Skimaire High Tech: February 2011

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Change the need and opportunity on food

Change seen as vital in future agriculture

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says changes in national and
international strategies are needed to help agriculture solve the
world's food problems while reducing pollution.

"Using resources more efficiently is what it will take to put
agriculture on a path to feed the expected future population of 9
billion people," said Nina Fedoroff, Penn State professor of biology
and life sciences.

"We especially need to do a better job using the nutrients, water and
energy needed to produce food," she said.

"We should ask how we can grow food with a minimum of water, maximum
of renewable energy and closest to where people are living," Fedoroff
said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in Washington Friday.

"Meeting the food needs of a still-growing human and domestic animal
population with less water while preserving remaining biodiversity is,
arguably, the most profound challenge of the 21st century," Fedoroff
said.

Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Friday, February 18, 2011

Algae in wastewater seen as energy source

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say algae grown in wastewater could be a promising source of biofuel while cleaning up the wastewater at the same time.

Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology say their project to develop biodiesel from microalgae is doubly "green" because in addition to creating biofuel, the algae consume nitrates and phosphates and reduce bacteria and toxins in the water, an RIT release said Thursday.

Biodiesel from algae could reduce diesel fuel's telltale black puffs of exhaust with cleaner emissions low in the sulfur and particulates that come from fossil fuels, the researchers say.

"Algae -- as a renewable feedstock -- grow a lot quicker than crops of corn or soybeans," RIT researcher Eric Lannan says. "We can start a new batch of algae about every seven days. It's a more continuous source that could offset 50 percent of our total gas use for equipment that uses diesel."

Starting with algae production from 30 gallons of wastewater in a lab at RIT and moving to 100 gallons in a 4-foot-by-7-foot tank, the researchers say they plan to build a mobile greenhouse at a wastewater treatment plant in the spring and scale up production to as much as 1,000 gallons of wastewater.

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

smile for those who take life very seriously

Thoughts For Those Who Take Life Too Seriously

1. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
2. A day without sunshine is like, night
3. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
4. I just got lost in thought. It wasn't familiar territory.
5. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
7. I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
8. Honk if you love peace and quiet.
9. Remember, half the people you know are below average.
10. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
11. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
12. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
13 I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
14. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
15. Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your week.
16. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
17. Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
18. Get a new car for your spouse. It'll be a great trade!
19. Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
20. Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!
21. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
22. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand...
23. OK, so what's the speed of dark?
24. How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
25. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
26. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
27. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
28. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
29. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
30. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
31. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
32. What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
33. I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
34. I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
35. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
36. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
37 Just remember - if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
38. Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.