Blatant Reality

I don’t know what it is about Telegraph but the photos they pick to show how much trouble polar bears are in just aren’t working. Last time, they had a photo of a polar bear basically drowning in the downdraft of a helicopter. This time, it gets even better. Take a look at this beauty:

Besides the fact that this bear probably killed the photographer a second after he took this, its placement in this story is just wrong. See for yourself

Polar bears and other rare species are in danger of dying out, scientists fear, as latest figures show the Artic sea ice is at record lows.

 

Scientists from the World Wildlife Fund, who are recording the ice cover over the North Pole, said less ice is predicted in the Arctic this year than in any other.

Umm… Is it just me or do those look like trees in the background? I really don’t think trees grow on ice so this picture seems to contradict the whole ‘polar bears need ice’ argument. Wouldn’t it have been more fitting to have one of those classic pictures of polar bears clinging to a lone iceberg? I mean, this guy looks just fine and as I stated about, it seems to have already adapted to hunting on land.

Well it seems that commercialy viable ‘green crude’ is almost here, with Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation discovering a strain of algae that could do the trick. Just to put this into perspective, this is the first time I have ever heard that a commercially viable strain of algae has bee discovered.
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So I stumbled upon Analytic News’ website today and found this interesting prediction:

Yep you are reading that correctly, it’s predicting that in November, McCain has a 79.8% chance of winning. However, I don’t know how much faith you should put into this because I wasn’t able to find out how they came up with this number.

Anyways, just thought that was interesting so please don’t think I’m vouching for its accuracy.

I don’t know if you saw this but it seems that a jury in Britain has decided that man made global warming is such a threat that is justifies breaking the law.

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.

 

Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a “lawful excuse” to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater damage caused by climate change. The defence of “lawful excuse” under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage to be caused to property to prevent even greater damage – such as breaking down the door of a burning house to tackle a fire.

 

The not-guilty verdict, delivered after two days and greeted with cheers in the courtroom, raises the stakes for the most pressing issue on Britain’s green agenda and could encourage further direct action.

 

Kingsnorth was the centre for mass protests by climate camp activists last month. Last year, three protesters managed to paint Gordon Brown’s name on the plant’s chimney. Their handi-work cost £35,000 to remove.

My first response was anger and that thought that this would set a precedence for other acts like this in the future, but then it dawned on me. This happened in Britain which isn’t the United States. That means that for the Greens to get the same kind of treatment, they would have to go to Britain. All this led me to the conclusion that this ruling will lead to a massive exodus of Environmentalists to Britain (and more importantly, out of the United States).

Isn’t this wonderful? This Brits have given us a great gift: giving the Greens an incentive to leave our country (where it is illegal to do this kind of crap).

Thank you Britain, thanks for taking one for the team.

Oh and at the very least, I’m sure this ruling has helped the sign industry by spurring the energy plants into buying this sign.

H/T Drudge

Looks like the landslide victories that Congressional Democrats were predicting just a couple of months ago have gotten a little tighter. Plus, the Dems are now looking at Obama as a possible liability with McCain’s resent resurgence in the polls.

Poor, Poor Obama.

H/T Drudge

Today is a day that is hard for most American’s since the tragedy on 9/11/2001 has affected everyone in the country either directly or from the subsequent military actions that it spawned. To say the least, it is a very sensitive subject with most people at least feeling some sort of sadness for what happened that day.

However, I guess you wouldn’t feel that way if you were a terrorist. Today, as most bloggers have done, South Carolina State Representative Jeff Duncan wrote an article commemorating what happened seven years ago as he sat in an airport about to set off on a trip. To be honest, there is nothing really special about the post because the likes of it are being echoed on thousands of other blogs around the country today.

What struck me is this heinous comment left by Naisam (Language Warning):

If you can’t view the image the comment reads (edited):

May god fade out the f***ing Americans.. 11 September 2011 will the same day as 2001…

 

Wait and see

At this point, there are so many things I would like to say to this person. I’m not going to print them because my Mom reads this blog and it wouldn’t be appropriate.

But wait, I noticed that this person had a blogger profile so I decided to check out what kind of blog someone like this would have. You won’t believe what I found:

That’s right, that’s a picture of this person’s kid. Isn’t that just charming. A person, whose whole blog is devoted to their kid, wishing that September 11 was recreated in 2011 so a lot of kids will be deprived their own loving parents.

Once again, words just escape me. What I do know is that this has to be a pretty sick and twisted person to say anything like that.

Some of the key players in the algae biofuel realm are planning on attending the Algae World ’08 conference in Singapore this coming November. The newest addition to the list is CEO Riggs Eckelberry of OriginOil, a company currently develping a comercialization process of algae based fuels. The goal is to find a way to make algae a legitimate competitor of oil.
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Seven years ago, one of the most horrible attacks ever committed on American soil took place. No matter how you feel on the issue, take time today to remember and pray for those families that were directly involved or have been involved in our subsequent actions. Michelle Malkin has a great post in honor of the victims of the terror attacks.

The most important thing to remember is that terrorism is still alive and well in the world so we must be ever vigilant.

Looks like the US Government has finally gotten on the bandwagon that food based biofuel (like corn, soybeans, etc.) are not the cure all for our oil dependence. Lets hope they also begin to see the crop-based fuel sources in general don’t have nearly as much potential as algae biofuel. Anyway, they have decided to invest some money into researching what type of algae is the best source of oil. Take a look:

Montana State University will partner with Utah State University to evaluate the oil content of algae cultures available to the universities and identify populations that naturally have higher rates of oil production.  In this project, they will test the oil producing microalgae in existing open ponds for growth characteristics and oil production and determine the optimal algae type and most efficient biorefinery design.

 

University of Georgia plans to develop novel approaches to supply nutrients to oil-producing algal systems resulting in cost-effective algae-biofuel production systems.  The project will take advantage of the abundance of litter from the poultry industry as a source of low cost nutrients, and develop a nutrient delivery system to grow algae sustainably.  Additionally, this project aims to develop process methods for the harvesting of algae from open ponds and subsequent processing to biofuels and other value added products from algae.

This past week, I wrote about how a power plant located in Jefferson City, Missouri was going to begin using it’s emissions to feed algae growth. Well it seems that this process has already been happening around the country.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology already have developed technology that feeds power-plant emissions to algae, which in turn is transformed into biofuel. A commercial spinoff, Cambridge, Mass.-based GreenFuel Technologies Corp., teamed with Arizona Public Service Co. last year to successfully grow algae at a natural gas power plant west of Phoenix.

 

In July, a consortium of companies in Hawaii announced plans to pipe carbon dioxide from a Maui Electric Co. plant into pools of nearby algae, which would be converted into biodiesel, animal feed and other products.

 

Also this year, scientists from the University of Kentucky sought to set up a carbon-dioxide-algae experiment at a power plant in western Kentucky.

Sure looks like support for algae based fuel is beginning to pick up some steam.