which provide energy for the potential pollinators. But the floral nectar of some plant species also includes small quantities of substances known to be toxic,
and dairy farmers efforts to deal with cattle waste by turning it into fuel. With the right skills, a dairy farmer could rent out land
Rather than being an alternative energy convenience, this approach could benefit companies operating in countries like China
theyre neither blankly insipid, like vodka, nor gasoline-y, the way so many clear spirits are.
Ball up a lint-free coffee filter. 7. Recycle frying oil. After frying strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter. 8. Weigh chopped foods.
Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale. 9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods. 10.
That reduced erosion, the runoff of chemicals into waterways and the use of fuel for tractors.
To avoid wastage of firewood, they bury the deceased. Though a religious sect, the Bishnois do not believe in unnecessary rituals, idol-worship, caste system, etc.
they use cow dung cakes as fuel for cooking. One of their principle tenets oeamar Rakhave That means to provide shelter for abandoned animals
DEVICE WORKS ON SOLAR POWER The system is suitable in areas where there is no electricity supply
because it can be powered by a simple solar panel that generates five volts of energy, he said. oeit is a simple technology
One of the more significant direct causes of deforestation in the United states is mountaintop-removal coal mining in the states of West virginia, Kentucky and North carolina.
and oecloud-based alternatives to print media are driving record levels of energy consumption. According to the U s. Department of energy, the electricity consumed by data centers in the United states doubled from 2000 to 2006, reaching more than 60 billion kilowatt hours per year,
roughly equal to the amount of electricity used by 559,608 homes in one year. According to the EPA that number could double again by 2011.
and external wind generators for power, these self-contained farming silos can be constructed in desolate climates, deserts, on rocky ground,
#The Sahara Forest Project A Renewable Energy Oasis The Sahara Forest Project The Sahara Forest Project is a unique combination of proven environmental technologies,
Can you imagine harnessing sufficient quantities of solar power to supply electricity to cities in Africa and cities in Europe?
their proposal to combine two innovative technologies, Concentrated Solar power (CSP) and Seawater Greenhouses, to produce renewable energy,
water and food in an area of desert known to be one of the hottest places on earth.
Multitasking renewable solutions It has often been said that there will be no one solution to solving the climate crisis and all those issues that surround it, such as energy sources, food prices and water supply.
and Concentrated Solar power and how theyre being used to great effect. It is the fact that they are being used together in the same place,
and optimize their operating capacities to produce energy and water and by proxy vegetation. This sense of collaboration is echoed in the team of people behind the proposal:
an engineer Bill Watts of Max Fordham & Partners, an engineering firm that focuses on energy efficient systems for the built environment.
What Does concentrated Solar power do? CSP is seen currently as one of the most exciting and powerful ways of harnessing the suns energy to create power.
Like the Seawater Greenhouse, CSP works well in hot arid areas where the sun is at its most powerful.
It has been proposed that the energy created by CSP in the Sahara could be transported to Europe with minimal loss via high voltage DC power lines.
only about 25%of the collected solar energy is converted into electricity. If combined with sea water another 50%of the collected energy,
normally released as heat, can be used for desalination. This way, up to 85%of the collected solar energy can be used.
In conclusion the Sahara Forest Project works on many levels. By combining the benefits of Concentrated Solar power
and Seawater Greenhouses the design team has scaled vastly up the positive outputs of renewable energy, food production and fresh water supply.
Furthermore they tell us that oethe scheme would also have the restorative effect of returning areas of desert to forested land
Without the IPCC reports, governments would not be embroiled in such passionate debate about phasing out the age of oil and coal.
illuminated only by a small energy-saving bulb on the ceiling. This man with his thinning gray hair, is an unlikely adversary for climatologists,
#Can Charcoal Save The Planet? Terra preta means oeblack earth. More importantly, if less literally, it means fertile soilreated 1000s of years ago out of nutrient-starved rainforest dirt by the strange alchemy of charcoal.
and collect the liquids and you get liquid fuel and enough combustible gas to fire up the next batch of biomass.
