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Parasitic Mistletoe, Drought, and Pine Forest Destruction. The paper from the primary scientific literature that I will discuss in this diary is from the journal Tree Physiology and has the (long winded) title "Mistletoe effects on Scots pine decline ...	NNadir	12/16/2012	14	16	1	-
All the Straw In China, a B.O.E. Calculation for Carbon Capture Potential. So called "renewable energy," as represented by the combustion of biomass, is a major health problem on this planet, responsible for a considerable fraction of the 3.3 million deaths associated with ...	NNadir	10/21/2012	10	6	-	-
How Much Gasoline Could Hydrogenation of ONE Coal Plant's Waste Produce? Some people are complaining about the scant attention being paid to climate change in the current election. I'm not among them, and it's not because I am unconcerned with the outcome of the ...	NNadir	10/13/2012	30	20	2	11
The Mars Curiosity Rover Can Detect Chiral Compounds. This will be a very brief note. In the comments section of my last diary on this website, The Transplutonium Element Curium Found On Mars , I remarked, in response to a question that the Curiosity ...	NNadir	08/25/2012	23	29	-	298
The Transplutonium Element Curium Found On Mars It is, you know. (Someone put it there.) Curium, named for the great nuclear chemist Marie Curie, was discovered by Glenn Seaborg. Tomorrow Darleane Hoffman, the great nuclear chemist - now in ...	NNadir	08/18/2012	50	14	-	417
Direct Capture of Carbon Dioxide From the Air. The practice described in the title of this diary will, I predict, never happen, although, as I will describe below relying on a paper published in the scientific journal Industrial and Chemical ...	NNadir	07/14/2012	57	17	2	279
Is It Just the Weather? The paper from the primary scientific literature comes from a scientific journal from the Nature publishing group, a relatively new journal, Nature Climate Change . The title of the paper is "A ...	NNadir	07/09/2012	31	10	1	215
Glycerol as a Biofuel. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth “Rip down all hate,” I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow Ah, ...	NNadir	07/06/2012	34	11	-	179
Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII Mostly my diaries in this space are about energy, and are written is a tone of mocking and despair. This one is not. This is a diary about art. With the holiday coming on a Wednesday, and with ...	NNadir	07/03/2012	5	5	-	72
Emergency Mitigation Schemes For The Release of Arctic Methane. One of the major news items this week is Katie Holmes's impending divorce from that guy who is protecting all of humanity from the shennigans associated with the galactic dictator Xenu. I hope ...	NNadir	07/01/2012	89	85	4	801
Following Carbon Dioxide Flows In Groundwater with Radioactive Species. The paper I will discuss in this brief diary is in the "ASAP" section - as of this writing - of the scientific journal Environmental Science and Technology , a publication of the American Chemical ...	NNadir	06/27/2012	31	14	1	154
Government Work, Government Works. One of the great lies of the latter part of the 20th century is that government doesn't work. Of course it does. The United States Government, beginning with its own invention, has always ...	NNadir	06/17/2012	8	7	1	103
President Lincoln, General McClellan, and the Cost of Nuclear Reactors. I am reminded of a famous letter, dated October 13, 1862 that President Lincoln wrote General George B. McClellan, who had already been removed at the Commander in Chief of the Amry but was still ...	NNadir	06/10/2012	13	9	-	212
Some Remarks On the PNAS Radioactive Tuna Paper. Recently here and elsewhere there's been some hubub about the "Fukushima Radioactive Tuna." Hopefully the ignorance, fear and superstition surrounding the famous radioactive tuna will result in ...	NNadir	06/04/2012	107	17	1	525
