CraigsList ownawindmill.com needs to place five 20 kW new wind turbines on a rural commercial business site with at least 5 acres, or city zoning that allows a 186′ height. Your company will have 5 new wind turbines installed at no cost, in exchange for buying back power at your current rate per kWh...
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LowTechMag – Electric motors and batteries have improved substantially over the past one hundred years, but today’s much hyped electric cars have a range that is – at best – comparable to that of their predecessors at the beginning of the 20th century. Weight, comfort, speed and performance have eaten up any real progress....
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A homeless man found over $3,300 in a backpack, and rather than keeping the money he tracked down the owner and gave it back. Dave Talley, who’s been homeless for 11 years, found the satchel with thousands cash at a light rail station - DailyMail ‘It wasn’t my money. I didn’t earn it,’ Tally...
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As Green Jobs Promises Dwindle As Policies Backfire … nearly 15 million Americans out of work and the unemployment rate hovering above 9 percent for 18 consecutive months, policymakers desperate to stoke job creation have bet heavily on green energy. The Obama administration channeled more than $90 billion from the $814 billion economic stimulus...
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Happy Thanksgiving Kazakhstan? It appears we have a lot to thank Kazakhstan for. There is a country big enough to swallow the territories of Texas and France five times over. It is the ninth-largest nation in the world, bigger than Western Europe. Lazy journalists and the liberal media have colored what Westerners know about...
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Former vice president Al Gore said Monday that he regrets supporting first-generation corn-based ethanol subsidies while he was in office. Reuters reports that Gore said his support for corn-based ethanol subsidies was rooted more in his desire to cultivate farm votes for his presidential run in 2000 than in doing what was right for...
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Inhabitat - New Printable Armor is Hardest Organic Substance Ever Designed Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places. Case in point: scientists have just created a new super strong material based on the plaque found in Alzheimer’s patients’ brains. The new substance isn’t exactly the same as the plaque that causes the tragic...
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New regulations protect state from ozone and toxic chemicals SACRAMENTO – Today the Air Resources Board adopted regulations that will reduce air pollution from 11 categories of consumer products including bug sprays and a variety of household and professionally-used cleaners (link). The new regulations target volatile organic compounds and toxic air contaminants and when...
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Four decades ago, NASA put a man on the moon using a computer system less powerful than the electronics in many modern-day toasters. With that audacious act of technological faith, the United States took a giant step toward global leadership in science, engineering, and a myriad of other sectors that had not yet been...
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“Pollution in Beijing was so bad Friday the US embassy, which has been independently monitoring air quality, ran out of conventional adjectives to describe it, at one point saying it was ‘crazy bad.’ The embassy later deleted the phrase, saying it was an ‘incorrect’ description and it would revise the language to use when...
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“Beginning in a little more than a week, Green Power, Inc. of Pasco, Washington will be commencing the building of municipal-solid-waste-to-fuel plants for clients around the world, with $2 billion in contracts; now that an EPA ruling has exonerated GPI from an unnecessary shut-down order by the Washington Ecology Department last year. This fuel...
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Sam Smith To understand why Obama’s high speed rail efforts are stumbling, it may help to consider the reaction if the same principles were applied to funding air travel, in which case the bulk of the money would go to subsidizing business and first class. For example, one can travel on a regular train...
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NY Times One leading solution to the problem to the fossil fuel emissions generated by a coal-fired plant is injecting it into underground storage areas thousands of feet below the surface, a technology known as carbon capture and sequestration. The Energy Department announced this summer that it would finance 15 separate projects to develop...
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Dean Baker - “Extending the Bush tax cuts for the top 1 percent would cost an estimated $120 billion over the next two years. That’s more than another unemployment benefit extension would cost.” Realted??? Nearly half of members of Congress are mllionaires and Getting Richer Despite Sour Economy - Yahoo! Finance “Congressional representatives on...
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Wired - the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if the website has actually committed a crime. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits...
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Just the horrible idea that these people would not help anyone who has collapsed… yet an icon.Good Samaritan? Anyone? Where is the world going….
