A new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, led by Terry Hazen, has discovered a new oil-eating microbe in the Gulf of Mexico munching on oil from the BP (NYSE:BP) spill.
When looking into the dispersion of the oil in the Gulf, scientists studying the area made the discovery of the microbe, which have expanded exponentially in the warm waters, and the increased food source of oil.
One interesting aspect of the discovery is they found the microbe can eat the oil without shrinking the amount of oxygen in the water; something scientists had been concerned over.
You can find the study at the online journal, Scienceexpress.
BP donated about $500 million to Berkeley, a somewhat controversial act in the minds of some at the University.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Wind Farms Kill More Wildlife Than BP (NYSE:BP) Oil Spill ... Far More
The hype and media hysteria surrounding the BP (NYSE:BP) has been so out of proportion to reality, it's embarrassing to those who repeatedly made it sound like it was environmental armageddon, when in fact it was relatively mild and much of the response to the fears caused it to have more more impact than it would have if responses were based on facts and not fear driven.
Although people with agendas are attempting to resurrect the doomsday scenario, it's too late. The facts are in and the Gulf oil spill simply wasn't that bad, and if people would have heeded the reality that they could go to beaches in the Gulf and vacation there, the tourism industry wouldn't have been near as effected as it has been.
One thing to point out is the attempt to make it look like a slaughter for wildlife and birds, which after combing the region, found under 3,000, and as a recent article in Time magazine pointed out, less than half of them had proof of the oil spill being the cause of their deaths.
Now compare that with the killer windmills in the country, which are alleged to be friendly. Just one forest of windfarms in Washington state kills over 7,000 birds and 3,000 bats every year. Multiply that times the number of windfarms there are in the U.S., and you have a true disaster from these murderous, inefficient and ugly monstrosities.
Where is the call to investigate this outrage? How about prosecutions and media coverage of this disaster. As long as it's a politically correct energy source it doesn't matter how many birds, bats or animals they kill, as long as it appears to be green. What we're finding out, as with corn-based ethanol, is green is mean, and we need to stand up and start fighting against this hidden menace.
The government even offers tons of subsidies for these initiatives, which require huge amounts of inputs, along with the killing of hundreds of thousands of birds and bats annually.
We need to tear those things down and rid the land of them. Selling the materials which made the windmills would go a long way toward recouping some of the costs, and would rid the land of those hideous contraptions.
How is this different from BP and the oil industry, which has caused far less damage over decades than the wind and ethanol industries, which couldn't survive without taxpayers dollars?
It isn't! Let's get the pictures of the torn apart birds and mounds of bats out to the public and see how they respond to their tax dollars at work.
Let's also continue to expose the enormous inputs it takes to develop the corn-based ethanol industry, which even many environmentalist don't back and recognize as one of the worst solutions out there for alternative energy.
The Gulf has been found to be much more resilient and able to clean itself than people thought. But how do we clean the land of windfarms? How does nature deal with them.
Even former oil energy investors are in it just for the money, and not because they actually believe these forms of energy are better for us. They know what the consequences of using them are, but just keep touting it as clean energy and harmless to the environment, in spite of evidence to the contrary.
Since they are causing far more damage than the BP oil spill ever will, and you could include other spill as well, it's a serious question to ponder as to its negative impact for people of integrity, as it's hypocritical to demonize the oil industry when the so-called green industry is anything but.
Speaking of hypocrisy, look at the joke at Berkeley, where they receive millions in funding from BP in order to pursue targeted studies. The liberal bastion is living a lie, and even though a small number of people attempted to eliminate the financing, Berkeley showed its true colors by rejecting that and continuing on with its relationship with BP.
This doesn't bother me at all, but it does show the tremendous lie behind the many people and institutions positioning themselves and environmentalists, when they're far from it, and have as many ties to traditional energy industries as anyone else does.
Add to that the destructive forces these cruel, "green" energy sources release, and you see a completely different picture than the narrative the mainstream media attempts to portray.
Although people with agendas are attempting to resurrect the doomsday scenario, it's too late. The facts are in and the Gulf oil spill simply wasn't that bad, and if people would have heeded the reality that they could go to beaches in the Gulf and vacation there, the tourism industry wouldn't have been near as effected as it has been.
One thing to point out is the attempt to make it look like a slaughter for wildlife and birds, which after combing the region, found under 3,000, and as a recent article in Time magazine pointed out, less than half of them had proof of the oil spill being the cause of their deaths.
Now compare that with the killer windmills in the country, which are alleged to be friendly. Just one forest of windfarms in Washington state kills over 7,000 birds and 3,000 bats every year. Multiply that times the number of windfarms there are in the U.S., and you have a true disaster from these murderous, inefficient and ugly monstrosities.
Where is the call to investigate this outrage? How about prosecutions and media coverage of this disaster. As long as it's a politically correct energy source it doesn't matter how many birds, bats or animals they kill, as long as it appears to be green. What we're finding out, as with corn-based ethanol, is green is mean, and we need to stand up and start fighting against this hidden menace.
The government even offers tons of subsidies for these initiatives, which require huge amounts of inputs, along with the killing of hundreds of thousands of birds and bats annually.
We need to tear those things down and rid the land of them. Selling the materials which made the windmills would go a long way toward recouping some of the costs, and would rid the land of those hideous contraptions.
How is this different from BP and the oil industry, which has caused far less damage over decades than the wind and ethanol industries, which couldn't survive without taxpayers dollars?
It isn't! Let's get the pictures of the torn apart birds and mounds of bats out to the public and see how they respond to their tax dollars at work.
Let's also continue to expose the enormous inputs it takes to develop the corn-based ethanol industry, which even many environmentalist don't back and recognize as one of the worst solutions out there for alternative energy.
