Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

Here’s just the sort of thing Gore was talking about in the last post. A team of researchers at MIT have developed a new solar technology

ScienceDaily (July 11, 2008) — Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part [...]

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An interesting study out of China indicates that children gestating in environments where power is being produced in coal fired plants have
significantly lower average developmental scores and reduced motor development at age two.
Given that over 50% of US power comes from coal burning plants, and that this percentage is increasing perhaps this explains why the [...]

This is interesting and I hope it goes somewhere. My big question would be what is the cost to maintain the unit that separates water into Hydrogen and Oxygen and does it require more energy input than it outputs.

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Today’s must read Living on the Ice Shelf - here’s a sample
Living on the Ice Shelf
Humanity’s Meltdown
By Mike Davis
1. Farewell to the Holocene
Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary.
This February, while [...]

DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.
The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine [...]

My inner skeptic cries “fraud” but the rest of me says, now that’s cool I hope it works as it would certainly solve the biggest part of the CO2 equation in global warming.
Genepax Co Ltd explained the technologies used in its new fuel cell system “Water Energy System (WES),” which uses water as a fuel [...]

I’m not a big supporter of carbon trading, the opportunities for fraud and other mischiefs are too great. However, it is likely that carbon trading schemes are going to abound, and if they must then

I’ve mentioned the North Pacific Gyre before. It’s a vast floating sea of man made garbage, mostly plastics, about the size of Texas. Here’s a map of it

The following documentary from VBSTV follows a crew as the sail out to the gyre and spend a week there collecting samples of the debris. It is in [...]

Click on the above picture for a large image. Earth as seen from space by NOAA
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