April 2012: Highest Carbon Dioxide Levels Ever Recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory. The fact stated in the title of this diary should surprise no one, although it must be said that carbon dioxide levels do fluctuate annually. The level of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon ...	NNadir	05/25/2012	28	19	-	334
Climate Tech: Thermal Barrier Coatings in High Temperature Turbines. Recently I attended parts of a series of lectures hosted by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. The most recent lecture was by Dr. David Eaglesham (formerly) Chief Technology ...	NNadir	05/20/2012	59	12	-	233
The Metal Technetium. Some years back, in 2007 - which in NNadir time is about 150 billion tons of dumped dangerous fossil fuel ago (or in more traditional units of time, about 5 years ago) - I wrote a diary in this ...	NNadir	05/11/2012	19	12	-	270
The Use of Carbon Dioxide To Oxidize Ethylbenzene to Styrene. One of the most important chemical reactions industrially - for better or for worse - is the production of styrene , which is of course, the chemical precursor for the widely used plastic polystyrene.	NNadir	05/05/2012	48	19	1	277
Direct Measurement of the Benefits of "Renewable Energy" for Gambian Children. Split wood, not atoms. From the start of the genetic modification of a certain subset of hominid great apes about a few hundred thousand years ago - another word for "genetic modification" is ...	NNadir	05/05/2012	25	5	-	135
New Threat to Chernobyl Area Wildlife Observed. That would be the threat to return people to the area. The PBS series Nature covered the state of wildlife in the exclusion zone in 2011. You may watch the entire episode here: Radioactive ...	NNadir	04/29/2012	95	16	1	448
Some Swell Organic Chemistry for Extraction of Palladium From Used Nuclear Fuel. One cannot help but to appreciate one's first love, and my first scientific love was synthetic organic chemistry, which is a very beautiful science - one that generates a great sense of aestheticism ...	NNadir	04/26/2012	24	14	1	181
Measuring the Particulate Pollution Levels from Renewable Energy in New Zealand. A while back an anti-nuke wrote a classic comment in one of my diaries that since indoor air pollution killed "only" 2.0 million people per year - citing a link that I use repeatedly in my ...	NNadir	04/22/2012	60	5	-	380
Largest German Solar Cell Manufacturer Goes Bankrupt. Q-Cells, once the world's biggest maker of solar panels, is filing for bankruptcy. The German firm says it has abandoned an attempt to refinance its debts and will file for insolvency on Tuesday. ...	NNadir	04/09/2012	300	8	-	679
NYC Seeks To Ban the "Controversial" Word "Dinosaurs" From Texts. Just in case you thought for a moment that your country wasn't doomed, from CNN: New York city schools want to ban 'loaded words' from tests In its request for proposal, the NYC Department of ...	NNadir	03/29/2012	54	27	-	335
The Fate of Toilet Paper on Earth. Every day, you handle the deadliest substance on earth. It is a weapon of mass destruction festering beneath your fingernails. In the past 10 years, it has killed more people than all the wars since ...	NNadir	03/28/2012	52	22	-	344
China Already Has 100 Million Electric Vehicles. The paper from the primary scientific literature I will discuss tonight in this brief diary is a joint publication from scientists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tsinghua University in ...	NNadir	03/10/2012	55	11	1	281
The Natural Nuclear Reactors At Oklo, and Fundamental "Constants." It appears that this will represent, should I publish it, the 373rd diary I've written here. Um...um...jeeze...this after taking a break for a year or so...jeeze... My first diary was in the last ...	NNadir	02/19/2012	75	24	-	393
"Scientist Says" Los Angeles Is Sinking Because of Oil Withdrawal. Let's play, "Scientist Says!!!!!" The article discussed in this (very stupid) diary comes from the prestigious scientific journal Nature and was published in the August 2001 issue, Vol. 412,	NNadir	02/07/2012	23	9	-	287
Tracking Aerosol Palladium From Catalytic Converters In the Atmosphere. Tonight, after returning home after a very long week, I decided to unwind and relax by reading about morbidity, mortality and risk associated with air pollution, not the serious form of air ...	NNadir	02/03/2012	53	31	2	482
