Your comment is a perfect exemplar of the psychology of risk misperception. Flying (at least flying in commercial airliners
We (mis) perceive the risk of airline travel because every airliner crash becomes a major international news story.
The*real*risk of a nuclear power disaster is far less than the*(mis) perceived*risk. If nuclear power was safe we would not need the Priceã¢Â#Ânderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act.@
Apparently I am allowed not a negative opinion again the dangers of nuclear energy and or the positive opinion towards solar power.
These comparisons are made by pro-nuclear propagandists to try to minimize the dangers of nuclear radiation. 3. Nuclear radiation is highly dangerous
and predicts a 70%increase thyroid cancer risk in females exposed to Fukushima radiation as infants. 11.
not from actual experiments of long-term radiation but from EXTRAPOLATING the effects from single high-dosage events like the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima or the exposion at Chernobyl:
and get some perspective on the vast array of other things that pose much greater health risks than nuclear power.
Whether it's the weapons and the nuke plants that create those isotopes or the ones that were built specifically for safer power generation
#How To Save The Electrical Gridthe explosion lit up the Manhattan skyline. A sudden boom a one-two punch of yellow light then everything went black.
Such infrastructure would be more resilient to both storms and terrorist attacks which the National Research Council warned in November could cripple entire regions of the country for months.
or other agencies deemed essential I put emergency power generators on the roof of buildings with the means to run power on its own circuit.
#A Huge Burst Of Gamma rays Hit Earth--And No one Noticedlast year Japanese scientists found evidence that in 775 AD Earth was hit with a sudden blast of high-intensity radiation--a blast
carrying about 10000 times the energy of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Clearly something catastrophic had occurred in Earth's cosmic neighborhood
The radiation either came from an especially intense solar flare or the explosion of a nearby star.
and Pacific oceans transforming trade transportation and even wartime strategy. France began construction on the canal in the 1880s
It is the greatest assault ever made upon nature; but the white man brushing aside all obstacles
and scorning danger will soon have finished this greatest of all monuments of marching civilization.
in the systematic and effectual supervision of the material the supplies and the work and in the general progress that has been made.
It is a mistake to think this has been done under military power. It has been accomplished by the forceful and efficient efforts of a corps of intelligent sanitarians who have proven themselves master pioneers in the prevention of tropical diseases
In comparison with similar expenditures in American cities it should not be forgotten that practically nine-tenths of the cost of sanitation in the Zone is in mosquito fighting and quarantine.
The unconquerable Gorgas with a good force of physicians surgeons nurses expert sanitarians skilled engineers and helpers with ample supplies of disinfectants were put in the lead.
and regulations put in force for the protection of the public health. A number of living stations for employees were arranged along the railroad
Now the real war against diseases was begun lakes and swamps that had never been drained since nature made them poured out their accumulated filth to the sea;
a large force of men were kept busy oiling three or four times a month all lakes puddles sluggish streams
and capital will throw every protection around employees for selfish reasons. Great commercial agricultural and industrial development immediately follows new and important lines of transportation;
The scientist's arrest is just the latest in a series of indictments against six other people linked to a Beijing seed-development company called Dabeinong Technology Group Co. The FBI alleges the Dabeinong staff were part of
Instead the FBI alleges Debeinong staff tried to steal the seeds and seedlings of the parent plants that companies crossbreed to create the seeds they sell to farmers.
No one wore protective clothing. In a village dedicated to plastics recycling Puckett found young women sitting on a concrete floor bashing computer housing to pieces with hatchets.
In the soil the level of chromium was 1338 times higher than the EPA s environmental risk standard.
The first pile consists of fist-size chunks of steel uniformly gray all smoking-hot from the recent violence.
I see an aboveground mine. Three hours north of London in the former boom-bust coal-mining town of Worksop MBA s 200000-square-foot recycling facility rises like a giant blue barn.
As in mining the major challenge in plastics recycling is separating the target material from the many nontarget ones.
because we re using processes from so many other industries says Biddle who has poached separation techniques from mining metal recycling
Those are sliced into mustard seed ize pellets the product MBA sells to its customers. That s all Biddle will tell me.
