Almost every day it is i lose myself because its easier. Sometimes i cry and sometimes i laugh. If this is how i make it threw whats so wrong with that?

Wants to know why this isnt making international mainstream news.

Why arent we breaking out onto the streets protesting over this? It makes me so sad that I have to beg and scream at people just to get them to hear me let alone exhaust myself completely trying to mobilize people.


With Each Passing Month the Situation Gets More Desperate: Climate Change Sinks Carteret Islanders
Though it may be a number of years before your life is personally impacted by climate change, for people in low-lying island nations rising sea levels is already a fact of life. One such place is the Carteret Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea. TreeHugger recently interviewed documentary filmmaker Jennifer Redfearn about her work-in-progress Sun Come Up, which chronicles the efforts of these people to uproot their lives and find new home.

STATISICLY SPEAKING the best idea i have ever had we will start with cans

I need to be in a place where i just cant stop living no matter what

Before I crack

I want just one person who I can connect with on some higher level. Who gets me like you did that day and who I get like I did that day. But not just for one drunken night and the day after but for good. Until we both fall apart for whatever reason.

You know I dont get you. So much for your evolved status you go chasin after some girl who doesnt get you who's a bunch of things you don't even like. What is it about her you like? She's not complicated, shes beautiful, shes the easy choice, she doesn't make you explore things you don't want to explore about yourself. I'm complicated, not so physically perfect, much more difficult, and I will force you to explore things you previously refused to explore very much if at all. So I guess I get it but then your not as evolved as we all thought.

Now I just wait, alone hoping you will figure it out before I crack.

I'm still loaded with anger towards you

I got your card daddy dearest and It reminded me of how much I still hate you. They say holding on to anger is bad for you well guess what I don't give a fuck. To this day you go on fucking up my life and to this day your fucking greed hurts my mother. It was dark and raining and I read your card by the glow of my cellphone then I lit it on fire unforutnatley the rain fucked that up so i stomped on it smashing it with my foot into the dirty wet cement. Fuck you and your silly fake sentiments, I promise I will do my best to never associate with you for the rest of my fucking life. Hopefully I won't dissapoint myself. I tried to forgive you way too many times. You fucked me over too much and I will never open myself up to that again.

Thanks for the check but after what you done it will take more than 50 dollars to buy me off you could have at least shot for 3 digits.

a drop of dew on a blade of grasses hope

I want to feel your kiss again. It's like nothing I've ever experienced before. I don't even know how to explain it. I feel like it's only something you can deliver to me. I haven't felt this way about someone in more than two years and my heart is all jumpy, and my stomach all twisty. Experiencing you once was all it took. It's like a realization people can feel like I do. People can understand me, and maybe I have to stop searching for these epic experiences and just live it up allowing them to come to me. Don't lock yourself up but if you never stop to think and experience you just might lock yourself out.

I get what happens next, emotions will fly and shit will hit the fan. We may or may not collide and if and when we do we might mesh or brake apart. Either way it will hurt, I will cry, you will live. My heart may fall because thats how I was born to roll but it will be worth it. Because living on a drop of dew on a blade of grasses hope is better than no hope at all. It will keep me breathing and feed my desire to live. Now I wait and see how strong I can be.

And when the music stops what will be next. I shed a tear of anger happiness and sadness for all the emotions cant show what will be then

She may be pretty got more money than me but she dont write poems about you.

props to macy gray

Sych hopes such dreams always being let down crack my heart open because its how i live so now come on feel the noise ill surrender to your incandrescent drowneing

I feel like this right here should have been what college was like but it wasnt but maybe idk

The new world order: scarfs

"DONT LAUGH WHEN IM BEING PROFOUND"

People dont feel it like i do. Absorb urself in it pass it around to spread the love. We can make happiness together and change the world for the better. Its a base for us to build ourselves and our community upon. A community taught to embrace peace love and kindness what could be bad about that?

The eco-battery of the future?

A new battery made of salt and paper could prove to be an environmentally benign replacement for lithium batteries in things like smart cards, RFID tags, and other low power portable devices. Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden are testing out a prototype, and while it has a few down sides compared to lithium, it certainly has upsides as well.

It sounds like an elementary school science experiment gone pro. Technology Review reports that the new battery is made simply of pressed mats of tangled cellulose fibers acting as the electrodes, and a salt solution acts as the electrolyte - the simple ingredients mean cheap, easy manufacturing and the potential to replace lithium batteries in a range of small portable devices. Now that the researchers have the design down, they're working on making the paper and salt batteries more comparable to lithium in capabilities. According to Technology Review:

Lithium batteries can deliver 4 volts and have energy densities of 200 to 300 milliwatt-hours per gram. In comparison, a single paper battery cell delivers 1 volt and can store up to 25 milliwatt-hours of energy per gram. When providing maximum current, it loses 6 percent of its storage capacity after 100 recharging cycles. However, Stromme says that her team has already run the battery for 1,000 recharging cycles at lower current. She also points out that these are numbers from an initial laboratory prototype.

