Mazdas latest four-wheel-drive likes a wee drink.
The Mazda CX-7 uses a special man-made liquid similar to human urine to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx). The compound, called AdBlue, is a mixture of roughly one-third pure urea and two-thirds demineralised water.
It is already widely used in the trucking industry in Europe and Australia and is common in diesel cars in Europe, but Mazda is the first to use the technology on a passenger vehicle in Australia.
The technology, called selective catalyst reduction, involves injecting the urea-based liquid into the cars exhaust system to turn NOx emissions into harmless nitrogen and water. Great. That explains some of the photos that make the rounds in email. But the part about the guy having to wear a pink tutu while doing it still escapes me.
The car also has a particulate filter to reduce the amount of soot emitted by the vehicle. Diesel vehicles are a double-edged sword when it comes to environmental impact. Double edge sword? Well, maybe one edge is sharp and the other is fairly dull then.
They are more efficient than petrol engines, which means they emit less carbon dioxide, but they also pollute more. And they're way less fun. And pollute more. And cost more than they should to run since the gas companies figured that people would pay the same price per gallon for less-refined fuel for a rudderless principle. Other than that, it makes perfect sense.
Particulate matter and NOx from diesel vehicles has been linked to a variety of health problems, including respiratory ailments and cancer.
For that reason, diesels dont rank highly on the Governments Green Vehicle Guide for environmentally-friendly vehicles.
Regulatory authorities in Europe and the United States are planning to introduce strict new limits on diesel emissions in the future, which will eventually make the urea-based systems mandatory equipment on all cars.
The systems aren't mandatory in Australia, but Mazda is ensuring drivers toe the line with the environmentally-friendly technology.
To guard against forgetful drivers not filling its AdBlue tank, the Mazda CX-7 diesel will cut its maximum speed if the level of AdBlue falls below a certain level.
The car will not start if the AdBlue tank is empty. The 15.5-litre tank is mounted under the rear-floor of the CX-7 and Mazda recommends the task is undertaken by an authorised dealer as part of scheduled servicing.
A gauge and warning lamp warn the driver as the level drops. The AdBlue tank requires refilling every 20,000km and costs about $140 a refill, which works out to roughly $7 per 1000km.
The CX-7 diesel also carries a sticker price premium of almost $5000 over the Sports petrol model (although it also gets a leather interior, satellite navigation and a better stereo), which adds to its comparative running costs. Whoops, there went a lot of its fuel cost competetive advantage!
The new diesel Mazda continues a trend by car makers to reduce CO2 emissions by introducing smaller, less powerful petrol engines and diesel powerplants.
Mazda, which has traded on its sporty image through its zoom-zoom advertising tag line, has forgone power for less thirst with the new CX-7.
The car was previously available only as a fuel-sucking, turbocharged petrol model, but the company has introduced a cheaper four-cylinder petrol version that uses almost 20 per cent less fuel. Oh, so use 20% less fuel and you go from "fuel-sucking" to "miserly"? By whose math?
The diesel variant is even more frugal, using a third less fuel than the turbo. Mazda isnt the first car maker to turn to less powerful, more fuel-efficient engines in the past months.
Australias top-selling car, the Holden Commodore, now comes with a smaller 3.0-litre V6, the smallest engine the car has used in 20 years.
Mazda Australia marketing manager Alastair Doak said customers were beginning to better understand the benefits of driving a diesel car in Australia. Until Australia figures it out and jacks up the price of diesel, anyway.
We have done a lot of market research on why people buy diesel and one of the things that attract people to it is technology, but also people understand that they are using less fuel and that environmental message is strong for those buyers, he said. Like Al Gore? Maybe he can use copies of his book to refill the AdBlue tank.
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liquid similar to human urine to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx). The compound, called AdBlue, is a mixture of roughly one-third pure urea and two-thirds demineralised water.
