Fabulous Computing site

You can probably make good use of the following page and the ones that come with it:
BOOKMARK it!
http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/Engineering.html

Tar Sands

To my pupils, prepare an oral expression about the video. You'll tell me about it in January.

ALOHA ANALYTICS

Focus on realistic energy and resource issues, local to global. Have an eye in this area for spotting trends and zeroing in on controlling, good information.
http://alohaanalytics.blogspot.com/
GREAT BLOG

Fukushima update

I think you should watch the available video here:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/211347.html
To remain informed on the Fukushima NPP, you can use the following list/
http://www.fairewinds.com/updates
or here:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/
or here:http://fukushimaupdate.com/
or here:http://nf2045.blogspot.com/
And if you find other worthy links, please, post them in the comments.
update:http://bilien.blogspot.com/2011/11/im-obsessed-with-fukushimanpp-accident.html

Solar Nanotech

https://inlportal.inl.gov/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1269&mode=2&featurestory=DA_101047

English for techies

Keep learning!
http://www.english-for-techies.net/index.htm

Planning made easy

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk
An interesting site for you to visit.

Growing homes

Architects and Engineers

GREEN SCHOOLS

Robots right on time?

No, much too late. They should have come far sooner, don't you think?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/29/japan-nuclear-plant-us-robots?intcmp=239

It's possible.

Jobs in the future denuclearized world.

http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-22-germanys-solar-panels-produce-more-power-than-japans-entire-fuku

Solar power for sure!

ONKALO = hiding place

A radioactive tale with giddy perspectives Nuclear waste is produced daily and has been for 50 years. The need for CO2-neutral energy sources is likely to increase the production in the coming decades. So far, all nuclear waste is in interim storages - most of which are on the surface, vulnerable to natural or man-made disasters. Safe and permanent ways to store nuclear waste are vital, and the world's very first attempt at a permanent repository is presently being dug into solid rock in Finland. The facility must last 100.000 years and be able to withstand climate change, seismic activity, rising sea levels, erosion, and ground water leakages that could spread radioactive and radiotoxic contamination. However, while the past can help us predict physical and geological future scenarios, it offers little help when it comes to human behaviour and cultural scenarios. What do we know about society 100, 500 or 1000 years from now? How will society be structured and who will be in charge of the facility? After an ice age or two - will anybody remember that it is there? Will anybody understand the nature of its payload? Do we have a moral obligation to warn future generations of the waste we left behind? How? How and where do we store the warning? Hopefully, someone will have come up with some answers by the time the facility is finished - 120 years from now. With stunning images from the facility, thought provoking interviews with the experts dealing with these questions, and a film inside the film aimed at the future, Into Eternity will take us on a journey filled with wonder, humour, and deadly serious questions.

Hazards or what's happening

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/12/world/asia/the-explosion-at-the-japanese-reactor.html?ref=asia

Alternative energies are better!

An Australian link run by scientists claiming to be independent.
http://nuclearinfo.net/Nuclearpower/AlterntiveToNuclearPower

In regard with the Fukushima's ongoing disaster,the conclusions of this paper don't seem accurate until you get to its last sentence. Indeed!
However this technology will always require strict safe-guards and independent oversight.
Unfortunately, earthquakes and tsunami are parameters that are hardly dealt with .

Nuclear energy facilities

! A facility is a building, a place where you


PS: five definitions of the word "facility". Which one corresponds to its use in the video?
1: the quality of being easily performed
2: ease in performance : aptitude
3: readiness of compliance
4 a (1) : something that makes an action, operation, or course of conduct easier —usually used in plural
(2) : lavatory 2 —often used in plural
b : something (as a hospital) that is built, installed, or established to serve a particular purpose

Solar Decathlon 2011

Joyce Yang

Algae and Bio-fuel

ALL THINGS GREEN!

The Sahara Forest Project

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/21/5892625-green-machine-takes-root-in-jordan

Eco-retrofit

Eco 'superhome' opens its doors
Penney Poyzer gives a guided tour of her Victorian house in Nottingham, which after an eco retrofit, has reduced its CO2 emissions from 19 tonnes a year to just half a tonne
Watch the video here from the Guardian website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/feb/06/eco-home-carbon-emissions