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POPSHow to pump water using nothing but air and secure a food supply for any community How to pump water using nothing but air and secure a food supply for any community Adams chose the Brumby Pump due to the high cost of purchasing traditional electric well pumps as well as the mechanical simplicity of the Brumby Pump, which runs on compressed air. "I wanted a simple, low-cost pump that would last at least ten years without needing repairs or maintenance," Adams said. "Traditional electric pumps simply can't achieve that, and it's difficult to find parts for them in rural Ecuador." The video shows Adams connecting the air hose to the pump, lowering it into the well, turning it on and producing enormous flows of water and air out of the return hose. In his set up, this water is pumped to a surface holding take, from which a second pump pushes the water through irrigation sprinklers.
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POPSChevy Volt Gets 230 MPG? The media no longer sees itself as an arbiter of truth or a purveyor of information, but as a cheerleading booster of particular causes – typically the causes supported by the urban intelligentsia of the coasts. High on the list of fashionable political causes to be evangelized is the war against oil, which before an election always seems to become “foreign” oil. (After the election, petro-equality returns and domestic oil is bad-mouthed, too).
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POPSNew car: 230mpg - 100km/l (!) Wow! It's amazing to think such 10,000% increase in car efficiency is even possible. Hopefully, even better, this is just one example, a harbinger of things to come. If we put our collective minds, wills and spirit into it, humanity is capable of unthinkable great achievements and this is the best direction for us to travel. Unfortunately (to say the least), we kept getting fed war drums and saber rattling propaganda and led into false wars for false reasons. We don't need to travel down these hatefilled roads any longer. There are new ways, new possibilities.
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POPS230 MPG? Are you kidding? How they will get 230 MPG later next year if now they cannot reach a figure 10 times less? They must have smtin in their sleeve...:cool: If it's true and not next in a long row BS, who would choose to pay $50 per tank if he can pay 10 and no strings attached?
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POPSChevy Volt to get 230 mpg rating PRETTY TRICKY HOW THEY CAN ESTIMATE THE FUEL MILEAGE OF THIS CAR.......FIGURES! But, if the driver continues on to 80 miles, total fuel economy would drop to about 100 mpg. And if the driver goes 300 miles, the fuel economy would be a just 62.5 mpg.
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POPSthe new yahoo the formatting did not come through, but basically the yahoo logo and accent elements went from red to purple. I like the old yahoo better.
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POPSReport: GM to Sell Chinese Cars in US in 2011 If this is true, I'm glad I know it because I will NOT be buying a car from GM. Sorry they are in such a mess...and the Administration has made things worse; but this surely will not help. I go out of my way to not buy anything 'made in China' & sadly, that wasn't always true. We have some very nice antiques from there...like 1870s.
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POPSA Solar Superstorm Could Send Us Back To Dark Ages - One Is Due In THREE Years Such damage as there was, was easy to repair. In 1859, the world ran mostly on steam and muscle. Human civilisation did not depend on a gargantuan super-network of electric power and communications. But it does now. A huge solar storm would cause massive power surges, amounting to billions of unwanted watts surging through the grids. Most critically, the transformers which convert the multi-thousand-volt current carried by the pylons into 240v domestic current would melt - thousands of them, in every country. This would bring the world to its knees. With no electricity, we would not just be in the dark. We are dependent, to a degree few of us perhaps appreciate, on a functioning grid for our survival. All our water and sewage plants run on electricity. A couple of days after a solar superstorm, the taps would run dry.
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POPS14 Rare Color Photos From the FSA-OWI captions for the last two photos: James Lynch, a roundhouse worker for the Chicago and North Western Railway Company , Proviso Yard, Chicago, 1942. An instructor explains the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. The best-known FSA photographs are in black and white. Less commonly seen are the color photos by FSA and OWI photographers, shot between 1939 and 1945. - Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection.
