Yes, you too can learn to operate the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, because they just published the 1,589-page technical detail document. Via Hackaday. More: First particles injected into Large Hadron Collider atom smasher Better safe…
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Conoco to Sell Rest of Gas Stations
ConocoPhillips is expected to sell the rest of its roughly 600 company-owned gas stations for about $800 million. The sale is part of oil companies' efforts to flee low-margin U.S. retail-gasoline sales and focus on finding new supplies of crude oil.…
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Camel milk cooler
Ingenious evaporative cooler built to cool camel's milk in Somalia. I love the use of corrugated galvanized iron sheets and sisal sack fabric to create the airflow and cooling system. The upper ends of the fabric overhang in a water trough that rings…
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Facebook Applications that Do Green Good: SunChips Re-Green Greensburg Widget
Have you seen the Planet Green program Greensburg? The program follows the town of Greensburg, Kansas as they rebuild, in a very green way, after a tornado in May 2007 ripped through the town and devastated it. Nearly the entire community was destroyed. Sunchips is helping the town of Greensburg to rebuild. …
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Travel Green - The Kimptons Hotel Palomar
Not only is the new Kimpton hotel in Los Angeles exceptionally stylish, but it's also very eco-chic from the in-room recycling to the locally and organic sourced ingredients at the restaurant. Immediately upon arriving, I was greeted by lovely hotel staff serving complimentary local organic wines at the Kimpton's standard happy hour in the very comfortable lobby. …
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Cut greenhouse gases to save coral reefs: scientists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To keep coral reefs from being eaten away by increasingly acidic oceans, humans need to limit the amount of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a panel of marine scientists said on Wednesday.…
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Indian oil producer bids for British rival
The acquisition of Imperial Energy by ONGC is the second Indian takeover of a British company in as many days, and reflects a phenomenon sometimes referred to as "the Empire strikes back."…
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Oil tops $119 a barrel on worry about Gustav; stocks rise
Oil prices rose to above $117 a barrel Wednesday on concerns that Tropical Storm Gustav may disrupt operations in the Gulf of ...…
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