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Space Travel Poop-Powered- we’re experimenting with using human excrement t power all kinds of things on earth, from buses and cars to natural gas for our homes, why not try renewable poop power in space? That’s the mission adopted by a team at the Florida Institute of Technology–they hope to bring the flexibility and...
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The Lindberg Group of South East Wisconsin has updated their Winter schedule for Hazwoper and Confined Space Training 2010-2011 Offering 40-Hour Waste Site Worker Initial Training 8-Hour Waste Site Worker Refresher 8-Hour Confined Space Entry and OSHA 10 and 30 hour Construction Class Lead instructor for courses is Bill Lindberg, CET,CHMM. All of our...
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What happens to all that radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants? Not much. In 1982, Congress mandated the construction of a national nuclear waste repository. It’s been nearly 30 years since then, of course, and there’s no such repository. Planned for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, it was scuttled by the Obama administration due to...
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S. 3480 Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs… S. 3480 would amend the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) to strengthen and coordinate security controls over computer information systems across federal civilian agencies. In addition, the...
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Raw Story: Experts operating states apart confirm toxic content in not just shrimp, but crab and fish too… “We’ve collected shrimp, oysters and finned fish on their way to marketplace — we tested a good number of seafood samples and in 100 percent we found petroleum.” Multiple independent lab tests confirm oil in Gulf...
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A report detailing a decades-long practice of clandestine post-mortem organ removal from the bodies of dozens of workers in the UK’s nuclear energy industry; Britain’s Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has apologized to the families of those workers whose organs were taken without consent or even acknowledgement. Many of the organs taken were removed without...
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ViA Laura B. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified a list of 134 chemicals that will be screened for their potential to disrupt the endocrine system. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interact with and possibly disrupt the hormones produced or secreted by the human or animal endocrine system, which regulates growth,...
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Guardian – Department of Health putting fast food companies at heart of policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald’s and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on...
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Officials charged with protecting the environment and public health have for years made arbitrary subtractions to the measured levels of radiation delivered by water utilities across the state, according to an investigation by Houston CBS affiliate KHOU. Confronted by reporter Mark Greenblatt, TCEQ staffer Linda Brookins claimed that the radiation was “natural” and people...
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Interesting internet person Jeff Simmermon, who by day works for Time Warner Cable and also does other stuff we’ve blogged about at Boing Boing, alerts us to an event Time Warner Cable’s “Connect a Million Minds” project is hosting this Wednesday, November 17: “A global online town hall hosted by Al Gore; Dean Kamen,...
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Man builds fusion reactor prototype at home. Only $39,000. Cheap! Part of a growing community of “fusioneers” – amateur science junkies who are building homemade fusion reactors, for fun and with an eye to being part of the solution to that problem. He is the 38th independent amateur physicist in the world to achieve...
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Lead is the worst toxic threat worldwide, followied by mercury, chromium, arsenic, pesticides and radionuclides, says a new report by environmental groups. CAPTION By Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland The world’s six worst pollutants, including lead and mercury, threaten the health of tens of millions of people, primarily.The world’s six worst pollutants, including...
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Coal! – Unstoppable energy use, emissions and pollution As made clear by the International Energy Agency in its new World Energy Outlook, coal production is expected to explode, most notably in China. And bear in mind that this is taking into account a scenario whereby policy measures are implemented to curb its production.
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Sandia National Laboratories have announced a breakthrough that could lead to break-even nuclear fusion reactions within 2-3 years. The goal of nuclear fusion research is to make energy from sea water, producing only the harmless gas helium as a result of the fusion reaction. It is the holy grail…Read the full story from a...
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Scientific American, a once highly-respected scientific journal that has now descended into the muck and mire of pop science, has been banging the global warming drum as loudly and as often as anyone. Maybe they better bang it even more loudly and even more often, because their latest reader survey shows that their readers...
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MSN – An inspector general says the White House edited a report about the administration’s moratorium on offshore oil drilling to make it appear that scientists and experts supported the idea of a six-month ban on new drilling. The Interior Department’s inspector general says the changes resulted “in the implication that the moratorium recommendation...
