More Energy/Climate Stuff

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Intelligence Report | PARADE Magazine

Intelligence Report | PARADE Magazine

"What's Really Heating Up the Planet?
Coal-mine fires in China and India could be huge culprits in global warming. In China alone, up to 200 million tons of coal go up in flames each year—which may be equivalent to America's total carbon-dioxide emissions from gasoline. India's mine fires waste up to 10 million tons of coal annually. The pollution has made land in both countries uninhabitable. And the problem is expected to worsen..."

All very interesting! Also, check the cosmic ray/sun/cloud connection.

"Cosmic Rays Linked To Global Warming

Science Daily — WASHINGTON - Researchers studying global warming have often been confounded by the differences between observed increases in surface-level temperatures and unchanging low-atmosphere temperatures. Because of this discrepancy, some have argued that global warming is unproven, suggesting instead that true warming should show uniformly elevated temperatures from the surface through the atmosphere. Researchers have proposed a theory that changes in cloud cover could help explain the puzzling phenomenon, but none-until now-have come up with an argument that could account for the varying heat profiles."


And finally:

"SCIENTISTS PREDICT SOLAR DOWNTURN, GLOBAL COOLING

New Scientist magazine, 16 September 2006


It is known as the Little Ice Age. Bitter winters blighted much of the northern hemisphere for decades in the second half of the 17th century. The French army used frozen rivers as thoroughfares to invade the Netherlands. New Yorkers walked from Manhattan to Staten Island across the frozen harbour.
Sea ice surrounded Iceland for miles and the island's population halved. It wasn't the first time temperatures had plunged: a couple of hundred years earlier, between 1420 and 1570, a climatic downturn claimed the Viking colonies on Greenland, turning them from fertile farmlands into arctic wastelands. . . "

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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Future Tech: Scientists Consider Mining Delicious Helium-3 on Moon For Fusion Power on Earth - Gizmodo

Future Tech: Scientists Consider Mining Delicious Helium-3 on Moon For Fusion Power on Earth - Gizmodo

Maybe this is why Japan, China and India are racing to the Moon! Go to visit the Fusion Technology Institute's site for the real poop.

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Those Crazy Japanese

Greetings, campers! Yes, I am back. I thought no one was reading this, but occasionally someone does. Besides, it is a good way for me to keep track of my Internet wanderings. In light of the talk about space elevators, one cannot ignore the dreams of one Japanese construction company. The XSEED 4000 is a Utopian skyscraper modeled after Mt. Fuji and would be 4000m tall! Well, we all have to dream! Also see links to other proposed super buildings by clicking here! Keep those cards and letters coming. Please comment or email. I have to use to verification system to stop the pesky robots that cruise blogs and leave messages offering me mortgages and other less mundane things.