Iran elected a new President this weekend, a relative moderate by most accounts. One can almost hear the neo-conservative wing of the GOP sighing in disappointment as the prospect of a lucrative war with an oil rich Islamic nation scuttles further out of reach:
Category Archive: energy
May 17 2013
Who could have predicted 97% of all climate scientists accept human induced warming?
Who coulda predicted? Umm, anyone who can read at the third grade level? Click image for details.
May 13 2013
Last time CO2 levels were this high we lived in trees
The difference between 399 parts per million of carbon dioxide and 400 ppm isn’t much, but new data from NOAA shows that that thresh-hold has now been crossed. The last time earth saw levels this high it was a very different place:
Feb 24 2013
Mars flyby and other links
This was supposed to be a secret until this coming Wednesday, and it was secret, right up until someone spilled the beans almost a week early: Buzz is building about a planned 2018 private mission to Mars, which may launch the first humans toward the Red Planet. A nonprofit organization called the Inspiration Mars Foundation …
Aug 13 2012
Here comes the power of the sun
The power of the sun, 4 trillion terawatts of pure, clean energy baby! That’s been the dream ever since the secret of the sun’s power was first gleaned by nuclear physicists almost a century ago. Fusion has been a long time coming, but we may finally be getting close:
Jul 05 2012
Report concludes Fukushima nuclear meltdown was avoidable
There’s a reason we have regulations in place for various industries: accidents can kill huge numbers of people. But as a new report on the Fukushima nuclear crisis underscores, those regs only work when they are well written and well enforced:
Jul 02 2012
Energy from a can
You’ve heard of spray on solar cells, scientists at Rice University have developed paint on batteries: BBC — The new work, from Rice University in Texas, US, opens up completely new avenues for putting batteries on nearly any surface in a simple and robust way. Pulickel Ajayan and his colleagues chemically optimised the recipe for …
Jun 01 2012
The spin on Iranian centrifuges
Reports have appeared that the US ran a cyber war program infecting the networks that manage Iranian centrifuges with computer viruses intended to slow down the production of weapons grade fissile material by the pariah nation:
Apr 20 2012
Number one selling car in America may drive wingnuts mad
Update 21 April ’12, too early AM: The comments below were so helpful I added a link to this piece on the DKos open science thread. Now, you’re all going to be marked as subversives … As the AOL piece linked below says, “we didn’t see this one coming.” According to them, the hottest selling car in …
Mar 31 2012
Us anti-science liberals have been taken to task by a brave anonymous emailer
Given the current anti-science jubilee going on among wingnut foot soldiers on the orders of their ignorant field commanders, you wouldn’t think they’d make a fuss about science. But you’d be wrong. One bold, fearless, anonymous member of the Keyboard Komanndos is mad as hell and they’re not gonna take it anymore!
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