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POPSGoodyear Cutting Nearly 5, 000 Jobs After 4Q Loss Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected a loss of $1.03 cents per share on that basis. Revenue dipped 21 to $4.1 billion from $5.2 billion a year earlier. The company said the global economy depressed the number of tires sold in the recent quarter by 19 percent. As a strategy to boost sales, Goodyear said it will step up new product offerings. These include its Assurance Fuel Max tire, which was introduced earlier this month and will go on General Motors' new Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle. Besides the job cuts, Goodyear is freezing salaries, putting restrictions on some spending and putting in place purchasing strategies aimed at lowering raw materials costs. Goodyear also plans to reduce its global tire capacity by 15 million and 25 million tires over two years while seeking ways to improve cash flow this year. It is reducing capital expenditures, inventory levels and is looking to sell noncore assets.
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POPSThe evil behind the smiles – sex trafficking is slavery More: Finally, Sina was freed in a police raid, and found herself blinded by the first daylight she had seen in years. The raid was organized by Somaly Mam, a Cambodian woman who herself had been sold into the brothels but managed to escape, educate herself and now heads a foundation fighting forced prostitution. After being freed, Sina began studying and eventually became one of Somaly’s trusted lieutenants. They now work together, in defiance of death threats from brothel owners, to free other girls. To get at Somaly, the brothel owners kidnapped and brutalized her 14-year-old daughter… I hope that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will recognize slavery as unfinished business on the foreign policy agenda. The abolitionist cause simply hasn’t been completed as long as 14-year-old girls are being jolted with electric shocks — right now, as you read this — to make them smile before oblivious tourists.
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POPSGM Is A "Vast Retirement Home With A Small Money-Losing Subsidiary" An unnerving image - the day our bridge was destroyed (Sydney Morning Herald): "In The Day The Earth Stood Still... alien invaders arrive on Earth to purge the planet of the one thing that is killing all life - mankind. is a retelling of a 1951 science-fiction film which originally had Klaatu arriving to warn the people of Earth of the dangers of the escalating nuclear arms race. This time around, the story has been tweaked to reflect current global ecological and weather concerns. When he arrives, Reeves's alien warns humanity our reckless abuse of the Earth has left his watching species with no choice but to intervene before we destroy the planet and its rare ability to sustain life."
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POPS12 Ways to Build with a Smaller Carbon Footprint Buildings consume 76% of electricity generated & they create 48% of our greenhouse gases. Main Points: * Every brick in building required the burning of fossil fuel in its manufacture, every piece of lumber was cut and transported using energy * Aim for a complete ban of formaldehyde use in building products * Building demolitions account for 48% of the waste stream (65 million tons a year), renovations account for 44% and renovations account for 8% * A solar water heater can save $ 450 a year and keep a ton of CO2 emissions out of the air; multiply that by 80 million houses in the USA * While smaller is better almost every city has minimum floor area requirements * The losses are higher in AC than in DC because it grounds so easily * The average 1950’s house was 983 sq feet; by 1970 it was 1500 SF; last year it was 2350 SF * We can no longer afford to lose agricultural land close to our cities and towns
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POPSNader on the New GM Volt (cont.) And people have just got to get Congress to put numbers on this. You know, the bailout of Citibank, $300 billion on-the-backs-of-the-taxpayer risk and another $45 billion in preferred shares for one bank, this so-called bailout could only cost $10 billion, if it works, for example, of the taxpayer, and the taxpayer could get $20, $30, $40 billion back in appreciated stock value. So we need to be much more demanding of Congress, and we need to learn more about corporations. And I can give you the website for the Multinational magazine, which is multinationalmonitor.org, because without an informed public, we won’t realize what the full parameters of this is.
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POPSThe Saudi Arabia of Lithium The lithium bonanza is just starting. Lithium-ion batteries are integral to the automobile industry's plans to wean itself off fossil fuels. The hotly anticipated Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid car; Mercedes plans to roll out a hybrid version ; Nissan is working with NEC to mass-produce lithium-ion batteries for hybrids..
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