Advocates have hoped long that biocharpread over farm fieldsould improve soil quality and crop yields, while simultaneously trapping carbon in the soil.
and does it better than normal charcoal, said John Bonitz, a farm outreach and policy advocate with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
The charcoal left behind by a campfire, for instance, is made chemically up of carbon joined to lots and lots of oxygen molecules,
or if a successful soil stew needs more ingredients. oeterra preta research indicates that there was kitchen garbage discarded with the charcoal,
and ended up on dinner plates across the country. oefood fraud has been documented in fruit juice, olive oil, spices, vinegar, wine, spirits and maple syrup,
using reclaimed wood, low-energy devices, and natural soaps on their properties. Pics) At this Washington state treehouse (pictured above), for example,
youll live off the gridhe utilities run on solar energy and theres no shower. But youll also have skylights over your bed, a river right outside,
The entire property runs on renewable energy, and the resort, which shares its location with a wildlife sanctuary, promises all-natural sheets and towels and biodegradable detergent,
and recycles, installs low-energy lights, and sources local goods whenever possible. Inkaterra Conopy Tree house The Inkaterra properties are some of the most unusual in the world
and capture the tropical breezes (while cutting back on air conditioning) nd since none of the rooms have televisions or phones, youll use less energy.
However, the total increase of daily energy was significantly higher in 2003-06 compared to late seventies.
because they do need energy, but again make sure it is the right kind of healthy snack. This study is yet another reason to take charge of your meal plan,
Fueling the mini-shift trend is an explosion in Web sites for freelancers, which enable skilled workers in a wide range of fields to sell their services easily in part-time chunks.
not only cut down on the use of oil, that is usually used to make plastic, but potentially enable people to compost plastic at home.
Plastics made from oil can take hundreds of years to decompose but the new material would break down in a matter of months.
Around seven per cent of worldwide oil and gas resources are consumed in plastics manufacture with worldwide production exceeding 150 million tons per year.
Almost 99 per cent of plastics are formed from fossil fuels. Dr Williams said The british research had worked out how to extract a polymer from glucose found in trees and grasses.
it would be much less controversial than growing crops for fuel in cars. The process is much less energy intensive than current methods of producing plastic.
The new material is also better for the environment because it degrades quickly. At the moment the research is concentrating on how to make plastics from sugar for the mass market
It was only a few months ago that researchers learned that bees have some kind of internal mechanism that allows them to keep track of energy expenditure,
which provides energy for the potential pollinators. But the floral nectar of some plant species also includes small quantities of substances known to be toxic, such as caffeine and nicotine.
U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute have announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass that will enable researchers to shed light on the genetics behind hardier varieties of wheat and improved varieties
and gave scientists worldwide free access to a draft sequence of the brachypodium genome long before the work was published formally The sequencing project was carried out through the DOE-JGI Community Sequencing Program. more via science news Share Thissubscribedel
a chemist with the Indoor Environment Department of Berkeley Labs Environmental Energy Technologies Division. oetsnas are among the most broadly acting and potent carcinogens present in unburned tobacco and tobacco smoke.
#Initiative Proposed To Delay Californias Global Warming Law Californias global warming law calls for utilities to increase their use of renewable energy to at least 30 percent by 2020 Conservatives propose an initiative
known as AB 32, called the initiative oea campaign that has to be taken seriously. oeit would put all our efforts at energy efficiency and renewable energy in the deep freezer for a long time,
Oil refiners and truckers filed suit this week against a measure to reduce the carbon content of gasoline and diesel.
And it would suspend the regulation to slash carbon intensity of fuels by 10%.%However, half of the states measures to bring greenhouse gases down to 1990 levels by 2010 would survive,
with the lowest necessary energy use, both geometry and common sense suggest that the cow would have a lower rate of metabolism per cell than the mouse:
The authors also conclude that proposed oil development projects represent the greatest threat to Yasunã
One key recommendation is a moratorium on new oil exploration or development projects within the park,
particularly in the remote and relatively intact but oil rich northeast corner that contains oil blocks 31 and ITT.
which would leave the parks largest oil reserves in the ITT block permanently under the ground.
which is said to increase energy and memory, is considered a strong aphrodisiac. It impacts the central nervous system
an oil that comes from the bark of the West african Pausinystalia Yohimbe tree. For hundreds of years, African natives have dried yohimbe bark
PEA is the chemical that causes elevated heart rates, increased energy, euphoria and generally any symptom corresponding to feelings of being oein love.
and energy to collect and deposit pollenwasps that did not provide the basic service of pollination were sanctioned.
and Reducing Waste Runoff Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence.
Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence.
including the U s. Department of energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), the U s. Department of agriculture-Agricultural research service (USDA-ARS),
The DOE, National Science Foundation, USDA and United Soybean Board supported the research. oethe soybean genomes billion-plus nucleotides afford us a better understanding of the plants capacity to turn
sunlight, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water, into concentrated energy, protein, and nutrients for human and animal use, said Anna Palmisano,
DOE Associate Director of Science for Biological and Environmental Research. oethis opens the door to crop improvements that are needed sorely for energy production, sustainable human and animal food production,
Jeremy Schmutz, the studys first author and a DOE JGI scientist at the Hudsonalpha Institute for Biotechnology in Alabama, said that the soybean sequencing was the largest plant project done to date at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. oeit
Of the more than 20 other plant genomes taken on by the DOE JGI, those already sequenced include the black cottonwood (poplar tree and the grain sorghum,
said co-author Gary Stacey, Director, Center for Sustainable Energy and Associate Director and National Center for Soybean Biotechnology,
more importantly, helps to identify those genes that are essential for such important agronomic traits as protein and oil content.
and their associated pathways are the building blocks for soybean oil content and represent targets that can be modified to bolster output
and lead to the increase of the use of soybean oil for biodiesel production. While biodiesel from soybean oil represents a cleaner
renewable alternative to fossil fuels with desirable properties as a liquid transportation fuel, there simply is not enough oil produced by the plant to be a competitive gasoline on a gallons-of-fuel yield per acre.
The availability of the soybean genome may provide some key solutions. oewe can now zero in on the control points governing carbon flow towards protein
and oil, said Tom Clemente, Professor, Center for Biotechnology, Center for Plant science Innovation at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. oewith the combination of informatics,
biochemistry and genetics we can target the development of a soybean with greater than 40 percent oil content.
two (Charles and David Koch) expanded a medium-size family oil business into a billion-dollar industrial conglomerate,
Bill gates, likewise, devotes most of his energy and intellect today to his foundation s work on causes ranging from supporting charter schools to combating disease in Africa.
think of BP CEO Tony Hayward, who complained of wanting to get his life back after the Gulf oil spill
Wind Turbine Repair Techs The proliferation of windmills around the world will dramatically drive the demand for repair techs who are not afraid of heights
Space-Based Power system Designers At some point, the burning of earth s natural resources for power will become a thing of the past.
Mass Energy Storage Developers As a society, we have become very good at generating electricity,
Once mass energy storage systems are developed and installed, our total energy needs will drop precipitously. 51.
Earthquake Forecasters Everything we know about the inside of the earth has been developed through indirect evidence. We have no maps of the center of the earth.
Monster Energy Drink Combine in highball glass and serve. Stir slowly. Garnish with glowstick. THE WOOKIEFOOT#8 oz.
and improve the flavor of tinned tomatoes during the canning process#Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy,
#The U s. now uses more corn for fuel than feed! Using corn as fuel is Madness!
And not The british band#The corn ethanol supporters are probably not very familiar with the concept of opportunity cost.
and more than half of what remains is now being turned into ethanol fuel while the other half goes to feed livestock.
The problem is that life-cycle studies show that corn ethanol ranges from barely better than fossil-fuel gasoline to significantly worse
And, while some of the corn used to produce these biofuels will be returned to the food supply (as animal feed and corn oil),
Making fuel with food is madness, and it must stop#Via Sciam Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati o
a senior researcher at HP Labs in Palo alto. The company is under contract with Royal dutch shell to install 1 million matchbook-size monitors to aid in oil exploration by measuring rock vibrations and movement.
designed to keep your energy higher for longer. Of course, consuming more of the Fab 5 without reducing your intake of the Seductive 7 WILL NOT lead to weight loss!
