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Tidal power is using the tides to extract energy to convert into electricity. The tides are the result of the gravitational force between the Earth and Moon. On a daily basis this force pulls up tons of water, thus the tides. The tides are also brought back down, allowing for tidal power to be used twice daily, which would sum to about 10 hours. Tidal power is catching this water when it is at high tide and storing it in reservoir type structures until the time of low tide. During low tide, the water is released, allowing it to flow back out to sea through the turbines, and thus generating power. In order to create a tidal plant, we build a dam, called a barrage, at the bottom of a tidal...

Remember nuclear blackmail? Apparently, North Korea and Iran have refined the practice into outright panhandling...

Remember nuclear blackmail? Apparently, North Korea and Iran have refined the practice into outright panhandling...

Human population suddenly spiked six-fold during the first half of the oil age (1859 to 1970), the result of rapid expansion of industry, transport, trade, agriculture and financial capital. For nearly forty years hence the industrialized world has been riding the crest of a monstrous energy wave powered by fossil fuels all of which should finally peak before 2010 and begin a steady permanent decline. Human population will decline parallel to how oil production depletes down its own bell-shaped curve. Peak oil is not about when the oil will be gone, but rather when demand begins to outstrip supply and production. The key issue here is that oil simply cannot be extracted, transported and refined fast...

Federal lawmakers patted themselves on the back, last Friday, in a joint bi-partisan news release issued by three New Mexico politicians: U.S. Senators Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman, and U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce. Their celebratory remarks were meant to remind voters why the politicians were in Washington - to bring their state new jobs for at least some of New Mexico's voters. While the chorus of praise revolved around creating new jobs and bringing millions of dollars into the state's economy, is there more behind this story, which has not yet been told?For Senator Domenici, this was another major victory as the longest serving U.S. Senator in New Mexico's history. The Republican Senator...

We must not let Iran have nuclear weapons because they sponsor international terrorists and because they have promised to blow Israel off the map. Iran has sponsored war games also with new high-tech military hardware bought from the Chinese and the Russians. They also say that they have developed their own new advanced technologies and weapons of war including a high-speed torpedo and a stealth ICBM missile.Needless to say a nation, which runs around threatening the rest of the world with international terrorism and then proclaims itself a nuclear power, while spouting off radical religious fundamentalism and recruiting suicide bombers is not the sort of nation we need to have the atomic bomb or...

A wise man once said, "If you ignore something long enough, eventually it will go away." Actually, he said it several times, but nobody listened so he left.That old saw is one reason I've never done a column on Beanie Babies. I thought that if I could just resist the urge to poke fun and ignore their existence long enough, they would eventually go the way of Cabbage Patch Dolls and Tickle Me Elmos. Of course, ignoring them didn't work and I should have known better. I've been ignoring my kids for years and they're still around, standing right outside the bathroom door, pounding on it, asking me what I'm reading in there. My oldest caught me looking at the newspaper on the front porch the other day...

When the electrical utility bill is increasing each and every month you can do a few things. You can cry and pull out your hair; refuse to pay and get cut off and have no utilities; you could work harder and more hours each month to keep up the rising costs; or you could invest in other alternative sources of energy to cut the electrical utility bill. One of these alternative sources of energy is solar energy. And indeed, you will need to invest that means putting in your own (or borrowed) money, but the investment can make a huge difference for now and many years to come. Solar energy is derived from the power emitted by the sun to produce energy. The sun emits enough energy on the Earth in one day...

Copyright (c) 2006 Richard Stoyeck North Korea has tested a low yield nuclear device with 4% of the destructive power of the bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. Some believe that the device was much larger but may have failed for technical reasons. We don't know the truth, because the United States has not devoted the resources to know what is really going on. If you are surprised, don't be. Intelligence collection is a tricky business. When Richard Nixon was President, you may remember that one of our ships, the USS Pueblo was brazenly attacked and hijacked in international waters in 1968, off the coast of North Korea. The 82 member crew was taken...

