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Carbon-Sucking Golf Balls And Other Crazy Climate Patents

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An afternoon searching recent US patents pulls up some curious climate solutions. Forget YouTube as your go-to 3:00 pm internet distraction. For me, it’s the US patent office website. There is some seriously wild stuff being invented by your fellow citizens, not least in the area of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Here are a few of my favorite climate-related patents issued recently by the office. (I’ve added a little color to the design sketches): Golf courses are hardly known for being paragons of environmentally friendly land use. They use a massive amount of water and have been found to be net carbon emitters, mainly due to land-clearing. But—phew!—there could soon be a way to shuck that green guilt and keep on swinging. These carbon dioxide-absorbing golf balls, invented by the golf team at Nike, are intended to “reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to aid in alleviating global warming,” by enabling the ”golf ball itself to play a role in the fight against global warming.” (You can’t make this stuff up). Additionally, the Nike inventors claim this is the first time a golf ball itself has attempted to off-set carbon consumed during its manufacture. Here’s how it works: When you hit the ball, little bits of its surface layer deform and set off a chemical chain reaction that absorbs carbon dioxide as the ball flies through the air. The more times you swing, the greater the surface area exposed to the internal reactions. So, if you’re anything like me, and you need to hit the ball an embarrassing number of times, comfort yourself with the knowledge you’re doing more to save the world more than your pro golf buddies (except all my balls end up in the water). At the end of the game, according to the patent, you’ll be able to see how much carbon you’ve sequestered using a visual indicator on the side of the ball. Golfing sure beats hammering out a broad international agreement to reduce carbon. But sorry to spike your high: The inventors admit the golf ball could “at best be only carbon neutral, and is not capable of reducing the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.” Damn. Really? (After several attempts to organize an interview with the Portland-based inventor Chia-Chyi Cheng, Nike told me the company doesn’t talk to the media about their numerous inventions or patents). Verdict: Cool science! But don’t expect President Obama to start arguing his golf days are saving the planet. We learned last month that average summer temperatures in parts of the Arctic during the past 100 years are hotter than they have been for possibly as long as 120,000 years. And the Arctic recently registered the sixth lowest summer sea ice minimum on record. Why don’t we just replace all that melting ice? That’s the idea behind this recently published patent for artificial ice. According to the filing, an ”ice” substrate would be dropped onto the surface of an ocean or a lake and left there to reflect sunlight back into the atmosphere using a 3-corner retro reflector surface (the same technology used by street signs). Meanwhile, nutrients sown on the underside would encourage algae to grow for biofuel production. Algae is a proven energy source. In February 2012, President Obama announced the Department of Energy would allocate $14 million in new funding to develop transportation fuels from algae. “It seemed like a two-fer to me,” says inventor and engineer Phillip Langhorst from St. Louis, Missouri. ”In order to solve global warming we’re going to have to do something on an insanely huge scale. And this is the only thing I’ve seen that’s big enough.” A few weeks after putting the ice on the water, a ship would come along, scrape the algae off and reapply the necessary nutrients. “I need help, obviously, to see if this is a viable scheme,” he says, although he admits most companies he approaches balk at the idea. But he argues that facing the