Instead of burying it or hoping our oceans will absorb it, why don’t we just grab all that carbon dioxide out of the air?
A group of researchers think that a CO2 removal unit the size of an ocean shipping container could extract a thousand tons of the gas per year with operating costs of approximately $100 per ton. Will we soon see one of these at every street corner, the way trash cans are now?
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The new Mars rover was named Curiosity because it hopes to answer one of the greatest questions of modern man: Are we really Martians?
A few billion years ago, Mars may have been a planet covered with oceans. We’re not sure what happened (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), but we do know that the liquid has mostly burned away. Curiosity will probe the soil that they left behind in order to look for tiny fossils.
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Athletes: Forget the Human Growth Hormone–go BANANAS. In the past, we’ve told you that chocolate milk is a better energy builder for athletes than the sports drinks they imbibe. But now we’ve learned that they need to FRUIT UP!
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When it comes to waging war on Afghanistan, we might as well turn around and go home. The British occupied that country from 1839 to 1842, and ended up going home with their tails between their legs, and it looks like we will too.
In the August 16th issue of the New York Review of Books, Rory Stewart writes: "The British ‘Army of the Indus’ swaggered into Kabul from India in 1839 (with) the general’s personal baggage loaded onto 260 camels." Besides soldiers in scarlet cloaks, he brought along a pack of hounds, in case he wanted to hunt foxes. The Afghans "were soon watching ice skating and giving advice to British women on their geraniums."
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