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from ODE Magazine --
It’s plentiful, it’s homegrown, and it could help clean up the environment while powering our cities. The idea of transforming algae into a fuel is a reality. Nowadays there are numerous implementations of algae into the renewable energy market. An example is the algae growing over the seaport of Venice, causing problems for gondolas and ferry boats. Today it is being turned into a resource. Italy has announced a 200 million euro project to harvest the prolific seaweed that lines Venice’s canals and transform it into emissions-free energy.

The power plant fuelled by algae, the first facility of its kind in Italy will be built in collaboration with renewable energy services company Enalg, and will produce 40 megawatts of electricity, equivalent to half of the energy required by the entire city centre of Venice.

The algae will be cultivated in laboratories and put in plastic cylinders where water, carbon dioxide, and sunshine can trigger photosynthesis. The resulting biomass will be treated further to produce a fuel to turn turbines. The carbon dioxide produced in the process will be fed back to the algae, resulting in zero emissions from the plant. “Venice could represent the beginning of a global revolution of energy and renewable resources. Our goals are to achieve the energetic self-sufficiency for the seaport and to reduce CO2 emissions, including those one produced by the docked ships”, says the president of the seaport of Venice Authority, Paolo Costa. For more information about biomass energy, see also Solena Group and ecoworldly.com

from the New York Times --
Booming timber towns with three-shift lumber mills are a distant memory in the densely forested Northwest. Now, with the housing market and the economy in crisis, some rural areas have never been more raw. Mills keep closing. People keep leaving. Unemployment in some counties is more than 20 percent. Yet in parts of the region, the decline is being met by an unlikely optimism. Some people who have long fought to clear-cut the region’s verdant slopes are trying to reposition themselves for a more environmentally friendly economy, motivated by changing political interests, the federal stimulus package and sheer desperation.

Some mills that once sought the oldest, tallest evergreens are now producing alternative energy from wood byproducts like bark or brush. Some local officials are betting there is revenue in a forest resource that few appreciated before: the ability of trees to absorb carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping gas contributing to global warming. Pragmatism drives the shifting thinking, but a critical question remains: can people really make a long-term living off the forest without cutting it down?

“I run into people all the time who think we’re lying and trying to go back to old logging ways,” said Jim Walls, director of the Lake County Resources Initiative in southeastern Oregon, a nonprofit agency that is trying to create jobs for rural residents in fields like biomass energy production and wildfire prevention. “It’s just not true.”

One believer is Harold Jones. Hear him repent and reposition in the new economy. “The only money I’ve ever made is cutting down trees,” Mr. Jones, 75, said just after coming in from thinning the stand of Douglas firs he has planted on 125 acres he owns here in Lowell. “So what I’ve tried to do in my retirement is to try to bring back and repay the Earth for a lot of the devastation I’ve caused it.”

Mr. Jones started logging in 1948 and has long rolled his eyes at “countercultural types” who protest timber sales. Yet now, in front of his property now are signs saying “Certified Family Forest.

from CNN --
They run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without rest. Virtually flipping hundreds of coins each second, they are operated and maintained by one or the United States most prominent educational institutions – Princeton University. And scientists have discovered that they predict the future. Random Event Generators attempt to prove “global consciousness” by demonstrating spikes in random generated events that occur shortly before and after a major global event. The Global Consciousness Project, originating from Princeton University, have named these random event generators Electrogaiagrams and are using them to test whether a human consciousness extends a field around the earth which can change the results of these electronic random events. Princeton scientists claim that when an important event occurs, such as the 9/11 terrorist attack, or the Indian Ocean tsunami, the random event generators start to display patterns that should not exist in truly random sequences. Computers generate two numbers – 1’s and 0’s – and record the results for later analysis. Results are graphed and typically result in a nearly perfectly flat line. The strangeness begins when we examine results before or after major world events. For some unexplained reason, the results, when graphed, “spike” before and after major world events. The machines for example, sensed the September 11 attack on the U.S. World Trade Centers about 4 hours before the attacks actually occurred. Another major spike occurred 24 hours before the Indian Ocean tsunami. Scientists agree that these spikes are for real.

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