Showing posts with label bio-engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bio-engineering. Show all posts

Monday, March 1, 2010

Green Fuel: Animal that fails to get tamed!!!

Crop production cycles of bio fuels cumulatively fail to meet emission standards, a classic case of environmental externalities being considered. Do we have a no go on bio fuels then?! The only remedy then is solar, until we discover silicon pollution; or wind, until we discover high cost of maintenance; geo-thermal, until we discover fissure safety depletion ... is there actually a remedy to the energy crisis of our times or are we doomed inevitably??!!!



References:

Biofuels could increase emissions

Biofuel is not as green as it seems




Thursday, July 9, 2009

Run to the hills ...

Millions being spent on a 70 year old extinction in a region that has ecologically moved on and learnt to live without the cheetah in its circle of life. Has the Indian government not got any other area to spend the tax payers' money on? Human healthcare, energy crisis, newer sources of energy and global warming and related sea level rise are far more important concerns than 70 year old extinctions being revived!!!




References:

Cheetah may be imported

Centre keen on captive breeding of cheetahs

Cheetahs to return to India's grasslands under multimillion-pound plan







Monday, June 22, 2009

The Day of the Triffids!!!

When we are the ones not caring for them, they will have to take matters into their own hands; then the day would not be far when the plants would rule this planet!!!




References:

Boffins say plants can talk

Plants' airborne internet warns of danger

Plants 'talk' to warn each other of threats

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Nothing is impossible ... then some things are!!!

Sure as I know anything, I know this: In a year or maybe ten, perhaps even on this very ground, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people better; and I don't hold to that.
- Captain Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity, 2005

Making things better after they have become worse is an innate desire of man, a remnant of discharging the white man's burden or Freudian guilt mechanism? Whatever that may be, but for sure this never has worked, neither in science fiction nor in real life. Lets just try not to spoil and if we do spoil, kindly leave the unspoiling to nature.




References:

Antarctic ocean test fails to get desired results

`Seeding the oceans with iron might not help to suck up carbon ...

Geo-engineering Who ate all the algae?