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The world’s very first floating fullscale offshore wind turbine has officially been inaugurated in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. The turbine even has a name: Hywind. It measures 213 feet tall and weighs 5,300 tonnes, and it rests on a floating stand which is filled with water and rocks to provide balast. [...]
An Idaho man was cited for shooting and killing a female wolf pup while standing behind his pickup truck on a public road. According to local reports, Idaho Fish and Game wardens have cited a man for shooting a wolf in Idaho’s McCall-Weiser area, which is not an open hunting zone until October 1, 2009. [...]
Last week, the Internet celebrated its 40th birthday! Forty glorious years that saw not just the transition from ARPANet to the now popular Internet but also Web 2.0 and what not! The Internet has been a revolution–in the making! The Internet that we know of today has been around for a little over a decade. [...]
The small Australian town of Bundanoon is credited with having started the resistance to bottled water, that has now through an initiative by Thames Water, reached as far as Buckingham Palace. What’s Driving This? Ever since it became clear that the energy input to bottled water could be visualised as a bottle a quarter full [...]
