Earth & Environment/CLIMATE CHANGETidal vs Nuclear4 Jul, 2008 10:41 am Even as Gordon Brown gives support for more nuclear newbuild, tidal stream energy makes big strides forwards while nuclear costs rise and problems continue...  Read more
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Technology/FUTURE ENERGIES[Opinion] Alternative Energy Will Win Hands Down3 Jul, 2008 04:14 pm If we develop common-sense new ideas, we won’t be importing oil, not to mention the new jobs created. As an energy inventor, here’s how I see it.... Read more
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Technology/FUTURE ENERGIESEnergy Delayers, Get Out Of The Way: A New American Energy Future Awaits2 Jul, 2008 07:36 pm Just as the time becomes ripe for a major push towards clean, cheap sources of electricity, the Bureau of Land Management threw a two-year stumbling block in the path of solar power development last Friday... Read more
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Technology/FUTURE ENERGIESWhat Do We Want? Cheap, Abundant Solar! When Do We Want It? Now!1 Jul, 2008 09:15 am The solar industry is booming, ramping up production capacity and driving costs down steadily towards the mythical "Grid Parity" point - the price point when solar on your roof beats paying your utility... Read more
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Technology/FUTURE ENERGIES[Opinion] Oil Shortage a Myth30 Jun, 2008 10:42 am I submitted the following letter to The Independent, in response to an article entitled as above. There is an essential difference between the total volume of reserves and the proportion of them that can... Read more
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Biology/STEM CELLSAdult Stem Cells: The New Plastic Surgery?27 Jun, 2008 05:23 pm A new article in Live Science predicts that adult stem cells may replace silicone breast implants and other contemporary plastic surgery techniques. But first, a crucial admission you once would never... Read more
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Earth & Environment/CLIMATE CHANGEThe E.P.A., California, and carbon dioxide26 Jun, 2008 12:55 pm Remember how the State of California sued the Environmental Protection Agency last November to force a decision on whether it could get a waiver to impose CO2 emissions standards on cars and light trucks?... Read more
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Technology/FUTURE ENERGIES[Opinion] Move People, Not Metal26 Jun, 2008 10:54 am Our current transportation system uses enormous amounts of energy primarily to move the weight of vehicles which transport passengers and freight. Bill James thinks we can improve transportation energy... Read more
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Earth & Environment/CLIMATE CHANGE20 Years After, James Hansen addresses the Congress25 Jun, 2008 04:47 pm Climatologist James Hansen testimony in front of a parliamentary committee of the US Congress 20 years after his first speech.... Read more
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Health & Medicine/NEUROSCIENCEHell in a handbasket?24 Jun, 2008 11:35 am So what is information technology doing to our brains? Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield has written a book about the upside and the downside of a world full of email and other instant electronic communication,... Read more
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