If you were p1ssing one third pure urea, you'd need to book yourself into a dialysis clinic, because your kidneys are about to be wrecked.
Otherwise, natural gas powered vehicles have zero nitrogen emissions.
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The 15.5-litre tank is a mixture of roughly one-third pure urea and two-thirds demineralised water and costs about $140 a refill
Urea costs $0.15/lb. That comes out to $2.00 for the 13 lbs required. I suspect a substantial markup. And the car is likely to smell like a used kitty litter or Al Gore after a bender.
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I think that owners would sonn be pissed about their car.
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According to most people I know, and I only have to defer to their expert opinion, I'm a big bag of low quality meat, filled with fat, and, yes, full of piss. So, this means... I could become a major energy source! Acceptance! Recognition! Yeah! I love technology.
A small band of sea lions that made their home on Pier 39 in weeks after Loma Prieta has ballooned to a record number in the past week. Perhaps it's a wildlife reunion to celebrate the quake's 20th anniversary next month.
Regardless of the reason, the people who do the counting say they have never counted this high before. Last Friday, there were 1,585 sea lions hanging out at the pier.
The experts at the Marine Mammal Center say they don't know what is behind the increase, but that they are hunting for clues.
As opposed to hunting for sea lions ...
The influx of animals is being called an anomaly.
Because the number of sea lions should be decreasing as Mother Gaia shows her displeasure at us ugly Americans humans for despoiling her planet ...
"Usually during this time of the year, we typically have only a few smaller sea lions on the docks, as the larger males head south to mate," Pier 39 Harbor Master Sheila Chandor said.
In response, officials will add more docks to accommodate the herd.
The record number of adult sea lions follows a record number of yearlings earlier this summer. At the time that was blamed on an ocean upwelling pattern that shifted the animal's source of food.
"Now, the older sea lions that are out there are seeking food wherever they can find it," Marine Mammal Center director Jeff Boehm said, "and the current run of anchovies has a lot of them hanging out in some areas in greater numbers than we've grown used to."
Experts say they have responded to nearly 1,500 animals in need of rescue so far this year. That's nearly triple the average.
And this might not be the end of the sea lion saga of 2009. If El Nino conditions continue at the equator, the Marine Mammal workers say they are sure to be for a buy rescue season come this winter.
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Perhaps rumors about San Francisco got out to these long time bachelor sea lions. We'll know for certain when Kanye West and his Gay Fish Posse show up.
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Just spread the word in the 'hoods' that the pelts are worth 2K with minimal ventilation, the problem will take care of itself.
Industry lobbying efforts appear to elicit little sympathy from the state Energy Commission, which may vote as soon as Nov. 4.
Reporting from Sacramento - The influential lobby group Consumer Electronics Assn. is fighting what appears to be a losing battle to dissuade California regulators from passing the nation's first ban on energy-hungry big-screen televisions.
On Tuesday, executives and consultants for the Arlington, Va., trade group asked members of the California Energy Commission to instead let consumers use their wallets to decide whether they want to buy the most energy-saving new models of liquid-crystal display and plasma high-definition TVs.
"Voluntary efforts are succeeding without regulations," said Doug Johnson, the association's senior director for technology policy. Too much government interference could hamstring industry innovation and prove expensive to manufacturers and consumers, he warned.
But those pleas didn't appear to elicit much support from commissioners at a public hearing on the proposed rules that would set maximum energy-consumption standards for televisions to be phased in over two years beginning in January 2011. A vote could come as early as Nov. 4.
The association's views weren't shared by everyone in the TV business. Representatives of some TV makers, including top-seller Vizio Inc. of Irvine, said they would have little trouble complying with tighter state standards without substantially increasing prices.
"We're comfortable with our ability to meet the proposed levels and implementation dates," said Kenneth R. Lowe, Vizio's co-founder and vice president.
Last month, the commission formally unveiled its proposal to require manufacturers to limit television energy consumption in a way that has been done with refrigerators, air conditioners and dozens of other products since the 1970s.
