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- Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia
- The Commonwealth of Virginia has given the green light for a large coal-burning plant to generate electricity. It's planned for the southwest corner of the state and is expected to require lots more Virginia coal. The utility has promised to burn only coal mined in Virginia Opponents...
- Tags: Coal, Pollution, Plant, Virginia, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?
- Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?The real questionIs the cure worse than the disease? Global warming alarmists are predicting apocalypse in 50 years. Yet we are seeing food riots today that are a direct result of their "fix."Modern environmentalism: creating human misery wherever it is applied.RE: Jobs or...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Treximet, www.Treximet.org, false dicotomy, dicotomy, pollution, job
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?
- It looks like battles over the environment and global warming are likely to be central to the American political system for months, perhaps years, to come. Right now the punditocracy and the lobbyists on both sides are tossing rockets over a bill about global warming. The bill is...
- Tags: Job, Turbine, Pollution, Clean Technology, Global Warming, Bubble, Second,it, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- A pollution indicator on our car dashboard?
- A pollution indicator on our car dashboard?A pollution indicator on our.....http://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-DSL.htmlhttp://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-Internet.htmlRE: A pollution indicator on our car dashboard?http://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-DSL.htmlhttp://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-Internet.html
- Tags: pollution indicator, pollution, car dashboard
- Discussion threads 2008-05-25
- Satellites seeing clearly despite clouds
- Two researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL have developed a mathematical tweak which dramatically improves air pollution detection on cloudy days. They've found a way to reduce cloud-induced glare when satellites measure blue skies on cloudy days, by as much as ten-fold in some cases. 'Because clouds represent one...
- Tags: Wavelength, Pollution, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- UAVs will study Californian smog
- The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles AUAVs to gather meteorological data as the aircraft fly through clouds over Southern California. The goal is to study smog and its consequences as...
- Tags: Southern California, Researcher, Pollution, Aircraft, Global Warming, UAV, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- North America polluted by East Asia?
- In a recently released study, NASA researchers have confirmed that air pollution travels around the world. They've used new satellite sensor capabilities to measure pollution traveling from East Asia to North America between 2002 and 2005. According to NASA, the amount of pollution arriving in North America is equivalent to...
- Tags: NASA, Pollution, Satellite, North America, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- How Tough is Ozone Crackdown by Feds
- How Tough is Ozone Crackdown by FedsElectric VehiclesWe need trees need clean, unpolluted air, we need to reduce our carbon emissions, we need to find alternatives to our gas guzzlers. We need to look at solar power, wind power, electric power. To switch to electric vehicles, take a look at...
- Tags: ozone, pollution
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- HP Sez: Turn off the lights!
- HP Sez: Turn off the lights!Are they copycatting Apple?Didn't hear about the news from Apple... apart from Greenpeace lambasting them... who's on the board of directors on that supposedly superior company that everyone else uses them as R&D for not?RE: HP Sez: Turn off the lights!What, exactly, are people...
- Tags: HP Sez, Turn Off, Hewlett-Packard Co., pollution
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- The plane facts
- One of the ugliest environmental truths about our modern life, perhaps worse than nuclear waste or even landfills or flotsam of plastic that covers square miles of ocean, perhaps worse than plastic leaching toxics into your bottled water...your next airplane flight. Spewing all that pollution straight into the upper...
- Tags: Pollution, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Radon is back because it never went away
- U.S. Geological Survey map of radon distribution. Areas in purple most likely to have radon problems, that includes all of Iowa. The radon problem has been known in the U.S. for years. In many areas radon detection and mediation is a major industry....
- Tags: Illinois, Pollution, Radon, American Lung Association, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Attention IT managers: Two green PCs from HP that won't get you laughed out of the office
- Attention IT managers: Two green PCs from HP that won't get you laughed out of the officegreen is goodHaving low power consumption PC is good for the organization and also to mother earthFor IT dept, having a management software built into the PC is even betterGreen is a marketing ployand...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., global warming, PC, Sun Microsystems Inc., pollution
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Cellphones to track air pollution
- Cellphones to track air pollutionTrack air pollution with a cell phone? DUHTo do that just look to all those people yacking away, every minute of the day on their cell phones. ;)RE: Cellphones to track air pollutionKeeping fit while doing a good service to the environment, I think thats a...
- Tags: Cellular phones, pollution, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- Cellphones to track air pollution
- Computer scientists in Cambridge, UK, are using bike couriers to monitor air pollution. These couriers are doing their usual jobs, but their bicycles are equipped with air-pollution sensors and GPS units that connect to their cellphones via Bluetooth. So their phones are constantly reporting the levels of carbon monoxide, nitrogen...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Pollution, Sensor, Cell Phone, Courier, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Let the lawsuits ensue
- Let the lawsuits ensueYeah right! Blame the car makers and BushGee! The liberals in CA and NY government could simply TAX gas guzzlers through sales tax or super high registration fees.A $6000 tax or registration fee on a Hummer would sure quell demand and Washington wouldn't have a thing...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, pollution, congestion pricing, lawsuit, tax, registration fee
- Discussion threads 2007-12-20
- Close call: U.S. NOT the world's worst polluter
- Close call: U.S. NOT the world's worst polluterNo you don't[B]"Hah, I have a god-given right as an American to drive an SUV that gets 12 MPG and keep my house at 68-degrees even when its a 110-degrees outside by my swimming pool. I even live in a house built in...
- Tags: carbon dioxide, pollution, polluter, global warming
- Discussion threads 2007-12-09
- Ethanol, continued: creates heat over energy production
- Another voice raised in doubt about whether ethanol production is really environmentally friendly. Here's an editorial in a Columbus newspaper explaining why it opposes a new ethanol plant in the area. Water pollution. Of course, the U.S. government is SLOWLY pushing ahead with renewable...
- Tags: Pollution, Corn, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Heads up, our gases are coming your way
- Americans are polluting the air for fellow Americans. Here's what the U.S. Geological Survey found in a study released today: "Nitrate found in precipitation occurring in rural areas of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States is primarily caused by emissions from stationary sources located...
- Tags: Coal, Pollution, U.S. Geological Survey, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Environmental pollution increases crime rate?
- Is there a link between pollution and higher crime rates? An article published in The Journal of Economic Analysis theorizes that lead contamination increases crime and violence. The author based her theory on known effects of lead on children and their behavior. She also says the major souirce...
- Tags: Pollution, Gasoline, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Coal pollution lawsuit settled as the whole game has changed
- Coal pollution lawsuit settled as the whole game has changedYeahno one focuses on acid rain pollution anymore because it's been demonstrated to be bogus; the result of more precise measuring technology. But don't let that get in the way of your drive to have us all riding horses and burning...
- Tags: particle, pollution, pollution lawsuit, game
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
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