Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
US citizens purchase 14+ million guns in 2009
think the obama presidency had anything to do with this? and this doesn't even count gun shows/pawn shops that don't require background checks.
US Citizens buy 14+ million guns in 2009, more than 21 of the worlds standing armies combined
Data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for the year reported 14,033,824 NICS Checks for the year of 2009, a 10 percent increase in gun purchases from the 12,709,023 reported in 2008.
via ammoland
thanks to tony for the link
ladies and gentleman: the beer handle
my birthday is next week, fyi.
Beer Handle
Putting a handle on a can of beer is the beverage equivalent of tits on a bull – totally unnecessary and mostly insane – but we still love it. Keeps your beer cold, your hands warm, and comes in a six pack – just like beer.
= nostradamus? 'hurt locker' cleans up
congrats to the hurt locker!! i told yall back in october '09 about the greatness of this film. f*@k james cameron.
Oscars 2010: Kathryn Bigelow's 'Hurt Locker' wins Best Director and Best Picture at Academy Awards
"The Hurt Locker" dominated the Oscars on Sunday night, winning six awards - including Best Picture and Best Director.
Kathryn Bigelow took home the Best Director Oscar, beating out "Avatar" director James Cameron.
via ny daily news
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Powering Houses with Bottles of Water
With Artificial Photosynthesis, A Bottle of Water could Power a House
One of the interesting side effects of last year's stimulus bill was $400 million in funding for ARPA-E, the civilian, energy-focused cousin of DARPA. And in this week's first ever ARPA-E conference, MIT chemist Dan Nocera showed how well he put that stimulus money to use by highlighting his new photosynthetic process. Using a special catalyst, the process splits water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel efficiently enough to power a home using only sunlight and a bottle of water.
Like organic photosynthesis, Nocera's reaction uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and energy. However, whereas plants create energy in the form of sugars, this process creates energy in the form of free hydrogen. That hydrogen can either be recombined with the oxygen in a fuel cell to generate electricity, or converted into a liquid fuel.
In about four hours, water treated with Nocera's catalyst can produce 30 kilowatt-hours of energy. Moreover, the process is cheap. So cheap, in fact, that Nocera has no problem envisioning a day when each house generates its own fuel and electricity from photosynthesis.
full story via pop sci
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