Saudi Arabia Goes, Um, Solar, Um, Really? We have here, a diary written by a very popular diarist - an anti-nuke - on this website, a breathless announcement that the solar industry has been validated by the fact that Saudi Arabia ...	NNadir	01/31/2012	40	9	-	428
No Free Carbon Capture Lunch: Chinese Discussion of "Closed" Carbon Cycles. I oppose the continued use of dangerous fossil fuels, and want them all to be phased out. Many people give lip service to this conception, but then - and usually propose to couple this lip service ...	NNadir	01/29/2012	50	8	1	231
Scientists Synthesize Airborne Virulent H5N1 Flu Virus; Gov't Asks for Publication Ban. I've been catching up on the kind of reading that one does while waiting for a pot of water to boil (without, of course, preventing boiling by watching the pot) or while waiting at Jiffy Lube for ...	NNadir	01/23/2012	34	13	-	196
Young Homeless Woman Wins Prestigious Science Award: Gets a Home. This popped up today somehow on google scholar, a link to CNN of all places: Long Island, New York (CNN) -- A young, aspiring marine biologist -- who did not let living in homeless ...	NNadir	01/14/2012	17	50	-	273
A New Treatment Is Proposed For Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Maggots. Well, happily 2011 is coming to an end, and as it is, I've been reading all about maggots. Here's what I've been reading: CHICAGO -- Diabetic patients facing lower limb amputation ...	NNadir	12/30/2011	38	14	-	233
The Incorporation of PBDE Into DNA: A Carcinogen Mechanism. I recently wrote a diary in this space on the subject of polychlorinated biphenyls and their effect on killer whale RNA in the Northeastern Pacific. In it, I made reference to polybrominated ...	NNadir	12/28/2011	50	11	1	182
What Is the Energy Value of All the Sewage Sludge in Europe? I like to read the fun scientific journal Energy and Fuels from time to time. If you must know, it's sort of a guilty pleasure, because so much of this journal is devoted to the ...	NNadir	12/19/2011	28	9	1	134
The Effect of Polychlorinated Biphenyls on Killer Whale mRNA. Probably many people are already aware of this, even in these times where contempt for science is ever more fashionable, but the mechanism by which the information contained in one's genome, which ...	NNadir	12/12/2011	21	13	2	144
The Cost to China of Britain's Clean, "Green" Wind Power. We had an October snow storm here in New Jersey last week, and for much of the weekend following I was without power, and my boys thought it was just great to not have electricity, water or heat.	NNadir	11/09/2011	145	10	-	426
When I Was a Kid, I Would Have Liked to Have Read this Paragraph... ...so being a father, and hoping that my children will not struggle through things that made me struggle with mathematical heuristics when I was a kid - although they may struggle with much worse ...	NNadir	11/07/2011	13	8	-	164
Nature Reports "Unprecedented" Ozone Loss at the Northern Hemispheric Pole. The most successful environmental international treaty was the Montreal Protocol which banned CFC's, chlorofluorocarbons, which were once hailed almost universally as a godsend , sort of, um, ...	NNadir	11/01/2011	10	7	-	111
Denmark to Drill Arctic Oil and Gas: A Fashionista Complaint This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang, but a whimper. -T.S. Eliot You can get lots of cheers for Denmark in this space, ...	NNadir	10/28/2011	126	17	2	488
A Very Cool Little POLITICAL Book In An Engineering Library. I have happily developed a familial tradition of taking my kids, one in high school, the other in junior high, to the local university libraries on the weekend for homework sessions. It's a pretty ...	NNadir	10/22/2011	83	52	1	741
An Experiment I Always Wanted To Perform Gets Done... ...and it's a modest experiment. In my last diary here a correspondent correctly noticed that I am a rhetorical hypocrite. I derided "percent talk" of the type that solar energy ...	NNadir	10/17/2011	35	12	-	270
Waiting for that Renewable Nirvana: Colorado Oil Shale and Heavy Metals. Nobody has bought into the enthusiasm for so called "renewable energy," as our petroleum producing mavens have done. I remind everyone that for sometime before the Horizon disaster in the Gulf of ...	NNadir	10/16/2011	17	8	-	117
Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Plug In Hybrids. No self-respecting liberal can help but have sympathy with the famous and much hyped "Occupy Wall Street" movement, although my own suspicion is that at the end of the day it will mean very little ...	NNadir	10/14/2011	45	6	1	247
Plant Toxicology and the Accumulation of Tetracycline Antibiotics in the Environment. Recently I was discussing the issue of antibiotics in the environment with someone on this site who I rather enjoy - many of my interactions here are, um, unpleasant and frankly depressing to the ...	NNadir	10/02/2011	74	11	1	246
German Energy Research At Work: "Green" Coal Mining. Recently a self confessed anti-nuke sockpuppet in this space tried out (again) the lie that the anti-nuke industry is something other than a, well, puppet of the dangerous fossil ...	NNadir	09/23/2011	53	8	-	322
Germany To Fund New Coal and Gas Plants with Climate Money. This year, because of the ignorance, fear and superstition of the anti-nuke cults, Germany will be dumping an extra 500 million metric tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste into the earth's ...	NNadir	09/20/2011	85	7	-	371
How Are Those Carbon Stabilization "Wedgies" Working Out? Part I: Conservation and Efficiency. In 2004, two Princeton scientists, Steven Pacala and Robert Socolow, published a famous paper called Stabilization Wedges: Solving the ...	NNadir	09/10/2011	62	14	2	234
The Solar Energy Rabbit Hole: $1.6 Billion, Much of It Public Funds, Disappears Behind a Cloud. Meine Geshcichte ist nicht angenehm, sie ist nicht Süß und harmonisch wie die erfundenen Geschichten, sie schmeckt nach Unsinn und Verwirrung, nach Wahnsinn und Traum wie das Leben ...	NNadir	08/31/2011	114	8	1	528
Milestone: Former Soviet Weapons HEU Downblending Has Eliminated 17,000 Nuclear Weapons. In the 1990's, in part under the auspices of the Clinton Administration, the "Megatons to Megawatts" program, the United States agreed to employ highly enriched uranium (HEU) from dismantled Soviet ...	NNadir	08/25/2011	25	15	-	155
Splitting Carbon Dioxide With Hypostoichiometric Samarium Doped Ceria. Most modern kitchen ovens are "self cleaning" but if you are old enough, you may remember ovens that did not have this feature, and which required lots of scrubbing, often with caustic - hopefully ...	NNadir	08/22/2011	60	8	1	238
Thermal Splitting of Carbon Dioxide. As I noted in one of my last diaries in this space, the world dumping of dangerous fossil fuel waste into Earth's atmosphere has not abated in the least, and in fact, 2010 was the worst year in the ...	NNadir	08/17/2011	43	10	-	242
Cannabanoid Receptor Researcher Plagiarizes Himself; Withdraws Paper. In general I support drug decriminalization for ethical and economic reasons, although I draw the line when people suggest that, for instance, smoking pot is good for you. One need not ...	NNadir	08/04/2011	21	3	-	173
Were the Japanese Engineers Who Built Fukushima Incompetent? A news item in the June 2, 2011 issue of Nature , (page 10) which may be the most prestigious scientific journal in the world, reports that 2010 carbon emissions have reached a new record level, 30....	NNadir	07/24/2011	117	20	-	388
The United States Owes Itself To Its Most Famous Traitor. One of my many vices is the degree to which I love to visit historical sites. (It happens that I live near one and yes, I visit it often.) I have just checked out the website ...	NNadir	07/12/2011	44	17	-	201
Women in Nuclear Science: Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Marie Curie's Nobel. Late last year I wrote a diary in this space on the History of ...	NNadir	07/10/2011	51	25	2	192
How Radioactive Is the Ocean? Suppose I - or more likely someone else - gave you access to the world's best instrumentation and then asked you to calculate the volume of water in earth's oceans. Think of the ...	NNadir	07/06/2011	100	20	1	368
Recent Advances In Thermal Oxygen Separation: Low Temperature Perovskite Fibers. In a diary here some months ago, I reported on technology for oxygen separation using heat alone as a driving force:	NNadir	06/11/2011	23	14	-	203
Stellar Evolution Measured on Earth: Clues from Ti-44 "Nuclear Fossils" It is known that everywhere in the solar system - with the exception of what I will discuss below - the ratios between two isotopes, C-12, and C-13 (both of which are stable nuclei) is approximately ...	NNadir	06/07/2011	53	27	3	282
Europeans Call Russian E.Coli Related Food Ban "Disproportionate." As we all probably know, a new extremely toxic strain of E. Coli has emerged in European farm produce. Now granted, the following report comes from The New York Times where you can't apply ...	NNadir	06/02/2011	26	3	-	78
Evolution and Lyme: Some Nihilist Remarks on a Disease, Part I. I'm not much of a joiner. The only organizations I have ever joined - this suggests reference to the famous Groucho Marx joke - are the Democratic Party and the American Chemical Society. ...	NNadir	05/15/2011	64	43	5	476
Global Burden of Disease: Epidemiologists at Work. At the end of the century recently passed, the 20th century, huge strides were made by epidemiologists in understanding the distribution of disease and the effect of disease on not only economics ...	NNadir	04/25/2011	17	11	2	135
AACR Paper: Talc Use Linked to Ovarian Cancer. The American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) recently held its meeting in Orlando, Fla, recently. An interesting paper was presented by Dr. Daniel Cramer, MD of Brigham and Women's Hospital ...	NNadir	04/18/2011	22	10	-	193
Oh. Oh. Plutonium Contamination Suspected. An interesting element of the periodic table - one that has never actually been observed - is element 137, which has an atomic number that exceeds the highest known naturally occurring element in ...	NNadir	04/12/2011	53	12	-	437
Tufts Researchers: Higher Myocardial Infarction Risks Result From Sporadic Exercise, Including Sex. The following report, titled "Sporadic Exercise, Even Sex, May Boost MI, Death Risk" does not come from the primary scientific literature, but from a medical newsletter to which I subscribe for ...	NNadir	04/11/2011	23	6	-	176
Potentially Carcinogenic Dishwashing Detergent Leaching Directly Into the Water Supply. The article from the primary scientific literature I will discuss today, which is really on dishwashing detergent ingredients, comes from the scientific journal Environmental Science and ...	NNadir	04/06/2011	29	16	-	272
The Manso Dam And the Pantanal, the World's Largest Wetland. On Sundays, I like to spend in the afternoon, with the grace of my wife and sons, some time in the Engineering Library, and lately I've taken to checking out the "new books" section, which always ...	NNadir	03/06/2011	12	10	1	133
Self Sustaining Smoldering Combustion For Contaminated Soil Remediation. One of the more fun dangerous fossil fuel waste problems involves contaminated soils, which represent a huge problem all around the globe, not that anyone actually cares - the events in the ...	NNadir	02/26/2011	18	12	1	119
Should Nuclear Energy Be a Panacea? Part of my paen to consumerism this Christmas, besides writing a diary here about the collapse of the ice shelf at the North Pole, was to buy my oldest kid an effects box for his electric guitar. I ...	NNadir	02/20/2011	58	15	1	277
Experience with Nigerian Burn Patients from Nigerian Petroleum Disasters. I actually didn't read the comments section in my last diary until recently. I had something better to do, and anyway, I really couldn't bear to experience the knashing of teeth that goes with ...	NNadir	02/06/2011	37	10	-	102
January 2011 Capacity Utilization of the MOCA Solar PV Unit and Macajuel Oil. Well informed environmentalists will tell you that many large mammals, including species like Rhinos are threatened by superstitions. For instance, Rhinoceroses are often killed simply to obtain ...	NNadir	02/03/2011	68	7	-	91
Kyoto Score Card:   The Performance of European Nations On Their Targets. Famously, and onerously, the United States failed to join the Kyoto accords. We have no room to talk about meeting Kyoto commitments, just like we have no right to bitch about Chinese greenhouse ...	NNadir	01/26/2011	23	7	1	82
Toward Higher Energy Efficiency:  Terrestrial Thermoelectricity? Almost all of the electric power generated on earth depends directly on the presence of thermal gradients. In fact, the only significant form of electrical generation that does not ...	NNadir	01/23/2011	73	7	-	92
Oxygen Separation Via the Application of High Temperatures. Recently I have been interested in the chemistry of the lanthanides, sometimes called, somewhat erronously, the "rare earth" elements, although, as I have pointed out elsewhere,	NNadir	01/18/2011	44	16	-	248
Can Solar PV Energy Power Computers Dedicated to Saying How Great Solar PV Energy Is? Everybody has Google. Everybody knows how to use it. Recently a friend of mine - a nice guy too (I think he's a guy, but I could be wrong) - informed me that I wasn't going to make friends by ...	NNadir	01/14/2011	82	4	-	110
China State Security Research Office:  Limit Decade's Nuclear Scale Up to a Factor of 10. Of the more than 60 nuclear reactors now under construction around the world, 25 of them are in mainland China, with ...	NNadir	01/11/2011	65	10	-	74
New Nuclear Reactor Construction Starts Reach the Highest Level Since 1990. In the year just ended, four new nuclear reactors went commercial around the world. They are: Rostov Unit 2 in Russia, Rajasthan Unit 6 in India, and Ling Ao Unit 3 and Qinshan Phase II, Unit 3.	NNadir	01/04/2011	44	12	1	92
Nuclear Science In Pakistan:  Fission Based Production of Mo-99 Precursors to Tc-99m. In recent years, a confluence of factors in Canada and in the Netherlands resulted in a world wide shortage of radioisotopes for medical imaging and treatment. In Canada, the Chalk River reactor ...	NNadir	12/28/2010	73	7	1	115
Ice Sheet Collapses at North Pole.   Portions of Santa's Village Destroyed, Reindeer Missing. (Ny-�lesund, Spitsbergen, Norway, December 24, 2010) Helicopters on assignment to the United Nations from the Naval Air Forces of Russia, the United States, Canada, Finland and Norway have ...	NNadir	12/24/2010	21	22	1	129
The History of Water and Thus, Life, In the Cosmos. I have not heard of a scientific discovery in recent years that quite excites the imagination as the announcement this week that scientists funded by NASA have ...	NNadir	12/08/2010	27	11	2	232
Eighteen Month Follow Up On The OTHER Dangerous Fossil Fuel Spill, the One in Tennessee. On December 22, 2008, about a month before the end of the disasterous Presidency of George W. Bush, a containment dam at the Kingston, TN coal plant ruptured, releasing 3.7 million cubic meters of ...	NNadir	11/27/2010	26	27	1	253
Let's Show Respect for the Dead by Not Mentioning How They Died. In August of 2007, I wrote a diary about the 172 Chinese miners who died in just one mining accident there. There is no particular ...	NNadir	11/24/2010	9	8	1	54
Research, Discovery, and Magical Thinking: Risking Humanity On Stuff That Actually Doesn't Work. About a year ago, on another website where I sometimes write, someone asked me a question about the fascinating metal europium that I could not, in fact, answer. So I did what I always do when I ...	NNadir	11/21/2010	79	13	-	224
Is Distributed Recycling REALLY A Solution to Solar PV's Waste Problem? The paper from the primary scientific literature I will discuss tonight was published in a recent issue of Environmental Science and Technology , a publication of the American Chemical ...	NNadir	11/13/2010	38	4	-	23
French Nuclear Plant Reaches Unprecedented Milestone:  1 Petawatt-Hour Energy Production. It seems we invest all of our energy in power - I have meant this phrase as a pun with the election just behind us - because I am more interested in energy than power in itself or ...	NNadir	11/09/2010	74	20	-	92
Remediation of Metal Mine Waste Waters Via Liquid Membranes. It seems to have already dropped down the memory hole, but a few weeks ago there was a major mine waste disaster in Hungary, and the Danube River was badly contaminated leading to the loss of four ...	NNadir	11/07/2010	47	10	-	53
Glenn Seaborg and A Nation At Risk. In general, I don't do too many largely cut and paste diaries, but anything I would have to say here, but the life of Seaborg says something about the public, science and the future. I'll just ...	NNadir	11/03/2010	35	7	-	64
Transfer of Chernobyl Radiostrontium to Finnish Fish from Finnish Lakes. The paper from the primary scientific literature I will discuss today was written by the Finnish scientists Iisa Outola, Ritva L. Sax�n, Sirpa Hein�vaara of the Finnish Radiation and ...	NNadir	10/30/2010	13	10	1	74
Joys of Biomass Burning:  Nitrocatechols and Other Carcinogens In German Air. Currently the number of deaths from biomass burning in air is estimated to be about 1.6 million persons per year.	NNadir	10/24/2010	25	8	-	70
In Case You Were Wondering Who Hasankeyf'i Yaşatma Girişimi Is... Long, long ago and far away in a distant galaxy, I remarked in this space a diary about how some plywood from a local hardware store prevented the complete destruction of the Grand Canyon. It was ...	NNadir	10/20/2010	12	5	-	52
US Croplands, Climate Change, Biofuels and, um, Science. I don't know if you've ever had occassion to sit at the dinner table with religious fundementalists and discuss science . I have. (I have, in fact, sat in the laboratory , and ...	NNadir	10/19/2010	27	12	-	28
Vapor Liquid Equilibrium, Denmark's Topsoe Halder, And Coal Gasification in Korea. I like to make fun of Denmark because so many people who nominally care about the very real and very dangerous state of the climate seem to look to Denmark as an ideal state. The reason this is so ...	NNadir	10/11/2010	17	3	-	76
China and Belgium Sign Agreement On Development of Plutonium Fuels. Only three nuclei have been used commercially in fission reactors. The most commonly used of course, is uranium-235, which represents, depending on the source of uranium ore about 0.7% of ...	NNadir	10/08/2010	39	12	-	76
Czechs Consider Using Nuclear Heat To Heat Homes and Businesses. One of the best ideas in energy is co-generation, in which waste heat is utilized either as process heat or in district heating. Many parts of New York City use such heat: Regrettably almost all ...	NNadir	10/05/2010	34	12	-	206
Crisis! Perfluorocarboxylate Contamination of Professional Ski Waxers' Blood. The paper I will reference today from the primary scientific literature was authored by the following honorary Norwegian (also known as "Swedish") Scientists: Helena Nilson, Anna K�rman, H�	NNadir	09/25/2010	51	10	-	47
Post-Chernobyl Radionuclide Distributions in an Austrian Cow. Two closely related radioactive nuclides found in agricultural products are Cesium-137 (Cs-137) and potassium-40 (K-40). The former does not occur naturally except in very tiny amounts in uranium ...	NNadir	09/19/2010	49	13	1	129
China's Gov't Invites the IAEA to Review Its Nuclear Regulatory Needs. China has now has a nuclear energy capacity of 10 GWe roughly, with 12 operating nuclear reactors. The Chinese Government has announced plans to expand this capacity more rapidly than France did ...	NNadir	09/13/2010	24	6	-	64
DOE's Goal of "Just 35%" Carbon Capture Price Increases and Ionic Liquids. A long, long, long, long time ago, in a place far away from here, I visited the castle of some wealthy relatives during the outbreak of an "energy revolution!" An "Energy Revolution?!?" you say, "...	NNadir	09/12/2010	10	1	-	37
With Dams Likely to Doom Giant Mekong Catfish, Vietnam Signs With Russia For 13 Nuclear Reactors. The Chinese River Dolphin is gone, extinct. China, the country which experienced the world's largest ...	NNadir	09/09/2010	33	11	-	69

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