So humans can invent a fleet of autonomous solar-powered, sea-swarm robots made “with ultra-light nanowire mesh that can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil” and use these to clean up an oil spill in 30 days but we can’t figure out a way to actually use solar power to meet our energy …
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Jul 11
World to End: Now What?
pic nicked from here Gregory Ryskin, professor of Chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University, believes that BP’s oil spill might have started a world killing extinction event. His notion seems simple: huge methane bubbles released from the Gulf of Mexico started two mass extinctions: One 251 years ago and the other 55 million years ago. He …





