Friday, March 25, 2011

If you need help with this insight -I am available -chuckle please pass it on

Money      ............     Here are some facts that are true in life
It can buy you a House,
But not a Home.

It can buy you a Bed,
But not Sleep.

It can buy you a Clock,
But not Time.

It can buy you a Book,
But not Knowledge.

It can buy you a Position,
But not Respect.

It can buy you Medicine,
But not Health.

It can buy you Blood,
But not Life.

It can buy you Sex,
But not Love.

So you see, money isn't everything. The best things in life can't be bought, and often we destroy ourselves trying!

I tell you all this because I am your Friend, and as your Friend I want to take away your needless pain and suffering...

So send me all your money and I will suffer for you.

A truer Friend than me you will never find.

CASH ONLY, PLEASE
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

future trends - electric car

Israel's first electric car battery stop

              KIRYAT EKRON, Israel (UPI) -- Israel's Better Place electric carcompany inaugurated its first battery-changing station with plans tobuild 40 more in the coming year.

At the demonstration in Kiryat Ekron Wednesday, a car drove over asliding panel and a robotic arm replaced drained batteries with fullycharged ones in five minutes, Israel's Channel Ten reported.

Charging batteries takes about six hours and provides 185 kilometers(116 miles) of travel but the switch can be made on the run duringlengthy car trips, driver Oved Ladzinsky told The Jerusalem Post.

The computerized system on the dashboard of the car informs the driverwhen the car needs charging, he said.

Moshe Kaplinsky, the company's chief executive officer in Israel saidthe company has also erected 1,000 functional charging spots for carsand thousands more will be created by the end of the year, the papersaid.

"The solution is here. It is ready for national deployment. It ishere, it is working and it is available," Kaplinsky told a newsconference, adding all the environmental and ecological standards havebeen met.

In February, the company opened its first electric vehicledemonstration center in Israel and announced the signing of 92corporate fleet owners as well as a partnership with Israel gasoperators Dor Alon to build battery switch stations at its facilities.

The company plans to introduce cars for commercial launch in Israeland Denmark next year, the company Web site said.



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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

save on your gas with these tips

IT DOES SEEM TO MAKE SENSE


 
  TIPS ON PUMPING GAS

  I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here
in California we are paying up to $3.75 to $4.10 per gallon. My line of
work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to
get more of your money's worth for every gallon:

 

  Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose , CA
we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the
pipeline.. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline,
regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total
capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.

 

  Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when
the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations
have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the
more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying
in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a
gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the
temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other
petroleum products plays an important role.

 

  A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business.
But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the
pumps.

 

  When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle
to a fast mode If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3)
stages: low, middle, and high. You should be pumping on low mode,
thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping.
All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the
fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor.
Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage
tank so you're getting less worth for your money.

 

  One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank
is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more gas you have in your tank
the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than
you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof.
This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere,
so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I
work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every
gallon is actually the exact amount.

 

  Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the
storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up; most likely the
gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you
might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.

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Monday, March 21, 2011

What happen to our plan for the bay of fundy?

Scotland plans largest tidal energy farm

EDINBURGH, Scotland (UPI) -- Scotland says it will develop a tidalenergy farm expected to yield 10 megawatts of electricity, the largesttidal energy project ever undertaken in the world.

The project, looking like an underwater wind farm, will take advantageof steady sea currents that flow through underwater canyon walls inthe sound of Islay off the southwest coast of Scotland, PhysOrg.comreported Friday.

John Swinney, the Scottish finance secretary, said waterways aroundScotland comprise nearly 25 percent of Europe's total tidal resources.

The project will use tidal turbines from Norwegian company HammerfestStorm, which has had them running in an experimental operation inNorway for six years.

The Scottish project is expected to more than double the energycapacity of the existing grid to support more than 5,000 homes andbusinesses.