I see an aboveground mine. Everyone mentions that line from The Graduate where Dustin hoffman receives one word of advice:
and after multiple investigations a pitched legal battle a temporary restraining order and a standoff with the Mexican Navy the garbage was incinerated finally back in New york. The other event involved Berkeley California
which became the first community in the country to ban Styrofoam containers. Dow made the polystyrene foam that went into those containers and that bothered Biddle.
That constitutes a very real threat to Biddle and what he s trying to accomplish.
The more stuff that s mine the better. And of course it s your stuff f it s broken.
Eddy Current Separator An electromagnet inside a rotating drum creates a force field at the end of a conveyor belt.
The detector signals an air gun which blasts any non-blue particles with air knocking them out of the waste stream.
Shoreditch suffered heavily during the blitz of WORLD WAR II urban renewal compliments of the Luftwaffe Waugh says nd then spent decades in neglected decay.
Wood nets a savings of 323 tons. Demographers predict that the planet s urban citizenry will double in 36 years increasing the demand for ever-taller structures in ever-denser cities.
When CLT is used to build high-rise towers the carbon savings can be enormous. The 186 tons of carbon locked into Stadthaus are enough to offset 20 years of its daily operations meaning that for the first two decades of its life the building isn t carbon neutral t is actually carbon negative.
This vortex creates the force necessary to lift the insect between wing flaps. Similar vortices might be generated by the angle
and together they applied for an Air force Grant wood s group then used an image-capture system to record
Last February the engineers sent their drone called the Instanteye to Fort Benning near Columbus Georgia for its annual Army Expeditionary Warrior experiments where an infantry platoon used it to help complete a set of assigned missions.
The soldiers gave it a green rating one of the highest available. As the first generation of microdrones reaches the market significant engineering challenges still remain.
Guiler and Vaneck plan to sell the Instanteye to the military and law enforcement. The british Forces have begun recently using a microdrone a hand-launched helicopter called the Black Hornet to scout for insurgents in Afghanistan.
Microdrones may also have uses closer to home. They could allow police and SWAT teams to gather footage inside office buildings
and it was found to provide better protection against infections by Mannheimia haemolytica bacterium than imported vaccines.
which unlike the imported vaccines has been demonstrated to provide protection against bacterium infection in the small ruminants like goats and sheep.
Therefore STVAC7 was developed using local isolated bacterium that was found to be able to provide protection against infections by Mannheimia haemolytica bacterium A2 A7 and A9.
This was proven to be said better protection Prof Zamri who graduated with his Doctor of Veterinary medicine degree from UPM before obtaining his Phd from Liverpool.
Whitefly experimentation to prevent contamination of agricultureon November 8th Jove the Journal of Visualized Experiments will introduce a new technique to aid in the development of defenses against diseases threatening food crops worldwide.
The method published under the title Transmitting Plant viruses Using Whiteflies is applicable to such at-risk crops as tomatoes and common bean plants.
Therefore the whitefly-assisted transmission method provides researchers with a powerful means for continued experimentation in developing plant defenses against the threat of whitefly-transmitted disease.
The Air force Research Laboratory through the University Technology Corp. the Office of Naval Research MURI graphene program and the Air force Office of Scientific research MURI program supported the research.
This innovation already has industrial property protection and soon will be able to export their ozone fumigation system to Canada.
but researchers are looking at it as a way to combat obesity. They are looking at compounds that will prevent you from absorbing all the nutrition in your food in the small intestine he said.
and are more risk-averse Austin-Breneman says. But if they believe your product can be serviced
while at the same time offering a significant cost benefit to the grower through the savings that they will make in the reduced costs of fertilisers.
The Boeing Corp. and the Air force Office of Scientific research funded the work. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Rice university.
Legal protection of an area followed by intensive management can reduce the level of human disturbance
Natural crystals are made of structures bound by the Van der waals force but they're all of the same composition Lou said.
The Welch Foundation the National Science Foundation (NSF) the U s army Research Office the U s. Office of Naval Research the Nanoelectronics Research Corporation and the Department of energy supported the work.
The study was supported by grants from the Air force Office of Scientific research and the National Science Foundation.