As LED lights become more efficient and green energy more abundant, Podponics, and all indoor agriculture, will be less costly and likely more environmentally friendly than fertilizer guzzling
judged by market capitalization, surpassing Exxon mobil). And, perhaps most telling, you cant have a bubble
Oil and gas companies were early innovators in supercomputing and data visualization and analysis, which are crucial to todays oil and gas exploration efforts.
Agriculture is powered increasingly by software as well, including satellite analysis of soils linked to per-acre seed selection software algorithms.
In some industries, particularly those with a heavy real-world component such as oil and gas, the software revolution is primarily an opportunity for incumbents.
#Worldâ##s forests absorb 40%of manmade fossil fuel emissions Forests are absorbing almost 40 per cent of the 38 billion tons of carbon dioxide created by mankind every year.
Researchers at the University of Leeds found forests absorb nearly 40 per cent of man made fossil fuel emissions every year.
and a further 28 billon tonnes is generated by cars, factories and other sources of fossil fuels.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant some 50 km away suffered a series of core meltdowns and explosions after the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems,
setting off the worlds worst nuclear accident in 25 years and forcing tens of thousands from their homes.
Sunflowers were used near Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear accident there to extract radioactive cesium from contaminated ponds nearby.
#Genius 13-Year-Old has a solar power breakthrough Would you believe this could be the new look of solar power?
Using the same number of solar cells, he built two working models. One was a traditional
All of the smart-guys in the country who spent their time trying to make solar power more efficient were outsmarted just by a thirteen-year-old and a tree.
and then briefly blanches them in oil at 340 degrees Fahrenheit to tighten their network of interlaced starch molecules.
a quick plunge into hot oil at 375 degrees F. Water flashes to steam inside each minuscule bubble on the surface of the fries,
floods and the cost of energy required to plant, fertilize, harvest and transport it. And prices will only get more unstable.
using less energy to grow. Nature is good but too much nature is said killing Meeuws, standing in a steaming cubicle amid racks of what he called happy plants.#
eliminating the need to transport it long distances at great costs of fuel and spoilage and with little dependency on the immediate climate.
Notably, Kia, Moodys, BP, and Zale appear to be doing better than we expected. Brands that have stood the test of time for decades are falling by the wayside at an alarming rate.
and require up to 45 percent less energy to produce meat than conventional methods do. This may sound like a beneficial prospect
Every 20-point increase in systolic BP (the top number) or every 10-point rise in diastolic BP doubles your risk of dying of a stroke,
Over evolutionary time there would have been huge energy savings in making the brain smaller but more efficient#as we see today with computer processors.
Rising prices, particularly of food and energy, also play a role: Fruit prices in Australia were up 24.9 percent year-on-year in the first quarter and vegetable prices 18.7 percent (due in part to floods;
electricity rose 11.7 percent and gasoline 9. 3 percent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
$17. 30 Stavanger was mainly a fishing community until oil was found in the North sea in the 1960s,
Today, Norway is a leading oil exporter, with Statoil as the largest oil company in the Stavanger region.
and donkey milk provided the same amount of energy but that the latter caused more weight gain as it raised metabolism.
Oil of lemon eucalyptus active ingredient: p-menthane 3, 8-diol (PMD), a plant-based repellent,
when oil of lemon eucalyptus was tested against mosquitoes found in the US it provided protection similar to repellents with low concentrations of DEET.
Oil of lemon eucalyptus is plant-based repellent oil made from leaves of Eucalyptus citriodora. Concerns with DEET The most serious concerns about DEET are with the central nervous system:
This rare form of art requires unique ways of thinking about the flow of energy.
T he boom in new speculative opportunities in global grain, edible oil, and livestock markets has created a vicious cycle.
but speculation has created also spikes in everything the farmer must buy to grow his grain#from seed to fertilizer to diesel fuel.
Dont blame American appetites, rising oil prices, or genetically modified crops for rising food prices. Wall streets at fault for the spiraling cost of food.
high-energy crowd that combined college students, techies, business people and an assortment of other interested parties.
and space hotels are all persistent concepts that drive the energies of people on earth. Attractors are ideas that have been perpetuated through movies
ELF: Pale golden musk, honeycomb, amber, parma violet, hawthorne bark, aspen leaf, forest lily, life everlasting, white moss,
HALF-ELF: White sandalwood, beeswax, white tea leaf, oud, and a hint of sophisticated urban musk.
