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Here’s an alarm clock you might not want to smash with a mallet each and every morning. This living Bamboo Soil Clock uses two household potted plants and copper electrodes buried in the plant’s soil to run.Here’s an alarm clock you might not want to smash with a mallet each and every... more
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SHOCKING NEW NASA DATA / NEW PREDICTION = "3 TO 5 YEARS NO ICE IN ARCTIC"
THE PERMAFROST = IS NOW THAWING....
3-5 years All Arctic Ice will be gone. Five years after that... no ice on either pole!
Watch Video as prehistoric methane gas is released under the ice from the thawing permafrost below is ignited.
NEW DATA: The original time to reach the permafrost thawing tipping point wasn't predicted to happen until 2050.
We need to understand what is happening and how the effects of what is now taking place... will change all our lives in the "months and few years ahead".SHOCKING NEW NASA DATA / NEW PREDICTION = "3 TO 5 YEARS NO ICE IN ARCTIC"
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Global warming... is much worse that you think.
PLEASE SELECT: "WATCH FULL PROGRAM"
Summary:
Dan Miller's presentation focuses on why the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports are actually best case scenarios. For example, IPCC climate models do not include the effect of melting permafrost releasing greenhouse gases, even though the permafrost is melting now and it holds more greenhouse gases than all that mankind has ever released.
Another example is that IPCC predictions of sea level rise only take into account thermal expansion of the oceans and melting of glaciers; the largest factor, disintegration of glaciers, was not included because it is hard to model. The result is that sea level rise will likely be substantially higher this century than the IPCC predicts.
Miller discusses several other potential catastrophes that are not included in IPCC predictions and also discusses tipping points that could put climate change solutions out of our reach in years or decades, the psychology of climate change, and why it is difficult for people to respond to the threat posed by a warming earth.
His talk concludes with a discussion of ways to address climate change and the risks and opportunities that companies face due to the climate crisis.
More Information:
The Climate Project
http://www.theclimateproject.org/aboutus.php
NASA | Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6632
NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 6
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6632
HOME PROJECT: A Visual Global Tour /current effects of global warming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
.Global warming... is much worse that you think.
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"United Breaks Guitars"
Costs Airline $180 Million in some minds
USA Green Jobs Now.Org Creates New Energy Sector Jobs and Green Jobs Now
I am sure we all have had a similar experience like this one, that was apparently the plight of Dave Carroll, a Canadian musician who says United Airlines baggage handlers smashed his favorite Taylor guitar as he changed planes at O'Hare. Anyone who's lost a bag or had their stuff damaged or lost by an airline knows the frustration -- you spend hours on the phone, often with a call center in India, and feel like you're getting nowhere.
Well in the past two years or so I have felt the same way about our political government and the slow response to the Green Energy/technology sectors,
USA Green Jobs Now.Org is my idea of trying to help people find employment in renewable and green technology companies of the future! We help clean up the environment, help control global warming, and create an entirely new sector of employment while we're at it. We look at eco-friendly trends of society today and apply the same logic and science to solving the every day needs of the country and planet. Sounds great right?
While researching online for information on how I, or anyone else, can live a simple affordable and greener life. I found that what was needed was a central website for good ideas, and information and ways to engage employers, candidates, and companies. What I found was very little more than a few companies openly promoting over priced products, advertisements, and sometimes job board postings.
USA Green jobs Now.Org is now up and running and I encourage all too please register and check the site out let’s get this US Economy moving once again in a positive direction Vote for Change and stay active in politics."United Breaks Guitars"
Costs Airline $180 Million in some minds
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William Walsh, 42, believes that his innovative pizza box invention, known as the GreenBox will radically change the way we consume pizza.
The top part of the GreenBox rips off to become four plates, while the bottom part folds in half to become a smaller box good for about four slices of leftover pizza. In addition to reducing the waste generated by paper plates, the GreenBox is 100% recyclable.
