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profound truth.
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| SAN FRANCISCO, -- The U.S. government does not require food importers to submit the results of private lab tests if those results indicate food is contaminated. One facility in San Francisco that tests about 150 imported food shipments each month finds at least 10 percent of the food contains things like mercury and salmonella, making it unfit for
human consumption, USA Today reported Monday. The newspaper says generally Anresco Labs tells no one about food that fails except for the importer who pays for the test.
Currently there is no regulation requiring labs to send all test results to the Food and Drug Administration though the FDA automatically rejects food that fails lab tests. The danger is that an unscrupulous importer who gets bad results from one lab could hire another lab to test the food and pass it, the newspaper reports. Anresco Chairman David Eisenberg says the FDA's failure to require labs to submit all test results forces them to protect importers more than the public. |
Hells Angels cannot be banned
12-12-2007 The Hells Angels in Harlingen are not a criminal
organization and therefore cannot be banned, an appeal court in Leeuwarden ruled on Wednesday.
The public prosecution department has been trying for some time to get the Hells Angels banned in the Netherlands.
Earlier cases brought against them in courts in Leeuwarden, Amsterdam and Maastricht concluded that there was insufficient evidence to label the motorcycle club a criminal
organization.
© DutchNews.nl. |
Hillary
Clinton lest we forget
Missing files from Vince Fosters office
Chinagate
Madison guarantee
Juanita Broderick
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Sea power may finally be on the horizon.
Pacific Gas & Electric, the large Northern California utility, has signed a power purchase agreement with Finavera Renewables for 2 megawatts of electricity that will come from a wave farm, which Finavera will build 2.5 miles off the coast near California's Humboldt County.
Ideally, the wave farm will start producing power in 2012. It will offset 245 tons of carbon dioxide annually, and if it succeeds, Finavera will expand the wave farm to 100 megawatts.
"With PG&E behind us, we will be able to go to a bank, if we can show there is no technology risk, to get financing," said Jason Bak, Finavera's CEO, in an interview. The exact location of the wave farm will be determined by the location of onshore power lines and electrical stations.
Finavera makes a device called the Aquabuoy, a buoy connected to a long underwater piston. As the buoy bobs up and down on the waves, it pushes the piston, which pressurizes a chamber filled with seawater. The pressure cranks a turbine and electricity is made.
A full-scale buoy from Finavera will be capable of generating 250 kilowatts, enough for 80 homes. The 2-megawatt field will consist of eight devices. A 100-megawatt array of them could be squeezed into a few square miles on the sea.
Several companies and university laboratories are experimenting with ways to harness tides and waves to produce power. Some small-wave and tidal-power devices exist, but mostly it's an industry in the experimental phase. Unlike wind or sunlight, waves and tides are fairly predictable, a major plus for utilities looking for stable green sources of power.
Sea water is also more than 800 times denser than air at sea level, which means wave farms or tidal turbines can produce quite a bit of power with only a little equipment and real estate.
Ten years from now, the U.S. could produce 10 gigawatts of wave power and 3 gigawatts of tidal power, said Roger Bedard, ocean energy program leader for the Electric Power Research Institute and an admitted optimist on the subject. That's enough for 4.3 million homes (assuming 3 kilowatts a home).
Challenges and costs Bedard further estimated that there is a potential 2,100 terawatt-hours worth of wave energy off the shores of the U.S. and 250 terawatt-hours of it could be harvested economically. That's about 6 percent of U.S. electrical demand.
The catch? Neptune doesn't play ball. A prototype Finavera put in the ocean off the coast of Oregon sank at the conclusion of a recent test. The company was trying to pull the buoy out of the sea when it began taking on water and sank. Finavera will try to recover it in January and determine what went wrong. A valve may have accidentally opened, said Bak.
"The main thing we learned is 'make sure you have a lot of air bags handy,'" he said. "With more air bags, the boat could have towed it to shore."
Verdant Power, which put six tidal turbines in New York's East River earlier this year, found that the strong currents have been shearing the tips of the rotor blades and bending some of the bolts that hold on the blades.
On the bright side, these are likely conquerable problems. The Aquabuoy actually performed well on tests prior to the mishap, Bak said.
Building this equipment, inserting it into place, and then connecting wave and tidal systems to the grid with underwater cables also costs quite a bit. Finavera's long-term goal is to have the Aquabuoys produce power at 5 to 8 cents per kilowatt hour. That's more expensive than coal (3 cents) or natural gas (4 to 5 cents) but less than offshore wind turbines (15 cents) or solar (18 or more cents, depending on the circumstances.)