"We would not propose TV efficiency standards if we thought there was any evidence in the record that they will hurt the economy," said Commissioner Julia Levin, who has been in charge of the two-year rule-making procedure. "This will actually save consumers money and help the California economy grow and create new clean, sustainable jobs."
Tightening efficiency ratings by using new technology and materials should result in "zero increase in cost to consumers," said Harinder Singh, an Energy Commission staffer on the TV regulation project.
California's estimated 35 million TVs and related electronic devices account for about 10% of all household electricity consumption, the Energy Commission staff reported. But manufacturers quickly are coming up with new technologies that are making even 50-inch-screen models much more economical to operate.
New features, such as light-emitting diodes that consume tiny amounts of power, special reflective films and sensors that automatically adjust TV brightness to a room's viewing conditions, are driving down electricity consumption, experts said.
The payoff could be big for TV owners, said Ken Rider, a commission staff engineer. Average first-year savings from reduced electricity use would be an estimated $30 per set and $912 million statewide, he said.
If all TVs met state standards, Rider added, California could avoid the $600-million cost of building a natural-gas-fired power plant. Switching to more-efficient TVs could have an estimated net benefit to the state of $8.1 billion, the commission staff reported.
Consumer Electronics Assn. officials disputed that figure, arguing that it was based on out-of-date numbers that fail to account for recent industry innovations. "With voluntary compliance, manufacturers can meet the targets over time, managing the cost impact, yet not in any way impeding innovation," said Seth Greenstein, an association consultant.
The Federal Government yesterday ordered medical institutions to treat accident and gunshot victims brought to them or face criminal charges.
Here's an idea: you could build, you know, hospitals, and they could have places within for the emergency treatment of accident and gunshot victims.
It warned that refusal to treat an accident or gunshot victim is a crime which is punishable by law and attracts a jail term or fine of N50,000 and above.
This was disclosed at a news conference by Health Minister Professor Babatunde Osotimehin and his counterpart, Dr Aliyu Idi Hong. They advised that lives of victims should be held sacred before any other modalities.
Professor Babatunde Osotimehin appealed to his colleagues to attend to victims of either gunshots or accidents as they await either police report or clearance, delay which might cause the loss of victim, thereby destroying evidence which would have been cardinal to the case. He said, "We as medical professionals should treat first, we should not put money before the lives of our patients, don't ask for payment or police report, just give treatment."
Then he mumbled something about an oath and left the room ...
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Including the ones the Cops shoot?
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Honduran negotiators reached agreement on Wednesday on a plan to restore President Manuel Zelaya to office and end a political crisis triggered by his ouster in a June coup.
"We have agreed in a document on point number six, which relates to the restitution of the powers of state to where they were before June 28, 2009," Victor Meza, Zelaya's representative, told a news conference.
Restoring the state to the situation before the coup would imply Zelaya's return to office, something that had been opposed by Robert Micheletti, the head of the coup-backed interim government.
Micheletti and Zelaya must now ratify the agreement reached by their representatives in talks Tegucigalpa.
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I'll give the POTUS some credit here if needed and deserved. He at least seems to have realized his initial mishandling, and has since done little or nothing to compound it - usually a good trait. Also, this may be a rare case where letting the lawyers run out the clock is also a very good thing.
Let Zelaya back in, save him some face, provided the deal doesn't allow him to do much of anything, and certainly nothing to extend his influence beyond the election.
Do all that, let the new president assume office with national consent, and resume our aid. It could be a huge "I told you so" to Hugo and Fidel, but I wouldn't bet on anyone asking when their next peaceful and somewhat orderly transfer of power will be.
Again - can the POTUS do something right if nobody is watching and he doesn't get credit for it? Here's a chance.
Let him be President for the hour before the elected President takes office. Let him be surrounded by Guards as he watches his dream of Chavista glory go belly up.
