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California becomes official dry state

California becomes official dry stateThere is plenty of waterit is simply not clean, fresh water. The Pacific Ocean is very near. There is, however, a process to desalinate the water, proven over the years, called reverse osmosis. It is very reliable, and once the startup costs are taken care of,...

Tags: Pacific Ocean

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

Are we running out of everything? MSM's stunning lack of concern

Are we running out of everything? MSM's stunning lack of concernIt'll take a revolutionto get the twats that "are" to listen to what "is".Watch that space ....RE: Are we running out of everything? MSM's stunning lack of concernWe have thousands of pipelines carrying oil, natural gas even gasoline...

Tags: desalination, MSM

Discussion threads 2008-03-22

Noted at GoingGreen

Count the ironies. GoingGreen is talking Amwerican energy independence on 9-11. And this very day crude oil prices set a record high. The previous record had been set back in July. It's starting to look like oil prices and global temperatures are rising in tandem? ...

Tags: Alternative Energy, BP Plc, desalination, GoingGreen, Harry Fuller, Lehigh

Blog posts 2007-09-11

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Water woes: Chile, Tampa, California, global

Down in Chile they are free market supporters, to such an extent that water rights are bought and sold like land or cattle. That has particularly acute effects in areas where there is little or no local rainfall. And local water supplies are dependent on good behavior by...

Tags: Istanbul, Green Technology, Chile, Global Warming, Water, Tampa Bay Area, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-15

Is 2009 the year of carbon sequestration?

Is 2009 the year of carbon sequestration?Year of insanityYes, spend billions of dollars on something thatwas cooked up to control the populous and thenthey can monitor everyone like the USSR. RE: Is 2009 the year of carbon sequestration?This is just technical nonsense. The volumes of CO2 and the costs...

Tags: IS 2009, carbon sequestration, sequestration, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

Forget the cockroach, jellyfish shall inherit the planet

If global warming increases the surface area covered by ocean as predicted, jellyfish may ride the waves of the future. Not those landlubber cockroaches. There's a new summary put together by the National Science Foundation. It summarizes the recent increase in jellyfish invasions across the globe....

Tags: Swarm, National Science Foundation, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-14

A wall's being built along the northern border of the U.S.

NOAA map of the Great Lakes Basin. And this isn't a wall promulgated by Homeland Security. It's not about people trying to get into the U.S. No this wall is aimed at keeping some states from getting resources that other states have. ...

Tags: Lake, State, Water, Wall, Construction, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-28

No nuces is good nucs? Blogosphere begs to differ with this blogger, as usual

My recent blog on the drought possibly shutting down some American nuclear power plants raised some comment. All of it negative about this idiot blogger. I've now been labelled an "ecosocialist." Was that because I mentioned Chernobyl? NO, that mess happened under a faux-socialist regime so maybe...

Tags: Nuclear Energy, Blogosphere, Plant, Blogger, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-01-25

Australia: promises, promises, reality

Australia has undergone major political change in recent weeks and the Kyoto Protocol is now a headline topic. Under the former conservative regmine, Kyoto was not approved by Australia. The new Labor Party government had promised to ratify it, and after winning control, did so. ...

Tags: Australia, Carbon Dioxide, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-09

Are you feeling a powerful thirst? Could we run out of beer??

Are you feeling a powerful thirst? Could we run out of beer??Are you feeling a powerful thirst? Could we run out of beer??Whot? No beer?? Dont be daft man, we gotta keep the amber fluid flowing!Whilst everybody is talking about the shortage of potable water for human consumption, nobody seems...

Tags: powerful thirst, thirst, refinery

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

Are you feeling a powerful thirst? Could we run out of beer??

There may not be enough water for the both of us. According to the federal govermment, thirty-six states face water shortages, now and for years to come. The Associated Press story contained a fact that surprised me. The U.S. already has over a thousand desalination plants. ...

Tags: U.S., Associated Press, Water, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Photos: Inside GE's clean-tech labs

Company's "Ecomagination" pipeline delves into flexible plastic lights, green homes, solar cells and water desalination. by CNET News.com

Tags: General Electric Co., Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-10-25

Plastic to help water and gas industries

Researchers have lots of imagination. After developing plastic as solid as steel, other scientists from in Australia, Korea and in the U.S. have created a plastic which could cut CO2 emissions and purify water. Their new material mimics pores found in plants and is exceptionally efficient. As said one of...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Membrane, Molecule, Polymer, Researcher, Roland Piquepaille, Separation

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Green start-ups partner with universities

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator Joseph Culley, of Janney Montgomery Scott, leads a discussion with executives on university collaboration on innovative water technologies such as desalination and water purification research. The panelists are: Jeff Green, CEO of NanoH20; David Crowe, CEO of GeoPure Water Technologies;...

Tags: Partnership, CEO, Emerging Technologies, Business Structures, Groupware, Finance, Enterprise Software, Green

Videos 2007-09-12

Nano ideas

John Patrick leads a discussion on the future of nanotechnology at DEMOfall 2006. He begins by explaining several dimensions of the smallness of nano--billionths of time, space.Gian-luca Bona, IBM Almaden Research. Nanotechnology will affect storage in many ways. We're working toward having storage structures in a few nanometers space, but...

Tags: nanotechnology

Blog posts 2006-09-27

21st century pyramids--super datacenters

21st century pyramids--super datacentersHawaii Supercomputer Transaction GridsHawaii Supercompter Transaction Grids to backup all of Hawaii, and Nation. Yahoo Video US Senate Hawaii 2006 GOP Candidate Speech "Reaching the Goals and Visions of All the People of Hawaii as a Model for the World." Approved by Friends Eddie US Senate Hawaii...

Tags: Leadership, Operational accounting, Strategy, data center, US Senate Hawaii, U.S. Senate, US Senate Hawaii 2006 GOP Candidate Eddie Pirkowski, US Senate Hawaii 2006, US Senate Hawaii 2006 GOP

Discussion threads 2006-09-18

Wiki site aims to boost patent review process

Wiki site aims to boost patent review processSourcesWhenever I read something that someone else has written I question its reliability. That's nothing new whether we're talking about books, magazine articles, news stories, or wiki entries. In any forum where one expects to be taken seriously when presenting facts, isn't it...

Tags: Leadership, Operational accounting, US Senate Hawaii, U.S. Senate, US Senate Hawaii 2006, Wiki

Discussion threads 2006-08-30

A ski jacket material for frost and flames

A ski jacket material for frost and flames"A 1/4-inch-thick blanket ......enough to cover the world might consist of 5 percent fiber and 95 percent air."OK, and a blanket of any other size would differ exactly how? :-) :-) :-)This stuff would be greatfor the spaceshuttle! New tech...

Tags: gel

Discussion threads 2005-08-16

Blind leading the blind: Is BEA following others in pursuit of mortals?

I woke up this morning to news that BEA is now the latest company to jump on the drag-n-drop programming for non-programmers bandwagon by announcing that in the coming months, it will make available some yet-to-be-named-or-branded tools that "let businesspeople create and make changes to Java code." Sounds a...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Java

Blog posts 2005-03-08