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The month of June marks World Environment Day and World Ocean Day, two environmentally conscious days whose main purpose is to spread awareness of environmental issues taking place in today’s world. However, a black cloud hangs over this year’s events as 42,000 gallons of oil a day[i] gushes into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deep Horizon oilrig exploded and sank on April 20, 2010. This oil spill is one of, if not the biggest natural disaster that America has had to deal with and it shows that the time is now to invest, innovate, and utilize specific renewable energy technologies that can reduce our dependency on oil consumption and preserve our environment.

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Now Malcolm McCulloch, an electrical engineer at Oxford who works on green technologies, is leading a three-year project to develop more robust appliances that can be used in places without electricity. He is working into the Einstein Szilard refrigerator.

His team has completed a prototype of a type of Einstein fridge patented in 1930 by Einstein and his colleague, the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard. It had no moving parts and used only pressurized gases to keep things cold. The design was partly used in the first domestic refrigerators, but the technology was abandoned when more efficient compressors became popular in the 1950s. That meant a switch to using freons.

Renewable Energy Solutions
There is a plenitude of renewable energy solutions currently marketable for house-holders and businesses. With new technologies on the increase being advanced and developed at a rapid pace. These renewable energy solutions include wind (small and large scale) and solar, the fastest growing amongst them, along with hydro and general biomass conversion methods. As an alternative to the planet’s natural energy supply, i.e. gas and electricity, renewable energy solutions are the leading edge in energy preservation and the road ahead is surely paved green. With climate change, the popularity to source ways of securing renewable energy solutions has deepened, and interest rightly turned its gaze to other natural energy providers, like the sun and great winds off the Atlantic coastline to be harvested.

Renewable energy products

The light bulb of invention and creation, in my view, never did shine more brightly than in the 21st century, with the advent of renewable energy products. Everything from the first solar-powered flashlights – we all laughed at, to radio/ battery chargers in all from your mp3 player to your RV, tells us that renewable energy products are here to stay. You can purchase cheap solar panels for your roof; recharge the batteries in your car and your favourite weekend cruiser, knowing you are helping contribute to our planet by using renewable energy products.

With Thanksgiving right around the corner and Christmas closing quickly behind it the need for greeting cards will begin to increase. It will be the season for sending greeting cards to family members and friends alike.

While I have never been one to send many greeting cards my wife is an avid greeting card enthusiast. She enjoys picking them out and finding just the right card to send. This has become almost a past time of hers which led me to do a search for a printing company that was environmentally friendly.

For those of you interested in immediate real time election results you should take a look at some of these sites:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

http://fivethirtyeight.com
http://realclearpolitics.com

With many key senate seats up for grabs and the obvious presidential election it could be a real change in administration depending on the voting turnout.

Weather.com is reporting rain in many of the eastern states. This should be good news for the GOP as historically those who are lower income tend not to vote in bad weather.

Einstein, possibly one of the greatest minds of all time, sat down and decided to create a home refrigeration unit. Not many people know this fact but it is true. From the years of 1926 till 1933 Einstein and one of his former students Leo Szilard worked on a refrigeration unit. They finally finished it in 1933 and decided to get their patent for it.

Here is what the patent schematic for the Einstein Szilard refrigerator looked like:

einstein refrigerator

The Senate Bailout Bill is scheduled to be vote upon tonight at 7:30.  The bill that is supposed to help end the economic crisis in the united states or at least appease it slightly is believed to get widespread support throughout the senate.  Especially after the recent wall street crash of a record 700 plus points upon the news that it had failed to be passed in the house of representatives.

Here is a PDF of the senate bailout bill amendment if you have some spare reading time.  If you really aren’t interested in spending time on a 110 PDF here are the short points that are most relevant:

With one of the world’s top ten largest economies, California is viturally a nation unto itself.  With that power in mind, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new bill designed in theory to have a direct impact on fighting global warming.  Aiming to bring California’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and greater reductions beyond, the bill should truly have an impact on the local west coast environment.  However, global warming is a global problem.  Whether or not measures taken by a single nation (or state, in this case) can have any impact whatsoever on the global issue of climate change is highly debatable.  Nevertheless, it is a bold move by the Republican Governor, and hopefully  others will follow.

While much maligned for trying to curb protections for endangered species, today the Bush Administration proposed increasing protections polar bears as a “threatened species.”  I would like to see more of this from the Bush team, and I applaud this step. Though a final decision is a year off, the change in listing would require that any new federally authorized projects in the Arctic would not affect polar bears or the sea ice they depend on.  More significantly, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne cited global warming one of the biggest threats to the bears, marking one of the more outspoken instances by the administration of using such language.