One thing that is fascinating about the design is not only that it could be more ecologically sound than lithium thanks to its ingredients, but that the cellulose that comprises the paper layers is made from a polluting algae found in seas and lakes. This could not only be a boon for particular water ways should the battery concept make it to manufacturing, but also the composition of the cellulose helps it to charge as much as 100 times faster than lithium. As published in Nano Letters:

"These algae has a special cellulose structure characterised by a very large surface area," says Gustav Nyström, a doctoral student in nanotechnology and the first author of the article. "By coating this structure with a thin layer of conducting polymer, we have succeeded in producing a battery that weighs almost nothing and that has set new charge-time and capacity records for polymer-cellulose-based batteries."

There's still research to do to improve its capabilities, but the scientists are hopeful we could see these thin-film batteries on the market and being used for small devices in as little as three years.
(source:www.treehugger.com)

Tottaly funny (prefferabley LED)

Googles solar research

Google's developing new solar tech that will drop the cost from 18 cents a kW-h to just under 5. At least, it's hoping to.

Just like everybody else, Google's disappointed by the industry's lack of innovation so they've decided just to do it themselves. At least that's what Google's Bill Weihl said today at the Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit hosted by Reuter's right here in San Francisco.

Not too surprising. Google builds its own servers since commercial servers are too expensive. The company makes cheap janky ones and just lets its homegrown software handle the outages.

Google engineers have primarily been focused on solar thermal technology. Weihl hopes they can cut the cost of making heliostats by at least a factor of two, but "ideally a factor of three or four."

"We've been looking at very unusual materials for the mirrors both for the reflective surface as well as the substrate that the mirror is mounted on," said Weihl.

The search engine giant started investing in renewable energy back in 2007. Along with solar thermal tech, the company is also interested in gas turbines that could run on solar power rather than natural gas--a name change might be in order.

Whatever the technology turns out to be, their main interest is the cost. They want to create a renewable energy that has a lower price point than coal. In doing so, they have invested about $50 million in the industry so far.

"Typically what we're seeing is $2.50 to $4 a watt (for) capital cost," Weihl said. "So a 250 megawatt installation would be $600 million to a $1 billion. It's a lot of money."

Google hopes to showcase the technology within a few months. It must first sustain accelerated testing to show its resistance to decades of harsh desert conditions.
(source:www.treehugger.com)

Stop idling modify emergency personell vehicles

Promising news for electric cars

Less is More With Electric Motors Too
Electric motors are very efficient compared to gasoline or diesel engines, but it seems like there is still room for improvement. One promising company working on this is a spin-off from Oxford university called Yasa Motors ("Yasa" stands for "Yokeless And Segmented Armature"). Their electric motor was first developed for the Morgan LIFEcar high-performance hydrogen car, but its characteristics - 50% of the volume giving 2x the torque for the same power output - mean it could be used in other things than electric cars, including renewable energy generation and aerospace (lighter airplanes use less fuel...). Even electric bikes could benefit! More details below.


Scaling Up
Yasa motors has just got £1.45 million ($2.42 million) from a funding round with private investor Seven Spires Investments Limited, and a grant from the UK's Technology Strategy Board. This will help them develop a mass-produced version of their lightweight-but-powerful electric motor that can have applications in many fields, including electric cars and renewable energy generation.

In a 2007 white paper (pdf), they claimed a 95% peak efficiency, but back then they were only at a 20% improvement in torque, so it's probable that peak efficiency has been improved since then.


Yasa Motors has been working for 8 months with Delta Motorsports to make an electric motor for a 4-seater that will be tested on the track at the end of this year. "The company is aiming to sell a low volume of the motors in its first year, as well as scaling up production and developing new models."
(source:www.treehugger.com)

Tick saliva the cure to some cancers?

Useful Little Blood Suckers
It goes to show that you never know where science is going to make its next discovery. Brazilian researchers were studying the repulsive (to me anyway -- maybe some of you think they're cuddly) Amblyomma cajennense tick and discovered an interesting protein in its spit. After some testing on rats with tumors, it looks like tick saliva might hold the key to cure cancers of the skin, liver and pancreas. More details below.


How Does it Work?
According to AFP, the Factor X active protein in the tick spit "shares some characteristics with a common anti-coagulant called TFPI (Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor), specifically a Kunitz-type inhibitor which also has been shown to interfere with cell growth." Since a cancer is basically a group of cells that are growing out of control, controlling this growth is very important.

So the protein was tested on cultures of cancerous cells and "exceeded all expectations." It didn't kill normal cells, just those with cancer!

The next step was testing on rats:

"If I treat every day for 14 days an animal's tumor, a small tumor, this tumor doesn't develop -- it even regresses. The tumor mass shrinks. If I treat for 42 days, you totally eliminate the tumor," the scientist said.

Don't Uncork the Champaign Yet
But of course, these results are still just phase 1. the scientists might yet hit speed bumps, or even walls, and not be able to turn this into a cancer treatment. And even if everything works fine, it could take a few years before a drug is made.

But it's very promising, and goes to show that we still have much to learn from nature and that when we destroy it, we could be losing things like... tick spit.
(source:www.treehugger.com)