April 25th, 2009

US President Barack Obama has declared “a new era of energy exploration in America”  and pitched his energy plan as a win-win for the economy and the environment.

He made the declaration when visiting Newton, a city with population 16,000 on Wednesday to mark Earth Day. He said the choice that the United States is facing is not between saving the country’s environment and economy, but between prosperity and decline.

“We can remain the world’s leading importer of oil, or we can become the world’s leading exporter of clean energy,” Mr Obama said in his 35-minute speech. During the speech, he also laid out his vision for an energy-efficient future.

He renewed his call for Congress to close the “carbon loophole” by adopting a cap-and-trade system for reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide.

Besides, he promoted wind and other renewable forms of power, saying that for the first time the Interior Department would begin leasing federal waters for offshore production of electricity from the movement of wind, waves and tides.

According to the American Wind Energy Association, the United States market for wind power is growing rapidly, and nearly doubled in 2008. The American wind power industry directly employs about 85,000 people today, which is a 70% increase from a year ago, the group reported. But the economic downturn has slowed demand.

Alternative sources of energy currently account for less than 3% of the energy consumed in the United States, but Mr Obama said that by 2030, that figure for wind power alone could jump to 20%.

My opinion in Earth Day this time: First, I see beautiful world, Green earth, there is love and affection towards life place earth goes on. But when human wants technology all turn into hot and black. Earth Day is seen dimly because technology development very fast,  but we need technology, we also must let earth be green with beautiful environment without pollution, All must alive in this period, we have to keep the earth green for our generations. Steel Life…

Thank’s Ben.

Via: LikeCool.

Gun digital camera designed by Franziska Dierschke, that takes pictures imitating a PINHOLE camera. Clearly the priority of the camera is to be fast and fun rather and don’t worry about  images quality.

Via: Like Cool,  Noquedanblogs.

A new robotic lawn mower is now available with several advantages as it  charges and operates itself without supervision,  offers low noise level and no requirement of labour, which makes it perfectly suited for use in quiet environments such as hospitals, hotels and leisure facilities, and office locations.

Automower 260 ACX, the name of the new robotic lawn mower, will  send a text message to your mobile phone should anything disturb the operation. Besides, it cuts the grass, fertilizes the lawn with the cut offs from the grass and is also able to keep away moles, slugs and other lawn predators.

With no harmful exhaust emissions and low energy consumption, the mower is gentle on the environment, and moreover day or night, rain or shine, it simply gets on with the mowing, leaving you free to get on with managing your business.

Source: Automower.