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• World Bank invests in MENA Solar

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 423
  There have been a number of alternative energy announcements coincident with COP15. A Treehugger from Ottawa, Canada Michael Richard Graham reports on announcement from the World Bank. Photo: Sandia National Laboratory, Public domain MENA (the Middle East and North Africa ) is one of the principle ...
  5 days ago

• Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

  
  Chronos — Authority: 114
  From PhysOrg.com : In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals. Full aticle Chronos blog home page Chronos Date/Time Library web site
  6 days ago

• Electrofuels. “… using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels.”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 127
  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said:‘I am pleased to announce ARPA-E’s second funding opportunity because it demonstrates our commitment to lead the next Industrial Revolution in clean energy technologies, creating thousands of new jobs while helping cut carbon pollution …’More from a Release dated ...
  1 week ago

• Bupkis

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 423
  Subtitle: In Denmark, you don’t break the Bank, Bank breaks World. The Guardian reports that developing countries have reacted furiously to a leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations and sideline the UN’s negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol . Such a deal Antonio ...
  1 week ago

• The Warming Limit Approach

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 423
  Via Climate Progress , we learn about a warming limit-based approach to address the climate problem. The authors acknowledge that “defining a warming limit implies a greenhouse gas budget.” Nonetheless, it does seem somewhat silly for world leaders to jet to Copenhagen, sit around the table, argue about the ...
  1 week ago

• Go Bomber! Rah, Rah!

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 423
  Treehugger Kristin Underwood from Sacramento, California posts : “Climate Scoreboard is your new, easy to use tool that keeps you up to date on where we are with meeting those ppm carbon goals and how much further we have to go.” Which is an optimistic way of stating the concept, rather than stating that it ...
  1 week ago

• The second law of thermodynamics and evolution

  
  Latest entries from dotcommonsense.blog-city.com — Authority: 138
  Fundamentlists have slippery grasp on the reality behind the Scientific concept the Second Law of thermodynamics according to the linked dissertation which shows what they get wrong.
  1 week ago

• Out from the Mechanical View and into the Theory of Relativity

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 123
  The atomic clock that measured the vibrations of caesium atoms is unbelievably precise; so much so that it is accurate to within a few nanoseconds (1/1000 of a microsecond) a day. The precision of the atomic clock finally brought the downfall of Isaac Newton’s (1642-1727) mechanical view of the universe and endorsed ...
  1 week ago

• Switzerland Discovers Irrationality?

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 448
  Imogen Foulkes’ analysis for BBC News of the Swiss vote to ban minarets indicates that the descent of reasoned political debate into irrationality has now spread beyond the United States to Europe. As I read it, I could not help but remember what I recently wrote about Howard Dean’s thoughts on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Copenhagen Diagnosis

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 423
  O.K. First some gallows humor, a re-telling of an old medico joke. Some scientists have some good news and some bad news. “I could listen to some good news. What is it?” It is the end of life on the Planet as we know it. “That’s the good news. So what could the bad news be?” We have been warning you for ...
  2 weeks ago

• On the difference between science and philosophy

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Attentive readers of this blog may have noticed that those who post comments to my entries often show two interesting and complementary attitudes: a fundamental distrust of (if not downright contempt for) philosophy, coupled with an overly enthusiastic endorsement of science. Take, for instance, my recurring argument ...
  3 weeks ago

• On Ray Comforts "On the Origin of Species"

  
  Science and the Sacred — Authority: 543
  Though originally scheduled to take place today, volunteers gathered yesterday on college campuses across the United States to distribute free copies of Darwins seminal work On the Origin of Species . The volumes included one extra item not found in the original book: an introduction by creationist Ray Comfort, which ...
  3 weeks ago

• Turning heat to electricity... efficiently

  
  Chronos — Authority: 114
  From PhysOrg.com : In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of that wasted heat and turn it into usable ...
  3 weeks ago

• Trends in CO2 Sources and Sinks

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 423
  Subtitle: Cue the Timpanist Repost from Green Car Congress with a graph, an illustration, and captions added. Despite the economic effects of the global financial crisis (GFC), carbon dioxide emissions from human activities rose 2% in 2008 to an all-time high of 1.3 tonnes of carbon per capita per year, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Where does Evil Reside?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Where does Evil Re side? By the close of WWI Freud could see The Other Side of the Lust-Principle. Hardly surprising, in retrospect. There had been a shock. Victorias Secret was Out. (Come Out, Come Out Wherever You are, and see the young lady that fell from a star.) It was the undieside. We have had a shock. An ...
  4 weeks ago

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