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LA Times Bjorn Lomborg, the controversial Danish economist/political scientist at the center of filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s energetic new documentary, doesn’t find Gore’s truth inconvenient so much as distorted, a position that has made him about as popular as a toxic spill in many circles both left and right. Just how inculcated the precepts of...
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Nuclear green has Charles Forsberg’s views on Generation IV nuclear costs.” At the beginning of the 21st century, Charles Forsberg of ORNL and MIT proposed a hybrid molten salt cooled reactor that borrowed features from gas cooled reactors, would have a significantly lower cost than other Generation IV reactor designs. Our current administration may...
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Home value decline almost equal to depression puts home values an average of 25 percent below where they were at the June 2006 peak. By comparison, during the Great Depression, home values fell 25.9 percent in five years. Some 23.2 percent of single-family home owners with mortgages were underwater in the third quarter, up...
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The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water GrabEven though water privatization has been a massive failure around the world, the World Bank just quietly gave $139 million to its latest corporate buddy. Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an...
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Register: The world’s largest independent airline pilot association is warning its members to avoid security screening by full-body scanners out of concern the machines emit dangerous levels of radiation. The American Pilots Association, which represents about 12,000 pilots, is recommending members instead submit to new pat-down searches, even though critics have described them as...
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Some gave their all and some gave everything to protect our freedom…Thank you.
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The fall 2010 special issue of the Northeast Assistance and Pollution Prevention News that focuses on the future of P2 in the northeast is now available HERE (click to download)This issue continues the celebration of 20 years of P2 in the region and provides various perspectives on P2 priorities for the next 20 years....
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Wall Street Journal Many cash-strapped U.S. states are slashing budgets for tobacco-prevention programs, raising alarms among public-health groups as the nation’s progress toward getting adult smokers to quit has stalled. The adult smoking rate was 20.6% in 2009, the same as a year earlier and largely unchanged since 2004, according to the Centers for...
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The WI Sustainable Business Council serves Wisconsin businesses working with sustainable products, services and processes. The conference is the manifestation of Wisconsin’s need for a coordinating group for business in the sustainability area and is the only conference in Wisconsin designed specifically for direct business-to-business sharing of sustainability experiences. The Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council...
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The Hill - Obama, Singh vow increased clean-energy collaboration President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — meeting in India — have agreed to boost bilateral energy collaboration, the White House announced early Monday.“Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama reaffirmed their countries’ strong commitment to taking vigorous action to address climate...
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USA Today Mercedes will be the first of the big luxury-car makers to put such a small engine in its top-line model, according to a report by Bloomberg News. It will try to maintain a semblance of performance for the 2-ton-plus sedan even with a 2.2-liter diesel four-cylinder: The S250 CDI, due at dealers...
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One of the most unnerving aspects of … the human psyche to absorb is that it drives home with absolute finality the notion that Earth is finite. I know, that sounds obvious, but people have never behaved as if Earth were finite. They have behaved as if Earth and its resources, the environment itself,...
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The International Energy Agency issued its annual energy forecast for 2010. Slides and Source NextBigFuture TOD Updates: China’s rare earth embargo triggers price hikes IEA sees oil peak looming More needs to be done to avoid oil spike, IEA says China to Drive Energy Surge Through 2035, Warming Planet, IEA Outlook Says China’s...
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From NBF Tony Blair and Vinod Khosla see a big future for Congenra, a solar co-generation (producing both power and heat) company formed just 15 months ago with a scant $10 million of funding. With five times more energy production than photovoltaic technologies, Cogenera’s system may help traditional investors discover that the economics of...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting requirements for the petroleum and natural gas industries as part of the mandatory reporting program. The petroleum and natural gas industries emit methane, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and are one of the largest human related sources of methane in the...
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From Wisconsin DNR – On Nov. 15, celebrate by participating in America Recycles Day. The annual event encourages Americans to waste less, recycle more and purchase recycled products. In honor of the day, here are 10 ways people can boost the amount of materials they and their family recycle: Compost food and yard debris....