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Have a sniper or two waiting and pot him the second he steps foot out of the embasy.
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if they agree to allow him to leave the Brazilian embassy and resume the Presidency, the minute his sandal is out the gate, they can arrest him for theft of state funds, try him, and throw his Chavista ass in prison.
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But will they?
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SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Yonhap) -- The head of General Motors Corp. plans to hold a press conference on Thursday to reveal plans to support its troubled Korean unit GM Daewoo after the U.S. carmaker and Korea Development Bank (KDB) reconfirmed their differences the previous day, GM Daewoo officials said.
Good thing we bailed GM out with all those American dollars, huh ...
Since February, cash-strapped GM Daewoo Auto & Technology Co. has been in talks with KDB to receive about 1 trillion won (US$855.8 million) in new loans after using up a $2 billion credit line. The negotiations have faltered on GM's refusal to put up part of its stake in GM Daewoo as collateral.
GM Chief Executive Officer Fritz Henderson visited the headquarters of KDB on Wednesday to listen to opinions from officials there. The visit came as Min Euoo-sung, chairman of KDB, warned on Oct. 6 that the bank will retrieve maturing loans from GM Daewoo if the U.S. carmaker refuses the bank's demands to extend emergency funds.
"If GM does not accept our demand, KDB will not participate in a new share sale and plans to retrieve maturing currency forwards or loans," Min said.
"No more Chevy Aveos for you!"
KDB, which owns a 27.97 percent stake in GM Daewoo, has called on GM to faithfully fulfill its commitment as the biggest shareholder. The state-run lender has called for GM to increase the size of the share offering and to let GM Daewoo retain licenses for cars developed by its Korean subsidiary. GM holds a 51 percent stake in GM Daewoo with KDB and other GM partners owning the remainder. GM Daewoo was created in 2002 after GM acquired Daewoo Motor Co., the automobile manufacturing unit of the now-defunct Daewoo Group.
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GM owns a huge chunk of ISUZU (Unless they sold it recently).
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interesting, since Daewoo just bought the assets of the DeWind company and are even now restarting manufacturing efforts on the aborted DeWind wind turbine blades and the various bits of tooling that is needed for same. these are not cheap.
Is there anything left for The One to give away? It's easier than forcing the Chinese to steal the stuff ...
President Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department a move critics say will loosen export controls and potentially benefit Chinese missile development.
The president issued a little-noticed "presidential determination" Sept. 29 that delegated authority for determining whether missile and space exports should be approved for China to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. Commerce officials say the shift will not cause controls to be loosened in regards to the export of missile and space technology.
Eugene Cottilli, a spokesman for Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security, said under new policy the U.S. government will rigorously monitor all sensitive exports to China.
The presidential notice alters a key provision of the 1999 Defense Authorization Act that required that the president notify Congress whether a transfer of missile and space technology to China would harm the U.S. space-launch industry or help China's missile programs.
The law was passed after a late-1990s scandal involving the U.S. companies Space Systems/Loral and Hughes Electronics Corp. Both companies improperly shared technology with China and were fined $20 million and $32 million, respectively, by the State Department after a U.S. government investigation concluded that their know-how was used to improve China's long-range nuclear missiles.
Section 1512 of the 1999 law requires the president to certify to Congress in advance of any missile equipment or technology exports to China that the export will not harm the U.S. space-launch industry and that "missile equipment or technology, including any indirect technical benefit that could be derived from such export, will not measurably improve the missile or space launch capabilities of the People's Republic of China."
The new policy appears aimed at increasing U.S.-China space cooperation, which has been limited since the Loral and Hughes case. It follows the Chinese military's test of an anti-satellite missile that produced potentially dangerous space junk after the missile destroyed a Chinese weather satellite in a January 2007 test.
Henry Sokolski, director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, said restoring Commerce Department control over the sensitive experts is a "step backward."
