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A renewable carbon economy? Surely that's a pipe dream? Perhaps not, now that solar power facilities are cropping up in deserts across California, Spain and North Africa. The idea is to use the sun to power chemical plants able to split carbon dioxide. Combine the resulting carbon monoxide with hydrogen and you have the beginnings of a solar fuel that could one day replace oil.

Since 2008, a European consortium led by Athanasios Konstandopoulos at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloníki, Greece, has been operating a 100-kilowatt pilot plant that generates hydrogen from a combination of sunlight and steam. The plant is sited at a concentrating solar power tower – the Plataforma Solar de Almería, in Almería, Spain – which houses a series of mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto solar panels beneath.

The same technology can also be used to split CO2 – the resulting CO can be combined with the hydrogen to form hydrocarbon fuel, they say.

 
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Since no evidence of MERS’ ownership of the underlying note has been offered, and other courts have concluded that MERS does not own the underlying notes, this court is convinced that MERS had no interest it could transfer to Citibank. Since MERS did not own the underlying note, it could not transfer the beneficial interest of the Deed of Trust to another. Any attempt to transfer the beneficial interest of a trust deed without ownership of the underlying note is void under California law.

 

 

Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof?


 

 

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The Banksters Strike Again
Chase Bank and Obama's "Make Home Affordable" Scam
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 Two crucial votes in the next few weeks will put the future of this process to the test. The first are parliamentary elections in Venezuela, whose Bolivarian revolution has been at the cutting edge of Latin America's renewal since Hugo Chávez was first elected president in 1998. For all his popularity at home, Chávez has been the target for a campaign of vilification and ridicule throughout the US, European and elite-controlled Latin American media – which has little to do with his high-octane rhetoric and much more with his effectiveness in using Venezuela's oil wealth to challenge US and corporate power across the region.
 

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Even more critical will be the presidential elections in Brazil in October. Brazil's emergence as an economic powerhouse under Lula's leadership has underpinned the wider changes across Latin America. Less radical than Chávez or Morales, the Brazilian president has nevertheless also poured cash into anti-poverty campaigns and provided vital support for the common project of continental integration and independence.

Barred from standing for a third term, he has thrown his popularity behind his chief of staff Dilma Roussef, if anything more sympathetic to the Bolivarians. Unable to attack Lula's economic record, her main rightwing opponent, José Serra, is now effectively running a campaign against Chávez and Morales, denouncing Lula's support for them, his refusal to recognise the post-coup government in Honduras and attempts to mediate between the Iran and the US. So far that looks unlikely to work, and Serra is trailing her badly in the polls.



 

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massive newly discovered offshore oil fields



 
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A Machine That Turns Plastic Back Into Oil
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The result is one of the first zero-energy modern homes in the world — one that actually ends up generating five times the energy it consumes.
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New microbe discovered eating oil spill in Gulf

 
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Better Than Zero Carbon

The exterior walls that are getting all the sniggers are made from Hemcrete, a mix of British hemp stems that is grown without agrichemicals, and processed without a lot of energy and no toxic products. It it is chopped and graded and mixed with a binder made from hydrated lime. It sequesters 110 kilograms of carbon dioxide per cubic meter of material. The supplier, American Lime Technology, explains that industrial hemp won't get you high:

 
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The Santa Monica-Malibu School District announced Friday their plans to install solar power systems at nine elementary schools, a move that is expected to save the school district $4 million in electricity costs during the next 25 years.

 
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Powering the Proterra bus are lithium titanate batteries from Altairnano, which are said to hold up to repeated partial recharges. After only a ten minute rapid charge, the bus will be able to operate for three solid hours.

 
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 "Algae could be a very good aviation fuel," Branson said. "Producing algae, en masse, with $100 a barrel oil, should be very competitive."

Read more: http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2010/09/21/can-global-tourism-save-planet#ixzz10Ll3K0XP
 
 
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Hemcrete®: Carbon Negative Hemp Walls

 
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Bug Labs isn't the only source for Lego-like open source hardware prototyping. Arduino is another, though it bills itself as more for hobbyists.

 
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Now, a new San Francisco web-based company has taken it a step further and developed the first "brain training program" designed to actually help people improve and regain their mental sharpness.  Called Lumosity, it was designed by some of the leading experts in neuroscience and cognitive psychology from Stanford University.

 
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 The good news is that it is already too late for the forces of tyranny; they have had their reign for long enough — The Tipping Point has been reached.
 

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National Solar Tour Spotlight: Roaring Fork Valley, Colo.'s first-of-its-kind community-owned solar garden.
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Human waste is being turned into renewable gas and used to power homes for the first time.

 
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The Asian Development Bank has granted $630,000 to conduct initial feasibility assessments for three proposed wind farms on the Philippines island of Luzon.
 
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