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Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?

Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Now that is totally cool!Thanks for the info on this. Whooda thunk? ]:)RE: Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Is this anything new? we have known about cellulose based ethanol and its potential for long time. The problem...

Tags: grass, corn, acre, gallon, Corn Grain

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

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Ohio, what are you drinking?

That stuff in your drinking water could be detected if we applied a little green tech. Sensors, digitally linked, could alert water drinkers in Ohio, Texas, Florida, Maryland and other atrazine-rich habitat. "Atrazine alert," it could say, "drink something else for a while." Real-time monitoring of public...

Tags: Beverage, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water, Ohio, ATRAZINE Atrazine, Syngenta, Food & Beverage, Wiki, Manufacturing, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-23

"Meat has a carbon footprint?" This blogger must be ignorant!

One talkback on my locavore blog says; "Meat has a carbon footprint? I guess all the carbon in that cow comes from pixie dust, eh? Or maybe we drill oil out of the ground and grow cows out of it." Wow! Carbon footprint is a tough concept, I see....

Tags: Cow, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Footprint, Blogger, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-22

We meat lovers are so screwed

We meat lovers are so screwedCows do not eat meat!It is also a scientific fact that meat protien is a requirement for brain development in any species. Maybe that is why some of us are as stupid as cows?Correlation does not necessarily beget causationHere's an idea. Just live the...

Tags: Food & Beverage, meat, meat lover, food, salad

Discussion threads 2009-03-24

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureShibboleth?Here's the dictionary definition:1. a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons. 2. a slogan; catchword. 3. a common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth. A report, providing...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mgmt, packaged application, job, software

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

Will we kill the ocean before the atmosphere kills us?

The race is on. We humans are trashing large patches of the ocean, says an American researcher. Our cast-off, washed-away chemicals are creating oceanic dead zones. Latest dead zone discoveries have been in the more oceanic, less populated Southern Hemisphere. America's own prize dead...

Tags: Ocean, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Does this Internet make your kid look fat?

Does this Internet make your kid look fat?Absolutly NOTThe responsibility of feeding a child and what they eat isn't the advertisers or manufacturers of products. Its the parents, if a parent wants their kid to eat nutritious low fat, low calorie foods then that is what they should buy.Who...

Tags: Vertical industries, nutritional information, Internet-make, government, food, cereal

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

Biofuel's nightmare question: food or fuel?

A major mainstream economic writer has just weighed in on the food-or-fuel debate. That's the monster in the closet of the entire biofuel industry. Right now in America most biofuel comes from corn which is grown on some of the richest, most productive farm land on the planet....

Tags: Food, U.S. Congress, Corn, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-12

Cooking up more uses for leftovers of biofuel production

Scientists, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists are becoming increasingly interested in making more than fuel out of the raw materials for biodiesel fuel and ethanol.The New York Times The baking tins and muffin cups lining the countertops in a corner of Ronald Holser's cluttered laboratory were filled with curious...

Tags: Biofuel, Petroleum, Biodiesel, Corn, PureVision, Hillary Rosen, Home

News items 2007-08-08

Prairie grass against global warming?

We all know that a replacement for fossil fuels to power our cars has to be found in a near future. But where will this energy come from? Hydrogen? Biofuels made from soya beans or corn? Researchers at the University of Minnesota think that mixed prairie grasses are a better...

Tags: carbon, prairie grass, Science &, Nature, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2006-12-10

D: Vinod Khosla thinks outside the barrel

During an interview with Walt Mossberg at the D conference, Vinod Khosla extolled the virtues of ethanol as a replacement for oil. The venture capitalist is investing in biofuels and has a proposal—if Wal-Mart would stock ethanol for $1.99 per gallon for the next ten years, he would guarantee...

Tags: oil company

Blog posts 2006-06-01

Vista delay - a look into the abyss

Vista delay - a look into the abyssRome wasn't burned in a dayThe one thing you can be sure of is that anything you see happening at Microsoft today has been there for years, building below the surface.How to run a profitable business.Disappointment and recriminations come from people who expected...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web 2.0, Incremental Change, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Steve Sinofsky, MSFT

Discussion threads 2006-03-22