"It's as though Commerce's mishandling of missile-tech transfers to China in the 1990s never happened," said Mr. Sokolski, a former Pentagon proliferation specialist. "But it did. As a result, we are now facing much more accurate, reliable missiles from China."
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Obama is suicidal and apparently generously sharing his self hatred with us on our behalf. Thanks, O-bom-ma, you rule. P.S. can Obama even drive a stick shift or parallel park? Just curious.
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in the 30's the US sold scrap iron to Japan, that was forged into some of the weapons, ships and bombs they used on us in 1941-45.
Giving this technology to our future enemies parallels this stupidity...gee I guess Zero is just like FDR.
Health care talks slip back behind closed doors Wednesday as Senate leaders start trying to merge two very different bills into a new version that can get the 60 votes needed to guarantee its passage.
All eyes are on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who has said he wants to complete the wedding quickly and get historic health care overhaul legislation onto the floor the week after next.
Both bills were written by Democrats, but that's not going to make it easier for Reid. They share a common goal, which is to provide all Americans with access to affordable health insurance, but they differ on how to accomplish it.
The Finance Committee bill that was approved Tuesday has no government-sponsored insurance plan and no requirement on employers that they must offer coverage. It relies instead on a requirement that all Americans obtain insurance.
Sen. Olympia Snowe, the only committee Republican who supported advancing the Finance panel bill, suggested Wednesday a scenario in which a government-run plan could eventually come into play.
Snowe told CBS's "The Early Show" that she believes a public option would give the government "a disproportionate advantage" over private insurers, and said she still opposes the concept.
But at the same time, Snowe said that she wants "to make sure the insurance industry performs." In a separate interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," she said that if the industry did not live up to congressional expectations for more widely affordable and accessible insurance, "you could have the public option kick in immediately." And kick out when they came back into line of course?
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee bill, passed earlier by a panel in which liberals predominate, calls for both a government plan to compete with private insurers and a mandate that employers help cover their workers. Those are only two of dozens of differences.
President Barack Obama acknowledges it's not going to be easy. Speaking Tuesday in the Rose Garden, Obama called the 14-9 Finance Committee vote "a critical milestone" toward getting a health care overhaul this year. The legislation won its first Republican support when Snowe broke ranks with her party, saying she was answering the call of history.
Obama wasn't ready to bask in the bipartisan glow.
"Now is not the time to pat ourselves on the back," he said. "Now is the time to dig in and bury things deeper work even harder to obfuscate our true intentions."
There was no victory lap either for Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana. "The bottom line here is we need a final bill, a merged bill, that gets 60 votes," he said. "Our goal is to pass health care reform, not just talk about it."
Aides say Reid has a keen sense of what the Senate will pass and he is focused on finding a solution that can get the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster.
In general, bills moving toward floor votes in both houses would require most Americans to purchase insurance, provide federal subsidies to help those of lower incomes afford coverage and give small businesses help in defraying the cost of coverage for their workers. People without insurance go to the emergency room. You can lower costs by simply paying part or all of their health care premiums until such a time as they can afford it.
Or until they choose to afford it, not at all the same thing. But do go on.
No need to spend hundreds of billions here, especially if you reintroduce competition back into the health care industry.
The measures would bar insurance companies from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions and for the first time limit their ability to charge higher premiums on the basis of age or family size. Expanded coverage would be paid for by cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from future Medicare payments to health care providers. Each house also envisions higher taxes - an income tax surcharge on million-dollar wage-earners in the case of the House, and a new excise levy on insurance companies selling high-cost policies in the Senate Finance Committee bill. Soak the rich. Great. And wouldn't the second option just vanish if competition the was real?
Apart from Snowe, Finance Committee Republicans cited higher taxes, a greater federal role in the insurance industry and other concerns as they lined up to oppose the bill.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the legislation would place the nation on a "slippery slope to more and more government control of health care." Then get rid of the legislation that requires this second layer of control!