"We want to be cheaper than offshore wind," he said.
Environmental concerns are also a major issue. Most wave technology can't be seen from shore, but it can get hooked into boat engines and, possibly, disturb marine life. Over the next three years, Finavera will be in contact with groups and organizations that have an interest in the coastline, including crabbers, surfers, and residents, Bak said.
From cnet. |
Muenster, Germany - An estimated 600 members of two rival German motorcycle gangs converged on a peaceful city Monday for a murder trial and tried to settle scores on the street.
Two members, 48 and 36, of one gang, the Bandidos, are accused in court in Muenster of shooting dead a bike shop owner, 47, affiliated to the other gang, the Hell's Angels, in May this year.
Riot police intervened to stop a brawl at nightfall involving about 40 bikers on the edge of town after a Hell's Angel rammed his mini-bus into a Bandido on the street, police said.
Police had monitored the opposing groups all day for fear they would settle the feud with violence. The combative gangs are believed to oversee drugs and gun rackets.
Neither gang is willing to assist the justice system they hate by testifying at the trial.
The rivals were obliged to sit in different sections of the public gallery and were scolded by the judge for talking during the half-hour first hearing. A court official said there was no violence.
So far 19 widely spaced hearing days have been set down for the murder trial with a verdict expected next April.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur |
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* Because it relies on the earth, not on outdoor air, as the heating or cooling source, it is substantially cheaper to run than a conventional heating and air conditioning system. For example, based on results to date, the Depart- ment of Energy (DOE) estimates a savings of as much as
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* Ground source heat pumps are superior to conventional heating and cooling systems because, with ground source units, air needs to be moved on only one side of the unit. On the other side, it moves water--and it takes less electricity to move 2.5 gpm/ton of water (or anti freeze, in northern climates) than it would take to move the 900 CFM/ton of air required in air source heat pumps across the outdoor unit.
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Sheriff Scott responds to 'no helmet' editorial Liberal media ... conservative view on helmets?
Originally posted on December 12, 2007 ALSO FROM NEWS-PRESS.COM Forum: What do you think of Sheriff Scott's response?
Sheriff, put on a helmet
“Hats off” (pun intended) to all the organizers and participants in last Sunday’s Christmas Motorcycle Run.
This, the 27th annual event sponsored by ABATE and Bruce L. Scheiner, is a wonderful community outreach to those far less fortunate. I had the pleasure and honor of being involved; however, a few concerns arose for me during and since our charity ride.
As our procession traveled east on Colonial Boulevard and approached the I-75 overpass, I noticed a man with a camera hanging over the railing, presumably to photograph the event.
This fellow had exited his vehicle on the busy, high speed Interstate and extended himself over the railing to get a cameo shot. In my estimation, this was a very dangerous position and one that likely borders on a breach of the law.
Fortunately, the photographer escaped injury and secured that cameo shot, which appeared on the front page of The News-Press the following day. I wonder if that photographer works for The News-Press?
This morning, I was enjoying a fudge stripe cookie and a glass of orange juice while perusing The News-Press online. Imagine the comfort I took reading their editorial castigating me for not wearing a helmet during the motorcycle toy run.
The implication that I had set a terrible example in terms of safety caused me to wonder why they chose to allow that front page, color status in their paper.
After all, the newspaper would not want to continue such a bad example…or would they?
Could it be that they reviewed all the photos taken that day and elected to print one that might generate controversy?
As an avid boater, I am putting the News-Press on notice that I will likely participate in a Christmas Boat Parade or two.
I am letting them know ahead of time that I will choose not to wear a life jacket.
I am doing this in the best interest of their photographer in case he appears on one of our local bridges to capture the event as he did last Sunday.
In that he did not wear a helmet that day despite a possible fall onto Colonial Boulevard, our newspaper might want to fit him with a personal flotation device if he indeed takes pictures of the boat parade.
One last suggestion for the safety-minded News-Press. You might want to reconsider the usual coverage you provide the Marion County Motorcycle Drill Team each year following the Edison Festival Parade.
Standing on a motorcycle and driving down a street lined with people does not portray the image you are apparently so concerned with.
— Mike Scott is the sheriff of Lee County. (Florida)
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