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Stoat (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
So says Sci-Am . The article is high on pic and low on facts. Only a small percentage of the CO2 is captured - 1.5% - but that is OK, it is only a demo plant. The key question, of course, is how much extra coal is burnt to achieve this? This vital fact is not clearly provided. The 1.5% is clear And now roughly 1.5 percent of the CO2 billowing from its stack is being captured... but the other half...
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MATTER Features (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) pushed the climate bill through the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday, but it's becoming clear the bill won't get far before the world meets in Copenhagen. Boxer decided to ignore the Republican boycott of the Climate Bill - and the requirement that 2 Replublicans be present to vote for passage - and passed the bill based on a simple majority of people...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Infants who are exposed to higher levels of air pollution are at increased risk for bronchiolitis, according to a new study.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The operations of the CoRoT mission has been extended for three additional years, until 31 March 2013.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime, France, by palaeontologists. This discovery raises a new hypothesis about the dispersal route of the earliest marsupial mammals.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In foods, soil samples or customs checks, plant fragments sometimes need to be quickly identified. The use of DNA "barcodes" to itemize plant biodiversity was proposed during the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Summit. Researchers have now tested this method in the tropical forest.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
An international team of scientists has shown how the chemistry of surface reactions underpinning catalysis can be modeled accurately with computers.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Researchers in Spain have designed a system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield following the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move. The scientists have used settings of Panzer General, a commercial war video game, for the development of this software.
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http://cleanidahoenergy.wordpress.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Few organizations have been as stridently anti-nuclear as Greenpeace. They’ve taken credit for scuttling nuclear plants (and doing nothing as coal took their place) and made opposition to nuclear energy a near-religious experience. However, with concerns about global warming and the growing realization that only nuclear can provide abundant, low-cost, always-on energy that society needs, [...]...
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Energy from Thorium (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Several articles today burned me up for their sloppy, sensationalist, anti-nuclear approach to "journalism": CBS: Japan Uses Controverisal Nuke Fuel This article claims that Japan uses "weapons-grade" plutonium which is untrue. They use reactor-grade plutonium recycled from their light-water nuclear reactors. This article claims that they're making more nuclear waste when they're...
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Heliogenic Climate Change (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"On October 31, 2009, the once largest aluminum plant in the world will shut down. With it goes another American industry and more American jobs. The Columbia Falls Aluminum Company in Montana will shut down its aluminum production because it cannot purchase the necessary electrical power to continue its operations. ... In the year 2000, America planned 150 new coal-electric power plants. These...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Boxer Rams Economy-Killing Energy-Rationing Bill through EPW Committee | CEI “We congratulate Chairman Boxer and the committee’s Democrats for their methods. They have so poisoned the atmosphere in the Senate that the terrible Kerry-Boxer bill is now dead ,” said Myron Ebell, CEI Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy. “We also congratulate Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.)...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
China calls on developed countries to massively cut emission first BEIJING, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday said developed countries should take the lead in quantitative and massive emissions reduction, and provide support for developing countries in tackling climate change. The Associated Press: Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.: No fed money for US-China wind project WASHINGTON — A Democratic...
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Atomic Insights Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
My years as an operating engineer has turned me into a contrarian and a pessimist who is constantly looking for signs of trouble, especially as others get excited and focused on temporary good news. My years as a critical consumer of commercially sponsored media has also made wary of sales pitches disguised as news stories. When the ultimate source of salaries is advertising, it is hard to maintain...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
An inconvenient nightmare, part II | Capitol Hill Blue Al Gore is at it again trying to scare the people of the world into fattening his pockets and ceding control of all human activity to a global government. All this, of course, is due to a completely contrived and carefully crafted propaganda campaign envisaged by the global elites at the U.N. and based purely on junk science - science that has...
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aarkstore | 10/22/2009
The report focuses on China’s traditional, non-renewable energy sectors - coal, oil, and nuclear power, which together account for about 90% of China’s energy mix. It analyzes current technology levels, penetration of clean and efficient technologies specific to the three sectors, as well as potential opportunities for foreign companies. This report does not include the renewable energy sectors (e.g....
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aarkstore | 09/16/2009
Fuel – Nuclear Power’s Trump Card? Summary Compared to coal or gas, nuclear fuel is inexpensive and constant in price, uranium reserves remain large – and quite possibly sustainable – and spent fuel is easily contained. Nuclear fuel has many associated advantages in comparison to other conventional fuel sources. Only a small quantity of uranium is required to produce a huge amount of nuclear energy....
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aarkstore | 08/11/2009
Fuel – Nuclear Power’s Trump Card? Summary Compared to coal or gas, nuclear fuel is inexpensive and constant in price, uranium reserves remain large – and quite possibly sustainable – and spent fuel is easily contained. Nuclear fuel has many associated advantages in comparison to other conventional fuel sources. Only a small quantity of uranium is required to produce a huge amount of nuclear energy....
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