November 21st, 2009
Frist off, let’s explain what a “wave energy system” is. At first read you probably think this has something to do with radio, gamma, or whatever type of wave in some sort of
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November 18th, 2009
So much for the green movement. More evidence that the rise in atmospheric CO2 emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world’s natural ’sinks’ to absorb carbon is published November 17 in the journal Nature Geoscience.
An international team of researchers under the umbrella of the Global Carbon Project reports that over the last 50 [...]
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November 4th, 2009
In 2005, a 35 mile rift broke through around Ethiopia in Africa, that some scientist believed might be the formation of a new ocean. Further study of the area has pulled more scientists into this belief as well.
The fat burner volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at [...]
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October 24th, 2009
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded just over $100 million to 32 plant genome research projects. These projects are designed to to help in the understanding of the plant genome in hopes that they will be able to understand more fully how they react to the environment. The projects are there to find [...]
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October 20th, 2009
Here we go again. It seems to me that these sort of things would be rather straight forward. There was this much ice this many years ago, and now there is this much ice now. That ice has been depleting at X number of meters per year, and this is the rate.
Apparently it isn’t as [...]
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September 13th, 2009
Swedish researches at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, have proven that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for oil and natural gas generation. This is a pretty big deal.
“Using our research we can even say where oil could be found in Sweden,” says Vladimir Kutcherov, a professor at the Division [...]
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September 9th, 2009
Ok…so giant rats aren’t really that exciting. I just know people don’t like rats much, but this one seems more like Michael Jackson’s Ben than Williard’s rat Ben from the movie Willard, or the original Willard. A couple rats that had some sort of bioidentical hormone replacement austin.
A Smithsonian Institution biologist, working with the Natural [...]
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August 20th, 2009
Ford Motor Co., and its partners have unveiled that they are testing one of the industry’s first vehicle-to-electric grid communications and control systems, which enables electric vehicles to interface with the grid for optimal recharging.
What this means is that instead of just plugging your car in when you pop in the house after work, you [...]
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August 11th, 2009
A treasure of new species have been uncovered in the eastern Himalayas over the last decade. Such species as a “flying frog”, the world’s smallest deer, and even a 100 million year-old gecko (been doing Geico commercials that long its seems).
A decade of research carried out by scientists in remote mountain areas endangered by [...]
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June 13th, 2009
Well…more great news for those that want human life to end. The Greenland ice sheet, according to a new study led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher and published in the journal Hydrological Processes, suggests that it is melting faster than expected.
It also states that the melting may have caused almost 25 percent of [...]
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