Re: Technology: Farming Fuel in Middle Eastern Salt Marshes

[Ron Krate]

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GREENWIRE Farming Fuel in Middle Eastern Salt Marshes A new biofuels project at Abu Dhabi's Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will search for a system to produce fuel from biomass and seawater NEWS Electric Icarus: NASA Designs a One-Man Stealth Plane Could the Puffin, an electric-powered flying suit, change the way we use the sky in war and peace? EARTHTALK Home Sweet Earthship: Building a Self-Sufficient Bio-House from Old Tires and Recycled Cans An Earthship is in and of the Earth--that is, constructed responsibly out of earthen materials and built into the ground. It also is autonomous from outside help, such as a power grid FEATURES 100 Percent Renewable? One Danish Island Experiments with Clean Power One small island in Denmark is technically 100 percent powered by sustainable sources of energy. Could the experiment succeed anywhere else? > Slide Show: One Danish Island Experiments with Clean Power NEWS Receive Between the Lines: FCC Mulls Signal "White Space" as Part of National Broadband Plan Unused "white spaces" between occupied radio frequencies would help more wireless users find access to the Internet, but could also create greater interference SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND From Throat to Mind: Strep Today, Anxiety Later? The case for strep throat-induced mental illness grows stronger OBSERVATIONS What's the real story with Newton and the apple? See for yourself The legend of Newton's inspiration coming from a falling apple is often dismissed as apocryphal, but the great physicist's memoirs would seem to indicate otherwise OBSERVATIONS Hexapod robot moves in the right direction by controlling chaos Researchers in Germany are creating a six-legged robot that can switch gaits depending on the obstacles it encounters > Related Video: Robot Roach Extracts Order From chaos SCIENCE TALK PODCAST Mining for Online Game Gold and Other Amazing Stories Scientific American magazine Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talks about the January issue, including articles on the chances of conditions conducive to life elsewhere in the multiverse and the practice of virtual gold farming, in which online game players in developing countries acquire currency in the game that they sell to other players for real money OBSERVATIONS Sowing their seeds: Neolithic farmers spawned most European males The technology behind agriculture seems to have spread westward via a new group of Neolithic people from the Near East. These farmers also left genetic traces that can be found in their modern male descendents

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