The combative president of Iran continued to reject a resolution by Western nations that his nation stop its development of the atomic bomb for peaceful purposes, even though, through some fluke, inspectors from The International Atomic Energy Agency discovered new traces of highly enriched uranium at the bully mullah nation's leading nuclear bomb factory. They also discovered traces of the potentially explosive material as the result of two previous flukes. But the current fluke was even more worrisome: the new nuke traces did not have the same nuclear fingerprints as the previous ones. In other words, they're from a different and curiously troubling source. Of course, the agency is doing its usual...

NORTH KOREA'S ATOMIC TEST on Monday 9th October 2006 created two sets of shockwaves. The picture on the front cover of The Times (one of Britain's national daily newspapers) the following day, shows a seismograph recording with the silhouette of a hand pointing at a dense concentration of spikes and waves. The headline above: 'The moment that shook the world.' The pun had been biding its time and newspaper subs must have been delighted for an opportunity to use it. The North Korean atomic test has deeply aggravated the anxiety of the US and other states concerned about the foreign policy ambitions of North Korea. But US anxiety over some threat has never been far away. It faded shortly after the...

On the November 26, 2006 WAWA Blog, this reporter raised the question if Mordechai Vanunu's Christian conversion could be the reason the Israeli government continues to hold him captive in Jerusalem, 2 1/2 years after he was released from 18 years in jail for telling the world the truth, that Israel had gone nuclear. Reporter and full time CPT/Christian Peacemaker Teams volunteer, Jerry Levin, reported Vanunu's answer in a December 3, 2006 email: Jerry: "Do you see an element of persecution in all this governmental pressure?" Unhesitatingly, Mordechai answered. "There is. It is my Christianity that they cannot accept. That is the source of my problems with my case." The rest of Jerry's report...

After WWI, President Woodrow Wilson said, "the highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people." Where is the evidence of spontaneous cooperation in our world today? Historically, it seems that the cause of war -- Pearl Harbor, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and September 11th -- will catalyze a society and nations to cooperate. Must we have our backs to the wall, or is it possible for a compelling vision to create spontaneous cooperation? The Critical Question In 1969, Dr. R Buckminster Fuller (most well known for geodesic domes and Buckyballs) developed a World Game simulation to explore global resources and trends. It posed the critical question, "how do we make the...

Stress is a big problem in modern day society. With the speed of life, mass flow of information, countless irritations, and the test of dreary news at 11; come many short-term and long-term problems. These include many physical side-effects that are suffered by many in large ways. If stress is a big problem for you, the side-effects can indeed bring you a shorter unhealthy life. It's far from unheard anymore of those passing away between the ages of 40 and 55 from conditions associated with those twenty or more years older than them. This is the test of the times. Among the larger causes are heart conditions. An early heart attack in life can kill you! With modern medicine it's possible to survive...

The White House says any nuclear test conducted by North Korea should be considered a provocative act. The comments came just a few hours after North Korea claimed it had conducted its first underground test of a nuclear weapon. The first reaction from the White House came from spokesman Tony Snow. In an unusual middle-of-the-night conference call with news agencies, Snow said American and South Korean intelligence agencies have detected seismic activity near a suspected nuclear test site in North Korea. Speaking a few hours after Pyongyang claimed that it had conducted such a test, Snow made clear the United States and its allies are still monitoring the situation and gathering information. But at...

Have you ever heard the expression be careful what you wish for? Or have you ever been accused of "daydreaming" or "being too much in your head"? Mind power scares people. That is partly why those phrases are said. When you develop a conscious relationship with your own mind it is like bringing home a giant super-computer and starting to actually use it. Things are going to change in your life when you do that! You already have a powerful mind. However you might not even know what it feels like, or how it works, or where it is.You can gain all this knowledge and experience the feeling of enjoying the awesome benefits and life improving power when you have a friendly relationship with your own mind...

China, North Korea's closest ally, is condemning Pyongyang's announcement that it had exploded a nuclear device. News of the test came just a day after China had joined longtime rival Japan in condemning Pyongyang's plans to conduct a nuclear test. In a statement carried by the Xinhua state news agency, the Chinese government Monday said China is "resolutely opposed" to the North Korean action. The statement, however, did not say what - if any - actions Beijing would take as a result. China has warned the North repeatedly not to test. Shi Yinhong is an international relations professor at Beijing's People's University. "China has already felt betrayed by its so-called ally, North Korea, previously...

