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Category Archives: energy
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! *
Also posted in Business, environment, Government, health and wellness, Law, Opinion, Politics, Society, War And Peace Tagged civil, government, occupy, Occupy Philadelphia, Occupy Philly, Occupy Wall Street, protest, protesters, rights Leave a comment
Market Economics
Slavery never went away. It just evolved into more efficient slavery: wage servitude. Men As Beasts of Burden
Also posted in Business, Government, health and wellness, International, Politics, Society Tagged compassion, economy, gilded age, money, monopoly, poverty, tyranny Leave a comment
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, [...]
Also posted in Agriculture, environment, Government, science Tagged autos, blend, cars, climate change, E15, environment, EPA, ethanol, gas, gasoline, global warming, government, regulations, science, trucks Leave a comment
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. [...]
Also posted in Business, environment, International, science, Society Tagged climate change, drinking water, earth, energy, environment, global warming, science Leave a comment
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 [...]
Also posted in environment, science Tagged energy, environment, robots, science, solar cells, technology Leave a comment
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 [...]
Also posted in Education, science Tagged careers, environment, project, renewable energy, science, wind turbines, windmills, youth Leave a comment
Geomagnetic Storm Watch