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So shale gas could meet demand for 40 years. What then?
2013-06-28 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For a moment, let's take the shale gas evangelists at their word. Britain has stumbled on a pile of carbon cash in its cellar, the energy equivalent of finding a stack of ugly but valuable china in the attic. With North Sea oil and gas in decline and global markets volatile and pricey, suddenly there seems a sure way to deliver the government's promise of building 40 new gas power stations. By odd coincidence, newly estimated gas resources in the Bowland shale could meet our demand for gas for 40...
NHTSA Strict on State Testing of Driverless Cars and then Loosens Up
2013-06-01 18:08:51| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is dealing with the tricky issue of what to do exactly about upcoming driverless cars. Agency wants to see very detailed, strict testing by states as technology evolves. But once thats done, NHTSA warns states about imposing too many specific guidelines. NHTSA very enthusiastic about the potential for reducing crashes and highway fatalities with autonomous cars. Agency also being more specific and detailed in how it sees the technology defined five different levels of where its going. Deputy NHTSA Administrator David Friedman said guidelines aimed at advising states on how to ensure that autonomous vehicles can co-exist safely with other vehicles on roads. One issue NHTSA wants to see tested and deal with is how much warning drivers need of a problem that requires them to retake controls of a car that has been driving itself. General Motors had an encouraging statement on the decision check it out and other issues being explored for autonomous cars to make it fairly soon to US roads. The Article NHTSA Strict on State Testing of Driverless Cars and then Loosens Up appeared first on Automotive Digest.
Indonesia: He Helped Discover Evolution, And Then Became Extinct
2013-04-30 09:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Ask most folks who came up with the theory of evolution, and they'll tell you it was Charles Darwin. In fact, Alfred Russel Wallace, another British naturalist, was a co-discoverer of the theory - though Darwin has gotten most of the credit. Wallace died 100 years ago this year. Wallace developed some of his most important ideas about natural selection during an eight-year expedition to what was then the Dutch East Indies - modern-day Indonesia - to observe wildlife and collect specimens. Few...
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Arkansas Oil Spill Damage Assessment: If Not the Feds, then Who?
2013-04-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Federal agencies have so far not decided whether to undertake an assessment of the ecological harm caused by ExxonMobil's pipeline break, which spewed a tarry oil slick into yards, streets and creeks in a central Arkansas town. For now, they're leaving it to state agencies to decide whether and how to quantify and counteract the environmental damage. The rupture in the Pegasus pipeline on March 29 dumped up to an estimated 294,000 gallons of Canadian heavy crude in Mayflower, Ark.including in...
05.13: Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now
2013-04-15 20:36:27| Powells Books Events Calendar
Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place: part nature preserve, part theme park. C. B. Bernard lashed his canoe to the roof of his truck and headed northwest, he learned that a relation had made the same trek a century earlier. After finding the journals of "Uncle Joe," Bernard threw himself at Alaska, boating to remote islands, hiking distant forests, and hunting and fishing the landscape. Chasing Alaska (Lyons Press) is a moving portrait, then and now, of the last frontier.
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