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Chemicals used to keep grease from leaking through fast food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags are migrating into food and could be harmful. The specific chemicals studied are polyfluoroalkyl phosphate esters, or PAPs, breakdown products of the perfluorinated carboxylic acids, or PFCAs, which are used in coating the food wrappers. “We suspected that a...
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Best Practices Managing Rapid Chemical Regulatory ChangesThe Safe Chemicals Act of 2010, Globally Harmonized System (GHS), Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) and REACH are just some of upcoming chemical regulatory changes that will have a dramatic affect on your organization. With the explosion of new chemicals that have been introduced into the market...
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Micro-hybrid vehicles apply electricity more modestly than their Li-ion battery-driven brethren, but fuel a 57.5% CAGR for energy storage through 2015, says Lux Research. While makers of grid-connected electric vehicles would be happy with annual sales of tens of thousands of units, micro-hybrid vehicle sales will top three million units this year and rise...
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Wanna help our nations energy program? Then sign-up!EnergyBlog - How much of an impact can the government make in pushing forward our country’s clean energy future? Well there’s a webinar on just that topic next Wednesday, November 17, at 3pm ET. Anyone can attend the webinar for free, but you need to RSVP ahead of...
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Boston - Imagine a source of energy that is plentiful, produces small amounts of pollutants that contribute to global warming, and can be delivered to homes, businesses, and power plants without new distribution systems. That source could already be here. A new technology developed by a Canadian company aims to remove carbon from natural...
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Via Laura Barnes Environmental News Bits Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): Overview and Issues R40155 – October 14, 2010 Biomass Feedstocks for Biopower: Background and Selected Issues R41440 – October 06, 2010 Pesticide Use and Water Quality: Are the Laws Complementary or in Conflict? RL32884 – October 13, 2010
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Bloomberg Coal burned to generate power may jump 12 percent next year on Asian demand for the fuel and supply constraints in producer nations, Deutsche Bank AG said. “Thermal coal has the potential to be the best performer of the bulk commodities in 2011,” Brebner said. Coal imports by China, the biggest user and...
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DocuTicker: The MetLife Report on “Early Boomers: How America’s Leading Edge Baby Boomers Will Transform Aging, Work & Retirement” contains startling news for the first group of Boomers to enter retirement, and likely those who will follow. It says those born between 1946 and 1955 will transform the American concept of retirement by forgoing...
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CNN – Twinkies. Nutty bars. Powdered donuts. He intended the trial to last a month as a teaching tool for his class. As he lost weight, Haub continued the diet until he reached a normal body mass index. Before his Twinkie diet, he tried to eat a healthy diet that included whole grains, dietary...
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How much water do you use when showering, or washing your hands, or washing the dishes? Not how much does the average person use, but how much to you use? That’s what the team over at Teague Labs set out to find with this water usage feedback system. The sensor used is a Koolance flow...
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In the not too distant future, it will likely be difficult to understand how so many educated people believed in and accepted uncritically for so long a scientifically unproven theory like the so-called Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). – Geraldo Luís Lino Taken almost as a dogma, the AGW has been forcefully imposed by means...
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Excerpt from Los Angeles Times “People are tired of the government cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives,” he said. “They’re tired of the government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies that have nothing to do with science or economics.” Texas officials and their allies assert that regulations they consider hasty and onerous...
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Miller Mccune: Millions of poor Americans living in distressed regions of the country are chronically sick, afflicted by a host of hidden diseases that are not being monitored, diagnosed or treated, researchers say. Most of the diseases named in the legislation have not been surveyed in the U.S. for decades, if ever. None are...
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Global warming-inspired cap and trade has been one of the most stridently debated public policy controversies of the past 15 years. But it is dying a quiet death. In a little reported move, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) announced on Oct. 21 that it will be ending carbon trading — the only purpose for...
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With asset leverage able to surpass 250 times the nominal value of an underlying security, the ballooning of paper assets due to the Nuclear Renaissance can quite quickly make the US subprime asset balloon seem rather small beer. The coming nuclear financial disaster in fact has many previous models. These stretch back to “classic”...
