Arizona to use algae to turn coal pollution into biofuel

This innovative and worthwhile project is being funded with stimulus money.

The project is being hosted at the 995-megawatt Cholla Power Plant in northeastern Arizona. Early results indicate that the algae are able to capture 70 metric tons of carbon dioxide per pond acre per year.

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We’re Number 37 in health care!

From Paul Hipp who says “Here is a little song celebrating our position at #37 in the world in healthcare.”

We’re Number 37

Come one, Come all Down to the hall Were gonna make noise Were gonna bust balls Were gonna disrupt Were gonna jump in the fray I got a list of all [...]

Option ARM time bomb set to explode in SF and LA

1 in 5 mortgages in the SF metro area from 2004 – 2008 were Option ARMs, twice the national average. The SF Bay area ranks second nationally in these risky mortgages with LA being first (by a wide margin.) In 2010 these mortgages will reset to a much higher level and trigger huge pain [...]

World’s largest offshore wind farm inaugurates off Denmark

Horns Rev 2 has launched 30 km offshore Jutland in the North Sea generating enough power for over 200,000 homes.

From builder Dong Energy

Each wind turbine has a capacity of 2.3MW. With a total of 91 wind turbines the wind farm has an overall capacity of 209MW.

Video

Next to be built,the [...]

Peter Lamborn Wilson: Resistance to Technopathocracy. Communities of Resistance

Wilson is one of those philosopher types who seems crazy at first, then you listen and maybe he’s not so crazy after all.

Dangerous Minds

Very clear and spot-on interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson on what he calls the Technopathocracy of modern society: complete disconnection, lack of community and Internet-mediated insanity, and the Intentional [...]

Clean energy hubs growing worldwide

Except for the US, that is. We’re lagging far behind.

Ahmadinejad spews raving lunatic Anti-Semitism on ‘Jerusalem Day’

Ahmadinejad, the torturer-in-chief of Iran, in a speech Friday blamed Jews for the atrocities of the Nazis against them, said all of modern Western history is a secret Jewish plot, denied the Holocaust happened, and other such derangements too.

Juan Cole

One of the dangers of the right-wing Zionists’ tactic of smearing as “anti-Semitic” [...]

Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks

Ted

Journalist Misha Glenny [McMafia] spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15% of the global economy. From the Russian mafia, to giant drug cartels, his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials but criminal insiders.

One disturbing trend. [...]

World’s first hybrid bulldozer

The D7E represents a mid-range dozer between Caterpillar’s popular D6 and D8 models, and commands a price premium of 20%, or $100,000, over a standard D7R. But that 20% can be recouped in as little as two years thanks to fuel savings of 10-30%

It has instant torque and requires less maintenance than [...]

FBI and Justice investigating Bank of America – Merrill deal

That means it’s a criminal investigation as well as civil now. Good.