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Nikola Tesla Sought Abundant, Clean Energy for Humanity
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010Nikola Tesla was a visionary inventor who devoted his life to making an abundant, clean energy supply for humanity. Among his inventions toward that end were alternating current (AC) power transmission, the AC motor, and the bladeless turbine.1 He also invented radio, neon & fluorescent lighting, x-ray imaging, robotics, wireless remote control, wireless energy transmission […]
There’s No Warm Time Like the Present
Friday, December 4th, 2009Today’s global warming is unique among the Earth’s warm periods. The rise in average world-wide temperature (0.7°C over the past 100 years) is much faster-paced than the warming after an ice age (4 – 7°C over 5000 years).90 And the rise of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere (80 parts per million (ppm) — up […]
Jurassic Squid Drawn in Own Ink — Again
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Venture to Light Africa with Dirt Power
Sunday, May 18th, 2008“For all the Pan-Africanism of the last four decades,” said Hugo Van Vuuren, “it is quite rare to have young students from South, East, and West Africa, in the same room without a soccer ball somehow involved.“x1 Van Vuuren was talking about himself and three other Africans, who along with two Americans formed Lebônê Solutions, […]





