Friday, April 27, 2007

Who in their right mind would pay for this?

Only has "outline" planning permission

I quote "this is a compact site" you can say that again!!

Wait for it... they are only looking €150,000.00!!

http://www.swsproperty.com/

Warmest April since records began

The provisional mean figure for April 2007 is 11.1C - that is 3.2C above the long-term average.

Meteorologists say in addition, the 12-month rolling period ending in April 2007 is also set to be the warmest on record - nearly 2C above the long-term average for the period.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6598953.stm



Sugar-powered batteries could be the eco-friendly power source

Sugar batteries have the potential to operate three to four times
longer on a single charge than conventional lithium ion batteries."Each
cell gives a voltage of about 0.75V, but has three or four times the
energy density of a typical battery, so the battery will last much
longer.

Minteer has spent 18 months working on the project with a further three
to five years of work needed before commercial exploitation. Her plan
is to develop a mobile phone charger similar to the quick chargers
currently available but with slot-in sugar solution cartridges
providing the power.



Monday, April 23, 2007

Use your mobile for more than ten years? Your 40% more likely to get a brain tumour!!

A recent authoritative Finnish study has found that people who have used mobiles for more than ten years are 40 per cent more likely to get a brain tumour on the same side of the head as they hold their handset; Swedish research suggests that the risk is almost four times as great. And further research from Sweden claims that the radiation kills off brain cells, which could lead to today's younger generation going senile in their forties and fifties.

It gets better, do you have Wi-Fi on your laptop or in your home? Wi-Fi systems essentially take small versions of these masts into the home and classroom - they emit much the same kind of radiation. Though virtually no research has been carried out, campaigners and some scientists expect them to have similar ill-effects. They say that we are all now living in a soup of electromagnetic radiation one billion times stronger than the natural fields in which living cells have developed over the last 3.8 billion years. This, they add, is bound to cause trouble

Read on ... Danger on the airwaves: Is the Wi-Fi revolution a health time bomb?

Australia's epic drought

Is this the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation?

Read on...