• Science

    Better Than Switchgrass

    By Posted on 8.15.2008 13 Comments

    Move over, switchgrass. There's a new miracle crop on the horizon. Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign indicates that a perennial grass named Miscanthus x giganteus can produce about two and a half times more ethanol per acre than either corn or switchgrass.

    8.16.2008 at 05:35pm - Comment by Shome

    There forgetting the study that plants dying produce carbon monoxide and using any plant as source of fuel will have a greater impact on global warming... Its all propaganda!

  • Technology

    How It Works: The Best View From Space Yet

    By Posted on 3.13.2008 3 Comments

    When the GeoEye-1 surveillance satellite comes online this spring, its advanced optics will produce more-detailed images than any commercial satellite, capturing objects as small as home plate on a baseball diamond and filling in the fuzzy spots on Google Earth.

    4.10.2008 at 06:44pm - Comment by Shome

    Funny how they always tone down the definition on these things. I remember seeing pictures from 20+ years ago taken from a spy satalite I think it was Pop Sci that ran the article... starts out a veiw from space> N & S America> N America> W USA> W Coast> California> California Coast> Popular beach (seeing lots of people now> Closer in clearly seeing 50+ poeple (very busy day at the beach> zoom in to 50ft area seeing just a few people> Zoom to 1 man lying on a lawnchair> zooms to his right arm> Final zoom to his digital wrist watch and reads the time! Whole thing was 15-20 pics on 2-3 pages... Interesting all of the photo's from todays satalites get blurry at about 1,000 feet



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