Matt, it’s over for you.
They’ve got the votes not to
enforce copyright law.
You’re out of there. They’re
gonna make it so headlines,
you can’t even use
headlines,’” Drudge said.
“To have a Supreme Court
justice say that to my
face!”
Almost a third of
cactuses are at risk of
extinction because of
threats including illegal
trade and a spread of farms
in arid areas, making the
spiny plants among the most
vulnerable species,
scientists said on Monday.
"We were surprised to
find that such a high
proportion of cactus species
are threatened ... and by
the diversity of threats,"
lead author Barbara Goettsch
told Reuters of the findings
by an international team of
researchers.
If current trends continue,
we’ll be dealing with three
times as much waste by the
end of this century as we
are now, warns the World
Bank. One solution is to
treat waste as a resource—a
solution that could also cut
global pollution, stave off
looming resource crises, and
lower manufacturing costs,
among other benefits.
A cute, cuddly baby
grins seemingly without
guile: eyes crinkle with the
merriment of a true smile.
But it turns out that these
young ones are only smiling
to get adults to smile back.
What to us appears to be an
adorable chuckle, is really
a feat of manipulation with
some expert timing,
researchers have found...
“We found that glaciers
erode 100 to 1,000 times
faster in Patagonia than
they do in Antarctica,” said
Koppes. “Antarctica is
warming up, and as it moves
to temperatures above 0
degrees Celsius, the
glaciers are all going to
start moving faster. We are
already seeing that the ice
sheets are starting to move
faster and should become
more erosive, digging deeper
valleys and shedding more
sediment into the oceans.”
Plastic waste is out of
control in this country, and
Styrofoam is one of the
worst offenders. Americans
toss out 25 billion
Styrofoam cups each year.
Over two million tons of the
stuff ends up in landfills,
where it does not biodegrade.
Scientists think they may
have found a solution for
our Styrofoam problem,
though: feed it to the
worms!
Humans, it seems, are
worse than a nuclear
disaster.
A long-term study of animal
populations around Chernobyl
has found wildlife to be
flourishing in the absence
of human activity. A team of
scientists surveyed the
human exclusion zone
surrounding the site,
observing large animals like
deer and elk to be in
abundance despite lingering
radiation.
As radioactive particles
poured out of the Chernobyl
Nuclear Power Plant in 1986,
a 4,200 km sq (1,621 mi sq)
human exclusion zone was
established around the site.
Earlier aerial surveys had
suggested wildlife numbers
in the area had recovered
somewhat, but this first
large-scale study of the
region suggests that though
radiation is harmful to
their well being, the
effects of human populations
may be more damaging.
"This doesn’t mean
radiation is good for
wildlife, just that the
effects of human habitation,
including hunting, farming
and forestry, are a lot
worse," says the University
of Portsmouth’s Professor
Jim Smith
Deaths from correctly
taken prescription drugs
number above 100,000 every
year, which is just one of
the main reasons why the
popularity of natural
medicine has surged lately.
But even as Americans’
attitudes about medicine
have begun to change and
realign with the classic
Hippocrates mantra of
“First, Do No Harm…” our
doctors haven’t quite gotten
the message.
So, here you are on Earth
noticing all that is wrong –
and yes, there appears to be
a great deal that is
“wrong.” When we look at all
the problems in the world,
it is easy to get
overwhelmed and bury our
heads in the sand, however,
that is not why we came
here.
Education
“There is no end to
education. It is not that
you read a book, pass an
examination, and finish with
education. The whole of
life, from the moment you
are born to the moment you
die, is a process of
learning.” ― Jiddu
Krishnamurti
Smartphone users can do
"very little" to stop
security services getting
"total control" over their
devices, US whistleblower
Edward Snowden has said.
The former intelligence
contractor told the BBC's
Panorama that UK
intelligence agency GCHQ had
the power to hack into
phones without their owners'
knowledge.
Mr Snowden said GCHQ
could gain access to a
handset by sending it an
encrypted text message and
use it for such things as
taking pictures and
listening in.
The emerging energy storage
industry is charging up
across the country, yet a
new report reveals that
acceptance by utilities and
regulators is the number one
barrier to mass residential
and commercial
implementation.
A proposal to store
nuclear waste under Yucca
Mountain, shelved by
President Barack Obama in
2010, has been revived. And
both the Western Shoshone
and Timbisha Shoshone tribes
have termed the plan
“environmental racism.”...
