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Bye reactor number 4 - for now
Next year the French consortium Novarka (VINCI Construction Grands Projets (lead contractor) and Bouygues Travaux Publics) will start building a 18000 ton sarcophagus. It will be 105 metres high, 150 metres long and with a span of 257 metres - formed as an arch. Construction will be done 2012/2014.
It will be built next to [...]
Starpower - the future energy source
The Norwegian energy company Statkraft announce that they have developed so-called gamma capturers that will capture the energy generated when stars explode.
What to believe?
On February 28th the large Wilkins Ice Shelf in west Antartica began to colaps, images of the process between February 28th and March 8th can be found here. Many newspapers writes eagerly about this now and put global warming in bold and concludes swiftly that this is manmade. Reading reports like the link above (from [...]
Small steps.
Media Heap set up a nice reminder last year that small steps count. At blackle.com the lights are off, an idea they got from TreeHugger. They have now saved 472,290.538 Watt hours. While more and more people use LCD-monitors this wont matter as much as CRT-monitors, but on CRT one can actually save usage by [...]
All pollution should count
Until now greenhouse gas emisions from container ships has not been counted, because of difficulties in calculating whos cape it should go under. The amount of greenhouse gas from container ships is much lower than from air and land transport but it should count.
Maersk - one of the worlds largest shippers, has calculated a release [...]
New site for my Colibri
Welcome to my new domain, thank you a lot for following me. I hope I wont regret that I moved my blog.
Good night! Moving blogs like this is not recommended after 23:00. hehe
Polar Ocean ice free this summer
Do you remember the reports talking about ice free arctic sea in 2040? And some horrific predictions calculating ice free summers in 2013? Guess what, most likely all of the experts were wrong.
Olav Orheim predicts ice free arctic sea this summer, from Siberia - the ice is thin now and it melts fast. This [...]
Funtagged!
I haven’t seen this until Nicole at NicholeB Photography funtagged me. Its pretty cool, I’ve found many great blogs this way - my feedsub list is growing each day and its exciting to follow this. How far will it go?
Heres how it goes :
Rule #1: Copy all the links below and replace a single link [...]
Mother of pearl clouds
I had to pull up my cell phone while driving this morning to picture this, Mother of pearl clouds - or Nacreous as some call it is a seldom phenomena. I wish I had a better camera, my cellphone is not suited for this but you get the picture, and you should do a image [...]
Entrebanking
Biz Beacon at Entrebanker is first out with a great idea. He will help new Entrecarders get started by loaning them Entrecredits! Great idea since its though for newcomers to advertise on the more profiled sites. Kudos to you!
Loaners are already applying, its going to be fun to follow this up.
By the way, Biz Beacon [...]
