I LOVE this! The Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting is proposing a $300 million government prize to whomever can develop an automobile battery that far surpasses existing technology. The bounty would equate to $1 for every man, woman and child in the country, “a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil [...]
Tags: 300 million, battery, dependence, electric, mccain, opec, republican
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October 27th, 2007 | 2 Comments
I have written a few times about Westboro Church. They are disgusting and abusing religion in the worst possible way. Well, one father of a slain soldier has had enough. Albert Snyder, father of Matthew Snyder, is suing Westboro for disrupting his son’s funeral. I am 100% in support of Albert’s lawsuit. However, he’s an [...]
Tags: albert-snyder, battery, freedom-of-speech, matthew-snyder, Opinions, People, westboro
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October 19th, 2006 | 2 Comments
Livescience ran a fairly brief article on the 10 Most Polluted Places in the World. Without further ado, here they are in alphabetical order by country: Linfen, China, where residents say they literally choke on coal dust in the evenings, exemplifies many Chinese cities; Haina, Dominican Republic, has severe lead contamination because of lead battery [...]
Tags: Asia, battery, child, china, Chinese, cities, city, coal, experience, global, greenpeace, housing, leather, mine, mines, mining, nuclear, owned, russia, time, war, warming
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