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Throughout World History innovation has driven societal advancement. Most of the time governments and rulers are reactive rather than proactive when it comes to adapting to new technologies. Take for example electrical power plants. Their advent and the wiring of homes for electric lights propelled American society forward. It was such a huge innovation that government was forced to react to

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Times Online - Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide 'renewable petroleum' “Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right

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It's being reported that later today video of a 'Live Alien' will be broadcast. I fear this will end up being yet another elaborate hoax but I will try to keep an open mind. No doubt it will eventually be on YouTube thus I will update accordingly... Purported alien video confab concludes A few minutes of grainy, black and white video show a creature with big eyes peeping over a windowsill. But

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A cheap polymer material increases the power output of methanol fuel cells by 50 percent. By Katherine Bourzac Methanol fuel cells have the potential to replace batteries as a lightweight power source for portable electronic devices. But fuel-cell materials are expensive, and fuel cells that consume methanol are inefficient. In particular, the membranes used in methanol fuel cells are expensive

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High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules AP MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. - High gas prices have driven a Warren County farmer and his sons to hitch a tractor rake to a pair of mules to gather hay from their fields. T.R. Raymond bought Dolly and Molly at the Dixon mule sale last year. Son Danny Raymond trained them and also modified the tractor rake so the mules could pull it. T.R. Raymond says

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Amazing Video... Battle at Kruger

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We are at the point now where we have solutions to our energy woes that can be implemented NOW. All we need is the willingness to change. I’ve been following energy alternatives for a while and pushing for the United States to move away from oil as the dominant source of energy for our country. The point of this blog is to push for rapid change; to shift the paradigm in a dynamic temporal

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Billionaire Texas oil man makes big bets on wind By Chris Baltimore WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legendary Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens has gone green with a plan to spend $10 billion to build the world's biggest wind farm. But he's not doing it out of generosity - he expects to turn a buck. The Southern octogenarian's plans are as big as the Texas prairie, where he lives on a ranch with his

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Richard Branson and Google have teamed up to send an expedition to Mars. The program is called Virgle Richard Branson on Virgle From the Virgle site: For thousands of years, the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and

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One-and-a-half-year old Chihuahua dog 'Conan' prays with his owner and chief priest Joei Yoshikuni during a morning pray at the Shuri-Kannondo temple in Okinawa islands, southwestern Japan, Monday, March 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) Dog prays at Japanese Zen temple NAHA, Japan - At a Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays. Mimicking his master, priest Joei Yoshikuni,

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You Decide... Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher JERUSALEM (AFP) - High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology

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By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer DANIA BEACH, Fla. - Just 15 miles off Florida's coast, the world's most powerful sustained ocean current — the mighty Gulf Stream — rushes by at nearly 8.5 billion gallons per second. And it never stops. To scientists, it represents a tantalizing possibility: a new, plentiful and uninterrupted source of clean energy. Florida Atlantic University

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DETROIT, Michigan (AFP) - General Motors Corp. is planning on making biofuel with garbage at a cost of less than a dollar a gallon, the company's chief has said. The US automaker has entered into a partnership with Illinois-based Coskata Inc. which has developed a way to make ethanol from practically any renewable source, including old tires and plant waste. The process is a significant

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I personally find this to be terrific news. I am a huge fan of LOTR, read the books several times over, and own all of Jackson's LOTR extended cut DVD's. This makes me very happy. Peter Jackson to produce `The Hobbit' By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK - Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a planned prequel to the

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Inventor John Kanzius on Burning Salt Water This should be talked about more. A viable alternative that we have a huge supply of. John Kanzius Produces Hydrogen from Salt Water Using Radio Waves

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We have a serious energy problem in America. We know that our dependence on foreign oil fuels terrorism around the world. We know we need to rid ourselves of our dependence on oil. However, the Petrochemical Industry is insisting that we stay on oil for as long as possible, until the entire world is plunged into oil wars if necessary just so they can continue to make a profit. It's really

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Indonesia's Child of Krakatau volcano spits flames JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's "Child of Krakatau" volcano, formed after Mount Krakatau's legendary eruption in 1883, has been spitting out flaming rocks and smoke for days, but it is not especially dangerous, a vulcanologist said on Friday. Mount Anak Krakatau, which lies in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra, began

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Before work this morning, I flipped on MSNBC to find Joe Scarborough interviewing Pat Buchanan about global climate change for a counterpoint to GE/NBC/Universal's 'Green Is Universal' week, which is supposed to be about raising environmental awareness similar to CNN's 'Planet in Peril'. As to be expected, Buchanan came down on the side of the oil corporations and big business. Buchanan's 'proof

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Tips: The Dark Wraith Forums, The Uncapitalist Journal This video should give everyone something to think about as we move into what is supposed to be the great big promise of a better future being brought to you by more and more gadgets. “The inventor of the system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind.”- Josiah F.

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Tips: Les Enragés.org

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I first heard about this on the Colbert Report broadcast on 10/30/07. Colbert went on to make what at the time seemed like an outrageous claim: That a mass of garbage twice the size of Texas was floating around in the Pacific Ocean. I immediately found myself searching for news articles about the toxic mass. Much to my disappointment, Colbert was not kidding. There really is a massive pile of

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It's just a matter of time... US scientist heralds 'artificial life' breakthrough WASHINGTON (AFP) — Controversial celebrity US scientist Craig Venter has announced he is on the verge of creating the first ever artificial life form which he hails as a potential remedy to illness and global warming. Venter told Britain's The Guardian newspaper Saturday that he has built a synthetic chromosome

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No word yet as exactly how bad this is but it's not sounding good. 'Catastrophic' volcano eruption off Yemen TORONTO, Canada (AP) -- A volcano has erupted on a tiny island off the coast of Yemen, spewing lava and ash hundreds of feet into the air, a Canadian naval vessel near the island in the Red Sea reported Sunday. There were no reports of deaths, but at least nine people were missing. The

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A crater is seen in Carangas, Puno, Peru, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, caused by a supposed meteorite that crashed in southern Peru over the weekend causing hundreds of people to suffer headaches, nausea and respiratory problems, a health official said Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/La Razon, Miguel Carrasco) ** BOLIVIA OUT MSNBC via AP: Doctors so far have found no evidence site sickened

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This is one for the bizarre file... Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village LIMA (AFP) - Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday. Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane

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