The big question that every environmentalist or a concerned person asks is that can we create pure or renewable energy. Well according to Cynthia Lam a young girl from Melbourne, Australia can.
In April of 2013 Cynthia started her first research her first research on Titania’s Photocatalysis and won the Major Bursary in Victoria’s Science Talent Search. Now let me explain what Titania’s photo catalysis means. See now, titanium dioxide is a very important semiconductor with a high potential of use in solar cells, photochormism, sensors & other arrears of nanotechnology. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has continued to be highly active in photo catalytic usage because it is beneficial for promoting the mixture of products, as well as for enhancing the photo catalytic activity by facilitating access to the reactive sites on the surface of photo catalyst. This advancement has shown that TiO2’stiny particles are playing an important role in the protection of the environment & in the search for renewable and clean energy technologies.
The device that Cynthia create is called H2PRO, and it is an amazing invention that works the two most discussed problems in the developing world today – limited clean drinking water & limited supply of electricity. H2Pro cleans water thorough photo catalytic reactions that breaks down the organic compound and produces hydrogen, which is then converted into electricity. The device that Cynthia made is created with two parts, an upper unit where photo catalytic water purification and hydrogen born (connected to fuel cells), and a bottom unit that is for additional water filtration of highly polluted water.
What makes the H2Pro one of a kind, is the way that for a first time such gadget does not require extra power source or unpredictable and lavish advances. Because of photo catalysis and modest materials used to make it, the instrument is made to a great degree suitable for remote regions, where water and vitality are viewed as a fortune. It is doable toward oneself, convenient and exceptionally guaranteeing innovation without bounds.
Furthermore, she explains that more the organic pollutants in water the higher rate of reactions which create more energy which ultimately leads to more energy. She says that her prototype can remove up to ninety percent of the organic pollutants in 2 hours. Of course as amazing as it is, there is still some work that needs to be done on this device in order to stabilize the energy generation process. In theory it works, but it meets a few challenges when put into work.
It’s all a case of “rich get richer, poor get poorer” in the United States of America as 18 corporate companies currently hold a whole third of the American wealth. The top 1% includes some of the biggest names in the market, like Microsoft, Google, Coca-Cola and the like.
According to Standard and Poor, a New-York based credit rater, the amount of wealth held by the 18 major firms has jumped from 27% in 2009 to a whopping 36% in 2013.“In our view, current US corporate tax policy and accommodating credit market conditions have been primarily responsible for this growing wealth gap,” the report said. The top firms hold a mind-boggling 89% of the total wealth, leaving only 11% for smaller firms.
S&P noted that most of the bigger firms earned their revenue from offshore, and that a majority of the cash flow was generated overseas. “As a result, overseas cash continues to accumulate untouched,” the report said. “It’s undoubtedly going to increase.” The report further stated that, “We believe the availability of cheap debt has been a key driver for the record cash balances for not just the top 1 percent, but for US corporates overall.” Despite taking up debts, the firms are in a much better position than they were 5 years ago.
Multinational Corporations(MNCs’) had earned more than $1.95 trillion from foreign earnings, up 11.8% from a year earlier. More and more people choose to use goods and services made by foreign brands all over the world, as brands continue to become more popular and cheaper at the same time.
This monopoly of wealth hoarding affects smaller companies and investors, as well as the Govt of the United States. As most of the major MNCs’ accumulate wealth from overseas, the US Govt faces a loss of more than $80 billion this fiscal year from a delay in bringing back corporate profits. Further, investors worry as the top 1% companies “would likely not have provided the returns that shareholders have become accustomed to in recent years,” the report said, as the cash balance would have been a lot lower after deducting returns to shareholders and the like.
Written by: Rhinostril (Cannock,UK) A major super market chain in the UK – Sainsbury’s – announced that will be powering their super markets with the otherwise disposed food waste.
How are they going to turn that overdue food into power ?
The recycling firm Biffa has collaborated with the store and they came up with an advanced anaerobic digestion(AD) system . The process of AD is a very common one , comparable to the human digestive system though slightly different.For one your stomach breaks down food and extracts sugars (aka energy) , the AD however is basically a giant silo in which food is allowed to rot. The natural process of rotting produces methane gas (and other burnable materials think about the flammable gasses that are released when one farts ) which can be ran trough a generator and thus generate electricity.
That electricity is transported directly to Sainsbury’s and all the excess energy is redirected to the national power grid .You might wonder how many electricity can be produced this way : well the generated power would be enough to power approximately 2500 homes.
But… not every overdue/unwanted food product used for generating power .
The largest portion is bought by charity organisations, or processed for agricultural purposes . Only after passing trough all these processes does the waste get turned into power .
The future of green energy seems a little brighter , good job Sainsbury’s ! ______________________________________
Transportation. In just a short amount of time those in lower income brackets and lower skilled jobs have been able to travel distances kings were unable to imagine a couple centuries ago. Today there is mass production in bicycles, cars, and today so many goods/ services are geographically close to those in the middle class. That means there’s fewer miles to travel to access goods, money is saved on gasoline, and much less likely you’ll be one of the 40,000 people killed every year on government roads. The rate at which those in lower income brackets can fly on airplanes is a great advantage most of us have that the richest of the rich could never afford a century ago without its existence.
Information, Knowledge and Communication. The internet provides the widest range of information at such a fast pace, that we spend much less time researching to get the same information we once had to walk to a library to get. This allows people to share ideas, sources to compete for accuracy while competing with big tv news channels. The iPhone and Email alone has made the bottom 99% better off by allowing us to meet more people, have more conversations with people around the world, see family members on instant video who are far away, and allow us to watch lectures online virtually for free from the best schools in the world.