The tidal farm is expected to cost $65 million and help Scotland meetits stated goal of deriving 80 percent of its energy needs fromrenewable resources by 2020, PhysOrg.com reported.

 

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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Constructive science

Plastic bottle from plant waste developed

PURCHASE, N.Y. (UPI) -- PepsiCo says it has developed a plastic bottlemade completely of plant materials like switch grass, pine bark andcorn husks instead of petroleum.

In inventing what it calls the world's first plastic bottle createdentirely from plant-based, fully renewable resources, the company saidit had "cracked the code," the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

At the molecular level, the new bottle is identical to existingplastic bottles made with polyethylene terephthalate resin, or PET.

The biggest difference is that making it does not require the use ofpetroleum, utilizing renewable plant materials instead.

The new bottle will be as strong and transparent as current bottles,being the chemical equal to the current PET plastic bottles, saidDenise Lefebvre, senior director of advanced research at PepsiCo.

The breakthrough was finding the correct fermentation process usingplant material, she said.

In making PET, the polyethylene makes up about 30 percent of the totalby weight. That part was already being made out of plant materials;what PepsiCo discovered was how to make the second part of PET, theterephthalate, out of plant waste, the Times reported.

"We've been the one to crack the code on that," Lefebvre said.

Combining the technologies allows for a bottle made entirely fromplants, she said.

 

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

tech breakthrough - Windows Live

New method extracts oil from tar sands
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've come up with an environmentally friendly way of extracting oil from tar sands, a method that can also help in cleaning oil spills.

Scientists at Penn State say the method uses ionic liquids to separate heavy, viscous oil from sand, a university release reported Wednesday.

Tar sands, also known as bituminous sands or oil sands, represent about two-thirds of the world's estimated oil reserves, but extracting the petroleum causes environmental damage.

Part of that damage comes from contaminated wastewater used in current separation processes, which can seep into and pollute groundwater.

The Penn State separation method uses very little energy and water, the researchers say, instead using ionic liquids -- salt in a liquid state -- that are recycled and reused.

The separation takes place at room temperature without the generation of waste process water, they say.

"Essentially, all of the bitumen is recovered in a very clean form, without any contamination from the ionic liquids," Paul Painter, Penn State professor of polymer said.

"Because the bitumen, solvents and sand/clay mixture separate into three distinct phases, each can be removed separately and the solvent can be reused."

The process can also be used to extract oil and tar from beach sand after oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last year.

Unlike other methods of cleanup, the Penn State process completely removes the hydrocarbons, and the cleaned sand can be returned to the beach instead of being sent to landfills, the researchers said.


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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

tech trend -small

Tiny cube may replace cellphone towers

MURRAY HILL, N.J. (UPI) -- Researchers say unsightly, sky-high,cellphone towers dotting the U.S. landscape may someday be replaced bysomething no bigger than a Rubik's cube.

Dubbed the lightRadio cube, the new device developed by Bell Labs isattracting interest from cellphone carriers around the world, The(Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger reported Wednesday.

Current cellphone antennas must be both large and tall because theyrely on sending signals down and outward like an umbrella. Bell Labssay the lightRadio cube aims cellphone signals more directly, usingfar less power while providing 30 percent more capacity than currentcellphone towers.

Wireless researchers for Bell Labs scattered around the world took upthe challenge of replacing the giant towers with something morecompact, and Bell researchers in Stuttgart, Germany, came up with asolution: three 2-inch, stacked circuit boards for the antenna, radioand network connection that replaces the conventional antenna systemconnecting every cellphone call.

Dozens of mobile carriers across the world have approachedAlcatel-Lucent in Murray Hill, N.J., where Bell Labs is located,asking for demonstrations and trials, said Ken Wirth, president ofAlcatel-Lucent's 4G/LTE wireless networks business.

Five carriers in the United States, Europe and China are enrolled fortrials by the end of this year and the company hopes to begin makingthe devices commercially available within 18 months, he said.

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