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Coffee-Powered “Carpuccino” Infuriates Car Lovers, Coffee Lovers, Pun Lovers

Point: As my fellow Jalopnik readers would agree, the thought of an au-to-MO-bile running on some coffee beans is equally laughable and insulting. Counterpoint: As my fellow coffee drinkers would agree, this is an utter disgrace to our holy bean. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-how-to-actually-make-coffee-5345785 Countercounterpoint: Carpuccino? Really? A while ago we read that coffee-based biofuels were feasible. Knowing … Continued

By Kyle VanHemert Published March 6, 2010 | Comments (0)

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Watch Bill Gates’ Energy Crisis TED Talk Online

At this year’s TED conference, Bill Gates discussed the importance of eliminating CO2 emissions, bringing out a jar of fireflies as an example of a living “energy miracle.” Now you can watch Gates’ entire talk—bugs and all—online. [TED]

By Kyle VanHemert Published February 18, 2010 | Comments (0)

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Doomsday Clock Moved Back One Minute

The Doomsday Clock, a metaphoric measure of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, biotechnology, and climate change, has been moved back one minute, to six minutes before midnight, signaling a more “hopeful state of world affairs.” The Bulletin of Atomic Sciences cited the increased discourse on climate change and further developments towards a nuclear weapons-free … Continued

By Kyle VanHemert Published January 14, 2010 | Comments (0)

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Google Earth To Tackle Deforestation

Google’s services are getting stronger and more powerful with every passing week. Today’s announcement at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen could be a real game-changer, especially in South America and Australia, where deforestation is rife. Areas suffering from deforestation (including illegal logging) can be analyzed and detected instantly, with Google’s ultra-fast satellite imagery-processors … Continued

By Kat Hannaford Published December 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Waking Up On Mars: Australia’s Bizarre Dust Storm

I woke up Wednesday (Tuesday U.S. time), to a scene from Total Recall. Sydney had been blanketed by an apocalyptic glowing red dust storm. Red from iron-oxide: rust. And if I couldn’t breathe, my tech gear wouldn’t like this either… But I did what any geek would do. I regressed into an excited 10 year … Continued

By Danny Allen Published September 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Cloud-Generating 1900-Ship Armada to Sink Climate Change

The Copenhagen Consensus Centre—a respected European think tank which used to be skeptic on climate change—is now advising that we should spend $9 billion in building 1900 cloud-generating ships like the one above. Why? To cool down Earth: When you spray saltwater into the air, you create nuclei that cloud condenses around, creating bigger and … Continued

By Jesus Diaz Published August 7, 2009 | Comments (0)