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Geomagnetic Storm Watch

As the strongest Solar Radiation Storm (S3) since May, 2005 continues, the associated Earthward-directed Coronal Mass Ejection is expected to arrive about 1400 UT (9am EST) Jan 24. SWPC has issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch with G2 level storming likely and G3 level storming possible, with the storm continuing into Wednesday, Jan 25. All of [...]
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Occupy Philadelphia Reply to the Mayor

Press Conference at Occupy Philly November 14, 2011 ~ 1PM by Daniel Brouse CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA On November 13, 2011, Philadelphia’s Mayor Nutter held a press conference changing his posture on the Occupy Philadelphia movement. During the show, he reversed his position on the protesters being allowed to obtain a new permit when the [...]
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Occupy Wall Street Occupy Philly

0:26 Occupy Wall Street Protesters Occupy Philly 0:49 0:33 0:46 High Definition Pictures The Article * Occupy Wall Street? Occupy Yourself! *
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Market Economics

Slavery never went away. It just evolved into more efficient slavery: wage servitude. Men As Beasts of Burden
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Increased Ethanol In Gasoline

There are concerns about using ethanol in gasoline. It is possible that ethanol is actually worse for the environment and increasing the rate of global warming; however, the EPA is allowing E15. E15 (a blend of gasoline and ethanol) In response to a request by Growth Energy under section 211(f)(4) of the Clean Air Act, [...]
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Forebodings of Doom

How much is a 1%/year decline ? Enough that if i had a hundred of anything, i would have fifty in seventy years. What are these anythings ? Phytoplankton in the ocean, who produce half the oxygen we breathe are declining at 1% a year. They die because the oceans change in a warming world. [...]
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Mines or Tombs ?

Let us say you are a large coal mining company. And that your regulatory agency has cited you for repeated safety violations, including ineffective dust removal. And that dozens of your workers have recently died in accidents. The regulators have finally ordered you to cease using ineffective dust scrubbers. Do you take steps to fix [...]
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Coming Home

Millions of gallon of oil spilled. Fishing industry ruined. Lives lost. Gulf of Mexico ? Not quite. Try Nigeria. “In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta’s network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of a major ecological catastrophe [...]
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New Robots Scrutinize Solar Cells

The race to build a better solar cell is looping through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory where new robots are fabricating thin-film cells and analyzing glitches faster and with more precision than ever before. How much faster? The robot working with silicon can build a semi-conductor on a six-inch-square plate of glass, plastic or flexible [...]
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Making Wind Turbines Builds Career Interest

The wind turbine that Louis Solis and Jose Santistevan fashioned in about 20 minutes promptly registered a 5.1 on the voltage meter in their Denver West High School classroom, tops in the class. But Solis and Santistevan, both 17-year-old juniors, were determined they could do better. So, they bent and trimmed the balsa wood, flattened [...]
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