Hybrid tugboat cuts emissions

The hybrid tugboat Carolyn Dorothy

A new study by University of California, Riverside scientists of what is believed to be the world’s only hybrid electric tugboat found that the vessel is effective in reducing emissions at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

http://planetsave.com/2010/11/23/hybrid-tug-boat-cuts-emissions/

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SAP faces huge fine for illegally downloading and selling Oracle software

It appears we have yet another major corporation that essentially is a continuing criminal enterprise.

The jury yesterday awarded [$1.3 billion in] damages after an 11-day trial in federal court in Oakland, California. Oracle sued SAP in 2007 claiming its U.S.-based unit made hundreds of thousands of illegal downloads and several thousand copies of Oracle’s [...]

Freed after 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit

The Innocence Project has freed many people based on results from new DNA testing. Steven Barnes is one of them.

In 1989, Steven Barnes was convicted in upstate New York of a murder he didn’t commit based on questionable eyewitness identifications and three types of unvalidated forensic science. Nearly two decades later, DNA testing [...]

Wave power. A new design

This more efficient design for wave power from Columbia Power Technogies can generate from up and down as well as sideways motions. Plus it’s made of fiberglass which lasts longer in the ocean with much less maintenance. A test will start in 2012.

Someday, someone will figure out how to do wave power on [...]

The Hammer gets nailed

Tom Delay has been convicted of money laundering

There is not enough money to bail out Spain

Not after Ireland and Portugal get theirs first.

But these bailouts don’t help the populace, only the banksters who made risky loans. If we had actual capitalism, the banks would be allowed to fail rather than being propped up by governments.

Juarez police officer seeks asylum in Texas

He says his life in in danger because he arrests the wrong people and won’t take bribes.

First arrest in insider trading probe

Don Chu of Primary Global was arrested this morning at 6 am on conspiracy charges by the FBI. May there be many more criminal arrests.

And the feds are apparently investigating Goldman Sachs too. Be still my heart!

I suspect that many thousands of Wall Street banksters and corrupt hedge fund slime will be having [...]

Opt-Out Day at airports appears to be a flop

Think about it. Mass opt-outs for being scanned by TSA would mean long waits on a busy travel day plus by doing so you are demanding to be groped. It’s not surprising that not many are doing it.

The increased militarization of US society is troubling. We may have scanners everywhere soon. And to what [...]

Massive student protests in Britain

The Guardian has coverage auto-updated every minute.

Harry’s Place has extensive links to local protests, adding:

I don’t expect Nick Clegg ever expected to see himself depicted like this

Lenin’s Tomb

Latest news says 600 students have walked out of Leeds Uni, hundreds of pupils have walked out Allerton Grange secondary school in [...]