Walsh is currently trying to market his idea. Check out this video demonstration of the GreenBox!William Walsh, 42, believes that his innovative pizza box invention, known as the... more
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KAIST’s newly developed electric vehicle system could be onto something. The vehicle does away with batteries completely and relies on pulling power from a system of cables buried beneath the road. The On Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV) is comprised of electric buses that drive over tracks containing power coils. When a bus crosses the track a boost of electricity is delivered, allowing the vehicle to continue travelling without having to stop and recharge.KAIST’s newly developed electric vehicle system could be onto something. The vehicle... more
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It is Blog Action Day 2009 everybody, and the theme is fighting climate change. We’ve got some ideas for you to do that – green tech style of course!It is Blog Action Day 2009 everybody, and the theme is fighting climate change.... more
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Fisker gained fame as an automotive designer for BMW, where he came up with the stunning Z8, and with Aston Martin, designing the DB9 and Vantage. This background explains the very nonsedan looks of the the Karma, which is styled like a GTFisker gained fame as an automotive designer for BMW, where he came up with the... more
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The car is made from woven flax, recycled carbon fibre, recycled resin and carrot pulp for the steering wheel. It runs on biofuel made from chocolate and animal fats and is lubricated with plant oils. But it's not just an environmentally friendly car, it is also fast. The car has a top speed of 135 mph, can achieve 0-60 in 2.5 seconds and is turbo charged to give it more torque.The car is made from woven flax, recycled carbon fibre, recycled resin and carrot pulp... more
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"Nuclear batteries are an attractive proposition for many applications because the isotopes that power them can provide a useful amount of current for phenomenally long times - up to hundreds of years or more.""Nuclear batteries are an attractive proposition for many applications because the... more
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While not as small or quite as cute as Wall-E, this DustCart has one major thing going for it – It’s real. DustCart, part of the $3.9 million DustBot research program, roams the streets of Peccioli, Italy collecting trash while measuring the levels of atmosphereic pollutants such as sulfur oxide, benzene, ozone and nitrogen oxide. DustCart can be summoned to a location via cell phone and has the ability to go door to door to sort people’s trash as organic, recyclable, or waste.While not as small or quite as cute as Wall-E, this DustCart has one major thing going... more
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Researchers at MIT have shown the benefits of a new approach toward eliminating carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions at coal-burning power plants.
Their system, called pressurized oxy-fuel combustion, provides a way of separating all of the carbon-dioxide emissions produced by the burning of coal, in the form of a concentrated, pressurized liquid stream. This allows for carbon dioxide sequestration: the liquid CO2 stream can be injected into geological formations deep enough to prevent their escape into the atmosphere.
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It might seem paradoxical to reduce the carbon footprint of a coal plant by making its emissions into a more concentrated stream of carbon dioxide. But Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering and leader of the MIT team analyzing this new technology, explains: "this is the first step. Before you sequester, you have to concentrate and pressurize" the greenhouse gases. "You have to redesign the power plant so that it produces a pure stream of pressurized liquid carbon dioxide, to make it sequestration ready."
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Ghoniem says even though this process uses more energy at the beginning of the combustion cycle because of the need to separate oxygen from air and pressurize it, the increased efficiency of the power cycle raises the net output of the plant and reduces the compression work needed to deliver CO2 at the requisite state for sequestration, as compared to the unpressurized carbon-capture systems; in other words, the overall energy penalty is reduced. "You have to deliver carbon dioxide at high pressure for sequestration," he points out. The system simply introduces some pressurization earlier in the process, so the output stream requires less compression at the end of the process while extracting more energy from the combustion gases.
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Ghoniem concedes that much more research is still needed for CCS technology. The three areas that need study most, he says, are systems' integration to determine the operating conditions at which the different components work together for highest efficiency; component-level research to optimize of the design of individual parts of the new system, especially the combustion chamber; and process analysis to examine the details of the physics and chemistry involved. His group has been concentrating on detailed computer simulations of the process to aid in the design of better systems.