It’s not about the
amount of radioactivity that
would permeate the
groundwater, the Western
Shoshone said. The
environmental racism lies in
the very notion that it
would be okay to put any
radioactive material there
at all.
The European Commission
is calling for full
disclosure, zero tolerance
and strict compliance with
EU rules on pollutant
emissions in view of the
fact that Volkswagen used
“defeat device” software to
circumvent emissions
standards for certain air
pollutants.
Volkswagen CEO Martin
Winterkorn resigned
Wednesday, after admitting
that the carmaker had rigged
diesel emissions software to
pass U.S. tests during his
tenure.
A pre-historical sudden
collapse of one of the
tallest and most active
oceanic volcanoes on Earth —
Fogo, in the Cape Verde
Islands – triggered a
mega-tsunami with waves
impacting 220 metres (721
feet) above present sea
level resulting in
catastrophic consequences,
according to a new
University of Bristol study
published in Science
Advances.
In 2013, US Secretary of
State, John Kerry,
signed the Minamata
treaty on mercury on
behalf of the US
government, which
includes a pledge to
phase down dental
amalgam, effective
immediately
The FDA’s 2009 rule on
amalgam, which supports
the continued, if not
increased, use of
mercury fillings is in
direct violation of the
Minamata Convention
60 American and foreign
environmental groups
have sent a letter to
the Secretary of State,
urging him to “take a
leadership role in
encouraging FDA to
reduce amalgam use”
Last year’s (2014 to
2015) flu vaccine was
just 18 percent
effective among adults,
and only 15 percent
among children aged 2 to
8
One of the most widely
circulating influenza A
strains mutated early in
the season, leaving
those who had gotten a
flu shot with the belief
that they were protected
when they were not
This year, the CDC is
still actively promoting
the flu shot for
Americans, despite its
continuing dismal track
record of failure
EIVs are electric
vehicles that need no
external charging or
refueling, making their own
electricity as needed using
rapidly renewable clean,
free-of-charge sources.
Though not without their
shortcomings, electric land
vehicles, boats, underwater
craft and aircraft that
never plug in or refuel
already exist...
China’s People’s
Liberation Army has a
specialized unit dedicated
to launching cyberattacks,
and its main target is the
United States.
U.S. intelligence
agencies warn that China
operates on a scale so
sophisticated it could bring
down the entire American
electrical grid. Director of
National Intelligence James
Clapper warned the Senate
Armed Services Committee in
September that the Chinese
have the ability to launch
“a massive Armageddon-like
attack against our
infrastructure.”
Critical infrastructure
systems from power grids and
transportation systems to
financial systems all rely
on the Internet. This
increased connectivity
brings many conveniences and
advantages; however, it also
creates increased threats
and risks to security.
The American Academy
of Environmental Medicine
(AAEM) doesn’t buy
Monsanto’s claim that GM
foods are ‘safe.’ In fact,
the agency states,
“several animal studies
indicate serious health
risks associated with GM
food.” So why are we still
being force-fed unlabeled GM
foods by big multinational
food companies?
Green energy is cheap in the
long run and clean compared
to "dirty" coal and costly
nuclear power, a senior
German energy official said
on the sidelines of a Cape
Town conference, at a time
when South Africa plans to
expand atomic power
generation.
Deep in the thickly
forested hills in its east,
India last month started
production at what it hopes
will in five years be Asia's
biggest coal mine.
At the open-cast mine,
which involves the clearing
of more than 18,000 hectares
(44,500 acres) of land,
noisy excavators are busy
digging for coal that will
feed a huge power plant
being built nearby to fuel
India's energy-hungry
economy.
There’s more to mold than
that green, possibly furry
patch on the surface of your
bread, or the
velvety dots found on old
fruit. It turns out that the
colorful patches visible to
the naked eye are the spores
, or tiny particles that
give mold its color. The
rest of the mold its
branches and roots are
difficult to see and
sometimes burrow deep within
your food.
If you think about it, it
makes sense that in
America—the only nation in
the world to define itself
not by blood or land, but by
a law, the Constitution—the
government agency charged
with enforcing that law, and
enforcing the laws passed
under it, would be called
the Department of Justice.
As such, the work of the
Justice Department is highly
important. It plays a
fundamental role in our
nation’s life, because its
work has to do in one way or
another with how honest, how
fair, and how safe our
country is.
