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Statue of Liberty Is Being Torched By Wind

November 2nd 2006 01:14

The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 120th dedication birthday on October 28. A milestone in its right, but, adding to the celebration is that America’s greeter’s torch is now lit by windmill-generated energy.

For history buffs, the Statue was dedicated in New York harbor by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886.

windmills - pennsylvania to ellis island

For those envirnmental people, the celebration is a windfall of natural resources.

Since this past March, the torch has been lit by power from windmills in western Pennsylvania. The windmills, part of a governmental credit system, provide electricity for the whole of Ellis Island, as well as the famous statue. The statue and the island use enough electricity each year to power 1,000 homes,

Windmill power is part of a government program that ensures one-third of the energy used in government facilities in the Northeast and Caribbean region is from renewable sources.

The statue, 305 feet tall, was commissioned by France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the America's Declaration of Independence. It was, however, completed and assembled more than 10 years late.

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On The Brink Of Extinction, Socorro Dove Breeds

October 31st 2006 01:28

Less than ten years after cats were introduced to Socorro Island, the native Socorro dove, a rare Mexican bird, was driven to extinction. The dove was recently bred successfully at London Zoo. Named Arnie, for Arnold Schwarzenegger, the bird is raising hopes of successful captive breeding to increase its numbers; to date, its thought there are fewer than 100 of the Socorro dove in captivity.

The last sighting of the dove was in 1972 in Socorro, in the Revillagigedo Islands, 600 miles off the west coast of Mexico. Socorro Island was the only home to the chestnut-colored bird. Now, this island is among the highest conservation priorities worldwide.

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Prototype Developed For Invisibility Cloak

October 22nd 2006 04:36

Professor Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London and a team of researchers from Duke University, USA have successfully developed a prototype for an invisibility cloak. The findings were reported on May 25, 2006 in Science Express, the online advance publication of the journal Science.

The prototype only works in two dimension and only on microwaves, but the experiment proves invisibility cloaks can be built. David R. Smith, Augustine Scholar and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke’s Pratt School said, "The concept that you can cloak something and make something invisible can now be demonstrated by this method”.
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Population Continues Rapid Growth But Not As Quickly

October 21st 2006 04:30

Within the next week or so, the US population will reach 300 million. This figure suggests an enormous environmental impact.

The Center for Environment and Population (CEP) in Connecticut released the results of a recent study that refers to the expansion of the US population as “super-sized resource appetites” making far too many claims on Earth’s resources.
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New NASA Study Reports Rising Global Temperatures

October 20th 2006 00:09

In an article posted September 25, 2006 in the Earth Institute News, Ken Kostel and Clare Oh reported that this planet's temperature has been rising at the rate of approximately 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit per decade for the past thirty years. This according to a study led by James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a part of The Earth Institute. The study was published in the September 26, 2006 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The recent rapid temperature rise indicates Earth is likely to reach a level higher than any seen during the current interglacial period.

Kostel and Oh quote Hansen as saying, "This evidence implies that we are getting close to dangerous levels of human-made pollution." Human-made greenhouse gasses have become the largest climate change factor, trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere and warming the surface. Other, naturally occurring gasses include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.
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Microbes Eat Methane

October 19th 2006 00:32

Greenhouse Effect

How many times have you thought, “gee, if I could only find a way to get rid of methane gas . . . ."? Too late for that discovery, kids; the microbes got there first. Methane, of greenhouse-effect fame, is lower on the food chain than microbes.

By consuming the methane gas from underwater mud volcanoes, the microbes constantly help maintain a healthy climate on the planet. Their metabolism is such that they depend on the energy stored in methane and each of the different creatures contributes uniquely to controlling almost half of the naturally occurring atmospheric emissions. For instance, one type uses oxygen to break down the gas, a second teams up with still other bacteria species to use sulfate to convert the gasses into energy.
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Low Temps Killed The Rodents

October 18th 2006 04:37

Rodent fossils from central Spain have shown that there was a small rodent extintion every 2.5 million years of the Earth's history. In addition, the rodent population has had a considerable decrease in population about every million years.

In a study at Ultrecht University in the Netherlands, researchers charted the fluctuations in the Spanish rodent population over a period of from 2.5 million to 24.5 million years ago. About 14 million years ago, Spanish rodents were bordering on extinction.
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New Birds Found in India and Columbia

October 17th 2006 04:17

Nature is often secretive about its beauty, deciding when the time is right for a new display. Recently, we were allowed to see two new and beautiful birds.

In the hills of India's Eagleness Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, a state on the India-China border, Ramana Athreya, has found the first new bird species to be discovered in that country in over 50 years. Athreyna, an amateur bird-watcher, first spotted the bird in 1995.
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And Paul McCartney Was In A Band Before Wings, Too!!!

October 8th 2006 20:33

After reading TechyBites today, I decided on the topic for this post. It wasn't so much the great content of TechyBytes that caught my attention. A few things were mentioned that caught my fancy and, rather than hog up his comment discussions, I'll talk about them here.

Although always part of entertainment, Penny Arcade didn't always refer to a comic strip and Nickelodeon wasn't always associated with TV.
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Come One, Come All. The Fish Grows Before Your Eyes!!!

October 7th 2006 01:32

It's true that I'm very easily amused and I must publically thank Orble Jon for amusing me very much with his new bit of tech magic. I know I said last week that Friday would be joke night, but this is too good to pass up.

Click on the fish and don't be afraid of the new window. All thanks belong to Jon.

Even if you're not technology, you'll have an appreciation for this. Go ahead, try it. Just follow the instructions and click on the picture of the fish. Mark my words! That little sucker will surpriiiiiiiiiiiiiise you.
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Here, Take My House Keys

October 4th 2006 05:08

I'm a reasonably intellligent person with a fairly decent amount of common sense, but today I did something sooooooo stupid. Without the bat of an eye, I put my email address right out there like I was proudly waving a flag. Yep, sure did. Showed it off to anyone and everyone. Might even have inadvertently given it to the guy who wants me to pay him so he can sell me my backyard.

I've already fixed it, so it's not out there anymore and I don't think I'll have to get a private address because of it. But, it just shows how we do things automatically, without so much as a thought about what might happen. Publishing my email is kind of like me telling you where I hide my money in the second drawer.
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And I Needed a Phone, Too !!!

October 2nd 2006 04:56

I'm a trashpicker. My brother and my sisters are trashpickers, too. It's not that we grew up in poverty and had to sort through the neighbors' garbage cans. We simply enjoy saving good stuff before it goes to the dump.

Today, my sisters and I had plans to go to an event in the city. When we started to stop the car at every house where great weekend trash set out for tomorrow's pickup, it was a safe bet there would be no trip to the city. The pickin's were plentiful and no planned event can compare to the enjoyment the three of us get out of loading other people's junk into the Jeep. Ah, yes.
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