Snowe said there were problems with the bill but the risks of doing nothing were too great. Do something else then.
Across the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her bots lieutenants have been at work for weeks trying to blend legislation approved by three House committees. The eventual result is certain to include a government option, but the details of the plan have split the rank and file and leaders have spent days struggling with the issue. Ooooh! Days! For something with such far-reaching effects. Hardly worth it, right? Think of it this way: If you wait long enough, Harry won't have to worry about voter support and can get back to work in a Nancy-approved fashion!
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can anybody explain to me why Snowe bolted? is this a planned event or is she just bat-shit crazy? since her defection i saw a report of one or two more Pubs folding and joining the enemy....
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I've read that her state's public health insurance plan is in desperate need of a bail-out, and she hopes the Democratic party's plan will accomplish that, USN, Ret.
BEIJING: The war of words between China and India intensified on Wednesday with Chinas ruling Communist Party accusing India of harbouring hegemonic ambitions in South Asia and provoking China on the border issue.
In what is possibly the strongest diatribe Chinas ruling party has directed at India in recent memory, the Communist Party in two editorials in its official newspapers accused the Indian government of recklessness and arrogance and turning a blind eye to Chinas concessions in resolving the long-running boundary dispute.
The remarks come a day after China said it was strongly dissatisfied with Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs recent visit to Arunachal Pradesh, parts of which China still has claims on.
On Wednesday, the Peoples Daily, the Communist Partys official newspaper, and the Global Times, an English-language paper run by its information department, launched a verbal onslaught on India in their editorial pages. The Peoples Daily said India was obsessed with a hegemonic mentality and refused to drop the pretentious airs when dealing with neighbours like Pakistan. Pakistans Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, incidentally, is currently in Beijing and on Tuesday discussed a highway project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Chinese President Hu Jintao, raising concerns in New Delhi.
Wednesdays statements underscore how the atmosphere between the two neighbours has fast soured in recent months, and are a stark contrast from the conciliatory positions the two governments had seemed to adopt over the border dispute following the thirteenth round of talks in August. Officials in Beijing and New Delhi spoke of positive progress then.
The Peoples Daily, a nationalistic newspaper run by the Communist Partys propaganda wing, often articulates the partys positions on foreign affairs in more strident tones than the official positions stated by the Chinese governments Foreign Ministry.
Alluding to Indias strategic relationship with the United States, the paper said India followed a policy of befriend the far and attack the near. It said resentment still simmered from Indias wars with China and Pakistan. If India really wants to be a superpower, such a policy is short-sighted and immature, it said in the editorial.
The Global Times, an English-language newspaper which often reflects the partys views on foreign policy and is directed towards an international audience, said India would make a fatal error if it mistook Chinas approach for weakness.The Chinese government and public regard territorial integrity as a core national interest, one that must be defended with every means, the paper said. The disputed border area is of strategic importance, and hence, Indias recent moves including Singhs trip and approving past visits to the region by the Dalai Lama send the wrong signal. That could have dangerous consequences.
The papers also accused India of ignoring Chinas concessions on the border issue, but did not specify what the concessions were.
Indian analysts say Chinas positions on the boundary issue have hardened in recent months, with Chinese objections to visits by Indian leaders to Arunachal Pradesh becoming more frequent and strong.
The Global Times also claimed that 96 per cent of the over 6,000 respondents of an online poll on its Chinese-language website said they felt agitated by the frequent visits by Indian leaders to the disputed area.
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Probably a warning to stay out of any Bangla/Burma shooting war.
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...but lives well over two/three times longer than earlier man. [In certain metro 'hoods' the life expectancy is about the same when the utes play stupid territorial rituals imitating early man.] Brain over brawn. You were given that item for a reason, use it.
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Consider the times at the fall of the Roman empire and the chaos that occured. I'm sure the upper classes had become as dithering and wimpy as ours have. It was probably the common scum that sired us. Dr. Pajama bottoms wouldn't last a minute.
