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Bacteria used to power simple machines
ARGONNE, Ill. (UPI) -- U.S. Department of Energy scientists say they've used common bacteria to power simple machines, providing insight for creating bio-inspired energy production.

The researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University said they discovered bacteria can turn microgears when suspended in a solution.

"The gears are a million times more massive than the bacteria," said physicist Igor Aronson, who led the study. "The ability to harness and control the power of bacterial motions is an important requirement for further development of hybrid biomechanical systems driven by microorganisms."

The scientists discovered the aerobic bacteria, Bacillus subtilis, appear to swim around the solution randomly, but occasionally the organisms will collide with the spokes of the gear and begin turning it in a definite direction. The researchers then added a few hundred bacteria which worked together to turn the gear.

When multiple gears are placed in the solution with the spokes connected, the bacteria will begin turning both gears in opposite directions and it will cause the gears to rotate in synchrony for a long time, the scientists said.

"Our discovery demonstrates how microscopic swimming agents, such as bacteria or man-made nanorobots, in combination with hard materials can constitute a 'smart material' which can dynamically alter its microstructures, repair damage or power microdevices," Aronson said.

The research is reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Have a great holiday by giving of yourself in the spirit of Christ. Help others in need and you will gain true and needed satisfaction.

The rank commercialism -where 40% of total sales are made in one month -loses the original meaning of Christmas . Give of yourself not things please and get back to the original family tradition of good charity and cheer.

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new approach?

HIV vaccine research takes new direction
DURHAM, N.C. (UPI) -- U.S. scientists seeking a vaccine for the human immunodeficiency virus say a study of HIV antibodies is leading them in a new direction.

The Duke University Medical Center-led researchers said that new direction came from a detailed study of how the most robust antibodies work to block the HIV as it seeks entry into healthy cells.

"Our study clearly showed that we've been overlooking a very important component of antibody function," said S. Munir Alam, associate professor of medicine and lead author of the study.

Alam and Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor Bing Chen said they studied two potentially powerful antibodies against HIV, 2F5 and 4E10. Both of are rare, broadly neutralizing antibodies, meaning they can block a number of strains of HIV, the scientists said.

The researchers found successful docking of the antibody to the HIV outer coat membrane region required antibody attachment to the virus's membrane, which contains lipid.

"This two-step mechanism, not previously appreciated, might extend to antibodies that protect against other viruses," said study co-author Stephen Harrison of Harvard Medical School.

The researchers said they are now designing a vaccine that incorporates a lipid component and design trials are now being conducted on animals.

The findings are detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Global warming

r"The Global Warming Consensus Has Been Shattered
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Just a few years ago, Americans reached a consensus that the earth had warmed over the past few decades. These days, however, far fewer Americans believe in global"

Beware of extreme saving claims

Canada's biggest alternative-power generator, Canadian Hydro Developers, generates 496 megawatts of wind and hydropower... theoretically. If its claims were true, it could power almost 400 average U.S. homes for a year.

In fact, this $720 million company's power supply is terribly inefficient. In the first quarter, the company only operated about 27% of the time from January to March. That means its true generating capacity was just 133 megawatts.

When we break down Canadian Hydro Developers' sales, we see that it earns about $82 per megawatt hour (which is one megawatt of energy supplied for one hour). That works out to about $720,000 per megawatt of capacity (hours per year multiplied by $82 per megawatt hour).

The company claims it will install another 185 megawatts of power this year. However, by its own estimates, those power plants will only produce about the equivalent of 66 megawatts of power. In other words, those new plants' planned efficiency is 37%... and will probably be much lower.

That puts the company's total paid power generation for this year at just under 200 megawatts. The company spends, on average, $8.5 million to build one paid megawatt of wind power and $4.8 million to build one paid megawatt of hydropower.

At $720,000 per megawatt of paid power generation, new hydropower plants will take almost seven years to pay for themselves. New wind plants will take almost 12 years to pay for themselves.

