Trenberth on Tracking Earth’s energy: A key to climate variability and change This is a serious analysis of the energy flows of the earth systems. You simply look at energy as a budget (but hopefully not with the same budget processes as many of the countries use like the PIIGS and the USA). You have so much energy coming in. That energy is reflected and absorbed into the earth systems (oceans mainly). The problem is…
Interesting article. Three BIG reasons why we in the USoA companies are not being sustainable with our Over-Innovation ways. I think the short-term focus is a Big one. Focus on the immediate sell of the immediate product is probably the underlying problem more than any other. Article: over-innovation-makes-us-firms-suck-at-sustainability
There has been a painfully slow move to NatGas in the US, even though we appear to have centuries worth of it using new fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques. The one holdup, kinda, is being blamed on the possible environmental impact from gas drilling. (As if it could be worse than oil with its BP Gulf and Exxon Yellowstone spills in the last two years.) So the EPA is conducting a few big studies. With…
There’s a really cool oil and cleaning product company that produces bio-oils and cleaning products from plant and animal byproducts. Animal fats seem to be a big part of the oil. It has a patent pending technology using nanotechnology that they describe as: “superior performing ULTIMATE BIODEGRADABLE* motor oil made with American grown base oils and the power of nanotechnology to reduce wear, lower friction and provide more horsepower while being safe for the environment.”…
The Japanese reactors are far worse than they are telling us. It might take 100 years to clean it up, if/when they get the reactors under control. CNN news on this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXwI0HM9BYM (~5min) Decontamination processing is ongoing: http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20110624_7822.php In the meanwhile nuclear waste going to Yucca Mountain is not an option. So we continue to have no energy policy related to US nuclear power (and the nuclear waste). “For nearly thirty years, NRC waste-storage requirements have remained…
USF is ranked way up there with the BIG research universities. The only one from Florida in the top 14.http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=3509&z=158Pretty cool.