realities and costs of big geo-engineering projects like this is becoming increasingly necessary, in lieu of putting a price on carbon: ”Pick your poison, you know,” he says. ”My goal is not so much to patent this and make a billion dollars off of it; it’s to solve the global warming issue so we all don’t have to move to Saskatchewan​.” Verdict: Please, can’t we stop the real ice from melting? Imagine this scenario in the not-too-distant future: Your car has iced over in one of the many more extreme storms of a climate-changed world. It takes too long—and too much gas—to de-ice the car. Moreover, the engines in energy-efficient and electric cars mean there is less “waste heat” in the system that’s available for the purpose of traditional defrosting techniques. A new defrosting system may just become the must-have for winter drivers, according to this patent for a “windshield washer fluid heater and system,” which attempts to defrost within seconds, not minutes. It may even, according to the language of the patent, reduce “energy dependence on foreign oil.” That actually isn’t too lofty a claim when you look at the auto industry roaring back to life. Since 2009, car production has nearly doubled; in July, US car and light-truck sales ran at an annualized pace of 15.8 million, up more than a million from the previous year. Any fuel savings count. The invention passes engine heat that already exists through a new heat exchanger. Upon flicking the washer/wiper switch, washer fluid heats in a special new heater in a matter of seconds, and finally sprays out nozzles integrated into the wiper blades of the car, delivering a “continuous on-demand heated fluid deicing and cleaning action to the windshield and wiper blades.” “This is so much more effective in clearing the windshield, because a traditional system needs to warm up 30-40 pounds of windshield glass before it can get to the outside ice,” which requires a lot of energy, says Jere Lansinger, a 74-year-old retired automotive engineer and inventor. A 40-year veteran of the industry in Detroit, Lansinger used to test defrosting systems to ensure they met the federal standard for safe driving: around 30 minutes for a clear windshield. “And 30 minutes is a terribly long time when you want to get moving in the morning.” So for the last 20 years he’s been tinkering on this invention in his garage. Now the defrost time is under a minute, he says. Lansinger has commercial interest already. The invention has been bought by TSM Corporation, Michigan, and is being developed as a product called QuikTherm, which the company says is currently being tested at several North American automotive parts manufacturers. And that’s enormously gratifying for Lansinger. “Frankly it makes me feel better than any big royalties I’ll get.” Verdict: ​A neat fuel-efficiency measure I’ve never thought about. And nothing’s worse than de-icing your car. This might be my favorite for its simplicity: A portable power station that can be off-loaded from a trailer, unfolded, put up anywhere there’s sun or wind, and switched on. In the picture here, it’s being used to charge a car. But it can power anything it likes. “I was tickled to death,” says Lynn Miller, the inventor from Crossville, Tennessee, about the day he was granted the patent, which he’s been working on for over three years. He’s now spent over $20,000 on the idea and is looking forward to getting a prototype up and running in the new year. For Miller, it’s all about simplicity and reducing costs for the consumer. ”We’d bring it out in the morning, and in the afternoon it’s working. It’s a plug-and play-system,” he says. He also likes the idea that having one of these in the company parking lot, or by the side of the road, gives ultimate green bragging rights: ”It’s very visible, it reminds people day-in, day-out that you’re environmental.” Miller’s plan is to also set up the portable power stations at schools and colleges to demonstrate the benefits of renewable energy. ”It’s not just book knowledge, this can be turned into a classroom.” Verdict: I want one.