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HIGH speed rail is still one of the most inefficient ways to move people… NY Times “The administration squandered the money, giving it to dozens and dozens of projects that were marginal at best to spend on slow-speed trains to nowhere.” Mr. Mica said he would like to redirect the rail money to the...
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Oil May Rise as Federal Reserve Stimulus Plan Weakens Dollar, Crude may increase next week after the Federal Reserve announced plans for bond purchases, weakening the dollar, a Bloomberg News survey showed. Twenty-nine of 49 analysts, or 59 percent, forecast crude oil will rise through Nov. 12. Thirteen respondents, or 27 percent, predicted prices...
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spaceweather.com As real as it gets… NOAA forecasters say there is a 70% chance of M-class solar flares during the next 24 hours. The source of the blast would be active region 1121 emerging over the sun’s eastern limb: Image credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory Indeed, AR1121 is already crackling with an M2-flare...
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And no, Stephanopoulus is not listening to him as usual… NY Times – The complete transcript of the show is available at the Web site of ABC News (Mr. Stephanopoulus also interviewed the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel), but we’ve highlighted the relevant below: STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask you then about energy....
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Hazwoper and Confined Space Training South East Wisconsin Hazwoper and Confined Space Training Winter 2010-2011Offered by Lindberg Compliance Services Group, LLC 40-Hour Waste Site Worker Initial Training-Milwaukee November 1-4 December 6-9 January 10-13, 2011 8-Hour Waste Site Worker Refresher November 5-Milwaukee December 10-Milwaukee December 13- Green Bay January 14, 2011-Milwaukee 8-Hour Confined Space Entry ...
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US Coal to Gasoline Plant Will be the Largest in the World - The Adams Fork Energy project will convert regional coal into premium-grade gasoline, producing 18,000 barrels per day (756,000 gallons US, 2.86 million liters). When fully developed, the Adams Fork project will be the largest coal-to-gasoline project in the world, according to...
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Guardian – After questioning and listening to hundreds of climate change “skeptics,” I have found that not all are conspiracy theorists or religious fundamentalists. Many are keen to learn about the science of climate change, but they have been learning about it from rather dubious sources Two years ago Peter Hadfield began a series...
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USGS Drops a Bomb on Alaska’s Oil Future The USGS report estimated that the NPR contains approximately 896 million barrels of oil — 90% less than its previous estimate. That’s a huge blow to future reserves. The NPRA was previously thought to hold approximately 10.6 billion barrels of oil. To add even more insult...
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CNBC The New York Fed expects to conduct $850 billion to $900 billion in Treasury purchases through the end of the second quarter of 2011 and is expected to Pump Up to $1 Trillion Into US Economy. (guardian) Indeed, some worry further bond buying could do more harm than good by providing tinder for...
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There have been six deals targeting unconventional U.S. reserves this year so far, worth a whopping $52 billion. The majority of interest is focused on the U.S. Northeast and its Marcellus shale boom, with substantial interest coming from abroad: Rigzone: “Less than a decade ago, the onshore North American exploration and production business looked...
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Oil is starting its predictable $100 a barrel climb but sugar will be crippling… The commodity just hit a 30-year high on expectations of a shortage from Brazil, according to the FT. As with most commodities, anticipation of further easing from the Fed helps.
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AutoBlogGreen Toyota has sold over one million hybrids in the United States and more than two million around the world. It’s ordered by the court to pay Paice, an organization which exists solely to litigate companies that may be infringing upon Severinsky’s patents, $98 for every single hybrid it sells.Alex Severinsky is a Russian...
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Apparently not everyone in California just wants to lay around and get high TIME - residents fail to support measure legalizing recreational use of marijuana, vote in favor of keeping energy standards. SAN FRANCISCO – Voters in California soundly defeated Proposition 23 today, delivering a decisive and historic victory for the state’s clean energy...