As you can see, the company must spend far more money than it will recoup in the near term. Canadian Hydro Developers' long-term debt soared 275% in three years... from $224 million in 2005 to $839 million today. That's about 10 times its estimated earnings for 2010, which is too high for my taste.

GM Volt

Despite GM's struggles to bring the Volt to market, there's no doubt that technology is changing the automotive industry forever and that mpg will soon be a wholly inadequate metric on which to judge the efficiency of a car. You can expect GM's inflated claims to be reduced when the Volt finally hits showroom floors in a few years. But you can also expect shockwaves to run through the industry and the economy as virtually every component of the car, shy of the seats, is rethought over the next decade. Fortunes will be made and lost in a way that has not been seen in the automotive industry in half a century or more

Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites

Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites: "There is no problem with global warming, Plimer says repeatedly. He points out that for humans periods of global warming have been times of abundance when civilization made leaps forward. Ice ages, in contrast, have been times when human development slowed or even declined.
So global warming, says Plimer, is something humans should welcome and embrace as a harbinger of good times to come."

More voices of reason combat the new golbal warming fanaticism How warm has your summer been? SHT

The Government Is About to Pull $3,000 Out of Your Pocket

The Government Is About to Pull $3,000 Out of Your Pocket
By Matt Badiali

On Friday, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, by a vote of 33 to 25.

According to the bill's sponsors, it is "a comprehensive approach to America's energy policy that will create millions of new clean energy jobs, save consumers hundreds of billions of dollars in energy costs, enhance America's energy independence, and cut global warming pollution."

If you believe that, I hear Bernie Madoff is starting a new fund.

The bill will actually levy financial penalties against companies that produce carbon dioxide and other gases. Carbon dioxide is a byproduct of burning stuff – leaves, coal, gasoline, etc.

Coal and natural gas are the two cheapest sources of power at 1¢ per kilowatt hour and 1.4¢ per kilowatt hour, respectively.

Wind power is seven times more expensive than coal; solar is 35 times more expensive. You might as well try to generate the nation's electricity with a bunch of little Honda generators.

The law would require greenhouse gas emissions cut to 97% of 2005 levels, approximately 6.98 billion tons, in 2012. We produced 7.28 billion tons in 2007, the latest data available. It's a miniscule change, and it won't help the climate in the least.

By 2050, the figure jumps to an insane 17% of 2005 levels. There's no way that will work... In 2007, burning oil contributed 2.6 billion tons of carbon (35%). Burning coal contributed 2.2 billion tons (30%). And burning natural gas contributed 1.2 billion tons (17%). Those three sources contributed 70% of our electricity and all of our transport fuel. Where the hell are we going to come up with a replacement... even in 40 years?

Let's be clear: This 1,200-page bill isn't about saving the environment over the next few decades. This bill is about dollars – yours and mine – right now.

As soon as it's enacted, it will increase our electric bills by 32%. The costs will climb to an extra 62% within the first 18 to 24 months. Here's why:

Coal power plants that produce more carbon dioxide than they're allowed will have to buy the right to produce more. That additional cost will be passed on to consumers. According to the Congressional Budget Office, we'll pay about $846 billion to the federal government from 2010 to 2019.

That's not the only cost we're going to shoulder. Any energy-intensive business is going to get clobbered by this bill. In 2012, when the rules go into affect, oil refiners will be forced to add $0.77 per gallon of gasoline, $0.83 per gallon of jet fuel, and $0.88 per gallon of diesel fuel, according to the American Petroleum Institute.

Companies buying that fuel are going to pass that cost directly along to you and me. We'll remember 2012 as the year of $6 gasoline. Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, thinks it will actually increase imports of finished fuels, because foreign refined products will be cheaper.

U.S.-based steelmakers will also get crushed. Foreign steelmakers won't have to worry about the onerous energy taxes, and steel imports will remain cheap. So, unlike refiners, U.S. steelmakers won't be able to pass along energy costs. That will be the story for other U.S. metal industries like zinc, aluminum, silver, and gold.

