We have been in an anomalously long Solar Minimum.  The sun has an 11 year cycle from Minimum to Maximum.  But the cycles are (like most things in nature) not exact, and some are longer…

Arbor energy?   No, they're not smoking plants, they're powering circuits with them.   It turns out that there is electricity in trees, in small but measurable quantities, and it's enough…

What does peer review do for science and what does the scientific community want it to do?  Should peer review detect fraud and misconduct? Does peer review illuminate good ideas or shut them…

About 10% of couples who want a baby have fertility problems and causes offered tend to break down around advocacy issues; environmentalists blame pollution while psychiatrists point to our stressful…

Abstract Under identical culture conditions, only 8 out of 12 species and subspecies of the genus Daucus proved capable of somatic embryogenesis. Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis…

Biofuel have a great potential but turnig food into biofuel is not correct way instead work on the petroplants, local plants and search for non edible oil plants like Jatropha etcas source of biofuel…

Sometimes I come to think this blog is overextended: it happens when I realize it contains more things than I can remember, even ones I would really like to have at my fingertips. I was reminded…

Renewable Energy sources (RES) include small hydro project, Biomass, Gasifier, Biomass power, urban and Industrial water power and wind energy.     30  percent of the primary energy…

A sample survey was conducted in a cluster of 4 villages.10 families from each village were questioned for the survey. The main objective of the survey was to do a scenario analysis of the fuel used…

. Greening of wastelands:   It is proposed to carryout the programme of greening of wastelands encompassing three components:    1/ Exchange on innovative experiences from farmers…

Microbiologists from the University of Essex have shown they can break down and remove toxic compounds from crude oil and tar sands using microbes. These acidic compounds persist in the…

"Jatropha Is Not Competing with Existing Food Crops to Produce Biodiesel” The biofuel market is growing, and with it the development of certain crops to meet energy needs. One of which is Jatropha, a…

An international team of scientists has not only verified the existence of a mountain range that is suspected to have caused the massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet to form, but also has created a…

You've heard the saying that money won't buy happiness; of course, that is true though some of it is also sweet lemons rationalization.    So why is it that so many special interest groups…

Salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, is obviously dangerous, with some 13 million people contracting typhoid fever annually,  fatally for 500,000 of them. Sanitation is the…

Jatropha curcas cultivation. Germplasm Reported from the Central and South American Centers of Diversity, physic nut, or cvs thereof, is reported to tolerate Slope. There is an endemic species in…

Utilization of Jatropha The jatropha plantation creates a positive correlation between energy production and food production. It promotes following main aspects of development whick combine to help…

The 2009 movie District 9 is a metaphor for what might be an evolved version of the world federalist government we have today.  Some time before the 1990s, conflicts were mainly fought between…

Jatropha curcas L. EuphorbiaceaePhysic nut, Purging nut   Uses According to Ochse (1980), "the young leaves may be safely eaten, steamed or stewed.". In India, pounded leaves are applied near…

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in citizen science was certainly not on the minds of 6-year-old Alyson Yates and her mom, Kate, when they stepped out into their back yard one day to scout for…