Month February 2008

Stonehenge reloaded

Wally Wallington, a retired construction worker working alone with no mechanized help, demonstrates how massive multi-ton concrete blocks can be moved and planted in the ground by just one person. He thinks Stonehenge could have been built by surprisingly few…

Burning ice. Methane hydrate

Methane hydrate is a solid form of water containing large amounts of methane, occurring in vast quantity (“2-10x the currently known reserves of conventional natural gas”) on ocean floors. When warmed or depressurized, it turns into water and natural gas.…

Lake Mead may go dry by 2021

Reasons: Increased demand for water and climate change. If it does go dry, then Hoover Dam stops producing power and L.A. and Vegas will have severe water shortages. “We were stunned at the magnitude of the problem and how fast…