But the worst-hit industry will be coal. Portrayed as the villain in the war on climate change, many coal companies (particularly on the East Coast) will go out of business.

According to analysis by the Heritage Foundation (a conservative think-tank), the combined cost of the bill would be $3,000 per family in 2012 and $20,000 per household by 2035. If you make $50,000, you're looking at an after-tax 7% paycut as soon as the legislation hits.

How can a family be expected to carry a $20,000-per-year burden, no matter how far in the future it's placed? When you add all the costs up, direct and indirect, it spells a major decline in our standard of living.

We have one more chance to stop this legislation, when the Senate takes up the bill. The problem is, few Democrats bucked the party in the House. On a party-line vote, this passes the Senate, too. Then we're in real trouble.

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Canada has a great energy future

Canadian Oil Sands: More Oil Than Saudi Arabia?

Canada's oil sands hold an estimated 170 billion barrels of oil that can be recovered with existing technology and as much as 1.7 trillion barrels -- more than five times the size of Saudi Arabia's reserves -- that could be produced with the use of new methods that are being developed.

As the only non-OPEC source with the capability for large production growth during the next several years, oil sands have the potential to reduce the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' revenues, weakening the cartel and those members that often undertake policies hostile to U.S. interests.

By getting more of their oil from Canada, refineries in the Midwest are moving from being at the back of the crude oil supply line to the front. With these secure supplies, Midwest refineries are not as vulnerable to supply disruptions from overseas producers or hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico.

So who would object to Canadian oil sands?

Eenvironmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club are trying to shut down Canadian oil sands production and block the expansion of refineries here in the U.S.

If the environmental groups truly cared about achieving results in their battle against global warming, they would better focus their energy on the construction of scores of power plants in rapidly developing economies like China and India that account for most of the increase in the world's carbon emissions. These developments pose the real global environmental danger, not the Canadian oil sands.

~From my editorial in today's Detroit News
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Should Government be in the green business?

Suzuki unwelcome in our homes
Posted By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
Posted 2 hours ago


So far, not many people have seen Canadian environmentalist Tom Adams' clever YouTube videoHome Invasion David Suzuki Style.I'm hoping that together, we're going to change that.

An independent energy and environmental consultant, Adams was for 11 years, until 2007, the highly-respected executive director of Energy Probe, a sister organization of Pollution Probe.

Adams believes so-called "green" energy decisions by governments are best made by paying attention to such old-fashioned ideas as democracy, due process and paying for the real costs of electricity.

This as opposed to turning the energy market into a giant casino where governments arbitrarily decide winners and losers among energy producers and consumers by cabinet decree, after consulting with favoured environmental groups who then gush support for the government's "green" initiatives.

All this while treating taxpayers like mushrooms -- covering them with manure and keeping them in the dark.

Which pretty much describes the approach of the Ontario government under Premier Dalton McGuinty, sadly illustrative of governments in general.

If you go to youtube.comand type inHome

Invasion, David Suzuki Stylein the search engine, up will pop the mild-mannered Adams, warning about the potential abuse of state power when it comes to all things "green."

For months, Ontarians have been subjected to patronizing, tiresome television commercials -- paid for with their taxes -- featuring Suzuki lecturing clueless citizens (apparently the government's view) on conservation.

Suzuki has been shown doing everything from conspiring with children in a tree house on how to correct the energy-wasting habits of their parents, to showing up in the basement of some guy with the mental acuity of Homer Simpson, delighted to learn how much more beer he can buy with the energy savings from getting rid of his old beer fridge.

Adams zeroes in one ad called Habitat -- see it at powerwise.ca/features/videos-- in which Suzuki sneaks into someone's home and caulks the windows -- dripping the stuff on the floor -- while describing the sleeping homeowner as an energy-wasting species known as the "draft dodger." Awakened by Suzuki, the groggy homeowner emerges from his bedroom and the two stare vacantly at each other, before Suzuki takes off, stopping briefly on the guy's lawn to deliver more advice.

