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Wind Turbine Design – The Most Amazing Windmills in the World | Wind Power
a selection of pictures and descriptions of some of the most spectacular & truly ambitious wind turbine designs of this millennium…whose scope & promise could pave the way for much greater harnessing of wind energy
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America’s new green guru sparks anger over climate change U-turns | Environment | The Observer
President Obama’s energy secretary, Nobel prize-winner Steven Chu, arrives in Europe this week to discuss global warming. But his recent policy decisions on coal-fired power stations and hydrogen cars have angered many environmentalists
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The World We Avoided by Protecting the Ozone Layer : Feature Articles
The World We Avoided by Protecting the Ozone Layer
The year is 2065. Nearly two-thirds of Earth’s ozone is gone—not just over the poles, but everywhere. The infamous ozone hole over Antarctica, first discovered in the 1980s, is a year-round fixture, with a twin over the North Pole. The ultraviolet (UV) radiation falling on mid-latitude cities like Washington, D.C., is strong enough to cause sunburn in just five minutes. DNA-mutating UV radiation is up more than 500 percent, with likely harmful effects on plants, animals, and human skin cancer rates.
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YouTube – THE BIG LIES OF BIG COAL: DON BLANKENSHIP SPEAKS
Scary video of Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy speaking about the myth of climate change, communists, athiests, and ‘Greeniacs’
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Despite common knowledge of serious human rights abuses relating to the mining of cassiterite in the Democratic Republic of Congo the industry has not gone far enough to guarantee ethical sourcing to satisfy increasingly concerned stakeholders. (see my post on this from March 08). As a result US Congress is now prepared to intervene with the introduction of the Brownback Durbin Feingold Congo Conflict Minerals Act.
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Climate change odds much worse than thought – MIT News Office
The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago – and could be even worse than that
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