220 Volt Heavy Duty Receptacle. Image credit:Angiogram
This is one of those comparison posts that that could draw many angry comments: like Could Hype Sell An Inferior Hybrid? - Ford Fusion versus Toyota Camry did. Please carefully read the caveats.
Investigators from Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburg PA, have made a Volt-type v.s. Prius-type design comparison which flags a big differentiator when emissions and efficiency are normallized: battery price, or, more proper…
photo: University of South Carolina
I have to admit that I was thrilled to see this story as I am a resident of Columbia, S.C. (home to USC) and we aren’t often the “the world’s first” at much related to the environment. But it’s great to see that USC is making moves toward some greener technology for their athletic department especially with something as important as its scoreboard! Though there is still much work to be done and this is mostly an educational exercise, USC is proving that the potential to apply fuel cell technology across the board is there and ready …
A play through of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) the original arcade version release. This is a game that features quite the clever and cute quirkiness and wackiness of Konami side-scrollers and the turtles and all of their cast of enemies and allies.
This game was released originally in 1989 in arcades everywhere, prior to being ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991 with many different changes being made to it, such as:
1) The addition of two stages that were not in the arcade version: between the sewer scene and the parking garage scene, you fought in the zoo which was frozen over by a climate controller, and had to beat a polar bear in a bikers jacket. The other was between the factory and the Technodrome, where you went to a ninja house and fought a big ninja guy with a yamato spear who threw his head around.
B) All conversations and speak were removed from the game.
C) Pizza Hut had adverts in the second scene where the whole billboard was and then fell down to reveal two foot soldiers.
D) In the NES version, you got an extra life for every 200 kills.
E) In the NES version, you face Baxter Stockman as a fly at the end of the parking garage scene: in the arcade version you fight Bebop and Rocksteady again.
Author: RipperEagle96
Keywords: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TMNT Arcade Game Konami Mirage Studios
Added: February 28, 2009
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Added: February 28, 2009
The laws protecting citizens from potentially dangerous cleaning and personal-care products remain absent, minimal, or rarely enforced.
If we still rode horses every day, we’d never have a barn attached to the house because the animal odors would be objectionable. Yet houses routinely have an attached garage which contains much more unhealthy odors.
The majority of the balanced ventilation systems on the market are heat recovery ventilators (HRVs). Most HRVs consist of an insulated cabinet, a heat-recovery core, two fans, some ductwork, and a control. But not all HRVs are created equal.
In a typical forced-air system with leaky ducts and an inefficient filter, the ducts are usually contaminated with a wide variety of particulates and microorganisms-all directly exposed to the air being breathed by the occupants.
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (OneWorld.net) - Thousands of protestors will stage an act of mass civil disobedience at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant in Washington, DC Monday, in what may be the highest profile act of civil disobedience on climate change in the United States.
With unemployment at a record high, growth in green jobs is increasingly seen as a rare bright spot in a bleak landscape — a view shared by applicants, prospective employers and, unfortunately, scam artists preying on those eager to enter the new hot job market.
Reuters - India’s chief climate envoy said on Friday he welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama’s policy on climate change but warned there would be no global deal if rich nations insisted on emission targets for all.
An analysis from the Center for Public Integrity shows the number of climate change lobbyists increased 300 percent since 2003. There are now four climate change lobbyists for every member of Congress.
Reuters - The world faces a final opportunity to agree an adequate global response to climate change at a U.N.-led meeting in Copenhagen in December, the European Union’s environment chief said on Friday.
Paul Panepinto, an executive at Green Plug, spoke with me about how the GSMA’s universal phone charger announcement last week changes the landscape of green tech, and how your iPod could plug into the Smart Grid.
Oxfam’s “Green Granny” is back with new tips and ideas for living better and saving money. This video intriducers the idea of 4-a-week which involve buying more fairtrade, wasting less, buying less meat products and buying more from developing countries. Find out more about it at www.oxfam.org.uk/4aw.
Author: OxfamGreatBritain
Keywords: oxfam green granny grannie lady save money climate change live better cooking ideas tips craft helpful poverty british
Added: February 27, 2009
Bakus Cork Mat by Ciclus Designs
We told you about an innovative wine-lamp box Cavallum: a sustainably designed holiday gift commissioned by a Spanish company. The designers at Ciclus have recently announced another simple, yet practical design to extend the life of your wine bottle corks while protecting your surfaces from heat.
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Politico - President Barack Obama has spent months recasting Democratic goals on climate change and health care reform from liberal-leaning moral imperatives to hard-core economic necessities.
AFP - President Barack Obama Thursday rolled out an audacious 3.55-trillion-dollar budget bristling with economic reforms and spending on healthcare and climate change but warned that “hard choices” loomed as the deficit piles up.
The United States has the largest automobile fleet in the world — three cars for every four people — and is near the bottom of the pack in the use of fuel-efficient vehicles. A national network of high-speed rail trains would reduce the air pollution caused by the nation’s automobile fleet while also eliminating travel time and saving commuters money.
AP - Geologists, biologists and other scientists convened Thursday in Paris to discuss how to stop the spread of fungus stains aggravated by global warming that threaten France’s prehistoric Lascaux cave drawings.
AP - President Barack Obama’s first budget plan moves aggressively to tackle climate change and shift the nation from reliance on foreign oil to green energy.
AFP - US President Barack Obama is banking on a landmark carbon gas cap-and-trade system to both fight climate change and pump 80 billion dollars into the Treasury purse to fund renewable energy programs.
CQPolitics.com - President Obama sent Congress a $3.6 trillion budget Thursday that proposes costly efforts to expand health care coverage, address global climate change and also rein in swelling deficits.
AP - With climate change emerging as a key issue for both the United States and China, the two countries have a new platform for cooperation and an opportunity to strengthen their often contentious relationship, a leading China expert said Thursday.
AP - President Barack Obama is proposing moderate increases in space spending. Obama emphasizes global warming research and continues plans to retire space shuttles next year while eventually returning astronauts to the moon.
AFP - The Kazakh parliament Thursday approved the Kyoto Protocol on fighting global warming, making it the last signatory to the UN-led treaty to ratify the measures other than the United States.
Climate change will not be taken seriously until the media highlights its significance, say researchers at the University of Liverpool.
Dr Neil Gavin, from the School of Politics and Communication Studies, believes the way the media handles issues like climate change shapes the public’s perception of its importance. Limited coverage is unlikely to convince readers that climate change is a serious problem that warrants immediate and decisive action.
Pro-bike Billboard from Green Beer Company
Generally speaking, we TreeHuggers are not huge fans of billboards - especially when billboards have more rights than trees. But if they do or say cool green things, they tend to get a more sympathetic reception - take Lloyd’s round up of five sort-of green billboards. I’d like to throw New Belgium Brewery’s latest advertising into the mix too - largely because I tend to love everything New Belgium does. The bil…
Photostory from the Bits of science project - Nord-Odal, Manresa and Holzminden
Author: bitsofscience
Keywords: Climate changfe
Added: February 26, 2009
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