Our results will help develop ways to use this new material in atomically thin electronics that will become integral components of a whole new generation of revolutionary products such as flexible solar cells that conform to the body of a car.
It has been proven to decrease the risk of obesity and diabetes. This discovery holds promise on many fronts beyond food systems.
Its main offices are in Washington D c. and Columbus Ohio. To automatically receive news releases from the American Chemical Society contact newsroom@acs. org. Follow us:
protecting water resources and restoring an economically vital coastline we will need to invest in the characterization of our water microbiological communities and shift the pollution science paradigm toward an understanding of risk and resilience under global change.
Emerging opportunities for water disinfection integrated urban water management and risk assessment1. Pedro J. Alvarez1 Phd Rice university Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 6100 Main street MS 519 Houston TX 77005 United states 713-348-5903
and regulations to mitigate potential risks associated with their release to the environment. Therefore it is important to understand how engineered nanoparticles interact with microorganisms
Corp. and Fourth Military Medical University in China contributed to the article. Cedars-Sinai researchers were supported by a Young Investigator Award and a Challenge Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation research grants (P01 CA098912 and R01 CA122602) from the National institutes of health a Department of defense Idea
Award (W81xwh-11-1-0422) and from Spielberg Family Foundation. UCLA researchers were supported by a Creativity Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation and research grants (R21 CA151159 and R33 CA157396) from the National institutes of health/National Cancer Institute Innovative Molecular Analysis
We think combining the processes might bring us some savings. But there are always trade-offs.
J. S. C. F. A d.)by the Air force Office of Scientific research (Grant No. FA9550-09-1-0418)( J. H.)by the Office of Naval Research (Grant No.
--unless they cross somewhere they perceive as a danger zone. Weighing conservation vs. riskas we go forward with conservation plans
and the relative risk that a species is facing we need to look at those risks across its distribution not just have a one-size-fits-all for the prairie chicken's entire distribution.
i e. energy cost savings improved vehicle technologies and reductions in petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions exceed the additional costs of the transition over and above
Ceramics are used in a wide variety of technologies including body armor fuel cells spark plugs nuclear rods and superconductors.
one lightly stamped another with medium force and the final stamped heavily. The preliminary indication is stamped that these decoys were 40 percent better than recently dead females in luring
Although the potential for CO2 sequestration in the ocean is associated large the risks to the marine environment need to be assessed adequately the authors concluded.
) This research was supported by the U s. Air force Office of Scientific research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative by the UK Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council and through a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Alexander Von humboldt Foundation.
Abundant gas may have a lot of benefits--economic growth local air pollution energy security and so on. There's been some hope that slowing climate change could also be one of its benefits
With regard to the cow's well-being and the financial impact caused by the disease warning signals should be intercepted as early
A single battle with a large wildfire can incinerate $1 million a day in firefighting costs a total that has exploded annual national costs to nearly $2 billion recently even as states ante up an additional $1. 5 billion themselves.
The nightjar--Caprimulgus europaeus--is a migratory species protected under the Birds Directive (Directive 2009/147/EC) and in the UK by the classification of Special Protection Areas (SPAS.
Benefits of carotenoidswhatâ's more according to the researchers the inclusion of carotenoids in a diet can help to reduce risk of developing diseases such as certain types of cancer heart disease or damage to vision especially those related to an aging population.
Finally the researchers investigated whether Chinese food trade leads to global water savings. They found that domestic corn trade leads to significant losses of irrigation water resources (such as rivers reservoirs and groundwater.
and their exports lead to large national water savings for both rainfall and irrigation water.
#Reducing emissions will be primary way to fight climate change, study findsforget about positioning giant mirrors in space to reduce the amount of sunlight being trapped in Earth's atmosphere
The first scholarly attempt to rank a wide range of approaches to minimizing climate change in terms of their feasibility cost-effectiveness risk public acceptance governability
At stake the study emphasizes are the futures of food production our climate and water security.
and other animals and the risk--while minimal--may stand in the way of public acceptance.
No one wants to live next to a huge underground pool of carbon dioxide that might suffocate them and their children--no matter how small the risk.
