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POPSEconomics, Politics, News (06/29/11) Friends, the press and the government are in bed together in an embrace so intimate and wrong, they could spoon on a twin mattress and still have room for Ted Koppel. Journalists used to questions the reasons for war and expose abuse of power. Now, like toothless babies, they suckle on the sugary teat of misinformation and poop it into the diaper we call the 6:00 News. -- Kent Brockman, The Simpsons
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POPSGlobal Warming Hysteria: Backing Off on the Gas Peddle–For Now
“We have to amplify measures that help reinforce the competitiveness of our economy,” Prime Minister François Fillon told parliament Tuesday, as if he had alighted upon some previously hidden truth. Paris now insists on a European Union-wide tax to reduce CO2 emission because a unilateral move would “widen our gap in competitiveness with our neighbor Germany.” Luckily, there is little appetite in the rest of the EU for this sort of economic masochism. And in the sinking ship California, the failed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger"who helped flood the poop deck with his ridiculous “green agenda” in a state with a 13% unemployment rate"is even backing a bit off. From the story: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked the state’s top climate-change regulator to loosen proposed cap-and-trade rules to make it easier for companies to comply, in a sign the state is responding to pressures from business groups concerned about the cost of the program.
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POPSPower from Poultry Poop comes to Arkansas This is kind of an update of an earlier Amplify discussion about using chicken manure for power, I'd mentioned that Arkansas has tons of chicken poop and now we're doing something with it besides dumping it into rivers. We're going to start producing electricity with it. This article is about the company that makes it all possible.
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POPSBaaaaaaaaad Idea: Eco-Warriors are Attempting to Breed Sheep That Don't Burp More scientific studies from religious eco-evangelists harnessing the gospel of burps and farts: British Agriculture College Harnesses Cow Poop Power: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/british_agricul.php A Stinky Solution to a Stinkier Problem: Using Garlic to Fight Cow Farts: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/garlic_cow_farts.php
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POPSTop 6 Ways to convert Poop into Electricity
Turd Cell Smashers Destroying the cell walls in sludge—by heating it under pressure, zapping it with ultrasonic waves, or pulsing it with electric fields—boosts its methane production by 50 percent or more in anaerobic digesters Geological Toilets Last summer, Los Angeles began injecting sludge into a mile-deep well, where pressure and heat are expected to release enough methane to power 1,000 homes. The well also dissolves and sequesters carbon dioxide that the sludge would normally release, removing the equivalent exhaust of about 1,000 cars per year. Feces Ponds As a cheaper green option, some 50 waste plants in 20 countries have installed versions of UC Berkeley professor William J. Oswald's Advanced Integrated Wastewater Pond Systems Technology--large open-air ponds that primarily rely on anaerobic digestion and photosynthesis to break down sludge and convert it into a fertilizer or animal feed of nitrogen-rich algae. The algae in turn can be used as a feedstock for biofu
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