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WIRED - Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China, is home to about half its 420,000 workers. They make many of our gadgets and computers, then walk to dormitories on the 2.1-kilometer-square campus….look inside. In this dorm room, eight workers sleep in four bunk beds in a room about the size of a two-car garage. See...
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Canadian Syncrude production rose 6 percent to 245,400 barrels a day in October from 231,500 barrels a day in September… Syncrude is a light, low-sulfur synthetic crude oil derived from tar sands in Alberta. BloomBerg
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What is green chemistry? Why and how does it relate to you? Green chemistry is the design of products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? It is perhaps a bit more difficult than it sounds. However, just because something is difficult doesn’t mean...
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By Laura B. (Thanks!) I’ve been holding back on laying into the third and latest Sins of Greenwashing report — in part because I’m feeling too much like a broken record — but I’ve got to weigh in. The report, if you’re not familiar with it, is published by TerraChoice, a Canadian-based environmental marketing...
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EcoFriend Research scientists at the University of Bolton have developed a new piezoelectric-photovoltaic fiber that can be woven into various gadgets to power them using motion and light. The scientists already created a flexible piezoelectric fiber that can harness motion, but now they have added a photovoltaic fiber that would make the material a...
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“Don Runkle thinks it’s engines, not batteries, that will make automobiles cleaner and more efficient. We unabashedly say that we have the best solution,’ says Runkle, the CEO of Allen Park, MI-based engine developer EcoMotors International. The startup, which brought in $23 million in Series B financing this summer from Menlo Park, CA-based Khosla...
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SlashDot “This article describes the efforts by some in the Pentagon to save lives by using renewable energy in the battlefield. ‘Seventy percent of all convoys carried liquid fossil fuels, and attacks on convoys … account for about half of all the casualties. Generators consumed more of the fuel brought in than did combat...
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“We’re letting drinkable water go out into the ocean every day,” he said. “Southern California alone dumps 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater into the Pacific every day.” “Some people are already drinking their own pee and don’t know it,” said Britt, referring to the people of Orange County…because of imminent drought in the West,...
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Response to the voice mails and emails I received this week telling me I must vote…. “Please vote today as we need to test the machines that will be used to dispense food stamps in January.” Things to know before you voteBefore you read this please understand that I personally believe that there is...
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Dr. Schlesinger served as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1971-73), Secretary of Defense (1973-75), Director of the CIA and was the first Secretary of Energy (1977-79). His wealth of experience at the highest levels of public administration is consolidated by his octogenarian wisdom. ….Some five years ago in Italy I concluded a talk...
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BBC A new study tries to prove…. Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the Lancet. The BBC’s home editor, Mark Easton, writes in his blog that the study involved 16 criteria, including a drug’s affects on users’ physical and mental health, social harms including...
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New Hidden Missile System Unknown To Feds?The promotional video for the Club K Missile system is part of the marketing campaign by a private, Russian-based weapons manufacturer. The cruise missile system is hidden in a 40-foot shipping container. It can fire four long range satellite-guided missiles from a ship, train or tractor-trailer. The Club...
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While there’s no question that you may be able to get a good deal on a new car or a flat-screen TV today, how often are you really buying these things? When you look at the real costs of everyday life, prices have risen sharply over the last year. For simplicity’s sake, consider the...
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The U.S. geothermal industry celebrates its golden anniversary this year—a fitting tribute to the Golden State that gave it birth fifty years ago. The industry came to life in September, 1960 at a PG&E project in The Geysers, a region of hot springs in Sonoma County. From that original 11 megawatt plant, The Geysers...
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Associated Press Most of the country will see a colder-than-usual winter while summer and spring will be relatively cool and dry, according to the time-honored, complex calculations of the “Old Farmer’s Almanac.” The 2011 issue of the almanac, which claims to be the nation’s oldest continuously published periodical, was released Tuesday. It predicts that...
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Washington Examiner - The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent federal agency, loaned more than $1 billion to the Mexican state oil company PEMEX in 2009 to support the company’s oil drilling in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The bank has another $1 billion in loans in the pipeline for 2010, unless Congress objects.
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