Adams points out the problem with this ad -- apparently the government's idea of humour -- is that the joke is on us.

That's because in the original version of McGuinty's Green Energy Act -- applauded by the Suzuki Foundation and other environmental groups as "world class" -- Suzuki, or anyone designated by a government bureaucrat, could, in fact, under the "Inspection, Enforcement and Penalties" section of the law, conduct surprise search and seizure raids on anyone's home or business.

This to check out activities deemed suspicious by the government related to energy or water use.

In the case of a house raid, the government, uh, generously stipulated a search warrant would have to be obtained, presumably before grilling homeowners at midnight about their electricity and water bills.

Adams says the Suzuki Foundation and other environmental groups didn't raise a peep of protest about these draconian, privacy-violating measures, while praising the act.

Yesterday, a spokesperson for the foundation told me it didn't focus on this aspect of the law because it knew early on McGuinty wasn't going to go through with these "Big Brother" provisions.

OK. Two questions for McGuinty.

What efforts did his government make to inform ordinary citizens it was planning these draconian measures and how many knew as fast as the Suzuki Foundation it was dropping them?

Adams concludes the good news is McGuinty was ultimately embarrassed into dropping the search and seizure provisions, but the bad news is what he left in the law is worse,

How bad? Type "Green Energy Act Paradox" into youtube's search engine. He'll tell you.Article ID# 1628502 http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1628502

Interesting food for thought particularly after the e-health fiasoe SHT

FCPP Publications :: Cheer Up, Canada's Environmental Record is Improving

FCPP Publications :: Cheer Up, Canada's Environmental Record is Improving: "In light of these trends, Earth Day should not be an occasion for hand-wringing and lamentation. It should instead be viewed as an opportunity to celebrate the tremendous progress we have made towards greater environmental sustainability. There is always room for further improvement, and we should strive toward smart, environmentally-sustainable growth 365 days a year. This week, however, we should also reflect on what has already been achieved. So congratulations to all of us and, of course, Happy Earth Day!"

This is is a good review of the major improvements that have been made in Canada on the environment-
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Ethnol is it artificial bust and wishful thinking

Burn our food as gasoline. Brilliant. Farmers love it of course, because, like 99% of Americans, they love government handouts. But growing corn consumes a lot of diesel fuel. Transporting corn consumes a lot of diesel fuel. And turning corn into fuel consumes a lot of electricity... which is produced by burning coal and natural gas. Which makes ethanol a huge money loser without government support. Washington's ethanol plan is taking its only natural course: Bankruptcy. As this excellent WSJ opinion piece outlines, most ethanol players have gone belly up. So guess what is on the way from our "bigger government is better" president? You guessed it: More money and more support. Read full article...

Wishfull thinking can be dangerous . Wall street That's pretty much the story of ethanol. Consumers were asked to suspend disbelief as policy makers blurred the lines between economic reality and a business model built on fantasies of a better environment and energy independence through ethanol. Notwithstanding federal subsidies and mandates that force-feed the biofuel to the driving public, ethanol is proving to be a bust. - the market economy rules not wishful thinking Sht

Is Solar Power Right for You?

Is Solar Power Right for You?: " useful review SGT
So how much do solar-electric systems cost? An initial estimate on an average size solar-electric system might come in at $20,000 to $40,000 — or more. But as Liz points out, an average American household can expect to spend more than $100,000 over the next 25 years on electricity. Buying a solar-electric system is like buying that electricity up front, and depending on the details of your situation, making that investment now can save you a lot of money in the future. It also creates immediate cash flow and increases the value of your home, which can help offset that sticker shock."

Wave power

Q: You talk about geothermal, solar and wind, but you never mention wave power. Got an opinion? – G.T.