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A call for Canada to import fewer seeds

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A call for Canada to import fewer seeds

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European Parliament Rejects New Subsidies for Fishing Fleets

Lawmakers also voted to provide financial support for ecologically friendly measures meant to prevent overfishing, but they maintained some handouts to the commercial fishing industry. Originally posted here: European Parliament Rejects New Subsidies for Fishing Fleets Related Articles Fracking Fight Focuses on a New York Town’s Ban Dot Earth Blog: A Closer Look at Factors Curbing China’s Appetite for Shark Fins Koch Brother Wages 12-Year Fight Over Wind Farm

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Koch Brother Wages 12-Year Fight Over Wind Farm

The billionaire industrialist William I. Koch has donated about $5 million fighting Cape Wind, a vast wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound. Taken from: Koch Brother Wages 12-Year Fight Over Wind Farm Related Articles Harlem River, Cut Off From Public, Is Getting a Push Out of Isolation Fracking Fight Focuses on a New York Town’s Ban Dot Earth Blog: A Closer Look at Factors Curbing China’s Appetite for Shark Fins

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5 Ways Monsanto Wants to Profit Off Climate Change

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The agriculture giant has a variety solutions for mitigating and adapting to global warming. Darryl Bush/ZUMA Global warming could mean big business for controversial agriculture giant Monsanto, which announced last week it was purchasing the climate change-oriented startup Climate Corporation for $930 million. Agriculture, which uses roughly 40 percent of the world’s land, will be deeply affected by climate change in the coming years. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that warming will lead to pest outbreaks, that climate-related severe weather will impact food security, and that rising temperatures will hurt production for farms in equatorial areas. (In areas further from the equator, temperature rise is actually estimated to increase production in the short term, then harm production if temperatures continue to rise over 3 degrees Celsius in the long term.) Meanwhile, increases in the global population will make it crucial for farmers to be efficient with their land, says UC Davis professor Tu Jarvis. “The increase in food production, essentially, in the future needs to be in yields—output per acre,” Jarvis says, even while weather patterns make farming less predictable or more difficult in some places. Monsanto, meanwhile, has been gearing up to sell its wares to farmers adapting to climate change. Here are five climate change-related products the company either sells already, or plans to: 1. Data to help farmers grow crops in a changing climate. Climate Corporation, which Monsanto is acquiring, sells detailed weather and soil information to farmers with the stated mission of helping “all the world’s people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change.” This data is meant to help farmers better plan, track, and harvest their crops, ultimately making farms more productive. According to its press release, Monsanto thinks the ag data business will be a $20-billion market, and that farmers using these tools could increase their yield BY 30 to 50 bushels (that’s between 1,700 and 2,800 shelled pounds). In a video interview about the acquisition, Monsanto vice president of global strategy Kerry Preete told TechCrunch: “We think weather patterns are becoming more erratic, it places a huge challenge on farmers with their production. We think a lot of the risk can be mitigated out of weather impact through information,” Preete said. “If you know what’s going on every day in the field, based on climate changes, soil variations that exist, we can really help farmers mitigate some of the challenges that impact their yield.” 2. Insurance for when it’s too hot, cold, dry, wet, or otherwise extreme outside.Climate Corporation currently sells both federally subsidized crop insurance and supplemental plans that pay out additional benefits when crops go awry. While federal insurance repays farmers up to the break-even point for a failed crop, Climate Corporation insures the lost profits as well. Monsanto says it will maintain this insurance business. Though the broader insurance industry is concerned about losses due to major natural disasters occurring more often as the result of climate change, insuring crops is less risky because payouts for a damaged crop season a generally smaller than those for dense, damaged urban areas, according to Gerald Nelson, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. 3. Drought-resistant corn. Monsanto lists the effects of climate change-related precipitation changes and droughts as a potential “opportunity” in its most recent filing with the Carbon Disclosure Project, explaining that “climate changes also will require agriculture to be more resilient.” The company adds that it is “positioned well to deliver products to farmers that are climate resilient.” This year, Monsanto started rolling out a new line of patented, first-of-its-kind genetically engineered corn seeds that areresistant to drought. The seeds are engineered so that they can withstand the stress of a drought by using less water when it is dry outside, but still yield the same amount of corn during a regular harvest, according to Farm Progress. In southern Africa, where corn is the largest agricultural product, last month’s report from the IPCC predicts that by the end of the century, it is “likely” that the area will become dryer due to climate change and that this “will [increase] the risk of agricultural drought.” Though the drought-resistant corn is currently only being sold in the US, the market for hybrid corn in South Africa alone is worth an estimated $250 million, according to Reuters, and the continent has an estimated 75 million acres of land available for corn production. Monsanto has been ramping up its presence in sub-Saharan Africa through the Gates foundation-fundedWater Efficient Maize for Africa program, donating germplasm (starter seeds) and drought-tolerant corn traits and, Reuters says, developing relationships with local organizations. 4. Cotton that needs less water to grow. Corn isn’t the only crop that Monsanto is reengineering for a changing climate. The company is piloting genetically modified cotton with “improved water use” that that can grow while using less water and survive drought. The IPCC predicted in 2007 that climate change will lead to decreased cotton yields across the South in the coming years. In cotton-producing states such as Texas, water scarcity is an issue and heat waves can evaporate the water available in soil and in reservoirs, which may make water-preserving crops attractive when they come to market. States along the cotton belt, which stretches across much of the southeastern US and into Texas, have been stricken by extreme heat and drought in recent years. A recent report from NOAA found that climate change increased both the magnitude and likelihood of extreme heat waves taking place in the us but “had little impact on the lack of precipitation in the central United States in 2012.” 5. Crops for biofuel. Since 1993, Monsanto has sold high-yield, highly fermentable corn seed specifically designed to be made into ethanol—it was the first company to do so. Ethanol processors that have partnered with Monsanto through a related program buy the corn at a premium because it produces more fuel per bushel of corn. The company also sells soybeans and sorghum, which can be used to produce biofuel. Whether ethanol is actually a “green” fuel is debatable. But in recent years, laws aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on foreign oil have helped boost its production, and if corn-based ethanol continues rising in demand, “the financial opportunity could be significant for the business,” Monsanto says in its Carbon Disclosure Project filing.