There are angels and angels. Like the cherubs. Like the seraphs. And Satan the devil, himself. There are prophets and prophets. Like Jesus Christ. Like Muhammad. Like Siddhartha Guatama. And there areterrorists and terrorists. Like. . . . Don't think that I amgoing to mention Osama Bin Laden. Or some madman wielding a bomb, agun , or a knife. No! Because there have come to be many terroristsafter September 11, 2001. The Shorter Oxford Dictionary on Historical Principles defines theword terrorist as " anyone who attempts to further his viewsby a system of coercive intimidation". But today that definitionis relative. Because we are all terrorists! Forget the Palestiniansuicide bombers. Ignore the...

Contact Author: mailto: Copyright: Copyright © Arthur Zulu 2002 Word Count: 722 Web Address: Publishing Guidelines: Permission is granted to publish this article electronically or in print as long as the bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated. WILL A NUCLEAR "ARMAGEDDON BE THE LAST WAR? (PART 2) By Arthur Zulu Let's say that a full nuclear conflagration is going on right now at the North Pole. And let's suppose you are somewhere in the South Pole. Although you are in the antipodes -- far away from the scene of the nuclear war, you will not escape the blast, thefire, and the radiation. You will be so uncomfortable that you will suddenly find yourself...

Everyone whether a home owner of company director expects power to be provided by large multinational companies or government owned production facilities to their electrical appliances. Just plug into an electrical socket and the power must be there anytime. So, power protection, means the pre installation of power systems that will in the event of a power outage immediately take over from the exiting lost supply and replace this with an independent source of power. This form of power protection is usually undertaken by the installation of uninterruptible power supplies which is turn by backed up by Diesel Generators . Electricity is manufactured by many means, although the most common methods are...

North Korea has tested a low yield nuclear device with 4% of the destructive power of the bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. Some believe that the device was much larger but may have failed for technical reasons. We don't know the truth, because the United States has not devoted the resources to know what is really going on. If you are surprised, don't be. Intelligence collection is a tricky business. When Richard Nixon was President, you may remember that one of our ships, the USS Pueblo was brazenly attacked and hijacked in international waters in 1968, off the coast of North Korea. The 82 member crew was taken prisoner and tortured over an 11 month...

The U.S. Defense Department says it is possible Iran has made improvements in its missile forces, but a spokesman has also warned that Iran has exaggerated its capabilities in the past. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman responded Monday to Iranian claims that in recent days it has tested improved airborne and undersea missiles. He said Iran has conducted many tests during the past year of both ballistic and anti-ship missiles, and it would not be surprising if it has made some progress during that time. "We know that the Iranians are always trying to improve their weapons systems by both foreign and indigenous measures," he said. "It's possible that they are increasing their capability and making...

According to a recent article by Jim Kuhnhenn, presidential candidates are planning to spend more than ever before on advertising. For instance, Kuhnhenn says Barack Obama has spent more than "$2.7 million in ad spending in Iowa alone, according to data compiled by other presidential campaigns." He added that most of the candidates' advertising dollars will be spent on television and radio ads, especially in Iowa and New Hampshire. Perhaps these candidates and their campaign organizers should also consider spending money on political promotional products. Of course there will be the typical bumper sticker and hand fan campaigns, as well as yard signs to promote the candidates. However, there is a...

July 17th 2006 - For the first time since German reunification Germany is truly a world player again. With one of the largest militaries in Europe with about 76,200 air force personnel, 221,000 armed forces personnel, 230,600 army personnel, 26,700 navy personnel, 2,300 tanks, and some of the most advanced aircraft in the world in the modern German Luftwaffe Germany is truly "loaded for bear". Chancellor Angela Merkel likened hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler in April of 2006, saying the world must act now to stop him before his country developed a nuclear bomb. "We want, we must prevent Iran from developing its nuclear program further," Merkel told top policymakers...

The combative president of Iran continued to reject a resolution by Western nations that his nation stop its development of the atomic bomb for peaceful purposes, even though, through some fluke, inspectors from The International Atomic Energy Agency discovered new traces of highly enriched uranium at the bully mullah nations leading nuclear bomb factory. They also discovered traces of the potentially explosive material as the result of two previous flukes. But the current fluke was even more worrisome: the new nuke traces did not have the same nuclear fingerprints as the previous ones. In other words, theyre from a different and curiously troubling source. Of course, the agency is doing its usual...