“The goal is simple, but the
challenge is huge — take
polluted water and turn it
into drinkable water with
low-tech systems. No large
or more costly treatment
plants, which are often
unobtainable in poor
countries across the globe,
threatened daily by unsafe
drinking water that is
causing a public health
crisis across continents,”..
OPEC Secretary General
Abdalla el-Badri said
Tuesday he was concerned
about the impact of low oil
prices on investment and the
consequences for future
supply, but insisted that
rebalancing world oil
markets was the
responsibility of all
producers and not a burden
to be borne by OPEC alone.
In fact, demand for
organic food is growing so
fast that consumer demand is
outstripping some domestic
supplies.
Once a net exporter of
organic products, the United
States now spends more than
$1 billion a year to import
organic food, according to
the USDA, and the ratio of
imported to exported
products is now about
8-to-1.
The company has built the
world's most efficient
rooftop solar panel -- with
a module efficiency
exceeding 22 percent. The
new SolarCity panel
generates more power per
square foot and harvests
more energy over a year than
any other rooftop panel in
production, and will be the
highest volume solar panel
manufactured in the Western
Hemisphere, according to the
company.
Researsal
“Stop acting as if life is a
rehearsal. Live this day as
if it were your last. The
past is over and gone. The
future is not guaranteed.” ―
Wayne Dyer
very low level. Solar
activity is expected to be
very low with a chance for
C-class flares on days one,
two, and three (06 Oct, 07
Oct, 08 Oct). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(06 Oct), quiet to active
levels on day two (07 Oct)
and active to minor storm
levels on day three (08
Oct).
Fish and birds, when moving
in groups, could use two
“gears”—one slow and another
fast—in ways that conserve
energy, a team of New York
University researchers has
concluded. Its findings
offer new insights into the
contours of air and water
flows--knowledge that could
be used to develop more
energy-efficient modes of
transportation.
Granting terminally ill
patients the right to end
their lives with a doctor's
help, Gov. Jerry Brown on
Monday signed the End of
Life Option Act, a measure
that triggered personal and
passionate conflict across
the state -- and in the
conscience of the governor
himself.
When faced with injustice,
most of us have experienced
that unmistakable feeling of
outrage. There’s certainly
plenty of material to choose
from — GMOs slipped into the
food supply, planetary
destruction, governmental
and corporate corruption,
police shootings, oil
spills, mafia-like
pharmaceutical companies.
The list could go on
forever. And while most
spiritual traditions
largely classify anger as
damaging and unskillful, one
Buddhist teacher is taking
the road less traveled by
exploring the beneficial
aspects of those times when
we see red.
Thermal coal prices are
close to rock bottom as coal
producers have squeezed
almost all of the gains from
increased productivity,
lower fuel prices and weaker
currencies, and prices are
set to stabilize in 2016,
said commodity analysts at
investment bank Citi in a
client conference call
Monday.
Though materials have been
developed that clot blood in
order to slow bleeding, when
the bleeding is internal
things get a little more
complicated. The flow of
blood makes it difficult to
deliver these agents
upstream to the site of the
injury, but now a team of
Canadian researchers says it
may have a solution. It has
developed a micro-sized
particle that produces gas
to propel itself against the
tide.
The Trans-Pacific
Partnership, or TPP, would
knock down tariffs and
import quotas, making it
cheaper to import and
export, and open new
Asia-Pacific markets to
American companies.Negotiations have
been going on for years.
On Monday, GOP
presidential candidate
Donald Trump weighed in on
the Washington team name.
In an interview with the
New York Times, he gave
his support for a
dictionary-defined racial
slur, and went on to say “I
know Indians that are
extremely proud of that
name, they think it’s a
positive.”
So Trump has an Indian
friend and they think it’s
okay. Gotcha.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis
Tsipras presents the
policies statement of his
newly elected government to
parliament, in Athens,
Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.
Greece's European creditors
voiced hope Monday that the
country's government will
deliver on promises to
overhaul its economy, which
would pave the way to the
release of billions of
bailout cash and potential
help on debt repayments.
A federal appeals court in
New York ordered the
government to rewrite its
rules regulating the
discharge of ballast water
by ships, in a victory for
environmental groups that
said the rules were too
lenient and threatened the
nation's waterways.
Only large companies with
high credit ratings that
have utilities in regulated
markets can build nuclear
plants in the US, and are
the only ones likely to move
forward with new reactors,
Southern Company CEO Tom
Fanning said Thursday.
