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- This climate simulation study addresses the variability of regional climate from year to year versus the global long term trend (the pdf is listed below):Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector, from Nature.
- A new lithium-ion battery from A123 Systems could help electric cars and hybrids come to dominate the roads.
- This article about China's global agricultural investments mentioned the fact that last year a Chinese corporation bought 3 million hectares of rain forest in Dem. Rep. of Congo for palm oil production. Palm oil can be converted to biodiesel, and 1 hectare is about 2.47 acres. Should rain forest and biodiversity in Congo be sacrificed for biodiesel for China?
- Energy Tomorrow is an imaging-building effort by the oil and natural gas industries. There is no mention of CO2 as a greenhouse gas and little mention of the need to conserve. What do statements such as "enough oil to power 60 million cars for 60 years" really mean? As of 2006, there were 244,165,686 vehicles on our highways.
- A secret to improving cargo ship efficiency: Go fly a kite, from the Christian Science Monitor.
- An article about balloon wind turbines leads to the interesting ideas of Magenn Wind Power.
- The National Marine Fisheries Service has issued its plans to manage hydroelectric power and salmon population along the Columbia and Snake river systems.
- Carbon capture and sequestration or storage (CCS) is the primary approach of the DOE to reduction in the rate of increase of CO2 emissions, as exemplified by these recent actions: DOE Awards $126.6 Million for Two More Large-Scale Carbon Sequestration Projects; DOE Takes Next Steps with Restructured FutureGen Approach . An opposing viewpoint is that of Greenpeace: New Greenpeace report exposes CCS as a dangerous distraction.
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