Monday, March 28, 2011

Tim “1000 years” Flannery gives the government a millennium bug | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Tim Flannery has not told the truth.
Clean-Tech Developers Fret Over Witching Hour for DOE Grants - NYTimes.com
The clean-tech industry has long called for a price on the carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuel combustion, but with talk of comprehensive U.S. climate change legislation now dead, industry officials will have to consider other options during their talks here.
Technology News: Emerging Tech: Power Plant: One Small Leaf Could Electrify an Entire Home
Scientists at MIT have created what may be the first practical artificial leaf -- a device about the size of a playing card capable of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen and storing the energy in a fuel cell. Placing the leaf it in a single gallon of water in sunlight could produce enough electricity to supply a house in developing countries with its daily electricity requirement, according to researchers.
France24 - Billion-plus people to lack water in 2050: study
More than one billion urban residents will face serious water shortages by 2050 as climate change worsens effects of urbanization, with Indian cities among the worst hit, a study said Monday.
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The study found that under current urbanization trends, by mid-century some 993 million city dwellers will live with less than 100 liters (26 gallons) each day of water each -- roughly the amount that fills a personal bathtub -- which authors considered the daily minimum.

Adding on the impact of climate change, an additional 100 million people will lack what they need for drinking, cooking, cleaning, bathing and toilet use.

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