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POPSWhy Is Billionaire Fueling His 747 With Coconut Oil? Environmentally speaking, wouldn’t we be better off just continuing to use petroleum-based aviation fuel instead of claiming vast swaths of land to grow coconuts to use in Mr. Branson’s new toy? The absolute lack of common sense from the left at times leaves me speechless.
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POPSwild animals mauling I must confess this is the first I have heard of this, yet it seems to have been going on sometime!
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POPSTurismo no Espaco.
(continuacao) - Ausência de gravidade Durante cerca de cinco minutos, os turistas vão poder estão deixar seus assentos para viver a experiência da ausência de gravidade e observar o espaço através de grandes janelas circulares situadas nas paredes e no teto da fuselagem. A SpaceshipTwo, com capacidade para seis passageiros e dois pilotos, iniciará em seguida o retorno à Terra. Serão vôos suborbitais, que atingem o espaço, mas não chegam a realizar uma volta completa em torno do planeta. Os turistas espaciais pagam US$ 200 mil para garantir um lugar a bordo. O brasileiro Bernardo Hartogs, de 53 anos, está entre as 250 pessoas que já procuraram a Virgin Galactic e estão na lista inicial de turistas interessandos em ir ao espaço. A Virgin Galactic promete aos turistas espaciais uma experiência "intensa, maravilhosa e verdadeiramente inesquecível". A SpaceshipTwo ainda está sendo fabricada. A Virgin espera operar os primeiros testes com a WhiteKnightTwo na segunda metade deste
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POPSPrivate Space Project Rolls On White Knight Two will launch SpaceShipTwo, which will be the size of a corporate Gulfstream capable of carrying six passengers and two pilots. Both will be built wholly from ultra-light composite materials.
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POPSVirgin Group Chairman Sir Richard Branson Willing To Pay Carbon Offsets Former United Nation's chief Kofi Annan. "We must have climate justice." Abdul Gayoom is president of The Maldives, a band of 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean. He said his nation faces elimination if sea levels rise, as a result of global warming... and suggested proceeds from aviation-related carbon offsets go towards benefitting small nations.
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POPSThe Clean Energy Scam But the basic problem with most biofuels is amazingly simple, given that researchers have ignored it until now: using land to grow fuel leads to the destruction of forests, wetlands and grasslands that store enormous amounts of carbon. Deforestation accounts for 20% of all current carbon emissions. So unless the world can eliminate emissions from all other sources-- it needs to reduce deforestation or risk an environmental catastrophe. And saving forests is probably an impossibility so long as vast expanses of cropland are used to grow modest amounts of fuel. The biofuels boom, in short, is one that could haunt the planet for generations--and it's only getting started. One groundbreaking new study in Science concluded that when this deforestation effect is taken into account, corn ethanol and soy biodiesel produce about twice the emissions of gasoline. The growing backlash against biofuels is a product of the law of unintended consequences.
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POPS20 Most Intriguing Billionaire Heiresses Though society and gossip columns track them like Hollywood starlets, these women distinguish themselves by exhibiting the tenacity and risk-taking that makes their parents the most powerful people on Earth. Not all are success stories--it may take a lifetime for these women to match their parents' legacies. Forbes editors--our very own "wealth experts"--compiled the list. Under 40 and hailing from around the world, the heiresses are ranked according to their father's or mother's most recent net worth on either Forbes' World's Billionaires list, the Forbes 400 list of the Richest Americans or Forbes Asia's 40 Richest Indians.
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POPSRichard Branson Flies Online According to the article, the new service is a combination of three of the best ideas on the Internet: the user and seller reviews provided by online auctioneer eBay; Priceline's ability to let consumers offer their own bids on flights; and the simplicity of Expedia and Travelocity. If anyone can swing that, he can.
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POPSBiofuel flight gets turbulent response
He says algae will be the most likely source for renewable energy in the future. Algae? The way energy use is skyrocketing, in time anything available will be used, corn, rice, wood, cotton. Over above any waste material any fossil fuels and nuclear energy. The problem is the escalation of energy use is beyond the capacity to produce it. Has it ever occurred to anyone that the biggest waste by product of energy use the way things are designed today, is HEAT. There should make more productive means of energy transformation developed. So much of the 'energy' that is produced as fuel burns to power an engine amongst other things, goes straight out the exhaust pipe, without performing any useful function. Like the way they use nuclear energy to boil water to make steam. after the medium is expanded through heating/combustion, it stays that way. Why? because we're too busy thinking about the next 5 minutes. The children, and grandchildren can worry about the future. If there is one.
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