Russia’s energy supplies enabled their aggression, Canada’s supply could be the placating alternative
"When it comes to action over Georgia, Russia has the European Union over a barrel. In fact, 1.2 million barrels. That’s how much Russian crude is pumped westward every day down the Druzhba pipeline to" [...]
According to some estimates, ethanol plants [...]
NOx emissions are a tremendous thorn for [...]
WHEN Crown Shakur died of starvation, he was 6 weeks old and weighed 3.5 pounds. His vegan parents, who fed him mainly soy milk and apple juice, were convicted in Atlanta recently of murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty.
I was once a vegan. But well before I became pregnant, [...]
Back-crossing is a plant breeding process to remove unwanted genes, but it is a time consuming process of raising successive generations of the progeny. The release of an improved variety usually takes 10 to 12 years.
With modern biotechnology, plant scientists can choose a specific trait and move only [...]
The Eco-Radicals' Real Motives
The driving force behind the eco-radicals’ fierce efforts to strangle the free market with environmental regulations is their virulent hatred for a free, prosperous economy. Yet behind this hatred is an even deeper one. To understand why they try to wreck our economy, you have to [...]
The reason it [...]
The response to the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, has been overwhelming, and overwhelmingly positive. As Channel Four reported in Broadcast magazine, they were inundated with phone calls following the first transmission. They calculated that [...]
A new study out of Stanford says pollution from ethanol could end up creating a worse health hazard than gasoline, especially for people with asthma and other respiratory diseases.
He found that ethanol-burning cars could boost levels of toxic ozone gas in urban areas, but that Los Angeles residents [...]
In the H2CAR [hybrid hydrogen-carbon process] concept, hydrogen would be harvested by splitting water molecules, possibly with a well-known method called electrolysis. Then the hydrogen would be added during the gasification step, making the process more efficient by suppressing the formation of carbon dioxide and converting all of the carbon [...]
Droplets of oil and sugar taken from biomass are sprayed into a small chamber containing a foam catalyst of rhodium and cerium. As the droplets hit the foam, volatile compounds within them oxidise (combust) to produce heat. This breaks down larger non-volatile compounds into a combination of hydrogen and carbon [...]
This year Waste Management and Processors, Inc. (WMPI), will break ground for the first U.S. coal-to-diesel production facility, in Gilberton, Pa. The plant will process 1.4 million tons of waste coal a year to generate approximately 5,000 barrels a day of diesel fuel.
The initial cost of the fuel [...]
"The U.S. has more coal than any other country in the world. It's actually about as cheap as dirt," said Perlman, co-founder and CEO of Greatpoint Energy, a Cambridge, Mass.-based company.
GreatPoint Energy is refining a process called catalytic gasification to convert coal into methane or substitute natural gas.
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Rachel Carsons major impact on the planet has been to discourage the use of a safe, cheap pesticide called DDT to suppress disease-bearing mosquitoes. North America and Europe used DDT to eradicate malaria. After our children were [...]
A WHITE powder, thorium oxide, could be the answer to many concerns about nuclear power.
Reactors that use thorium, rather than uranium, produce radioactive waste that needs to be stored for only 500 years. They can also incinerate the much longer-lived radioactive products from conventional nuclear plants, including plutonium.
"And in these [...]
An international team of researchers has discovered that two types of plant proteins are at work in the transport of an important growth hormone, a finding that could have applications in creating plants with specific characteristics.However, eco-zealots -- religious earth-worshiping fundamentalists -- have created a hostile political environment for crop [...]
One of Mr. Rutan's power point slides from a recent climate change presentation:
