Random links
- Is Algae the DIY answer to fuel and food crises?
- "Algae is a way to grow really high quality food in a small area, on the surface of a body of water or in wastewater. Or you can grow algae in dilute urine which is an easy way to get the right nutrients and reduce your impact on the environment. ... You come out with clean water, fuel, food, fertilizer and extra oxygen." - somehow pulling stuff out of a medium like that to eat doesn't strike me as particularly appealing: "You want it fresh. You can eat fresh spirulina that's basically alive. It tastes better."
- The media and Terry Jones
- Spokesperson for the Council on Arab Islamic Relations: "We get videos every day of somebody who shoots the Quran, burns the Quran ... We normally don’t do anything about it, because we don’t want to give them more attention than they deserve." ... then talks about why they issued an announcement regarding this particular incident.
- Welcome to the wacky world of green power
- "The government will pay Mr. Creeggan and other solar producers around 80 cents a kilowatt hour for the power they sell back to the grid. That’s about 15 times more than the current spot price that consumers now pay for power." - I'm a fan of both wind and hydro power, but unless there's a major technical advance I'm still fairly skeptical about solar, other than in a few parts of the globe.
- Older people enjoy reading negative stories about young
- Quotes the author of the study who argues that "Everybody likes a self-esteem boost. For young people though, it's almost automatic. Youth is considered important in society." Could some of this also be due to an increased emphasis on self-esteem in the education system?