A: I think wave power is cute – it looks like a power source, only smaller... No really, these buoys do generate power. But like solar and wind, they need a whole lot of space and a whole lot of expensive investment to approach anything like a real power plant.

Wave power extracts energy from the ocean using buoys. The rise and fall of the buoys on the ocean's surface generates a current, which runs by a cable to a power station on land.

It takes 30 acres of buoys to generate 1 megawatt. The U.S. has peak production capacity of about 1,000 gigawatts of electricity. A gigawatt is 1,000 megawatts. Therefore, to generate one one-thousandth (0.001) of the energy we need, you'd have to cover almost 50 square miles of ocean.

According to Unenergy, a blog that promotes alternative energy, geothermal is the cheapest alternative energy. A new geothermal plant will cost about $6.2 million per megawatt to build. A wind farm comes in around $6.75 million per megawatt. And a new solar plant runs about $7.9 million per megawatt.
Wave systems cost around $8.2 million per megawatt.


Compare that to a coal-fired power plant that can pull carbon dioxide out of its exhaust. It would cost about $2.9 million per megawatt to build. A new nuclear power plants costs about $3.75 million per megawatt.
So for coastal towns that want to supplement their existing power grids, wave power could be an expensive but "green" option. But it won't ever be a meaningful addition to the national power supply.

Fwd: Why we are not effective as environmentalists ME

Interesting view of why zealots are not effective -food for thought SHT

From the Mother Earth news

I would describe myself as a committed environmentalist. It's my passion and my work. I've covered our deepening environmental crisis as a journalist for 30 years and now I run magazines and Web sites dedicated to raising human awareness of environmental issues. My wife and I raise much of our own food on our little organic farm and we supply organic food to lots of other local families. Environmentalism is my passion, my career, my chief avocation.

I've watched the environmental "movement," if you will, grow from a radical, tie-dyed clique into a mainstream global consensus. I don't think we, as environmentalists, can take much credit for that however.

We have, for the last 30 years, been among society's least effective leaders and least pleasurable companions. In his 2006 essay, "Beyond Hope," Derrick Jensen claims that the most common words he hears spoken by environmentalists,everywhere,are "We're fucked."[1] He exaggerates, but he has a point.

Our attitudes reek of Puritanism. We are, often, dour, strict and humorless. We're judgmental. Behind most of life's simple pleasures we see unnecessary consumption, which we ridicule. Because humanity is responsible for environmental problems we are, ipso facto, all sinners and we find little joy in being human. We portray the giant global corporations as occult covens, and we burn their representatives in effigy in our own reenactments of the Salem witch trials. When our neighbors seem too moderate or abstract for our tastes — as the Quakers did to New England's 17^th-century Puritans — we whip them out of the colony, at least figuratively, and we're not above discussing executions. (The Puritan authorities hanged four Quakers for their religious beliefs in Boston between 1659 and 1661.)

To say the least, we're no fun a lot of the time.

Maybe that explains why we've accomplished so little in the past 30 years. After all, we were right all along. Why has it taken popular opinion so long to catch up?

Well, for one thing, no one follows a pessimist. We've spent far too much time confessing our sins and assigning our scarlet letters. We've invested far too little time visualizing successful outcomes.

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[1] Jensen, Derrick. Beyond Hope. May/June 2006 issue of Orion magazine. Excerpted from Endgame, published in June 2006 by Seven Stories Press.

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United States Had Record Solar Energy Growth in 2008

United States Had Record Solar Energy Growth in 2008: "United States Had Record Solar Energy Growth in 2008
The United States’ solar energy capacity jumped a record 17 percent last year, though the U.S. solar photovoltaic market still lags behind those of Spain and Germany.
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The Solar Energy Industries Association estimates that 342 megawatts of solar photovoltaic electric power were installed throughout the United States in 2008."

The green factor- 90% favour programs to reduce warming

Most Americans want global warming cuts
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI) -- Researchers say more than 90 percent of U.S. citizens support governmental action to reduce global warming despite the current economic crisis.

