The Invisible Enemy: The true story of the battle of Chernobyl- Stopping the second explosion
It's amazing to watch history repeat itself, we consider our spicies so smart. If so why do we learn nothing?
The Army announced today the promotion of a soldier listed as Missing-Captured while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom to the rank of sergeant effective June 12, 2011.
Sgt. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 25, is assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska.
This is Bergdahl's second promotion since he was listed as Missing-Captured on June 30, 2009. He was promoted to the rank of specialist on June 12, 2010.
For more information on the soldier, media may contact Col. Timothy Marsano at 208-422-5268.
LEADERS' NET WORTH Increases as IMF cuts U.S. growth forecast, warns of crisis
For 1010 Source TV Fox News 6/16/2011
Pelosi: 35.2 million; up 62%
Boener: 2.1 million; up 17%
Reid: 3.4 million; up 10%
McConnell: 9.8 million; up 29%
IMF cuts U.S. growth forecast, warns of crisis
"You cannot afford to have a world economy where these important decisions are postponed, because you're really playing with fire," said Jose Vinals, director of the IMF's monetary and capital markets department.
"We have now entered very clearly into a new phase of the (global) crisis, which is, I would say, the political phase of the crisis," he said in an interview in Sao Paulo, where the updates to the IMF's World Economic Outlook and Global Financial Stability Report were published.
In the United States, the political problems include a fight over raising the legal ceiling on the nation's debt. A first-ever U.S. default would roil markets, and Fitch Ratings said even a "technical" default would jeopardize the country's AAA rating.
SunPower completes 6MW PV plant at U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado
On June 13th, 2011, SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California, U.S.) and Colorado Springs Utilities (Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.) announced the completion of a 6MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States.
SunPower also announced that it will participate in the construction of a 1.8MW PV plant at a Bloomberg LP (New York, New York, U.S.) facility in Skillman, New Jersey, United States.
“The SunPower solar system at the USAFA has benefited the local economy, and is reducing the demand for fossil fuels and improving air quality in our community,” said SunPower CEO Jerry Forte.
“For the next 30 years or more, we are confident the system will dependably generate clean, renewable solar power to meet forecasted output.”
Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces.
Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of protein because of all the bacteria.
The researchers then extracted those proteins, combined them with a reaction enhancer and put it in an exploder which created the artificial steak. The “meat” is 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids and 9% minerals. The researchers color the poop meat red with food coloring and enhance the flavor with soy protein. Initial tests have people saying it even tastes like beef.
Inhabitat notes that “the meatpacking industry causes 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, mostly due to the release of methane from animals.” Livestock also consume huge amounts of resources and space in efforts to feed ourselves as well as the controversy over cruelty to animals. Ikeda’s recycled poop burger would reduce waste and emissions, not to mention obliterating Dante’s circle for gluttons.
The scientists hope to price it the same as actual meat, but at the moment the excrement steaks are ten to twenty times the price they should be thanks to the cost of research. Professor Ikeda understands the psychological barriers that need to be surmounted knowing that your food is made from human feces. They hope that once the research is complete, people will be able to overlook that ugly detail in favor of perks like environmental responsibility, cost and the fact that the meat will have fewer calories.
