Sunday, February 27, 2011
Earth Day
The height of hippie and flower-child culture in the United States, 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Protest was the order of the day, but saving the planet was not the cause. War raged in Vietnam, and students nationwide increasingly opposed it...Visit our Go Green Section to read more.
Green Machine: Sucking carbon dioxide out of the air
Think of it as a chemical vacuum cleaner for sucking greenhouse gases out of the air.
Air capture, in which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere, has been touted as a potentially promising way to tackle climate change. That's because unlike carbon capture from power plant flue gases, the technology has the potential to reduce existing CO2 levels, rather than simply slowing the rate of increase.
To demonstrate that the technology works, Christopher Jones at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta tested a CO2 absorbent based on amines - the chemicals predominantly used in power plant carbon capture trials - on gases with CO2 concentrations similar to those found in ambient air.
He found the material was able to repeatedly extract CO2 from the gas without being degraded, which will be vital if the technology is to be used economically on a wide-scale.
However, unlike the liquid amines typically used in power plant carbon capture, which consume large amounts of energy as they must be heated to very high temperatures to re-release their stored CO2, Jones' team has developed a new class of the material called hyperbranched aminosilica, in which the amine is held on a solid porous silica substrate.Solid amines release the stored CO2 when heated to just 110 degrees Celsius - much lower than the temperatures required by the water-based liquid amine solutions - reducing the amount of energy required by 75 per cent.
This also means the energy needed could be supplied by widely available sources such as waste heat from industrial plants, says Peter Eisenberger of air capture company, based in New York. The energy could also be supplied by renewable sources such as solar power, he says. The captured CO2 could then be fed to algae, which absorb the gas to produce biofuel and biochar.
Jones is working with the company to test a pilot air capture plant in Menlo Park, California, which is absorbing 2 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere each day. A commercial plant could absorb 1 million tonnes of CO2 per day, says Eisenberger.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Musical genius
The demise of Bhimsen Joshi on January 24 in Pune marked the end of an era in Hindustani classical or, more accurately, Margiya music. He was 89.
Emerging technology is not the answer to the world's social and economic problems!!!!!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
BBC cuts back World service
While the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the United Kingdom government traded blows over who was to blame for the cuts outlined at the BBC World Service recently, the global impact of the biggest single change in the broadcaster's 79- year history was only just beginning to sink in .
PLANT A TREE TODAY......
Don't make it too late......
Help EARTH, Help Yourself now.......
PLANT atleast a TREE....!!!!
Make it GREEN & CLEAN.....
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Electoral Aspirations
The way the protests spread from village to city, region to region, from one country to another, and eventually became an overall Pan-Arab uprising bears all the hallmarks of the Information Age and certain kinds of postmodern politics.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Latest Additions
Death Race 2 (2010) ,The Tourist (2010),The Mechanic (2011)
Seasons Added-
Friends Complete seasons Uncut
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Upcoming Movies
Director :Sanjay Goel
Movie :Run Bhola Run
Cast :Govinda Tusshar Kapoor Tanushree Dutta Amisha Patel Celina Jaitley
Music :Pritam Chakraborty
Director :Neeraj Vora
Movie :Tanu Weds Manu
Cast :R. Madhavan Kangna Ranaut Jimmy Shergill Ravi Kishan Ejaaz Khan Rajendra Gupta K. K. Raina
Music :Krashana
Director :Anand Rai
Movie :Game
Cast :Abhishek Bachchan Sarah Jane Dias Boman Irani Jimmy Shergill Gul Panag Soniya Jehan Shahana Goswami Kangna Ranaut Sikander Kher Anupam Kher Gauhar Khan
Music :Shankar Mahadevan Ehsaan Noorani Loy Mendonsa
Director :Abhinay Deo
Latest
Cricket-
Newly Added Iron Man 2, Harry Porter, 127 Hours , Megamind, The Karate Kid
Songs Mohammad Rafi Special,Yeh saali Zindagi
E-Books Also Added !!!!
World Cup Fever!!!!!
Ready for a roller coaster ride......yeesss it starts today......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am super excited what about you???
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
World Cup 2011
2. India 2. AB de Villiers (South Africa)
- 3. Sri Lanka 3. Virat Kohli (India)
- 4. South Africa 4. Michael Hussey (Australia)
- 5. England 5 . MS Dhoni (India)
- 6. Pakistan 6. Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka)
- 7. New Zealand 7 . Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
- 8. Bangladesh 8. Jacques Kallis (South Africa)
- 9. West Indies
- 11. Zimbabwe
- 12. Netherlands
- 13. Kenya
- 14. Canada
We won't be under pressure against India: Shakib....
"Our bowlers are in good form, the batsmen have been doing their job and our fielding has improved a lot," Shakib told a crowded media conference at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium."This tournament is not only about playing India. ...Read More
GLORIOUS YEAR Of INDIAN CRICKET
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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