New Look at Oil Reserves, Renewables and Climate Change

ByPiAdmin

New Look at Oil Reserves, Renewables and Climate Change There is a long term energy competition battle ahead between renewables and fossil fuels.  Just as the prices for renewable energy sources, mainly solar and wind, have fallen markedly, our irrepressable technolgy advances have enabled us to find vast new oil reserves under our feet.  Check this out to see what we have in billions of barrels:  http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/12/04/us-oil-reserves-hit-38-year-high So, this likely means the prices of gasoline…

BBC News – The goats fighting America’s plant invasion

BySustainMe

BBC News – The goats fighting America’s plant invasion: A different approach to invasives. That would be Kudzu. I wonder how it works with balsam pear in Florida? How about the melaleuca? Old school, but an effective approach to attach invasive plants is the old goat trick. What I didn’t realize before reading this article, is that the double chew and strong processing of the stomach reduce the changes of seed making the passage through…

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NASA, NOAA Find 2014 Warmest Year in Modern Record | NASA

BySustainMe

NASA, NOAA Find 2014 Warmest Year in Modern Record | NASA This is a good recap of the tie in to record warming with human activity. It also give links the the raw data and the detailed methodology. Anybody want to play with the raw, unadulterated data, you will find a LOT of it; and no matter which way you look at it trend line appears. And the trend line is very depressing. BUT… This…

The Toll of the Patent Troll by any other name: Intellectual Property – Bloomberg

ByBizMan

Symantec, Microsoft, Blue Cross: Intellectual Property – Bloomberg: A patent troll, by any other name, may not be called a “patent troll” in court. This would be funny, if it weren’t true. The often called “patent troll” company Intellectual Ventures LLC, can not be disparages by such names as “patent troll” in court the presiding judge says. IV — a play on the vampire concept of draining all the blood from the body of otherwise living…

It’s Official: 2014 Was the Hottest Year on Record (watch the data unfold)

BySustainMe

It’s Official: 2014 Was the Hottest Year on Record: This is a very cool — oops, hot, I mean — visual of the earth temperatures over recent decades. As you will see, the monthly averages and the annual averages spike up year after year. Only a few monthly numbers are higher now then in 1995 and almost no monthly numbers are higher than the 20th century average. 2014 was unusual as a hot year because…

Study: sea levels rising quicker than previously estimated – Blue and Green Tomorrow

BySustainMe

Study: sea levels rising quicker than previously estimated – Blue and Green Tomorrow: This is a bit of good news which really is really bad news related to sea level rise. The good news, if you can call it that is sea levels appear to have been rising far slower during the first century of the industrial revolution than previously measured (estimated). Apparently the tidal measures that have been around for centuries didn’t represent some…