Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
A Strong Argument for Nuclear Power… in the Short Term
I have been against nuclear power for as long as I have given any thought to the issue. I hate to say it, but I have just changed my mind. There is a great article in a recent Discover Magazine that lays out the important details, and is the first comprehensive comparison I have seen [...]
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
The Distant Future of Biofuels
This month in Discover Magazine there is an article celebrating their Scientist of the Year and two nominees. The Scientist of the Year is Jay Keasling, and he is what has become known as a synthetic biologist. His immediate work is shooting for a low-cost, mass manufacturing method for producing an effective drug [...]
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Swedish Cow Train
It used to be that people only got methane from dung. That is no longer the case. Check out what those crazy Swedes are doing. Svensk Biogas of Linkoping Sweden has figured out a way to use the whole cow too!
In addition to the dung they can now use chopped up cow [...]
