"The growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening to become the worst US environmental disaster in decades. According to the US government, more than six million litres of oil have poured into the sea since April 20 when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and then sank."
This Timelapse was taken by the The director of photography in Washington D.C. during the past snow storm that closed down the gov't for a good three days last week.
OK, normally I wouldn't comment on someone elses blog post (at least here on Orble), thats what the comments are for. However the sheer stupidity of this one post makes me really want to comment on it, simply to show how narrow minded some people can be.
My response (also in the comments on said blog post) is as follows
Please understand when I say 'liquid' I mean *any* liquid. Absoloutely any kind of liquid that isn't going to corrode the metallic casing of this battery is going to charge it. The battery comes in AA and AAA variants and is sold in Japan, it can be recharged for up to 500 mAh. To put that in perspective a regular alkaline battery has about 1700 mAh in it.
These May Find Themselves in a Museum Some Day...
Well it's a start, thats for sure, but what does the future hold? Well Samsung claims to have "developed a micro-fuel cell and hydrogen generator that runs on H20.". Now thats big news, and Samsung plans to put its money where it's mouth is when it releases mobile phones that use this technology. Awesome.
The dolphin is known as the Chinese White Dolphin, they are black at birth, turn grey, then greyish pink, then white. They are also dangerously close to extinction. What about that eh? Multicoloured dolphins going extinct before most people even know anything about them.
It disgusts me the way something revolving around charity has been commercialized to the point you have to throw some big concert to get any attention for whatever cause. Though in a way, I'm glad it's like that, you gotta spend money to make money, and not money to use to help the starving children in Sudan either.
Come on people, you see them on TV, every so often they have western names like 'Jackson' or 'Michael', don't forget the kids speak a sort of broken english. Right, born into poverty in the middle of no where, no previous education and suddenly you learn english. How much do teachers cost up there? Can we have them imported down here? Don't give me the 'volunteers' crap either, I'm sorry but plane tickets aren't free, nor is feeding and sheltering them over an extended period of time as they teach english to people whose language they can't even speak
If it were a non-issue, if it weren't the cause of man, would we be able to sit back and relax? Well no, because us pot smoking hippy's will point our fingers at the great barrier reef, at the Amazon rainforest, at the increasingly larger number of endangered animals.
Of course we'd be shunned by the right wingers, who'll dismiss our claims as an empty sham, a political agenda to bring back Nazism or kill three billion people (somehow). They'll say we did not follow the peer review or 'proper science' (which ironically we did), then they'll go back to their homes and teach their kids how the T-Rex ate coconuts and 'Jesus is coming - look busy