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Earth Cycles

The Alps from space. Could they be a relatively new mountain range and not millions of... more

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The Smart Grid Is Dumb without Smart Consumers

While the eco blogs have been full of “smart grid this” and “smart... more

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What activities can I do when I turn off the lights for Earth Hour?

What will you do for the third annual Earth Hour this Sat. evening? These are some... more

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Climate Compromise: 'We'll Be Getting Less CO2 Reduction for Our Dollar'

The climate bill being drafted by U.S. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Saturday 6th March 2010

Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on... more

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ZeroEnergy: Electricity-free water heating system

The system uses heat from air conditioning systems to quickly heat water without using... more

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Wool Dryer Balls

At a discount here http://tinyurl.com/ya9ak92 Highlights: - Handmade - 100%... more

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Undoing the Mothballs: Long-Abandoned U.S. Nuclear Reactors Eyed for Restart

There has been a lot of talk of next-generation reactors in the U.S. "nuclear... more

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The Bloom Box

February 21, 2010 Large corporations have been testing a new device that can generate... more

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Bloom Energy unveils fuel cell of the future

Don't forget about fuel cell technology. It's working technology and... more

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Bloom Box: Don't Count on an Off-Grid Nation Just Yet

After years of secrecy, Bloom Energy today finally unveiled the Bloom Energy Server,... more

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Turn your gas guzzler into a cash cow!?

by Karin Zeitvogel – Fri Feb 19, 9:15 am ET SAN DIEGO, California (AFP)... more

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Can the Mind Control Ageing?

In 1979 psychologist Ellen Langer carried out an experiment to find if changing... more

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Long Island University Extension - Charlie Ciuffo (Evolution)

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Innovation On The Dairy [Submission]

Dairyman Brian Fiscalini is using innovative technology to create energy from the... more

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"Thomas Hobbes wrote that life in a state of nature was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Ancient legends from around the world spell out the nature of that state before the beginning of society and civilization.

The legends are called creation myths because they describe the beginning of time, of the dividing of heaven from earth, of social organization, even of the distinguishing between good and evil. They are told as if the narrator were an eyewitness to the creation event…and they often tell about a prior state. From around the world, they converge on a picture of nature that would have appalled even Mr. Hobbes.

“But in those days we lived where there were thickets and barren rocks…; we had no villages, no cities, no temples. We lived in clefts of the rocks and holes in the ground…. We ate roots that we pulled up out of the ground, or else we fought with the foxes for the dead things they were carrying away. No one bore rule amongst us, and we knew nothing of duty or kindness of one to another.” (Inca legend)

“Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos. All that existed then was void and formless.” (Rig Veda)

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was chaos, and there was darkness over the abyss.” (Genesis—Mitchell translation)

The same themes are repeated in Phoenician and Greek cosmogonies and in Taoism in China. They appear in the narratives of the tribes of Oceania and of the Pima of Arizona. The Hopi clarify the question of just how dark the darkness was by calling it a “dark purple light.” Other legends relate that something glowed dimly within the darkness “like a glow-worm” (Linga Purana)—an orb “lit by the reflection of his own inner self” (Mbayá legend).

Many legends speak of the “waters” or “sea” of chaos that preceded creation. They say that the chaos “whirled.”

Except for the whirling chaos, nothing moved: There was no Sun, no Moon, no stars. There was no day or night, no year, no seasons. There was no way to tell time. There was no reason to tell time. There was no concept of time. The beginning—the creation—was the beginning of time and space, of form and change.

It was the beginning of society and civilization. Perhaps it was the beginning of consciousness. “Before the beginning” stories from every society exhibit these themes: darkness without Sun or Moon or stars, whirling chaos, something that glowed, no civilization, timelessness. The only reasonable explanation for this commonality is that the stories derive from events experienced in common around the world.

In God Star, Dwardu Cardona compiles these themes and develops an explanation for the underlying events that is based on space-age discoveries in astronomy and plasma physics. The explanation needs further development and testing. It should inspire a search for alternative explanations that, like it, may provide a physical basis for making sense of the global themes of ancient stories.

Modern theories that project today’s sky unchanged into the past must necessarily dismiss the stories of a different beginning as a coincidence of nonsense. Therewith they dismiss the legacy of our ancestors and leave us mystified that rational creatures could have evolved societies that are darkened by so much that seems irrational. Increasingly, they must dismiss or deface the data from space probes and telescopes.

