McCain Calls for 45 New Nuclear Power Plants, Clean Coal Technology
Soon-to-be Republican U.S. presidential candidate, John McCain wants to add to the 104 nuclear reactors currently operating in the States. He wants to add 45 nuclear power plants by 2030. Additionally, he wants to pledge $2 billion each year in federal funds "to make clean coal a reality." The 104 nuclear reactors produce about 20% of the country's electricity needs. And America ...
Apes Can Plan for Their Future Needs
Who said apes are not smart? If you did, you may want to reconsider because researchers from Lunds University Cognitive Science in Sweden explained that apes are able to plan for their future needs, just as we humans do – by using self-control and imagining future events. Now we understand why they go fishing ... Mathias and Helena Osvath, the two ...
Car-free Experiment in New York, this Summer
Those living in New York should be really happy this summer, because the Department of Transportation is planning a 6.9-mile car-free path from the Brooklyn Bridge to the 72nd street entrance of Central Park. Three Saturday mornings in August (the 9th, 16th, and 23rd) for six hours the streets will belong to those that want to "Play. Run. Walk. Bike. ...
How to Pay Fees in Brazil, Plant Some Trees
This kind of initiatives really get us rolling on the floor and wagging our tails. The Brazilian Câmara dos Deputados is preparing a bill that will actually ask people to plant trees when they have fees to pay. The law is trying to recover the rainforest and offset the country's carbon emissions. We're talking about fees concerning marriage, divorce, buying a new ...
Me and My 60,000 Bees
There's a guy in North Carolina, Amychelle Jones, who has been sharing his home with 60,000 bees. I wonder if he counted them. One bee, two bees ... but back to the story. (honey oozes out of the walls) The knucklehead noticed something coming out of his walls and he realized it was honey after tasting the oozing liquid on the ...
Electric Car with Superconducting Motor
Sumitomo Electric Industries has an electric vehicle prototype that is driven by a superconducting motor. It's the first in the world and we will get a glimpse of the vehicle at the G8 Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido beginning on June 19. Sumitomo wants the world to know that high-temperature superconductivity technology is an option for electric motors. The usual electric motor uses ...
$1B Biodiesel Plant in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Neste Oil will invest about $1 billion to build a new biomass-to-liquid diesel plant in Rotterdam, Netherlands that will manufacture NExBTL renewable diesel fuel. The goal, 800,000 tons per year by 2011. Palm oil, rapeseed oil and animal fats will be mixed to make a high-quality diesel fuel. Neste already has two such plants, though smaller, in Finland and Singapore. (GreenPeace demonstration ...
Oprah’s 21-Day Cleanse for What?
Oprah just finished a 21-day cleanse. She eliminated caffeine, sugar, alcohol, gluten and animal products from her diet. She gained some awareness: “What I know for sure is I’ve reached a new level of awareness about food, eating and the whole process of how it gets to my table. I used to say thanks before a meal out of perfunctory habit. ...
High Gas Prices, Drive Development of Alternative Cars
There's got to be a better way. There's got to be a better way. Repeat after me. There's got to be a better way. At least two more 'better ways' have taken a step forward in the past couple of days. Germany's Robert Bosch GmbH has agreed to work with South Korea's Samsung SDI Co to develop the next-generation batteries ...
Earthquake forces Migration of Wolves
To be sure, it is not always we foolish humans that drive animals out of their natural habitats, Mother Nature can do it, too. A May 12th earthquake in the mountains of Sichuan Province devastated some of the natural habitats of the wolves in that same region. Only about 10 wolves have been sighted since and the government ...
