Month June 2009

Virginia county sues Krispy Kreme over ruined sewers

The county is suing for $1.9 million alleging Krispy Kreme dumped “excessive quantities of highly corrosive wastes, doughnut grease and other pollutants” into county sewers, destroying them. If their glop can destroy sewers, imagine what it can do your arteries…

UK’s first geothermal plant will power theme park

Ecogeek brings news of the Eden Project, a green theme park in Cornwall with the world’s largest greenhouse, will be entirely powered by geothermal. What’s more, the they estimate there is enough geothermal power under Cornwall to power 10% of…

US couple arrested for spying for Cuba

The government said it went on for 30 years and was for ideological not financial reasons. Seems odd to have this as relations are easing a bit. (Would include link but am posting from iPhone, no cut and paste)

Standing orders for insurgencies

John Robb at Global Guerrillas has a comprehensive series on what modern insurgencies need to do to be successful. If some of them sound like what the open source software movement does, well, that’s precisely his point. He calls such…

Microbe that generates methane from electricity

Yes, you read that right. A microbe has been discovered that converts DC electrical current into methane, something which could be super-useful as a way to store renewable energy from wind and solar. What’s more, it converts at 80% efficiency.