Therewith they turn science from discovery to apologetics. The insights of God Star restore the terror and awe of a history that can illuminate the darkness of the modern world."

The 'God Star' is worthy of debate, but the Electric Universe is the new science, not the new religion."Thomas Hobbes wrote that life in a state of nature was “solitary, poor,... more

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Avondale condemns home: Solar, batteries insufficient

An Avondale woman who spent 11 days sleeping in her car said the city treated her... more

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Earth Hour: Savior of the planet or eco fail?

Apparently cynical sally rolled out of bed this morning because my first impulse when I saw this year's Earth Hour announced: roll my eyes. But why?? It's such a great initiative!!

"Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007 when 2.2 million people switched off the lights in their homes, offices and businesses for 60 minutes to make a point about electricity consumption and carbon pollution.

Millions of people from Sydney to Sweden are set to switch off their lights on March 27, as part of the global 'Earth Hour' campaign to highlight climate change, organisers said Sunday.

Some 250 cities around the world have already signed up for the symbolic, energy saving exercise which in 2009 saw landmarks such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and New York's Empire State Building plunged into darkness.

"The event will be held at 8:30 pm Saturday 27 March in cities and towns all over the world," conservation group WWF-Australia's Chief Executive Officer Greg Bourne said."

I dig it. Create a large event to spread mass awareness about energy saving.

Last year I invited a bunch of people to my house so we could honor the event. We climbed up on a local hill so we could watch all the lights go out. Instead, we just noticed all of that lights that were left on, and we even did the mega count down...from our perch, we didn't notice any lights or monuments going dark in San Francisco (I'm sure they did, it was just a very sad moment when there was nothing to...witness).

But do these events do anything? Shift anything? Change behaviors? Are they little or big drops in the ocean of change? Sure, I unplug my power strip and wander 'round the house turning out lights. Is that because these events remind me to? (Answer: NO. I turn off lights because I was aught to when I was child). Or are they silly activities that we gather around to make us feel good about ourselves and give us the illusion that we are doing something (anything for God's sake) for just a few hours a year?

Or is the REAL question here more about what happens to people when they get excited to see change, but then don't. How do we keep the fires burning, and not let Cynical Sally take the wheel?

Inquiring minds want to know.Apparently cynical sally rolled out of bed this morning because my first impulse when... more

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Electromagnetic Manufacturing

Engineers find a new way to punch holes through steel.

"ELECTROMAGNETIC pulses (EMPs) are usually associated with warfare. The idea is to use a blast of energy to fry the enemy’s computers and telecommunications gear. One common way proposed to do this is with an atomic bomb. In a less extreme fashion, however, EMPs have peaceful uses. They are already employed industrially to shape soft and light metals, such as aluminium and copper. Now a group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology in Chemnitz, Germany, has found a way to use an EMP device to shape and punch holes through industry’s metallic heavyweight—steel. This could transform manufacturing by doing away with the need to use large, heavy presses to make goods ranging from cars to washing machines.

Verena Kräusel and her colleagues performed their trick by beefing up an existing electromagnetic-forming machine. Such machines use a bank of capacitors to discharge a current rapidly through a coil. The coil converts the current into a powerful magnetic field. When the component to be worked is placed next to such a machine, the coil induces in it a corresponding field. Like poles repel, and the repulsion between the two fields is strong enough to make the metal distort.

Dr Kräusel and her colleagues boosted the power of their machine by strengthening its coil and speeding up the rate at which the capacitors dump their charge. The result is an extremely strong field—one that delivers enough pressure when it hits the steel to punch out the material next to it, leaving a hole behind. The impact pressure on the steel is about 3,500 atmospheres. That is the weight of three small cars pressing on an area only a centimetre or so square.

The result is that the machine is able to punch holes 30mm in diameter through the type of sheet steel used to build car bodies, which is usually around 1mm thick. The group have also used their machine to punch holes in hardened steel, including stainless steel. And, besides punching holes in steel, such a machine could also be used to form shapes out of the metal without the need to use a mould or a die."

More proof that electromagnetic forces are stronger than gravity.Engineers find a new way to punch holes through steel. "ELECTROMAGNETIC pulses... more

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Electric Comets Re-write Space Science

On January 3rd, 2010, the SOHO satellite captured images of a comet disintegrating as... more

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