Food. The caloric intake in the U.S. in not very unequal when you compare different income levels. Not to mention the food so many of the poorest in America have access to is close in price to what we see at our grocery stores. Not only does the middle class go out to eat more than ever before with such a variety of choice, but
Clothing. It is hard to tell a person’s income by what they are wearing, very often places like Goodwill, Buffalo Exchange, and Walmart rely on those in the lowest income brackets as customers. Prices are kept low because they sell their products to so many people who demand them.
Housing. You can measure the number of square feet per occupant in the average household to see how much greater our time can be spent when we can be alone in our own room, with running water next door, or even an abundance of books that allow me to teach myself on my own time. There are many benefits that having more land could give someone and allow them to be more free and give them more space to express themselves.
We can see that when private individuals voluntarily cooperate in a marketplace without the state, there is less inequality.
What government produces:
Court system. Look at how unequal the court system favors those who can get a good lawyer who may have a history with the judge. When a teacher or mail carrier gets caught with drugs, they go to jail, loose their job, miss out on raising their kids, etc. Now, if an Oscar winning actor or a female singer gets caught abusing substances, they are too often looked at like someone with a disease who needs treatment until their filmmaking comeback. Oj Simpson, Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, and Chris Brown are some of the many people who has manipulated a court system that has no incentive to compete and meet the needs of the masses.
Police and Jail. When areas have a lot of crime, Watts, CA or Atlanta, GA of Chicago, even New York City where you see the most gun laws and the most crime. If you are in a lower income bracket you have a much higher chance at being a victim of violence when officers have no incentive to spend more time in your area making it safer. That’s how city’s with drug crime and violence, stay cities of drug crime and violence. In Jail’s that the officer will take you too for whatever reason he’s deemed necessary, you may notice that whites are 64% of the population in America, and only 34% are incarcerated. While black Americans are 14% of the population, they are 36% of inmates; and Hispanics are 16% of the population, yet are 24% of the prison population. This is inequality at its height. They are more likely to find you guilty, then put you in prison away from society.
Public Education. Today the government runs close to a monopoly on the education system, funded by taxation on all citizens whether they have no children or five children attending school. School’s soon began developing reputations, or competed to offer the best education, and before long the government made boundary restrictions. In other words, your children go to the school that your house is close to, while meeting the boundary requirements in order to make sure schools have an even number of students. This keeps poor people in poor schools, and gives the teachers and administration no incentive to produce smarter children. That’s why black Americans have such a high dropout rate of high school, and have not had their parents just send them to other schools where the results are more satisfactory.
In conclusion, we can see that inequality may be undesirable, but the idea that taxing the upper class will lead to the state distribute an equitable existence is the opposite of the solution. The state works with the rich to make regulations costing small businesses $10,585 per employee annually to comply, while large companies (500+ employees) only have $7,700 to comply with [1]. There is no incentive for the government to create value for those in lower income brackets, that’s why the government can manage to spend so much money and hire so many employees without managing to help those who need it most. People can voluntarily meet demand for one another by specializing in what we do best, to produce desirable goods we can exchange on our own terms without a state coming in and taxing the equality of our lives.
Uruguay is situated between Argentina and Brazil and is home to 3.3million people. The Economist named Uruguay “country of the year” in 2013 for many reasons including it is the first country in the world to officially legalise the production and sale of marijuana.
President Jose Mujica had the common sense to see that the decriminalisation of marijuana would undermine drug cartels by depriving them of the lucrative trade in illicit substances.
This has caught the attention of Monsanto GMO drug giant and other similar companies for the simple reason marijuana could be the next major GMO crop and most certainly a money maker.
Monsanto is not the most popular of companies with recent bad press due to the domination of the food agriculture business and for being suspected of playing a role in the mass death of honeybee.
Monsanto is a publicly traded Missouri-based company, and is the leading provider of genetically altered seeds for US agriculture and was also recently named the world’s “Most Evil Corporation” by the Natural News website. Monsanto garnered 51% of the votes with second runner up, BP getting only 9% of votes.
The company plans to produce GMO “medical marijuana” with US and UK labs already using strains of genetically modified cannabis for testing and research. Demand is set to grow as the plant has been found to be beneficial to patients suffering from various conditions such as Epilepsy, Alzhiemers, Schizophrenia, Parkinsons, Cancer, Anxiety and more.
Monsanto are already ahead of the game due to their research into RNA interference.
The company is investing millions of dollars into this new technology dubbed “RNAi.” With RNAi, it is possible to manipulate everything from the colour of the plant to making the plant indigestible to insects. With medical marijuana, RNAi could be used to create larger, more potent plants effectively cornering the market and exceeding the legal demand for the plant.
Already greenhouses lined with genetically modified marijuana sit on a mountainside just an hour journey from Cali, Colombia, where farmers say the enhanced plants are more powerful and profitable.
One greenhouse owner said she can sell the modified marijuana for 100,000 pesos ($54) per kilo (2.2 pounds), which is nearly 10 times more than the price she can get for ordinary marijuana.
Uruguay is certainly taking a big step in the war against drugs but will GMO marijuana change the way we view the drug forever and what will the implications be for the recreational stoner?
In Canada, new laws already exist that will allow large-scale growers to distribute their plants via mail order. Meaning GMO marijuana may be supplied to customers sooner than you think and the answers we shall know.
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