Gasoline jumped 5. 6 percent last month and has risen nearly 28 percent in the past year. Consumers paid an average price of $3. 81 a gallon nationwide on Friday according to the travel group AAA.
food processors and other producers are facing higher costs for oil, grains and other commodities. But only some of those increases are reaching the consumer.
wheat and oil, both of which have seen huge global price increases. The state is the countrys#1 producer of durum wheat#thats
The state also currently accounts for 2 percent of domestic oil production. Sound puny? Keep in mind that North dakota has just 650,000 residents,
And its aggressively ramping up its oil production. During the past 12 months, North dakotas crude oil production is up 43 percent,
and is triple the rate from five years ago. Planning for a Rainy day While residents are indeed seeing some of the revenue overflow returned to them via income tax and property tax cuts,
nearly 64 percent of North dakotans voted in favor of establishing a Legacy Fund that will siphon off 30 percent of total revenue collected from oil
Traditional PET plastic is made using fossil fuels, like petroleum, a limited resource thats rising in price.
It cut the amount of plastic in its Aqua-Fina bottle in 2009. And its Naked Juice line is in the midst of switching to a bottle made entirely of recycled plastic bottles.
#Doctors Warn Energy Drinks Putting Consumers at Risk as Sales Soar Around the world there are signs that for some people who consume these drinks,
With Americans chugging energy drinks like never before, fears are growing among doctors that the ingredients might be putting some consumers at risk.
or more nonalcoholic energy drinks#including brands like Red Bull, Spike Shooter and Redline. Across the world there are signs that for some people who consume these drinks,
U s. sales of nonalcoholic energy drinks are expected to hit $9 billion this year with children and young adults accounting for half the market,
Red Bulls website, for instance, says energy drink will increase concentration and reaction speed, and improve vigilance
He began to take an interest in energy drinks a few years ago, when four kids from South Florida were brought to the hospital after swallowing a vitamin concoction their teacher had bottled.
#While the U s. poison control centers havent been able to track potential side effects from energy drinks in the past,
According to one study from New zealand, just one energy drink is enough to make most kids experience some side effect
If it were as simple as energy drinks just containing caffeine, that would be one thing,
or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should think twice before downing an energy Drink up until I did this review,
if they were drinking energy drinks, #he told Reuters Health. Now I am and it is the basis for a discussion.#
and largely ignores in its conclusions the genuine, scientifically rigorous examination of energy drinks by reputable national authorities.#
Most mainstream energy drinks actually contain about half the caffeine of a similar size cup of coffeehouse coffee,
In fact, young adults getting coffee from popular coffeehouses are getting about twice as much caffeine as they would from a similar size energy drink.#
including the small energy shots.##Mild side effects begin to appear when people drink around 3 mg of caffeine per kilo body weight (1. 4 mg per pound) in addition to normal dietary intake.
That means an energy shot would push a typical 12-year-old three times over the limit.
And there is another difference between coffee and energy drinks, which are marketed often toward athletes. If youre a 16-year-old who just came out of football practice,
But you might have three energy drinks, #Lipshultz said. In fact high amounts of caffeine increase urine production, making our bodies lose water.
If there is no real upside to taking (energy drinks), and they clearly put some people at risk,
Further the trees killed from drought rot in the coming years will release over 5 billion tons of CO2#nearly equivalent to the amount of carbon released by the US in 2009 from the burning of fossil fuels.
Oils and fats are up and close to their 2008 level, and dairy is higher but still below its 2007 peak,
#In the future, Your Car May be made of Mushrooms Video games have long been using mushrooms as a source for power, energy and advancement.
Mielewski says Ford has been working to find a way to reduce the use of petroleum plastics since 2000,
#However, the cost of petroleum rose at the same time as interest in protecting the environment, and Ford decided to jump on the green trend with some success. Currently,
as much as 10 percent of car parts that are made typically from petroleum plastics can now be made from soy-based polyurethane foams or bioplastic.#
when it will actually be better than, not equal to, the petroleum-based foam. We are formulating a soy-based foam that will be more like
but it takes less energy to make, and while the soy is growing it is taking in CO2
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