Egyptians had worshipped the sun for several millennia. In Ancient Egypt, Ra was worshipped as the God of the Sun. Now Egyptians are starting to harness the sun’s energy. According to the International Energy Outlook 2009 (available at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/world.html) world energy consumption is going to increase by 44% until 2030. Even if Peak Oil were [...]
New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg is envisioning a gigantic wind park off the shore of Long Island. At this point, a group of utilities and developers is making plans for a 350-megawatt wind farm comprising of more than 100 wind turbines. The cost for construction is estimated to be at around $ 1 billion.
The power generating [...]
Today is the final day of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. And all the negotiators, politicians and diplomats involved once more proved the inability of the political world to find solutions before it’s actually too late.
This morning U.S. President Obama arrived in Copenhagen and urged all sides to set aside foolish claims and preconditions to [...]
Right now the United Nations Climate Change Change Conference 2009 is taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. World leaders, scientists, business leaders, environmentalists, journalists and all sorts of special interest groups have gathered in the Danish capital to discuss climate change, work out a follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol and draft a masterplan to make billions [...]
Today is the 68th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacked all major military and navy bases on the island of Oahu. In the early morning, the first wave of bombers arrived from the north and it was mistakenly not recognized as the spearhead of a massive attack, [...]
Since the start of the millennium, globalization and the Internet revolution have worked hand-in-hand to fundamentally change the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Globalization as we know it today would not have been possible without the Internet. As New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman described in his bestselling book “The [...]