#Innovative solar-powered toilet ready for India unveilinga revolutionary University of Colorado Boulder toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2. 5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable
Vertimass is pleased very to be partnering with ORNL to commercialize this revolutionary technology that can broaden the market for alternative fuels said Vertimass chairman William Shopoff.
and improve energy security and domestic economies. Commercialization will lead to the widespread use of proprietary Vertimass technology for low cost production of sustainable transportation fuels for aircraft and heavy and light duty vehicles from multiple sources of biomass on a large scale.
Natural selection shapes mechanical advantage in batsmechanical advantage--the efficiency in transmitting force--can be decisive whether it be automated through an harvester in agriculture a six-foot-six swimmer
or a bat with a short face that gives it the bite force to penetrate hard figs.
valos who joined forces with Dr. Elizabeth Dumont and a mechanical engineer Dr. Ian Grosse (both of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst) in a recently published paper in Evolution that lays out the team's findings relating mechanical advantage
which gives them the high bite forces needed to pierce through the hardest figs. Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage--a trade-off for having long narrow snouts that fit into the flowers in
My goal as a scientist is to uncover the evolutionary forces that have shaped biodiversity says Dr. Dá
He put a solution thick with spores on a tiny flexible silicon plank expecting to measure the humidity-driven force in a customized atomic force microscope.
which gives them the high bite forces needed to pierce through the hardest figs. Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage
All of these different risk factors are going to have to be bundled in. History of beta-agonist usefeedlots have used beta-agonists a cattle feed supplement approved by the U s. Food
The goal, with the help of IBM's carbon intelligence software is to reduce New york city's greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2017.
but it's not an emergency yet. It hasn't hit the radar. Smartplanet: We've asked water experts about why it matters.
We're going to promote Briggo pre-security, Mahlum said. So passengers will be able to get on their mobile apps
and place the order while they're standing in the security line. Samuel Nahmias, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Studylogic, a research firm
It will provide a great cup of coffee to the world while saving on employee costs.
Operational savings? Environmental impact? Local leadership? DC: I don't really think I can prioritize them,
but it takes more energy to produce--you have to do mining to get the materials.
--but the United states is at risk of watching other nations pass it by if it doesn't recognize the trajectory and implications of globalization.
The battle to feed all humanity is said over, Chu quoting author Paul Ehrlich. A subsequent major development was the development of disease-resistant strains of wheat that could handle artificial fertilizer and produce higher yields.
During the bleakest moments of our country's history--the Civil war--you would think that the country could not spare all of its resources to something not dedicated to fighting a war
It may not be quite as visible or an assault on our senses as horse manure but it's just as significant.
Casey B. Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, raised the idea in Species Protection and Technology, a post on The New york times Economix blog.
He acknowledged the protection of biodiversity as a legitimate goal for public policy, but noted that the costs of saving species often fall on landowners and businesses,
while we incur real economic costs protecting others. By bringing cloning into the set of public policy instruments,
reduce economic costs of protection, or both. Bad copies of priceless originals My first reaction to this brave plan--unfairly,
Back in 1992, physicist and author Gregory Benford of the University of California, Irvine, published Saving the'library of life'in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This would more nearly resemble an emergency salvaging operation than an inventory, for there would be paid minimal attention to studying the sample.
He also argued that saving the DNA should be a complement to traditional conservation efforts that might not always work,
with a goal of saving 25 percent of all wild plants by 2020. Should we eat the babies?
Protecting people & the environment. Growing in developing markets. The Applied Biosciences division, which counts $1 billion in revenue,
energy security, rural community growth, fewer greenhouse gas emissions, food constraints, green jobs. Binetti outlined the advantages of cellulosic ethanol:
Nature Conservancy share watershed lessons Alliance to share water risk data; the value of wastewater Greenpeace challenges apparel industry to come clean Pushing for more disclosure Smarter home irrigation technologies Smart grid gains ground with water managers 3 water
management tips from Intel Pepsico grant supports clean water in rural China Many businesses blind to water risks
the Maverick Sport is powered officially a parachute. The Sport Pilot license required to fly it is much easier to obtain than a standard pilot's license.
and sees the Maverick's potential uses as extremely diverse, from security to recreation to search and rescue.