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This caught my eye! It seems like an effective way to address CO2 emissions, but what are the costs of injecting liquid CO2 into the planet?!Researchers at MIT have shown the benefits of a new approach toward eliminating... more
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Designer Jocko Chan has developed a unique idea for an environmentally friendly sound system. A stalk of bamboo is placed in a funnel which sits on an eco ceramic base. Pour water into the funnel to nourish the bamboo and as it grows so does your sound system, allowing the audio to be piped up into the room through the stalk.Designer Jocko Chan has developed a unique idea for an environmentally friendly sound... more
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Energy Star and Green guru Danny Seo have teamed up and developed a website to help people reduce their office’s energy bill while creating a more environmentally friendly workspace. The site hopes to educate office workers about the environmental impact their day to day job functions have on the environment and how they can offset some of that footprint by making their office building and co-workers more energy efficient.Energy Star and Green guru Danny Seo have teamed up and developed a website to help... more
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PetroAlgae is the first renewable energy company to commercialize a drop-in replacement for fossil fuels. The company licenses an innovative commercial micro-crop technology that enables the large-scale production of green fuels as well as a high-value protein co-product. The company's fuels are functionally identical to petroleum-based fuels and therefore use the existing industry infrastructure.
PetroAlgae’s proprietary technology is 1) clean, 2) economically viable, 3) scalable, 4) resource efficient, and 5) ready for commercialization today. Our micro-crops consume more than twice their weight in CO² and produce yields up to 25x to 100x more productive than macro-crop (soy, corn, soy, jatropha, etc.) biofuel feedstocks.PetroAlgae is the first renewable energy company to commercialize a drop-in... more
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They look like giant fly-swatters but could this be how technology will save our asses from extinction?
Scientists reckon 100,000 artificial trees could be deployed to within about 10 - 20 years to soak up carbon emissions.
These pictures actually do look pretty cool and algae strips on buildings might be what it takes - geo-engineering they call it.
Thoughts?They look like giant fly-swatters but could this be how technology will save our asses... more
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"NASA and the Air Force said today they had successfully launched a 9-ft. rocket 1,300 feet into the sky, powered by aluminum powder and water ice. This combination of fuel elements, referred to as ALICE, has the potential to replace some liquid or solid propellants. The technology is being developed at Purdue University and Pennsylvania State University. Aside from its environmental benefiits, ALICE has the advantage that it could be manufactured in far-away places, such as the moon or Mars, instead of being transported to distant horizons at great cost, researchers said.""NASA and the Air Force said today they had successfully launched a 9-ft. rocket 1,300... more
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BLYTHE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2008--Ironwood State Prison (Ironwood) and SunEdison today announced the activation of a new 1.18 megawatt (MW) ground-mounted photovoltaic solar power system.
The photovoltaic system, which will deliver 2.4 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of clean renewable energy in the first year of operation, was deployed through an innovative public-private partnership between the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy services provider.
Under a solar power services agreement (SPSA), SunEdison financed, constructed and will operate the solar energy system. The CDCR avoids all upfront capital costs and will purchase the solar energy at predictable prices equal to or less than current retail rates. The solar system will produce no greenhouse gases, no noise and will use little to no water in operation....
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PHILADELPHIA (AP)
A Philadelphia prison hopes to save money—and the environment—by using solar panels to provide hot water at the facility.
City officials say the project will save about $1.1 million and 1 million pounds of carbon emissions over the anticipated 25-year life of the system.
The new solar-powered system at the Riverside Correctional Facility replaces traditional oil- and gas-fired water heaters.
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A Philadelphia prison hopes to save money—and the... more
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China will "definitely not" require the program, called Green Dam, to be packaged with all consumer PCs, said Li Yizhong, China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology, according to a transcript of his statements on a government Web portal.China will "definitely not" require the program, called Green Dam, to be packaged with... more
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