Khakassky wetlands Siberia

Once again about wetlands Every February the “Khakassky” Reserve tells about wetlands – the unusual places for common people. Actually, in the word “wetland” our beautiful Khakass lakes and steppe rivers are implied. The wetlands are the habitats of natatorial and semi-aquatic birds. However, except them, a large quantity of other kinds of plants and [...]

So can’t we just pipe the oil to where we need it?

  You can do whatever you want but you might want to step back and make sure it’s a good idea. The US is probably going to build a pipeline from Canada down to the gulf of mexico.  As you can imagine this is a source of concern for people living anywhere near this pipe. [...]

Update from the Republic of Khakassia Abakan Siberia

The first session of working group concerning the lands protection and restoration The Republican Development Council at the Head of the Republic of Khakassia was established in 2010 in order to assist the development of social and economic potential of our republic and to improve the well-being of citizens. The Head of the Republic of [...]

Circa 1940

The first great depression

Greenwashing

  Everywhere we go recently it seems as though there is a brand new eco-friendly “green” versions of old products.  I have mentioned a few of these silly thing like the 57 watt light bulb as a new energy efficient version of the 60 watt. I have been coming across even more ludicrous examples, many of them outright lies.  Often you can see [...]

Natural Gas to hydrates for transport and back to gas

A while back I wrote a post HERE and HERE on collecting natural gas hydrates from the sea floor.  I was not really in favor of the idea because of the possible/probable dangers.  For good or bad like drilling at 5000ft for oil, extracting these frozen naturals gasses is going to happen so might as [...]

Savor your shrimp as it may be your last, Oil is the new seaweed

I have been wanting to write about the disaster in the Gulf Of Mexico but whenever I tried to learn about the impacts of the oil, the more irritated I got. So now that I am in a more objective emotional state of mind I will try to asses the future term impacts.  This is [...]

Geothermal energy waste into lithium batteries

Most geothermal energy plants inject water deep into the ground where the earth’s heat energy turns it into steam used to generate electricity. The wastewater from this process is full of elements that are not abundant on the surface and that includes lithium.  Without going too far into battery technology lithium batteries last four times as long as conventional [...]

Supermodels for a good cause, 350.org

350.org A friend of mine made this video and I think it is a good way to get people’s attention…clearly we need a new approach to get people to take climate change seriously. The production was done very well and  Bill O’Reilly doesn’t like it so that’s a good sign.

For Sale and Help Wanted Boston 1885