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It is true what he says about Neanderthal Man. They were immensely strong. They also needed alot of calories to survive. This limited the number of them a given territory could support.
Very simply, they could not compete with the larger numbers of modern humans.
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A new kind of portable electrochemical battery that can produce thousands of hours of power - and soon replace the expensive regular or rechargeable batteries in hearing aids and sensors and eventually in cellphones, laptop computers and even electric cars - has been developed at Haifa's Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
The unique battery is based on silicon as a fuel that reverts to its original sand. The battery can also be left on the shelf for years and inserted into a device to provide immediate power.
..."Think of an electric car battery made from silicon that will turn into sand that would be recycled into silicon and then into power again," suggested Ein-Eli. "This would take about 10 years more and be revolutionary. It could be used in any portable electronic device or be integrated with solar or wind power as well as electric energy."
A number of foreign and Israeli companies have already contacted him and shown strong interest in the battery, he said. Any bets on how long, if this works, before enviro/petro crowd starts screaming that such batteries are environmentally hazardous
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And the Lord God sayeth to his new creation, "Ye have been brought forth from sand and ye shall return to sand. Go forth now, and oxidate for the good of all mankind, but especially for the Jews".
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Wonder how much these batteries will cost? Also, msut be a conspiracy. I am sure Obama will claim the Muslims created this thing, and then he will try to give the technology to the Chinese commies.
The University of Colorado is asking for more than $52,000 from Ward Churchill to recover costs the school incurred fighting a lawsuit filed by the former ethnic studies professor. The total tab, filed in Denver District Court last week, includes individual expenses ranging from $2 for courthouse parking to $22,095 for "in-trial video and visual exhibits."
"The university believes that what we've filed is both fair and appropriate for some of the expenses that we incurred during the trial," said Ken McConnellogue, spokesman for the University of Colorado system.
Churchill was fired in July 2007 after CU said he had committed repeated academic fraud in his scholarship. The ethnic studies professor then sued the school, claiming that the university really fired him over a controversial essay he had written several years earlier. In the essay, Churchill called victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks "little Eichmanns" -- a reference to an architect of the Holocaust.
A Denver jury found that CU unlawfully fired Churchill for exercising his right to free speech, but only awarded him $1 in damages. After considering the jury's ruling, Chief Denver District Court Judge Larry Naves declined to award Churchill his job back or any compensation. Churchill has vowed to appeal the ruling.
Colorado law requires the court to award the "prevailing party," in this case CU, "reasonable costs" associated with the trial. Now CU has finished tallying up its expenses, which amount to $52,181.71, and the school has filed a motion in Denver District Court requesting payment from Churchill.
Churchill's lawyer, David Lane, however, said the expenses filed by CU are well beyond the scope of what the Colorado law allows.
"They're not entitled to virtually any of it," Lane said. "Even Judge Naves will probably cut that back substantially. The statute is very limited in what they can get reimbursed."
Lane will be able to challenge the charges before Naves makes a final decision. But in the end, fighting over the university's expenses won't make a difference, Lane said, since Churchill has already filed an appeal -- one that Lane is confident he'll win.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Reporting from Sacramento - The influential lobby group Consumer Electronics Assn. is fighting what appears to be a losing battle to dissuade California regulators from passing the nation's first ban on energy-hungry big-screen televisions.
The Federal Government yesterday ordered medical institutions to treat accident and gunshot victims brought to them or face criminal charges.
Honduran negotiators reached agreement on Wednesday on a plan to restore President Manuel Zelaya to office and end a political crisis triggered by his ouster in a June coup.
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Yonhap) -- The head of General Motors Corp. plans to hold a press conference on Thursday to reveal plans to support its troubled Korean unit GM Daewoo after the U.S. carmaker and Korea Development Bank (KDB) reconfirmed their differences the previous day, GM Daewoo officials said.
