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Wave Disk Generator - wave of the future for cars?
(Newser) - Researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. The engine has a rotor that's equipped with wave-like channels that trap and mix oxygen and fuel as the rotor spins. These central inlets are blocked... More » |
Primal Insecurities of the Hairless Primate
(Newser) - Why do some spend inordinate amounts of time and energy waging total war on the findings about climate science that 97% of qualified experts and 90% of scientific organizations world-wide accept as proven? A partial answer is provided by Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D., who is known internationally for her... More » |
Are folding containers the future of shipping?
(Newser) - Earlier this year, Maersk ordered 20 super-size container ships from Korea, each to have "16 percent larger capacity than today's largest container vessel, Emma Maersk ." But instead of embracing the bigger/more-is-better mentality, Staxxon , a New Jersey-based startup, has engineered a folding steel shipping container that folds like a toddler's playpen... More »
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Clinton on GOP AGW Denial: A Joke
(Newser) - From Raw Story: Few expected to see a platform given to deniers of global warming / climate change at former President Bill Clinton's Global Initiative 2011 in NYC, but many have been surprised by Clinton's attack on those in Congress who have shaped the "really tragic" debate in America.... More » |
Global Warming 101
(Newser) - Peter Sinclair's "Climate Denial Crock of the Week" blog shares David Archer's University of Chicago class, Phy Sci 134 – based on his book, "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast" – one of the key books for understanding the findings of physics and the earth sciences underlying the IPCC's predictions and... More » |
Species Threatened as Arctic Ice Vanishes
(Newser) - "Time Science" focuses on the area of the planet that warmed 4 to 5 times faster than anywhere else in the 20th Century, and gives a warning to AGW deniers who think the threat is not immediate and dire. "[N]ot only is the warming threat in the Arctic bad, it's... More »
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