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Observatory: Cuckoo Finches Come Up With a New Con

Scientists have discovered that the birds have another way of duping other species into raising their young: laying multiple eggs in the foreign nest. See the original article here:  Observatory: Cuckoo Finches Come Up With a New Con ; ;Related ArticlesA Disease Cuts Corn YieldsBP Trial in 2nd Phase, to Set Amount of Oil SpilledU.N. Climate Panel Endorses Ceiling on Global Emissions ;

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Exactly What Is Aquaponics About?

If you are a “green-minded” individual, or if you want expanding your own organic fresh fruit/vegetables or clean fish, then aquaponics might be an ideal system for you to find out more regarding. After spending some time to analysis this new innovation, you will discover that a question on many individuals’s minds is “exactly what is aquaponics?”.

This system is based on aquaculture, which is a closed freshwater system for increasing fish that does not require everyday water drainage or replenishment. Aquaponics produces a biological environment that natural vegetables and fruits expand incredibly well in, while at the same time purifying the water that the fish stay in.

The major parts of the aquaponics system include expanding beds for the vegetables, and a holding tank for the fish, where the water is re-circulated from one component to the other. There are numerous methods of recycling the water via this system, and one of the most preferred procedures is called the “vitamins and mineral movie” method. It is called this given that the nutrients from the fish waste water develop a slim layer around the expand beds that is absorbed and made use of by the vegetables as meals. As these nutrients are absorbed by the plants, the water is cleaned and recycled for the fish.

Aquaponics was created to increase pesticide-free natural vegetables and fish that are without toxins and unsafe levels of chemicals that are regrettably discovered in lots of closed freshwater systems. The popularity of this approach of horticulture is easy to understand, given that it is economical to set up, and will certainly need virtually no maintenance once the quantity of greenery and fish is meticulously balanced.

What is the Secret to Aquaponics?

There are quite a few reasons using the aquaponics approach for increasing natural vegetables and fruit transcends to conventional techniques such as hydroponics and aquaculture. The primary explanations consist of:.

Aquaponics is a practically hands-off system. When organic balance is achieved, it is self-sufficient, and only requires the fish to be fed. Aquaculture and hydroponics both call for modest to massive everyday maintenance, including feeding the fish, giving nutrients to the plant life, and water removal and replacement.

Raising freshwater fish utilizing the aquaculture procedure requires that at least ten percent of the total amount of water should be replaced each and every day. Over the course of one month, a 5 hundred gallon fish holding storage tank will certainly require to have about fifteen hundred gallons eliminated and switched out, or else the fish will pass away.

Aquaponics offers an atmosphere where numerous different sorts of vegetables and fruits can be grown. The size of the plants rises as additional varieties are increased.

The fish waste is developed into nitrates and gives consistent sustenance for the plants. The plants clear the water by counteracting the fish waste and ammonia, and keep the fish environment clean. Aquaponics resolves the troubles of both the aquaculture and hydroponics systems.

Aquaponics normally gives the exact same amount of nutrients for the plants to take in and make use of for development as is required in a hydroponics system.

Exactly what is happening In Aquaponics?

As you can see, aquaponics is a brand-new modern technology that boosts on earlier techniques of increasing healthy and balanced fish and organic fruit and vegetables. Listed below you will certainly discover much more specifics regarding exactly how an effective aquaponics system is established.

Before you identify precisely the best ways to establish your aquaponics system, you have to identify how many fish and how many vegetables and fruits you want to produce. If you are thinking of generating a big quantity of fish or plants, perhaps for a new aquaponics company, after that you will wish to go out and buy a mechanical purification pump. This will certainly make sure that the fish waste does not develop around the plant roots and the pump will likewise distribute the water regularly.

If they are established up appropriately, smaller sized systems do not need a pump.

Large-scale aquaponics companies can stay clear of using a filtration pump by establishing drifting expand beds.