The results of a national survey prepared by researchers at Yale and George Mason Universities included 34 percent who said the United States should make such a major effort, even if it has large economic costs. And two-thirds of survey participants said the United States should reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases regardless of what other countries do.

"When you make a mess, you're supposed to clean up after yourself," said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of Yale University's Project on Climate Change. "We think many Americans view climate change in a similar way. The United States should act to reduce its own emissions regardless of what other countries do."

Peoples' primary concerns about reducing global warming were that it would lead to more government regulation (44 percent), cause energy prices to rise (31 percent) or cost jobs and harm the economy (17 percent), the researchers said. However, among those who believed both positive and negative outcomes will occur, 92 percent said that despite their concerns, the nation should act to reduce global warming.

The results come from a nationally representative survey of 2,164 American adults, age 18 and older. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 2 percent.

The report is available in PDF format at http://envirocenter.research.yale.edu/uploads/climatechange-report2.pdf.

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Green Energy Alternatives- light LEDS

St. George firm touted for role in 'green' future

Posted By SUSAN GAMBLE, EXPOSITOR STAFF

John Johnston is an engineer who's seen the light.

Johnston, 44, proudly showed off his new St. George firm to Deputy Premier George Smitherman on Tuesday.

He is counting on the burgeoning light-emitting diode industry to build a brilliant and environmentally sound business.

Johnston's new and bright LED lights can create energy savings of up to 80 per cent by replacing the old-style bulbs in street lights and parking lot lights, or mercury vapour lights in gyms and warehouses.

It's a product that Smitherman, who is also the minister of Energy and Infrastructure, found more than intriguing.

"This is very exciting," Smitherman said during a tour of the small plant with Brant MPP Dave Levac.

"It's great to see this kind of enthusiasm to bring new technology forward."

Smitherman's visit to ProTerra is part of his promotion of the proposed Green Energy Act, which aims to boost the economy with green jobs while benefiting the environment.

"We want to create a culture of conservation in Ontario," said the minister.

ProTerra could be a poster child for the proposed legislation, which the minister hopes will pass by the summer.

It's caught the leading edge of changes in LED lighting that have seen increased wattage that creates enormously bright lights which can replicate daylight.

The company's three main patented products -- LED channels that replace fluorescent light bulbs, lights that replace bulbs in parking and street lights, and lights that replace bulbs in bay lights -- cost more than their counterparts, but will last longer and save a substantial amount of energy once installed, said Johnston.

"We're working with a company in California that's installed these and they believe that, in three years, they'll be making money on their lighting," Johnston said.

Not only can large industrial, commercial and civic buildings save money on energy, but Johnston said they can realize a tremendous labour savings as well. In some schools, hospitals and companies where fluorescent bulbs have to be replaced frequently, the new LED channels would stay bright for years.

The LED lights have health benefits, especially for those who have problems working under fluorescent lighting.

Plus, he noted, when you replace the fluorescent tube with an LED channel, you also remove the ballast, which is an environmental hazard and generally only lasts about three years.

"We've seen compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) but people jumped too quickly on them. They have mercury in them and are toxic."

LED lighting, on the other hand, has been around since the 1950s but until recently has often been a novelty product.

"LEDs have no hazards and the brightness is finally there. The lights are getting brighter and brighter with less wattage."

ProTerra's street lamp replacement -- which just replaces the bulb, not the lamp itself -- can use a 50 watt LED to provide the same amount of light as an existing 250 watt bulb.

"I feel so enthusiastic when we see an entrepreneur dedicated to such a project," Smitherman said. "I want to come back here when we see some of the 50,000 jobs we've projected are here."

Started in December, ProTerra has just 11 employees right now but Johnston is confident he's at the forefront of a huge push. He's projecting 70 to 80 workers will be on three assembly lines in the plant eventually, plus he expects another 30 to 40 spinoff jobs will be created as all the parts for the LED units are purchased in the area.

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