TameBear: Sustainable WorldAppropriate science and technology for sustainable life on planet Earth. A TameBear weblog.(Untitled)- August 29, 2006 Wind-Farm Watts: Australia is embracing renewable energy in a big way. They've just authorized construction of a $380 million 233 megawatt wind farm, enough power to meet the annual electricity needs of 133,450 homes. Futurismichttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2006/08/29.html#a811 (Untitled)- August 23, 2006 Generating Electricity from Photosynthetic Bacteria: Photosynthesis is the most efficient process for turning carbos into energy, and the process has been refined over thousands of years of evolution. Now University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are studying ways to generate electricity by feeding a species of photosynthetic bacteria a steady diet of sunshine and wastewater. What's Next In Science & Technologyhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2006/08/23.html#a809 (Untitled)- August 23, 2006 Schwarzenegger Signs Solar Law: California will take the lead in producing renewable energy with a bill that aims to produce 3000 clean megawatts of power by 2018, by encouraging installion of a million rooftop solar panels across the state. That's equivalent to five pollution-free power plants. Red Herring via Futurismichttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2006/08/23.html#a808 (Untitled)- August 21, 2006 What If They Gave a War...: Writer Tony Long asks why Americans aren't marching in the streets to protest our government's ongoing military incursions and the escalating repression of civil liberties. "By the principles established by the Nuremberg Tribunal and international law, our president is a war criminal." Does anybody out there have a conscience anymore Wired Newshttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2006/08/20.html#a806 (Untitled)- August 19, 2006 Trend Toward Home Backup Electric Generators: Standby electric power generators for homes are on the rise in areas where grid electricity outtages can last for hours or days. These are not the small noisy gas-guzzling backup generators... homeowners who can afford it are installing whole-home systems to generate as much as 40 kilowatts from propane, natural gas, or photovoltaics. The systems can be costly, but in some affluent neighborhoods they are becoming status symbols. Christian Science...http://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2006/08/19.html#a804 (Untitled)- August 9, 2006 A Fillup from Liquid Coal: A brief article with lots of comment describes a bit of the history behind the process of extracting diesel fuel from coal, and a few of the companies currently involved. Wired Bloghttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2006/08/09.html#a798 (Untitled)- August 6, 2006 Quantum Leap: Fortune speculates on the future of computing in this imaginative piece based on recent developments in quantum computing. Their take: it's all closer than you may think, and they point to Freescale's commercial production of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) as first evidence. The quantum effect known as "Spintronics" in Freescale's MRAM will first be used in cameras for instant storage of images. Later it will be used for instant startup on laptops and other computers, and...http://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2006/08/06.html#a797 |