Good Science from Europe! Has it been financed by an FP7 project? :-)

Good Science from Europe! Has it been financed by an FP7 project? :-) - World record: Scientists from northern Germany produce the lightest material in the world | e! Scien

A network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level -- this is the lightest material in the world. It weights only 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimetre, and is therefore 75 times lighter than Styrofoam, but it is very strong nevertheless. Scientists of Kiel...

The Coolest New Solar Manufacturing Technology You’ve Never Heard Of

The Coolest New Solar Manufacturing Technology You’ve Never Heard Of - Humble "process innovations" like the DOE's new Optical Cavity Furnace don't get much attention, but are in fact among the most important parts of the solution to climate challenges. [Science Progress]

I am not a nature conservation guy....

Swimming and snorkeling around Pulau Manukan I made some considerations on nature conservation.

Doch lieber Jamaika als Ampel?

EU-Abstimmung: Minister Gabriel und Schavan streiten über Genmais - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Politik

Curbing coal emissions alone might avert climate danger, say researchers

Curbing coal emissions alone might avert climate danger, say researchers | Eureka! Science News

The article shows that CO2 content in atmosphere could be limited under a dangerous threshold by only curbing emissions from coal not taking care so much on gas and oil

Craig Venter

BBC - Press Office - Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2007: Dr J Craig Venter

Craig Venter might be a "maverick scientist" and I do not agree with the attempts to patent biological organisms. Nevertheless I agree very much with the positions he takes in the Dimbleby Lecture, blaming the western societies for having lost their enthusiasm for science and for not understanding that science will be the key lever to tackle the problems of the world

The new "man on the moon project"

This is a snippet from the "World is flat" page 382

The exaggerated fear of radioactivity

The attached article from "The Spiegel" is interesting. If the facts and numbers are true (and the Spiegel should not dare to invent such stories),  then we have another good piece how the link between science and human progress has been attacked by a certain cultural tendency of the left in the last decades.

Electric Cars

Electric cars | Wingless migration | Economist.com

Both, the Spiegel and the Economist were writing about new initiatives to foster electric cars in these weeks. The more interesting one in the Spiegel, cited by the Economist was about a Shai Agassi (Ex Number 2 from SAP) project to create an infrastructure that would make a real use of electric cars possible (https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,514256,00.html).

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