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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,...

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Discussion threads 2009-02-27

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Don't bother finding Tuvalu on a map. It may be gone soon.

Tuvalu threatend by rising Pacific Ocean; some Tuvaluans moving to New Zealand and higher ground. by Harry Fuller

Tags: New Zealand, Ground, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-30

Makena Beach HD Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

HD Screensaver of the Pacific Ocean waves washing ashore on Makena Beach on the Hawaiian Island of Maui. This video was shot in 1080i and converted to an HD screensaver for your viewing pleasure. The video is approximately 1 minute long fades out at the end of 1 minute, consistently...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-07

Images: How NOAA's tsunami warnings work

NOAA's Pacific Ocean tsunami warning system, expanded greatly in recent years, allowed for real-time forecasting of events and advanced warning for distant at-risk communities after the recent American Samoa earthquake. by CNET News.com

Tags: NOAA, Sales Force Management, Sales, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-10-01

Maldives taking their final dive?

Change is the constant here.Just move'm and move on.RE: Maldives taking their final dive?The sky is falling, send money!!Or to be more precise:"I, Fuller, have this Anxiety and Gaia Religion. Now YOU JUST SHUT UP and pay me for some carbon credits! Because that will S.A.V.E. the planet and the...

Tags: Maldives

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Do we have a deadly date with El Nino?

Seems to be drawing a long bowOk, so there was an El Nino in 1918 and a flu pandemic started in the same year. The so-called flu season essentially follows winter around the globe - it's nearly always flu season somewhere. Given that an El Nino event occurs every...

Tags: El Nino

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Torpedo Submarine Battles 1.0 (Windows)

Burst forth from the watery depths and annihilate enemy ships in naval battles across the world's seas and oceans in your very own stealthy torpedo submarine game, Torpedo Submarine Battles. Destroy and sink ships such as the versatile destroyer, the long-range missile cruiser and the mighty battleship. Move your submarine...

Tags: Torpedo, Microsoft Windows, Submarine, Missile Cruiser, Games, Keyboards, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-09-11

Plastic floats forever? Maybe not

There's some new research into the man-made continent of floating trash, plastic and styrofoam, that swirls in the North Pacific. Seems some of it breaks down pretty quickly. Sounds good, right? Biodegradable. But it degrades into chemicals like biphenol-A which is toxic. Oops. You...

Tags: North Pacific Corp., Ocean, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Tropical Satellites 1.0.3 (Mobile)

Tropical Satellites is an application that allows you to access Atlantic and Pacific Ocean animated infrared satellites. Keep tabs on tropical activity and storms. All satellites loop data that is updated every 15 minutes. It includes nine different satellites like Caribbean, Central Atlantic, Eastern Atlantic, Western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico,...

Tags: Mobile, Satellite, Steve Parker, Tropical Satellites, Network Technology, Networking

Software downloads 2009-08-24

Pacific Ocean Theme (Mobile)

Enjoy the Pacific Ocean Theme for your Nokia S60 mobile phone!Installation Guide:Download the .sis file to your PC, then install the file with Nokia Pc Suite or copy it to your phone and install it with File Manager. Once installed, the file is visible in Themes.

Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-04

International Polar Year: data on climate change

The results are now becoming clear from the International Polar Year IPY: earlier estimates of climate change were too mild. Change is happening faster than the IPCC expected. We all know the once mythical Northwest Passage now exists, in summer you can take your ship from Europe across...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-25

Solar cycles, weather and climate

There's new research on the links between solar cycles on the Sun, and the weather here on earth. This work was done by American scientists and finds connection between the 11-year solar cycles and El Nino and similar weather events on earth. The researcj used conputer models to...

Tags: Earth, Cycle, Weather, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-19

El Nino evidence that global warming is real?

NOAA has just announced the presence of an El Nino phenomenon. That's a short term alteration in usual weather patterns that includes warmer ocean surface temps along the Pacific Coast of North America. The predictable effects of an El Nino are varied. Less upwelling along the Pacific...

Tags: NOAA, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Going blond

Is white the new green? There's a mini-engineering suggestion coming from some federal officials. Get a white roof. Save energy, reflect that pesky sunlight back into space. This is at the opposite end of the engineering spectrum from the mega-ideas about geoengineering. This homestyle, small...

Tags: Sunlight, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-14

iBomber 1.0 (Mobile)

iBomber is an amazing, arcade styled bombing game based in the Pacific Ocean in 1943. You play a young bomber pilot protecting your fleet whilst searching out key enemy targets on land and sea to destroy! iBomber will immediately transport you into the thick of the action with multiple missions...

Tags: Mobile, Cobra Mobile, iBomber, Advertising & Promotion, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-05-28

How that mercury gets into your salmon

A study of mercury pollution finally shows how mercery from natural and human-controlled sources gets through the rain cycle and into the ocean and its inhabitants. The research shows mercury levels in the Pacific rose 30% in the fifteen years prior to 2006. Also, much of the mercury...

Tags: Coal, Pollution, Mercury, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-03

San Francisco PUC Gets Better Data for Capital Planning With IBM Maximo Asset Management Solution

Surrounded on three sides by the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay, the city of San Francisco lives in close proximity to water. Thanks to the efforts of the 1,800 employees and the facilities of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission SFPUC, these waters are spared from the pollution...

Tags: San Francisco, IBM Corp., San Francisco PUC, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-05-01

Trend spotting: Oprah goes green

We've long known the issues around trash and landfills are part of a consumer culture. What about the unintended waterfill? Well, Oprah has just shined her TV camera onto the world's largest trash dump...in the Pacific Ocean.If Texas does end up seceding from the U.S. we could just...

Tags: U.S., Boat, Oprah Winfrey, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-23

(Images: NASA's biggest achievements for Earth)

(Images: NASA's biggest achievements for Earth)Nothing to do with EarthNASA's greatest accomplishment had nothing to do with Earth.It was getting man out of the cradle (actually an inevitable coffin... by going to the moon.It was a small taste of what could be man's destiny.But we had better do it...

Tags: GPS, NASA

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Global warming: new stuff

Global warming: new stuffacidificationThe really stupid idea of sequestering CO2 underground would acidify the underground water tables big time. Then more minerals get desolved in the underground water. We haven't seen real problems yet until they start injecting CO2 underground.Paid for by Obama Communist Ruler USSACommunist agenda, I...

Tags: carbon dioxide, global warming, underground water, new stuff

Discussion threads 2009-04-14