Fish feed should be added to the fish holding container for a number of days prior to any fish are included in it. This decreases the chlorine, and develops the healthy microorganisms that will break down the fish ammonia, turning it in to nitrates that nurture the plants. Without proper cycling, the ammonia and chlorine levels will be excessive, creating the fish to pass away.

After the fish are included in their holding reservoir, they are preyed on a day-to-day basis, and their strong waste and ammonia by-products are distributed to the expanding beds for uptake.

The plants cleanse the water by taking in the waste and nutrients in it. The water is usually recycled back to the fish, which aerates the water and gives the fish with clean fresh water to reside in.

Attaining biological balance in your aquaponics system is the most vital element in succeeding. You must carefully combine the amount and variety of fish, germs, and plant material to ensure that this equilibrium is obtained. Too many fish will certainly bring about sloppy water that will not assist the fish, and not nearly enough fish will fail to offer sufficient meals for the plants. Without enough germs, the fish waste will not be changed to food for the veggies. As you could see, each part of the system is dependent on the others, but it is actually not that tough to accomplish if you comprehend the fundamentals and methodically create your aquaponics garden.

The major components of the aquaponics system consist of increasing beds for the veggies, and a holding reservoir for the fish, where the water is re-circulated from one part to the various other. Over the program of one month, a five hundred gallon fish holding storage tank will require to have about fifteen hundred gallons gotten rid of and changed, or else the fish will perish. The plants clear the water by counteracting the fish waste and ammonia, and keep the fish setting clean. Fish feed need to be included to the fish holding tank for many days before any type of fish are included to it. As well a lot of fish will certainly lead to muddy water that will not assist the fish, and not enough fish will fall short to give enough food for the plants.

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What is Journalism For?

An exploration of the purpose of journalism in a disrupted era. This article –  What is Journalism For? ; ;Related ArticlesExploring the New Food Focus at Scientific American‘Hurricane Marco Rubio’ – A Winning Climate Campaign?Dot Earth Blog: ‘Hurricane Marco Rubio’ – A Winning Climate Campaign? ;

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Perks Of Home Aquaponics

For those of you that do not know anything of aquaponics I just wish to rapidly explain what exactly house aquaponics is. Aquaponics is essentially expanding plants by utilizing fish. It works wonders due to the fact that the nutrients that fish naturally placed in the water they stay in are exactly what the plants need to grow. The difference between normal techniques of increasing veggies such as planting them in the ground is gigantic. You could increase more plants faster than ever before.

So now you could already picture the perks of residence aquaponics. And fortunately is that aquaponics are rather easy to create and do not take much space. Aquaponics systems differ in size but you do not need much room to begin your very own house aquaponics system. These are 2 of the advantages of residence aquaponics that permits anybody to begin growing their own vegetables and fruit. And what’s great is the truth that the meals you increase not only expands quite rapidly yet it additionally tries a lot better compared to any type of fruit and vegetables you could purchase from a grocery store.

Then offer exactly what you expand after that by making use of aquaponics you can expand a substantial yield in half the time, if you delight in growing plants and meals and. So not only could you make even more cash from offering your fruit and vegetables but you will certainly be supplying some wonderful sampling meals for your consumers and your family members. So another advantage would be increased exploit your plants. And what’s fantastic is aquaponics systems call for very little energy to run and the moment it takes to keep your system is very little if you establish the system up right to begin with.

I have just been using aquaponics for a few years but I would never go back to expanding my veggies and plants in the ground. There are some sources to assist you make your own residence aquaponics system. A few of the very best can be discovered online. Count on me once you start obtaining the advantages of your own aquaponics system, you will not look back. You can even begin eating or offering the fish that you make use of in your system.

The advantages of residence aquaponics are well worth having for the little cost that it takes to establish the system up. You could buy aquaponics systems however I suggest you discover just how to construct your own system.

Aquaponics systems differ in dimension yet you do not need much space to begin your own house aquaponics system. These are 2 of the advantages of house aquaponics that permits anybody to start increasing their own fruit and vegetables. And what’s excellent is the fact that the meals you grow not only increases really quickly however it also tries much better compared to any kind of fruit and vegetables you can get from a grocery store.

If you delight in growing plants and food and after that sell what you increase then by utilizing aquaponics you can grow an enormous return in half the time.

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