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POPSConcrete that literally eats pollution. If it works, then this could be a big breakthrough indeed. However, it's not like cities are going to start re-paving roads that don't need it, or demoing & rebuilding building, (or even just repainting them with this solution)... The cost would be prohibitive. So that 50% savings (just off of 15% of concrete surfaces) is a LONG way away. Plus, this definitely doesn't curb the need for changing the way we pollute...
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POPSBush Has to Go More cronyism from the King President. More lies about the market regulating greedy business. Think Haliburton. Think KB&R. Think billions wasted in the Iraqi occupation. My contempt for Bush grows larger each day.
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POPSTop Ten Uses For Vinegar. Some good cheap tips here. I have always used vinegar as a fabric softener, (no, there's no smell once the clothes are dry) and as scale remover. It's a good disinfectant too and it cleans stained aluminium. Put a bit in the water when you're washing windows and bling bling, their sparkling shiny and clean. Good for cutting through the muck on car windscreens too. Uhm... what else? :roll: Oh yeah, it's really, really cheap, non-toxic, pet- and child friendly, environmentally harmless and good for your health too. :) 10 Health Benefits of Vinegar Grandma knew that her old remedies worked even if she couldn't explain to the scientific world. She knew that diluting vinegar in the ear would help infections due to swimmer's ear. Now, the American Academy of Otolaryngology endorses this remedy. There's something to be said about how smart grandma was.
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POPSWierd Science Clothes that are dried outside DO smell better because of a process called photolysis. What happens is this: sunlight breaks down compounds in the laundry that cause odor, such as perspiration and body oils. Clouds fly higher during the day than the night. Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
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POPS"(Didn't Know I Was) Unamerican" more lyrics: DIdn't know I hated my country For acknowledging the Truth This war is despicable profiteering At the expense of our youth And what I believe In Looks like heaven to me - All of humanity Living as community In relative harmony I know it's just a song But if the whole world sang along How much longer would it be this way?
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POPS24 hours in pictures - Mar 28th 7 Chuzom, Bhutan: Indian women labourers carry rocks while working on a road widening project. Tens of thousands of migrant workers, mostly Indians, do the hard manual jobs that Bhutanese shun, such as building roads and construction 2 Baghdad, Iraq: Supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr shout slogans during a protest against a crackdown on Shia militia in Basra and Baghdad by Iraqi government forces 14 London, UK: A work of art entitled Washed Up Fingers by Emma Donovan. It is part of a collection of work from 60 finalists entered in the BlindArt: Sense & Sensuality competition at the Henry Moore gallery, Royal College Of Art 13 Moscow, Russia: A model displays a creation by Antonina Shapovalova at a fashion show
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POPSFloating wind generator spins high up where winds are sustained The design of these generators is remarkable. Its basically a paddeboat that you fly like a kite. It generates energy as it spins in the wind and stays afloat with helium (or potentailly hydrogen). They're made of incredibly durable kevlar like material, so they should last a while as well. I imagine that if peak oil ever does come to pass, seeing these flying from houses will be a common sight.
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POPSReal-life photo and story...nothing big...
A while ago, I had to move to a new apartment, which is never fun. On this day, I was taking a final carload of stuff to a storage unit in a nearby city. I was grateful that this was the end of it, but I was dirty, sweaty, tired, hungry and cranky. And to add insult to injury, I had to suffer the frustration of bumper-to-bumper traffic on the way back. Grrrr.... Inching around a bend in the freeway, I'm surprised to see this gigantic arc of a rainbow gradually come into view...a vibrant ribbon carving the sky up into darkness above and lightness below. It was very pretty and, as I rounded the corner and drove underneath the bow, strangely soothing. I allowed myself to relax and feel a bit better. Before long, the traffic was un-bunching ahead of me and cool air started streaming in the car windows again as I picked up speed. I forgot about feeling sour and barely had time to snap this impromptu phone pic before heading home to spend the first night in my clean new place!
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POPSBad kid! Don't push that button! I think I'd be laughing my butt off, as long as I wasn't the one who had to clean it up. Better keep a better eye on the kid next time. I mean, who doesn't want to push the emergency button? I wonder if it was big and red too...double the temptation.
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POPSHow Parking Lots Can Beat the Heat & Gain Energy On hot, sunny days when air conditioners threaten to overload the power grid, solar power generation makes a lot of sense. Parking lots in asphalt-rich cities have great solar potential because the panels can be oriented to optimize power production during summer afternoons when electricity is most valuable. Google, for example, has installed solar canopies on its parking lots to satisfy 30 percent of its headquarters' power demand. Because the parking lots for most commercial buildings are bigger than the buildings themselves, economies of scale for large installations can further reduce the cost of the solar panels. We shouldn't wait until the next heat wave to think about getting solar power from our parking lots.
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POPSClown Power!!! I would have loved to have been there to witness this first hand. Hate groups (an estimated 888 this year; a growth of 48% since 2000) evidently can't respond to ridicule and clowns! Their entire existence is predicated by feeding on fear and ignorance. Derision, laughter, and mockery seem perfectly well suited to deal with such people and bypasses the anger and hatred that fuels them. Brilliant!
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POPSIrishman Angry at the Bush Junket Disruption! Willie has 'balls'. Few would publicly crisis the disruptive Bush. Doesn't he know that the grinning George is responsible for the torture of more humans than all Americans to date? Does he think that being Irish makes him immune to waterboarding. Surely as a aircraft man he knows of 'extraordinary rendition' where you are on permanent tour of the best torture prisons on earth. Even Shannon seems to be on the CIA itinerary according to Amnesty. And your personal politics or none is no disbarment. From Israel, to Egypt, to Iran, to Russia, to Africa, to Cuba, to Abu Ghraib, to Bagram, all are catered for. Fear of flying is sorted with drugs and huds, in best gangster fashion. There are no numbers yet on 'lost in flight' customers, but getting there. After all, this was a favourite method of disposal for the US trained South American juntas. "Lost at sea" is permanent and 'clean'.
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POPS24 hours in pictures April 02 3 Baghdad, Iraq: A man in a burnt-out room in the Sadr City Shia district. The building was struck during a US airstrike 13 Mumbai, India: Make-up artists help a model prior to a show during the Lakme Indian Fashion Week 16 Bucharest, Romania: George Bush, seen through the view finder of a video camera, delivers a speech on the first day of the NATO summit 17 Johannesburg, South Africa: Hot air balloons soar over the Magaliesberg mountains 18 Cuenca, Spain: The skull of an animal in Alarcon's reservoir 1 Nairobi, Kenya: Residents of Kayole protest against police harassment and alleged execution of arrested suspects from the area
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