Then, they need to replicate the wear that comes with people sitting down with different amounts of force over a long period of time and the effects of exposure to light over several hundred years.
The authenticators are also harnessing high-tech tools in their fight against fakes. Â Some use radiocarbon, thermoluminescence and other techniques to accurately date the antiques.
or whether they might be from an area of conflict in the Ivory coast. Even though the bar codes on shipments may be correct,
and more on common sense as the number of stranded motorists needing rescue climbs higher. Down Under, motorists in Victoria, Australia, have been warned by police to be careful
The force has asked Apple to fix the issue, but in the meantime, perhaps rival firm Google's mapping service or a traditional A to Z would be a better option.
app FTC creates guidelines for facial recognition technology use The spy-free app you can use to stop surveillance
and the tech that might save humanshumans are considered now to be the greatest force impacting the geology of Earth.
and our fellow animals and plants, who are at risk of dying out. are worried we enough about saving human civilization to make this time scale, the Anthropocene, more than a mere speck in the geologic time scale?
To understand the role of innovation and technology in saving ourselves, Smartplanet turned to David Biello who has been writing about the environment and energy for nearly 15 years, most recently for Scientific American.
and other radioactive elements not commonly found in nature thanks to our nuclear weapons testing. And we have created some new compounds that will be in the geologic record for a long time to come, the most ubiquitous
the mad-science arm of the U s. defense department? DB: They are not as crazy as DARPA.
The military doesn care what it spends on an application. ARPA-E has a different customer, us.
The same drone technology that the U s. military is using in Afghanistan could be put to use in the United states to transport goods between locations safer and faster than human drivers.
The U s. military hopes to soon use drones for cargo transportation and refueling. This is certainly a realistic hope according to Missy Cummings, director of the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT.
soldiers guarding borders may see an army of remotely controlled robots rushing toward them. Cummings reports that oeseveral U s. government agencies are seriously considering how to use unmanned vehicles in first strike or initial invasion settings.
so that Marines could go in. If a robot can launch an invasion, how long before they re delivering our goods and services automatically?
like gas-powered engines, the trick is to produce force on turbines, but to do so without creating emissions.
The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) is willing to bet it is wrote Marvin Cetron in the September-October 2008 issue of THE FUTURST. oein early 2008,
With sections focusing on food, water, shelter, health and sanitation, energy and transportation, and education, oedesign for the Other 90%focused on problem solving for the vast majority of the world people who survive under the poverty level
says Okamura. oeyou can have force-sensors and other ways of examining force, and then you re acquiring data at the same time that you re doing the procedure,
so you can be getting even more information that can be used for diagnosis or in scheduling postop appointments.
and I think that we're at a point where it will be very good to see how these resource-conserving technologies can perform to help solve food insecurity issues."
The U n. Convention to Combat Desertification has submitted a proposal for the United nations to adopt a Sustainable Development Goal of zero net land degradation by 2030
Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution.
Across many industries, products and practices are being transformed by communicating sensors and computing intelligence. The smart industrial gear includes jet engines,
Computer vision software can analyze facial expressions for signs of severe pain, the onset of delirium or other hints of distress,
using computing intelligence to create more efficient systems for utility grids, traffic management, food distribution, water conservation and health care.
The office building of the futuresocial forces and advances in communications technology are driving changes in how and where people work.
Originally a term meaning to break into a computer security system, 'hack'has been given a more positive connotation by Gensler:
and institutions encourage employees to supplement their office space with work locations not paid for by the company-home offices, neighborhood coffee shops and communal spaces, such as parks and museums in the public domain of the city.
engineered crops, pest control, fertilizers, etc. â environmental protection and remediation: restoration, monitoring, detection, etc. â consumer products:
can be paraphrased as oegarage biology is good and necessary for the future physical and economic security of the United states. This position acknowledges the historical analysis that
and children, will give us an explosion of diversity of new living creatures, rather than the monoculture crops that the big corporations prefer.
How will a balance be struck between private risk and gain versus public benefit and safety?
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