Companies planning to
build and operate nuclear
units must be large, since
such projects are
multi-billion-dollar
efforts, Fanning said during
a speech at the Bipartisan
Policy Center in Washington.
Are you for or against
it? It seems everyone has
picked a side in the debate
over hydraulic fracturing
(“fracking”), but most
conflict would likely fall
away if fracking was
performed in a proven
safe and sustainable manner,
verified by a reliable
source.
There are multiple issues
that concern those opposed,
including the potential for
aquifer contamination during
the process and pollution
from wastewater, or
“produced water,” coming out
of the process. A third
concern is the sheer volume
of water required within
fracking operations,
especially in water-scarce
areas....
Hours before President
Barack Obama used the
shooting rampage at an
Oregon community college to
call for stronger gun
control, Republican
candidate Ben Carson warned
against doing so and said
that a greater focus on
addressing mental-health
issues was necessary.
After languishing on the
margins of the world's
mainstream energy economy
for decades, a multibillion
dollar deal announced
Thursday suggests that
hydrogen fuel cells may
finally be ready for prime
time.
China has stopped its
nuclear power projects
following the Fukushima
nuclear disaster in Japan ,
only approving several such
projects in eastern coastal
areas.
Although the restart of
the inland nuclear power
projects has yet to be
officially unveiled, at
least 10 provinces have
already planned to develop a
nuclear power industry.
Dementia and other
neurological brain diseases
are striking people younger
and younger, according to a
new study conducted by
researchers from Bournemouth
University in England and
published in the journal
Surgical Neurology
International. These
diseases have reached levels
that are “almost epidemic,”
the researchers said, and
they reached them so quickly
that environmental factors
must be largely to blame
Can you imagine a drug that
would make it easier to
learn a language, sharpen
your memory and help those
with dementia and
Alzheimer’s disease by
rewiring the brain and
keeping neurons alive?
Sunlight bounces off the
mirrors to heat a synthetic
oil in a tube to a blazing
400 degrees C (752 F). That
energy is in turn used to
drive a turbine, generating
electricity.
At Andasol, some energy
also goes into a "heat
reservoir" - a tank
containing thousands of
tonnes of molten salt that
can drive the turbines after
sundown, or when it is
overcast, for about 7.5
hours.
Farms
have always been hotbeds of
invention, and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture is
hoping that a needed spark
for renewable energy
development will come from
agriculture.
"With all the great folks
who live in rural America,
we truly think we're going
to see some things that no
one even thought of before,"
said Lillian Salerno, U.S.
Policy undersecretary.
The federal government
has proposed a regulation
aimed at protecting drinking
water sources from mining
pollution.
The proposal from the
Department of the Interior
would update existing rules
set in 1983. The proposal
would rein in “mining
practices that damage
drinking water sources,
permanently pollute streams,
increase the risk of
flooding or threaten
forests,..
Much of Western Europe is
struggling to manage the
overwhelming migrant crisis.
It has been reported that
more than a half a million
people have fled war-torn
regions of the Middle East
attempting to find refuge
and thousands have died in
transit.
Extreme summers like that of
2012 — which saw record
temperatures in cities
across the U.S. — may be
atypical, but experts say
they will return, especially
as the planet warms under
climate change. And as they
do, cities will be
especially vulnerable.
Sunday’s supermoon, combined
with an 18.6-year lunar
cycle, caused high tides on
both sides of the Atlantic
this week. There were many
flood warnings and alerts in
effect in the UK on Tuesday
night. In eastern North
America, Tropical Storm
Joaquin might combine with
high tides to cause
flooding.
There is a ton of energy
that is moving in our world
right now, which is causing
big shifts in our reality.
You can feel it
energetically. It’s been
really ramped up lately.
These shifts in vibration
can manifest in many
different ways. Becoming
hyper-sensitive to smell, to
taste, to everything around
you. You’re like a finely
tuned instrument that can
feel and read everything.
You’re tapped into the
energy of others huge right
now, and you’re really in
touch with what they are
throwing at you. You feel
every facet of it, truth or
lie
Indonesia is hoping for
rain to help extinguish
forest fires that have been
smoldering for weeks,
shrouding parts of Southeast
Asia in thick smog, a
government official said on
Thursday.
For years, the region has
suffered annual bouts of
smog, caused by
slash-and-burn farming in
Indonesia's northern islands
of Sumatra and Kalimantan,
but governments' efforts to
tackle the problem have
failed.
