November 2007
Hydrogen from food scraps. →
Researchers at Penn State University have come up with a process to generate hydrogen from organic materials …. maybe this is what all those GM food crops people are complaining about can be used for.
Cleaner Nuclear Power? →
US Senators are working on legislation to promote the use of thorium in nuclear reactors. They, as do many others in the nuclear industry, claim that its use has the potential to cut high-level nulcear-waste volumes in half.
It’s also three times more abundant than uranium.
The US isn’t the only country interested in thorium. Much of India’s plans for nuclear energy reolve...
Flying yogi claims eating GM foods is a health... →
Jerffrey Smith, a self-confessed flying yogi , claims that there is a conspiracy amongst world food regulators to promote GM foods that are highly risky to human health. Most of the evidence for which comes from the Institute of Responsible Technology, which he founded, or from web sites which were set up to promote his anti-GM books.
Not everybody is totally convinced. Some such as Dr Chrstopher...
Liberal NSW religious right moving into Federal... →
The religious right wing of the NSW Liberals have done a tremendous job at totally stuffing up the NSW Liberal party to the point that they made the Libs totally unelectable at the last NSW state election. Flushed with that success they are now moving on to do the same for Federal politics.
Liberal Party incites racial hatred in attempt to... →
Liberal members, including the husband of the Liberal member of Australia’s federal parliament Jackie Kelly, have been caught handing out fake leaflets. The leaflets claim to be from “Islamic Australia Federation” a non-existent organisation. And applauds the Labor Party for supporting Muslim terrorists. The kicker is that the Jackie Kelly calls it a Chaser
style prank,...
Embryonic breakthrough in stem cells. →
Resarchers claim they have developed a technique to make embryonic stem cells from skin cells.
Religion vs Ideology →
Religious cult, the Exclusive Brethren, has a spray at the Greens’ leader Bob Brown in the lead up to the Australian Federal election.
String Theory all tied up? →
Fun-Loving physicist thinks he’s got a unified theory of everything. Garret Lisi has a hypothesis for a unified theory based on the mathematical entity know as E8.
Australian PM concealing letters to religious... →
Australian PM, John Howard, will not release letters exchanged with the religious cult the Exclusive Brethren until after the upcoming election.
Turning C02 into plastic. →
Burying the problem? →
Blue Source has started up its first carban-capture project in the US. The result could be increased crude production and a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to taking 70,000 cars off the road.
Cellulosic Ethanol not there yet. →
Commerical scale cellulosic ethanol plants are now being built but this fuel could still be too expensive when compared to corn ethanol.
The selective tolerance of religion. →
30 Pieces of Silver. →
How independent is the NSW Christian Democrat politican Fred Nile?
Christian lobby launches policy magazine. →
An Ass of an Idea. →
Donkeys married in a bid to bring monsoon rains.
Man marries bitch; a dog that is. →
Wonder if he has to consummate the marriage for the curse to be lifted?
Don't pulp old growth forests ... →
We can use them to make Bio-Crude instead!
Family watches mum die in exorcism ritual. →