When corn is used to make ethanol, the question becomes: food or fuel? Even though the type of corn used to make biofuel is not the kind people eat, its use can raise food prices here in the US. Keep reading to learn why.
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Anne’s interpretation – In our latest Insight, an Unknowncountry.com reader shares the story of a remarkable alien encounter with us. Anne Strieber, who has read over half a million letters from experiencers, has interpreted this meeting. First read the Insight, then keep reading this story to see her interpretation of this reader?s experience. If you?d like Anne to interpret YOUR experience, join us every Wednesday for our regular chats?just for subscribers?and you can talk to her IN PERSON in Nashville
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We’ve written about fuel from corn and fuel from garbage, but?fuel from ice?
In the future, natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. These are called “gas hydrates,” a frozen form of natural gas that bursts into flames at the touch of a match, and they show increasing promise as an abundant, untapped source of clean, sustainable energy, which does not release greenhouse gases.
In a landmark study, the USGS scientists estimated that 85.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could potentially be extracted from gas hydrates in Alaska?s North Slope region, enough to heat more than 100 million average homes for more than a decade.
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This object was found on the Mono Lake webcam Monday morning. Keep reading for notes from one of our volunteer photo analysts, Dan Drasin. Dan has been a videographer, documentary film maker and photographer for 35 years.
His comments:
It’s not the kind of “orb” that shows up in a lot of digitalphotos (those are two-dimensional and therefore not really “orbs”at all–I hate the name, but alas, it’s stuck). But IF this one isn’t faked it certainly seems to be a real orb (sphere).
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