Solar power created in space would be beamed to earth via microwave. Japan is a leader here, now maybe more than ever.
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Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA 500,000 protest cuts in London, and this is inspiring indeed. But the protests in the Middle East / North Africa (MENA)have been vastly more successfully in forcing change than those held in the US / UK. Most of the MENA protests, which have toppled governments, have been predominately nonviolent too, [...] Sarkozy warns Arab rulers they risk intervention if overly violent against their own people Apparently he’s chomping at the bit to invade and bomb Ivory Coast and maybe even Syria too. This is approaching derangement. Even The Economist is skeptical Operation Underpants Gnomes grinds on in Libya. The rebels retook a city but the country remains in chaos. Do we arm the rebels? Do we shoot at them if they start abusing civilians? Is regime change the goal? NATO allies can not even agree on these issues. And [...] Natalia Manzurova at Chernobyl Natalia Manzurova spent 4 1/2 years cleaning up at Chernobyl. She has multiple health problems due to the radiation and is is the only one of her team still alive. She has a “Chernobyl necklace,” scars on her neck where her thyroid was removed and advocates for radiation victims everywhere. [...] A Tokyo Electric official told CNN that authorities are not sure why the levels spiked. Either the official (and Tokyo Electric) genuinely doesn’t know and thus should be fired and replaced by someone with actual competence or – more likely – he is is being mischevious with the facts, in which case he [...] “The Aerogenerator X design is half the height of an equivalent horizontal-axis turbine and its weight is concentrated at the base of the structure.” CleanTechnica has more on the development of this promising prototype. In the wake of cratering pension fund returns and the filing of lawsuits against two former top employees, CalPERS, the giant California pension fund, commissioned a report by D.C. law firm Steptoe and Johnson. The report is scathing, saying former CalPERS CEO Federico Buenrostro steered investments by CalPERS to politically connected firms of his [...] Napolitano: Border security ‘better than ever.’ Mexico border towns safe to do business in. What planet is Napolitano on? I suggest she take time out from her oh-so busy schedule of living inside the DC bubble and issuing bizarrely optimistic PR fluff and venture into the real world for a change, maybe by reading Borderland [...] Japan PM says nuclear crisis not worse but advises wider evacuation. The real questions there are 1) Is the government in control or just a lackey of Tepco, and 2) Is Tepco more concerned with saving their investment in the plant rather than saving lives? |
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