The Gulf has been found to be much more resilient and able to clean itself than people thought. But how do we clean the land of windfarms? How does nature deal with them.
Even former oil energy investors are in it just for the money, and not because they actually believe these forms of energy are better for us. They know what the consequences of using them are, but just keep touting it as clean energy and harmless to the environment, in spite of evidence to the contrary.
Since they are causing far more damage than the BP oil spill ever will, and you could include other spill as well, it's a serious question to ponder as to its negative impact for people of integrity, as it's hypocritical to demonize the oil industry when the so-called green industry is anything but.
Speaking of hypocrisy, look at the joke at Berkeley, where they receive millions in funding from BP in order to pursue targeted studies. The liberal bastion is living a lie, and even though a small number of people attempted to eliminate the financing, Berkeley showed its true colors by rejecting that and continuing on with its relationship with BP.
This doesn't bother me at all, but it does show the tremendous lie behind the many people and institutions positioning themselves and environmentalists, when they're far from it, and have as many ties to traditional energy industries as anyone else does.
Add to that the destructive forces these cruel, "green" energy sources release, and you see a completely different picture than the narrative the mainstream media attempts to portray.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Berkeley in Bed with BP (NYSE:BP), They'll Remain Lovers
It's funny to watch the self-righteous Berkeley attempt to distance themselves from BP (NYSE:BP), at least some of their so-called activists and professors.
Three years ago UC Berkeley received a $500 million grant for its Energy Biosciences Institute, for the purpose of developing new sources of energy from plant-based fuel.
Supposedly students are outraged, along with some professors, who are now worried about their reputation from the obvious influence of BP over the university.
Don't worry Berkeley, your reputation was lost long ago as you've forsaken the mainstream of America for your socialist and radical agenda.
In that sense you're right though. The sellout of the principles allegedly supported by the university for money relieves the hypocrisy and cluelessness of those riding the emotion of the "cause," while having to have corporate money to help them survive. Welcome to the real world.
Officials from Berkeley pragmatically stated the Gulf spill has nothing to do with the institution, and aren't going to end the partnership with BP concerning the research grant.
Interestingly, the socialist nature of Berkeley is behind their whining, as it's really more about certain departments being awarded funding and other not being awarded funding. The typical politics of envy socialists are motivated by.
Critics noted that there is now a "disparity" between social sciences and humanities, while the science and engineering departments get the loot. So they, as the socialists they are, want to loot the loot. The critics are of course those not receiving any corporate money.
So when you hear the faux claims of concerns over the reputation of Berkeley, just read between the lines and realize the envious are the ones promoting this, hoping to get their greedy and envious hands on the money from BP for their dubious departments.
Now I couldn't care less if Berkeley was gone tomorrow. But we see their inability to deal with the real world and the exposure of their socialist practices, as they are forced to receive funding from a capitalist company, which undermines the enormous lie this university has been living for a long time, which is why some are attempting to change that in order to shore up the exposure of that lie to the general population of the United States, and the world.
To give you an idea of how sick Berkeley has become, Miguel Altieri, a UC Berkeley entomology professor, said this, "It creates an apartheid within the university between the haves and have-nots." To think quacks like this are teaching the young people of America and the world.
This has nothing to do with corporate influence, but the outrage of socialists who have infiltrated out universities over having their philosophy openly destroyed on the practical level, as everyone is reminded the anemic ideology is evil and has never worked.
So next time you hear the Berkeley activists make there assertions, be reminded they're dependent on corporate contributions to survive, and all their screaming and yelling and manipulation will never change that.
Three years ago UC Berkeley received a $500 million grant for its Energy Biosciences Institute, for the purpose of developing new sources of energy from plant-based fuel.
Supposedly students are outraged, along with some professors, who are now worried about their reputation from the obvious influence of BP over the university.
Don't worry Berkeley, your reputation was lost long ago as you've forsaken the mainstream of America for your socialist and radical agenda.
In that sense you're right though. The sellout of the principles allegedly supported by the university for money relieves the hypocrisy and cluelessness of those riding the emotion of the "cause," while having to have corporate money to help them survive. Welcome to the real world.
Officials from Berkeley pragmatically stated the Gulf spill has nothing to do with the institution, and aren't going to end the partnership with BP concerning the research grant.
Interestingly, the socialist nature of Berkeley is behind their whining, as it's really more about certain departments being awarded funding and other not being awarded funding. The typical politics of envy socialists are motivated by.
Critics noted that there is now a "disparity" between social sciences and humanities, while the science and engineering departments get the loot. So they, as the socialists they are, want to loot the loot. The critics are of course those not receiving any corporate money.
So when you hear the faux claims of concerns over the reputation of Berkeley, just read between the lines and realize the envious are the ones promoting this, hoping to get their greedy and envious hands on the money from BP for their dubious departments.
Now I couldn't care less if Berkeley was gone tomorrow. But we see their inability to deal with the real world and the exposure of their socialist practices, as they are forced to receive funding from a capitalist company, which undermines the enormous lie this university has been living for a long time, which is why some are attempting to change that in order to shore up the exposure of that lie to the general population of the United States, and the world.
To give you an idea of how sick Berkeley has become, Miguel Altieri, a UC Berkeley entomology professor, said this, "It creates an apartheid within the university between the haves and have-nots." To think quacks like this are teaching the young people of America and the world.
This has nothing to do with corporate influence, but the outrage of socialists who have infiltrated out universities over having their philosophy openly destroyed on the practical level, as everyone is reminded the anemic ideology is evil and has never worked.
So next time you hear the Berkeley activists make there assertions, be reminded they're dependent on corporate contributions to survive, and all their screaming and yelling and manipulation will never change that.
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