Crazy Tsunami Maps From NOAA – And You Thought the Recent Chile Earthquake Was Bad…

The 2010 Chile tsunami (above) and the 1960 one (below).

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Today on Planet 100: Ozone vs. Carbon: Atmospheric Villains At Large (Video)

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EnerDel Announces Bigtime Battery Expansion for Electric Vehicles

Image: Michael Nemeth A big announcement hit the battery world last week as EnerDel revealed plans to greatly expand its American lithium-ion production. EnerDel is already something of a big wheel in the battery market. Despite the dissolution of a promising contract with Fisker , EnerDel is building battery packs for Volvo ,

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Record Highs Beating Record Lows in US by 2-to-1, Redux

image: UCAR –much bigger image here Back in November scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and other equally prestigious organizations informed us that since the 1980s record highs have been outpacing record lows .

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Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtles: 70,000 Square Miles of U.S. Pacific Coast Habitat Proposed

More than 70,000 square miles of habitat has been proposed for critically endangered leatherback turtles in U.S. waters off California, Oregon, and Washington. Endangered species protection finally advances in favor of leatherback turtles: The National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a proposal today for 70,000 square miles of critical habitat in the waters off the U.S

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WePower Holds Popular Training Class for Small Wind Turbine Dealers

In readiness for an expected flood of orders WePower has just held their first training workshop in Palm Desert to build a supply of competent and knowledgeable Authorized Dealers around the nation for their small vertical axis wind turbines. What makes the turnout all the more surprising is that I could find no information on the WePower site about the cost of these units, so it is not that easy to do a cost/benefit analysis to find the cost per kilowatthour of these units. The company will be producing up to 500,000 a year of their revolving wind turbines in four factories in California, Minnesota, Ohio and Virginia.

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