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Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life

Posted in CARBON STATS, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, PEEPS on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I realise everyone on the planet is focused on the ongoing Bear debacle and gossip re insolvent financial institutions about to be outed, with biofuels way down the list of topics at dinner tables in most NYC restaurants tonight. But this is a much bigger deal in the long run so I’m posting against the [...]

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Climate Exchange

Posted in CARBON STATS, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There’s a piece in the WSJ today re Richard Sandor, emissions and carbon trading. The next big battlefield will be in the U.S., where Congress is currently debating setting up a system for regulating greenhouse-gas emissions. Lawmakers are considering a system like the one created by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a global United Nations-sponsored accord that set [...]

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High Crosswinds

Posted in HEH, VIDEO DU JOUR, WTF? on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Holy Mackerel! Having been on a few flights in recent weeks where we landed, not to mention took off, in heavy crosswinds — and lived to tell the tale — I thought I would post this video (I haven’t posted a video du jour in a long while). There’s something a bit unsettling to me [...]

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