Monthly Archives: January 2009
Biofuel From Algae Holds Up Against Other Alternative Fuels
You hardly hear about biofuel from algae. The answer it offers us is usually drummed out by the noise from other alternative fuels such as, gasoline/electric hybrids, ethanol, biodiesel and propane. The algae biofuel packs quite a punch and is inexpensive to cultivate.
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Is it Karma? Is the Fisker Karma the Hybrid Car Answer?
Is the Fisker Karma the answer to Plug in Hybrid car technology that has eluded us? Plug in hybrid vehicles like the Tesla, the Volt, hang in front of us like fruit from a tree…but this green hybrid dream has been difficult to realize.
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United States: Kulongoski presses ahead with green plan despite economic woes
Associated Press: With each passing day, each new dismal budget forecast, it seems the shortfalls pile up while the chance that new programs and services will make it through the Capitol this legislative session tumble. Even proposed tax increases, once meant to finance new programs in bleak times, are "viewed, literally, as survival." At [...]
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Australia: Nineteen die as the blast of summer begins to take its toll
Australian: AT least 19 people have died, power has been cut to hundreds of thousands of homes and city transport systems have been brought to their knees as a record-setting heatwave continues to bake much of southeast Australia. As the mercury climbed to 43.1C in Adelaide and a near-record 45.1C in Melbourne yesterday, bushfires [...]
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Antarctic warming rapidly say scientists
Green Left Weekly: Yet another global warming sceptic argument has bitten the dust with the release of new research indicating that Antarctica is warming rapidly. Until now, the evidence for the warming of Antarctica had been inconclusive. Climate sceptics have argued that the frozen continent is actually cooling down. But new data from [...]
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To Protect Public Land, Eco-Protesters Get Creative
Time Magazine: You may have never heard of the Monkey Wrench Gang–unless you read the 1975 novel by maverick writer and nature lover Edward Abbey, who introduced the world to a fictional collection of green misfits waging a guerrilla war against industrialization in the American West. They sabotage bulldozers and construction sites, burn billboards and [...]
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United Kingdom: Benefits of wind energy are mapped out
Scotsman: A GOVERNMENT study says onshore wind energy could offer great economic and community benefits for the Western Isles – less than a year after ministers rejected plans for Europe’s biggest wind farm in the islands. The report predicts that green energy projects can be key drivers for the islands’ economy without harming the environment. [...]
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Carbon capture fine in theory but untested
Scotsman: THE technology the Scottish Government is hoping will clean up fossil-fuel power stations has yet to be proven on an industrial scale. If it works, so-called carbon capture and storage (CCS) has the potential to cut 90 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel power stations. This would allow power stations [...]
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Wind turbine firms feel downturn’s pinch
Boston Globe: Last summer, wind turbine manufacturers couldn’t make parts fast enough to meet demand. Now, industry executives say, financing has all but disappeared because of the economy, causing some planned projects to be put on hold. Unless there’s a robust economic rebound, or the government steps in, they say, construction of wind turbines nationwide [...]
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Abu Dhabi looks to the sun to go green
MarketWatch: My walk to work on Saturday mornings takes me by three- and four-story apartment blocks and three- and four-story single-family villas, some of which are landscaped and others that have been given over to nature. Giving a lawn over to nature in North America is an invitation to weeds and clover. Here, it’s an [...]
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Science loses out when ice caps melt
Science News: It’s hard to imagine a mountain range without snow-covered peaks. But that may soon be the case in countries in or near the tropics. Studies show that the ice that sits atop the world’s highest mountains is vanishing at an alarming rate, threatening to leave the summits bare. The accelerated melting of [...]
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What Is a Green Job, Anyway?
AlterNet: Barack Obama has been busy talking about one of his primary pre-election goals, energy independence, in mid-recession terms, with the creation of millions of proposed "green jobs." The phrase suggests two elements long considered at odds with each other — the economy and the environment — may in fact have a common and even [...]
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NASA mission to help unravel climate mysteries
Xinhua: NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide is in final preparation for a Feb 23 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Carbon dioxide is the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth’s climate. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) will provide the first complete picture of human and natural [...]
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Fewer Days Of Extreme Cold And More Days Of Extreme Heat In Europe
ScienceDaily: Scientists from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have selected 262 European observatories which analysed the series of minimum and maximum daily temperatures from 1955 to 1998 to estimate trend variations in extreme temperature events. According to the study, in Europe days of extreme cold are decreasing and days of extreme heat increasing. From [...]
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Repost of TDP: What Went Wrong