Nuclear threat, justification and power The Ireniusian Version The total number of people purpoted to have been destroyed in the Nagasaki/Hiroshima nuclear bombing in Japan have been put at around seventy thousand. A generation eliminated from the face of the earth in a matter of seconds. What a significant loss of lives!Let their souls rest in peace. The effects of the nuclear bombing are still witnessed although such events took place almost fifty years ago, children born blind, crippled and deaf. Such have been forms of aggression in the quest of power. It is not that the USA has to be blamed for such a bombing, for there are claims this was an act of a retaliation stemming from the Pearl Harbour...

Stop a War A nation at war with itself cannot stand. He speaks of American justice and points us to evil while he cuts deals with nuclear armed devils. A friend of al Qaeda, he is the Commander-In-Chief of the most powerful military force on planet earth and the man we call President. I know this is true because I heard it on TV. In November, 2001, just weeks after declaring war on global terrorism, President George Bush and Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assisted some 8,000 members of al Qaeda and their Pakistani trainers to escape Afghanistan. Three to four hundred members of the U.S. Delta Force had the terrorists surrounded, in their gun sights and can testify they were ordered not to engage. This...

Venezuela has recently become the largest arms purchaser in Latin America. Since Hugo Chavez, as the President with dictatorial powers, gets more of the arms shipments than anyone else, he now looks like a king crab. The crab-like impression is increased by how red-faced he becomes when he talks about America and George W. Bush. Clawing his way to the podium to make another speech vilifying the United States, he ridiculed President Bush for making a trip to Latin America, assuring his audience that George would be met with a cool reception and return to the land of the gringo with his tail between his legs. No doubt the thought never occurred to Chavez that he might be projecting his own wishes. He...

If you live in North America, you likely are now very familiar with the Hyundai line of vehicles. Back in 1986, the first Hyundai was introduced to the market - an Excel - and the company's line up has changed dramatically since that time. Hyundai produces much more than cars; in fact, by the end of the last century Hyundai became one of the largest companies in the world. Let's take a look at this Korean based multinational corporation and the company behind Hyundai vehicles. It was back in 1946, just one year removed from Imperial Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula, that a new company was birthed in what is now known as South Korea. Hyundai Motor Industrial Company was founded by Chung Ju...

LED lights are a wonderful invention that has changed the way the world is lit. Not only are they long lasting, they have many environmental benefits. LED lights are four times more efficient than a regular incandescent light bulb and last 10 times as long. LED lights also use between 50 and 80 percent less energy than an incandescent bulb. LED lights are considerably less expensive to operate, however are a little more expensive to purchase. LED home lighting requires only one third of the energy that an incandescent bulb will use. A single 18-watt LED light can replace a 75-watt incandescent and in the lifetime of the LED light, will save 570 kWh of energy. At a basic eight cents per kilowatt rate...

In October 1999, the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) released results of baby teeth examinations in an ongoing study called the "Tooth Fairy Project." These results showed startling levels of radioactive material Strontium-90 (SR-90) in teeth of children born in Southern Florida, New York and New Jersey in the 1980s. The levels were as high as during the 1950s when aboveground nuclear testing was taking place. The effects of radiation: SR-90 has been linked to various forms of cancer including leukemia, and is thought to be still present in the air, soil, water and food. Once assimilated into the body, SR-90 destroys blood cells that make up the immune system, and since the chemical...

The colossus of Israel's Center-Right is no more. Sharon's cerebral hemorrhage, induced coma, and declared departure from Israel's political life have created a grave and vacuous ability for Israel to carry on viable negotiations with either the Palestinians or other belligerents. This assessment is more an international impression and less an Israeli one; however, it is the international community's perception that overwhelms. Successors are no where to be found compared with the stature and personality of the "Bulldozer." PM stand-in, Ehud Olmert, the quintessential bureaucrat, along with recently-rejected Labor leader, Shimon Peres-may try, but their finest hour will not survive the Humpty-Dumpty...