Sometimes I feel as though I
am sitting on a deck chair
of the Titanic, slowing
watching the ship go down.
Our elected leaders are out
of control and it can feel
like, any day now, our
society is going to go to
heck in a hand basket. I
exaggerate a bit but not by
much. My perception is that
much of what I read is the
same news I was reading
three years ago. The only
difference is that it has
been repackaged, rehashed
and refreshed. The cast of
characters may have changed
a bit but the same tactics
of oppression and submission
have not.
Scientists of Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology
(KIT) (link is external)
have found an unconventional
approach to increase the
efficiency of solar cells:
Optical invisibility cloaks
which guide sunlight around
objects that cast a shadow
on the solar panel. They
believe that these
invisibility cloaks could
increase the efficiency by
up to 10%
Ultra high resolution
screens, which offer four
times the pixels you'll find
on a 4K panel, or 16 times
1080p,
tend to be pretty sizable
affairs, even the world's
first commercially available
8K TV from Sharp measures 85
inches diagonally. That's
about to change with the
development of a brand new
monitor from Japan Display
that packs a full 8K
resolution into just 17.3
inches.
At least 10 million poor
people face hunger this year
and next because of droughts
and erratic rains linked to
record global temperatures
and an expected "super"
version of the evolving El
Nino weather pattern, aid
charity Oxfam has warned.
In Ethiopia alone, 4.5
million people need food aid
because a combination of El
Nino and long-term climate
change has made the rainy
season more unpredictable,
according to United Nations
agencies.
A person’s worldview has
always been shaped by their
culture and period in
history. If we grew up in a
tribal setting, we would
have a remarkably different
perspective than in a
‘modern’ society. Well,
that’s what we might assume
anyway, but as it turns out
there are more similarities
than we might think.
Mississippi Power said it
would repay $234 million in
federal tax credits due to
delays at the coal
gasification plant under
construction in Kemper
County in eastern
Mississippi.
"The best tracer of water is
water itself. So we directly
analysed the groundwater in
the pores of the rock from
different depths and rock
types, using the latest
laser technology," says UNSW
Centre Director Professor
Andy Baker.
Now
that solar technology is
cropping up on rooftops
across the country, you
might be finding your
friends and neighbors
looking for more information
about this “new” industry.
Here are some current solar
industry statistics and PV
module trends for those
increasingly common
over-the-fence
conversations.
M4 event observed.
Solar Activity Forecast:
Solar activity is likely to
be moderate with a chance
for X-class flares on day
one (02 Oct) and likely to
be moderate with a slight
chance for an X-class flare
on day two (03 Oct) and
expected to be low with a
chance for M-class flares
and a slight chance for an
X-class flare on day three
(04 Oct). Geophysical
Activity Forecast: The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at unsettled
to minor storm levels on
days one, two, and three (02
Oct, 03 Oct, 04 Oct).
Protons have a chance of
crossing threshold on days
one, two, and three (02 Oct,
03 Oct, 04 Oct).
The earlier application has
widely been considered far
to weak to have chances to
be granted. It was
originally filed in Italy in
April 2008, and an Italian
patent was granted in
2011 but the approval was
based on old rules,
basically not involving any
validation of the claims.
The part of the moon that
isn’t in sunlight is often
called the moon’s dark
side. Just realize that
– because of the moon’s
motion around Earth – the
portion of the dark side
that we see from Earth
constantly changes.
There is a permanent
far side of the moon.
But there is no permanent
dark side of the
moon, because any given
lunar location experiences
night for about two weeks,
followed by about two weeks
of daylight.
“The Iñupiaq People
have been in the Arctic for
thousands and thousands of
years, living off the land
and the sea,” said Allison
Akootchook Warden, Iñupiaq
Artist and Community
Organizer, in a statement
from the Indigenous
Environmental Network (IEN).
“Today Shell pulled out of
our waters, hopefully never
to return. This is a huge
victory for our people and
our traditional ways of
life. It is too risky for
Shell to be in our waters,
where the bowhead whale
thrives and takes care of
us.”
SolarCity, a rooftop-solar
company based in Sunnyvale,
California, installed more
than one-third of all
residential solar projects
in the United States during
the first half of 2015,
according to GTM Research.
South Dakota high
school students will not be
learning about Native
Americans next year, thanks
to some quietly approved
changes in content standards
that no longer require
students to study early
American history.
