Environment
WES - The future?
Do you remember Stanley Meyer’s water-fueleed car? In 1996 it were found to be fraudulent by a court in Ohio followed by lawsuits from the investors.
Yet he demostrated how it worked and he claimed it could run Los Angeles to New York on 83 liters of water. He had worked out how to split [...]
17 Myths about the climate
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, CICERO and The Norwegian Meteorological Institute got together to clear up some myths and misunderstandings.
The list of 17 myths and misunderstandings is for some reason in Norwegian only, I’ll try to translate them, please notify me if I misspell something or make a mistake ok?
I feel that if we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
