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more about #environmental twophrasebark: I saw this episode. It's a Stargate. more » FelixA9: I still want to know what causes the rotating hexagon on Saturn. more » crashedpc - Haifisch: What we need to look for is a giant ice fisherman looking around cluelessly while a giant saw is cutting a circle in the ice. more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Looks like God's leaving her coffee cup laying around without a coaster. Thats right ladies, I said her. I'm sensitive. more » 92BuickLeSabre: That circle. It is very nice. Very round. Very pretty. Indeed, it is very, how should I say...circular. But no, no, it is not perfect. more » KhaiJB: so that's where my DeathRay hit...damn Targeting Computer crashed... more » Grey_Area: It's those damned seals screwing with our heads. Wiseass nerpas. more » Mount_Prion: But global warming doesn't exist! Matt Drudge wouldn't lie to me! He...he loves me...doesn't he? more » corpore-metal: This is what I meant when I said that anthropogenic climate change won't kill humanity (Though it may cause fatalities from flooding and bad weather.)... more » Klebert L. Hall: "toxic fly ash (a byproduct of fossil fuel production)" Nope, the fly ash is a product of burning the coal (electricity production) not of mining the ... more » Grey_Area: Very SCARY. My best wishes to all of you in the area as this is could be a major problem. Is the Government doing anything? Thought not. more » XenaElectra: I don't think that's blackened landscape, it looks like the shadow from some sort of plume coming out of the plant. Maybe steam as a normal production... more » -
#megaenvironmentalism
Photon Farming in the Vast Solar Fields of Northern China
This is an aerial view of China's future — vast solar farms that developers hope will fuel the industrial nation, as well as cut down on its choking smog problem. This solar photovoltaic power station, the largest of its type in northwest China, is currently under construction in Xining of Qinghai Province. More » -
#conceptart
Tokyo's Eco-Apocalypse
It's the famous Tokyo 109 building (named after io9 of course), now falling into the same eco-ruins that overtook Manhattan in plague wipeout movie I Am Legend. In fact, Tokyo Fantasy has posted a whole series of images that all feature Tokyo in a post-apocalyptic state which manages to look rather lovely due to all the lush greenery. Reminds me of the abandoned amusement park in Miyazaki Hayao's anime Spirited Away. More green doom below. More » -
#geoscientificfuturism
This Summer the Northwest Passage Opens, When the North Pole Melts
The ice-clogged, impassible North Pole of yesterday is about to melt away this summer, and may be one of the first examples of economic benefit coming from global warming. When the Pole shrinks away, it creates a wide path through the so-called Northwest Passage, a treacherous and icy route between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. With more melting, ships will be able to get from one continent to the next without having to do crazy navigational feats around giant ice sheets. Shipping becomes cheaper and more convenient. And when it becomes a major shipping lane, nations who control the area are sure to get richer. More » -
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#architecture
Now Your Car Can Pollute an Environmentally-Friendly Garage
Could this parking garage in Santa Monica, California, become the first certifiably "green" parking garage in the U.S.? LEED, a green building organization that awards certifications to structures that are demonstrably eco-friendly, says it may grant its certification to the garage any time now. More » -
#megaenvironmentalism
Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid
This industrial environmentalist building/machine in Madrid is packed with solar cells and trees, and will apparently generate enough energy to sell to local electric companies. Called an "Air Tree," and created by Urban Ecosystems, the mega-device is supposed to have a significantly beneficial impact on the climate. Plus it just looks seriously badass, as you can see in these wide-angle views. More » -
#art
A Frozen Water Planet Begins Its Thaw
Amado Becquer Casaballe is a photographer who recently had the chance to work on an ice-breaking ship as it floated around Antarctica. He wanted to capture the beauty of this frozen desert before climate change transforms it forever. His images of glowing icebergs and shattered glaciers are truly otherworldly. You can see some in our gallery. More » -
#madscience
Microwaving Old Tires to Brew Fuel
Now you can use a microwave to transform old tires into energy. Here you see Jay Gill, an employee of New Jersey company Global Resource Corporation, doing just that using an awesomely homebrew-looking setup. The process is completely revolutionary, and the company has just announced it's about to get a ton of money to expand. But of course all we kept thinking about was how that gas chamber looked like a bong. Photos by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images. Energy from Tires [Minnesota Post-Bulletin] -
#tabloidscience
Wind Power Sucks But Brain Damage Is Okay
I've got some good science news for you, and some bad.- Wind power may not be a clean energy source of the future after all. Though Sweden has just built a massive wind farm at sea, most countries have found wind an inefficient and unreliable energy source. [New York Times]
