Posts made in April, 2012

Solar desalination

Posted by on Apr 25, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Solar desalination ‘the only way’ for Gulf to sustainably produce water. Current desalination systems are expensive and inefficient, and might last only another 30 years in the Gulf, said Dr Adil Bushnak, the chairman of Bushnak Group, a desalinat viagra cheap ion company in Saudi Arabia. “But after that we cannot continue the same way we are doing now,” Dr Bushnak said on the sidelines of the 10th Gulf Water Conference, in Doha. He proposes that GCC states use the money they saved by going solar to cover the cost of the transition. “Every barrel of oil we save because we built solar should go to that fund to finance the extra cost of solar...

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As Monty Python once pointed out

Posted by on Apr 22, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

“As Monty Python once pointed out, our galaxy, one of millions in the universe, is a hundred thousand light years side to side. As the late Christopher Hitchens observed, when our sun finally gives out, the people watching it will be a higher evolutionary form of humans than us. Bryan Gaensler describes ‘Oh-my-God’ particles, which have been recorded moving through the universe at 99.9999999999999999999996 per cent of the speed of light. Like the great arts, science can be beautiful and thrilling.” - best we look after it

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