Month April 2009

Nanotube technology transforms CO2 into fuel

Sunlight and titanium oxide nanotubes can transform carbon dioxide into methane. Methane can be utilized as energy source. It seems like double benefit. At one hand, we are reducing the quantity of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we would…

It lives, Dr. Frankenstein, it lives!

Photo. qwrrty Creator of subprime monster ‘dismayed’ The computer programmer who created the original mortgage bundling software wonders how it ever got so crazy, saying “the software turned out to be more sophisticated than the people using it.”

In past month, mass shootings claim 53 lives

Mott The Hoople – Violence I’m a missing link, poolroom stink, I can’t talk What’s going on, something’s wrong, I can’t work Can’t go to school, the teacher’s a fool, the preacher’s a jerk Got nothing to do, street-corner blues,…

Algae-to-energy cleans wastewater too

A plan to use algae to simultaneously treat wastewater and produce the raw materials for biofuels won the inaugural Clean Energy Prize on Friday. The students at Univ. of Michigan who won the top prize of $65,000 plan to use…