In some somewhat reassuring news, it seems that Sarah Palin has not drunk the “anthropological global warming is real” Kool-Aid just yet. This is good news considering that the GOP platform basically gives in to the environmentalist and admits that it’s real.
The University of Nevada at Reno is experimenting with open algae ponds to prove that algae biofuel production won’t have to rely on often times expensive bioreactors.
The ponds, which are uncovered and open to the environment, will demonstrate that algae can be grown in commercial quantities year-round, even in a temperate climate. This will obviate the need for capital-intensive bioreactors or covered ponds. Appropriate growing temperatures will be maintained using natural resources readily available in Nevada.
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Future plans include scaling up to around 200 acres of ponds, sufficient to produce more than 1,000,000 gallons of biodiesel per year. We believe that the methodologies and technologies being developed will result in high-quality biodiesel that can compete in price per gallon with both current domestic biodiesel production and imported fuels.
You catch that last part? 1,000,000 gallons of biodiesel per year. You know how many gallons of ethanol you could get from 200 acres of corn per year? About 80,000 gallons assuming a very generous 400 gallons/acre. That means that algae can produce roughly 12.5x more fuel per acre. Pretty impressive.
There really isn’t anything going on today and I don’t feel like writing about nothing. Therefore, I’m just going to send you to Pajamas Media to read Frank J’s proposal on how we need to train our future presidents. Enjoy.
Now, I’m sure you have all heard that Joe Biden and Sarah Palin are going to be facing off in a VP debate on October 2nd. What you might not have heard about is that Biden sometimes has a hard time watching he says. In one situation he made an unarguably racial slur against Indians and in another he clumsily made a comment about Obama being ‘clean’.
Anyways, Biden doesn’t seem to have that very important filter most people have that determines how one should act or what one should say in public. Therefore, I have a very strong feeling something will come up in the VP debate with Palin so today’s question is who do you think Biden is going to insult in the VP debate? If you pick other, leave who you think it will be in the comment section.
It seems like everyone is beginning to abandon any biofuel mandate that could potentially lead to increases in food prices. Australia’s New South Wales joining in the trend by not implementing a mandate that would increase biofuel requirements to 10% by 2010.
NSW Premier Nathan Rees has ditched his predecessor’s commitment to introduce mandated levels of biodiesel in motor vehicles and boost ethanol levels from 2 per cent to 10 per cent.
In a setback for the biofuels industry, Mr Rees signalled yesterday that Morris Iemma’s mandate plans would not be implemented — putting himself at odds with Lands Minister Tony Kelly, who had insisted the Government backed the biofuels policy.
The about-face in NSW comes amid mounting evidence that biofuel mandates have contributed to growing world food shortages and rising prices.
The past two days have been quite a shock for me. In my school’s daily newspaper, The Daily Gamecock, there have been two opinion pieces bashing Obama. Both of them are fairly well written and bring up some less than conventional points. To be quite honest, I’m actually shocked to actually have seen them make their way into the paper.
The first opinion piece came out yesterday, and actually compared Obama’s oratory skills to Hilter.
That said, I’ve seen Obama live twice, and what I saw scared me a little. A charismatic speaker about to take power on the heels of nearly a decade of economic and national security disasters, seducing an audience – and an electorate, for that matter – that is so desperate for something to hope for that they’ll cling to anything.
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If you can, find a video of Hitler speaking. If you can put out of your mind for one moment the unbelievable evil he did and just watch and listen, his public speaking manner is absolutely hypnotic. In 1938, when Hitler’s ugly side was starting to show, Princeton University freshmen voted British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the “greatest living person.” He beat Hitler by one vote.
Obama and Hitler both represented vehicles of change (though of obviously different kinds) and have enjoyed meteoric rises to national and international superstardom by being, probably, the two best political orators of the past 100 years.
That, of course, is more or less where the similarities end, but the lesson remains: be extremely careful of being seduced by political rhetoric. Hitler was seen as a great man by many Americans as late as one year before the start of World War II. Within seven years, he would start and lose the second-bloodiest war in world history, systematically arrange the murder of 11 million innocent people and change the course of world politics forever.
Interesting to say the least, wouldn’t you agree?
Now the second article questions African Americans on whether they are voting for Obama because of his policy or because of his race.
After examining the polling data done by many news organizations during the current election cycle, I began to see a pattern developing among voting demographics. Above 90 percent of blacks plan to vote for Barrack Obama, while the white vote was much more diverse, with an almost even split. Which leads to the million-dollar question, why doesn’t the black community have more diversity in their vote and when is someone going to give them a lecture? Today, when political correctness reins supreme, white people can be openly criticized. But if you do the same for the black community, you know what’s going to follow – someone chasing you down telling you that you need to take a cultural awareness or racial sensitivity class.
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Now lets say you’re a student who wants to own a home one day and are troubled by the recent financial woes of government-backed mortgage lenders Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae. If you look at the money senators between 1998 and 2008 have taken, most of it comes from the two companies. Sen. Obama ranks second among elected officials on that list. I am not sure I would really trust Sen. Obama to properly manage this housing problem when he has been taking money from two companies that just created a huge taxpayer burden via the government bailout.
Lastly, if I am a student with a car and I am worried about the cost of commuting to work or school and I realize that the oil off the coast of California could be tapped in less than two years, I would wonder which candidate wants to tap it. Well, Sen. McCain supports offshore drilling while Obama and the Democrats are more concerned about protecting the walrus than the blue collared workers and students.
Black students have a right to be proud of how far our country has come from the days of sitting on the back of the bus to having someone from their community possibly being our next president. It says volumes about how far this country has come. But I would urge these same students to examine the men not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Like I said, interesting articles that I was shocked to see make it past the editor (not because of their content but because it actually went against the Pro-Obama campus movement)
Remember back in July when Iran was acting especially crazy and decided to test their missile capabilities? Well one of the missiles didn’t go off so the picture was Photoshopped to show four instead of the actual three missiles launching. Courtesy of LGF, here are the real and Photoshopped pictures of the missile launch:
Now here is the Photoshopped version with the similarities pointed out.
This now brings us to the current claim that Times Online used the Photoshopped version of this missile launch two months after it was discovered. Here is the picture:
Yep, that’s definitely the Photoshopped version, just cropped a little.
Here is more on the original Iranian Missile Photoshop Scandal.
Man, what is with online British newspapers making horrible picture choices?
UPDATE:
Now this is embarrassing. Times Online used this ‘fake’ photograph even though they ran a story back in July comparing the real and Photoshopped versions. Unbelievable.
UPDATE:
Well it looks like someone caught the mistake because now the picture has been removed from the article. Good job.
Bill Gates is nowing throwing his support behind behind algae to oil technologies by providing some capital for San Diego based Sapphire Energy. This company now has over $100 million in investments and is looking to create a facility that could produce 10,000-barrels-a-day of algae-based oil.
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Whether or not they are actually successful in there endeavor isn’t that important. What is important is that people like Bill Gates are actually taking notice of algae-to-fuel technologies.
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Once again people, algae biofuel is one of the most promising alternative fuel sources. Pretty soon this will start to get main stream and national attention.
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More of this story can be found here
Well this has to be a first. It seems that the Obama campaign has put ads on the Drudge Report, an often thought of right-leaning website. Take a look:
Weird isn’t it?
This ad has to be one of the most powerful ads I have seen in this campaign. Born Alive Truth, whose website won Right Wing News’ “Website of the Day” award, should definitely be visited by anyone looking for more information on the whole BAIPA issue.
Anyways, here is the ad:
