We aren’t going to begin to predict earthquakes, simply, we will report patterns that seem to be emerging. One of our sources did point out to us today that: “The swarming, portends[This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please Subscribe to continue.]
A project underway in the Tunisian desert is showing the potential for producing electricity from the sun is not limited to solar panels. A project in the desert of southern Tunisia will generate 2 Gigawatts of electricity and transfer it [This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please Subscribe to continue.]
Offshore wind farms have garnered significant attention and investment recently. However, a recent study from the Department of Energy concludes that the dangers of damage to these systems from hurricanes have been understated so far. According to the DOE a[This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please Subscribe to continue.]
Three moderate earthquakes have hit California in the past 24 hours. Yesterday Northern California recorded magnitude 4.3 and 5.6 earthquakes, with no reports of significant damage or injuries. Northern California is the most seismically active part of the state, but with a lower damage potential than [This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please Subscribe to [...]
Two different accounts of a geological event from last night have affected areas near Tokyo. Workers at a Sony facility reported that the quakes were very strong and there could have been as many as three. The US Geological Survey is reporting the 6.0 that most media [This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please Subscribe [...]
Parts of Queensland, Australia are facing severe flooding for the third time in two years. Heavy rains have shut down some major highways and left several towns accessible from the air only. Last year’s flooding seriously disrupted the coal industry, as Queensland supplies almost 2/3 of the world’s coking coal. Fortunately, the coal industry has [...]
Stanford University researchers have developed a concept that could allow electric vehicles to charge while they were being driven. The technology is called magnetic resonance coupling, which basically includes two copper coils that are tuned to resonate at the same frequency. One set would be in the road, and the other would be in the [...]
The standard story as far as the rejection of the Keystone pipeline project is that this was big oil vs. the sturdy environmentalist. The problem with that narrative is that it doesn’t really seem to hold true given all the other issues that are swirling around in this election year. The pipeline was supposedly [...]
A solar flare occurred on Thursday that has sent a massive burst of energy toward the earth. The energy, known as a coronal mass ejection, is expected to arrive tomorrow, according to NASA. The brief press release on the NASA website mentioned [This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please Subscribe to continue.]
The National Weather Service has a prediction division that hasprovided a drought outlook for thefirst quarter of 2012 (throughApril 30th actually). The map atright from the NWS shows thatthere are really only two smallareas in the US expected toimprove their drought conditionsthis spring (namely northernCalifornia, Oregon, and WashingtonState). Some of the current winterweather hitting the region [...]