Evidence grows daily that
we’re beginning to ask some
hard questions, never giving
up until they are answered.
Its method can be found in
one sentence.
“If a nation expects to
be ignorant and free, in a
state of civilisation, it
expects what never was and
never will be.” —Thomas
Jefferson
A
coalition of
environmentalist groups and
trade unions expressed
optimism Wednesday that even
a coal-dependent region like
Pittsburgh could
significantly grow jobs
while transitioning away
from fossil fuels and toward
investments in renewable
energy and energy
efficiency.
But the report
highlighted a mismatch
between when those jobs will
be created and for how long
they will last.
The problem we face when
attempting to map our galaxy
revolves around location.
Earth sits roughly two
thirds out from the galactic
center, surrounded by
seemingly chaotic yet
structured clouds of dense
dust that work to obscure
our view, and hamper our
efforts to gain an in-depth
understanding of the large
scale structure of our
galaxy.
Duality is a perceptual lie.
Right or wrong, good or bad
is determined by one’s own
indoctrination. Energy is
just energy until the
intellect observes is and
defines it. Depending on the
perspective of the
individual’s beliefs and
experiences, they determine
whether they are in
agreement or in
disagreement. What makes an
enemy an enemy?
As you sit here reading
these words are you aware
you are also observing
yourself reading? The brain
can only process that which
it is willing to see.
Clear Labs, a startup
company that sequences human
genomes in clinical trials,
has recently raised 6.5
million in a Series A
Funding to create a
molecular data index that
includes allergen and
contamination data in hopes
of becoming the “Google of
food.”
Fifty years — that’s
about how long it takes a
plastic foam cup to
decompose naturally in the
environment.
New research though
suggests that a tiny animal
could do the work much
faster, providing the first
evidence that bacteria
inside mealworm guts can
degrade plastic materials.
Residents reported
increasing distress as
insurgents put the city
under virtual lockdown,
blocking roads and setting
up checkpoints to prevent
people from leaving. The
roadblocks also kept
essential supplies of food
and medicine from reaching
the city of some 300,000
people.
The Tower Hawk System
replaces conventional guard
towers with unmanned towers
set around the edge of the
razor wire. It's shipped in
the form of containers and
the towers that can be
erected in less than an hour
by six soldiers with only
minimal training. Each tower
is equipped with a Browning
M-2 50-caliber machine gun
and a 338 Lapua sniper
rifle, though any other gun
system can be swapped in.
The U.S. pipeline safety
office has fined Exxon Mobil
Corp $2.63 million for
spilling crude oil in an
Arkansas residential area in
2013, the regulator said on
Thursday.
The Illinois-to-Texas, 20
inch (51 cm), Pegasus
pipeline spilled about 3,190
barrels of oil in a
neighborhood near the town
of Mayflower. Regulators
initially estimated the
spill was about 5,000
barrels.
Nuclear power plants provide
baseload electricity
generation and do not change
output in response to daily
or hourly fluctuations in
electricity demand, as do
power plants running on
other fuels, such as natural
gas. In June, nuclear power
accounted for nearly 20% of
total U.S. electricity
generation. Although nuclear
plant outages are typically
low during the summer and
winter months, when
electricity demand is
relatively high, outages
this year have been much
lower than normal. The
decrease in nuclear power
plant outages, both planned
and unplanned, may be
attributable to several
factors
A whopping 54 percent of the
total energy used to
generate electricity in the
United Kingdom is wasted
before it even gets to homes
and businesses, according to
a report released on
Thursday.
A ship carrying illicit arms
believed to be from Iran was
intercepted last week off
the southern Arabian
Peninsula by a member of a
U.S.-backed naval coalition
and was not registered with
any country, the U.S. Navy
said Wednesday.
Stationary battery storage
has evolved rapidly, and in
short order, has become a
crowded and highly
competitive clean energy
market and industry sector,
not only in the U.S., but in
Western Europe and the
Asia-Pacific. Leading
vendors, such as LG Chem,
Samsung SDI, BYD, Panasonic
and Toshiba, as well as GE,
Tesla and others, are all
competing for a dominant
share of a small, but
fast-growing, market.
...people are now beginning
to realize the real danger;
networked lighting can be an
entry point to the entire
smart home or building
automation system.
A Wyoming judge on Wednesday
granted a preliminary
injunction against the
federal government's
regulations for hydraulic
fracturing on public lands,
handing a victory to oil and
gas producers who had
vehemently opposed the
rules.