Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Blackout Stretches from Orange County Down Into Mexico
September 9th, 2011Via: NBC San Diego: As night fell in San Diego County, millions of residents were left in the dark, wondering when power would return after a failure in the system created a cascade effect, knocking electricity out all the way to Orange County and down into Mexio. A glimmer of hope came in the darkness […]
A 20-Square-Mile Model of a Small U.S. City Will be Built in New Mexico to Test New Technologies
September 7th, 2011Via: Salon: New Mexico, home to several of the nation’s premier scientific, nuclear and military institutions, is planning to take part in an unprecedented science project — a 20-square-mile model of a small U.S. city. A Washington, D.C.-based technology company announced plans Tuesday to build the state’s newest ghost town to test everything from renewable […]
Snowballing DigiNotar Situation: Rogue SSL Certificates Were Also Issued for CIA, MI6, Mossad
September 5th, 2011SSLLOL. Via: HelpNetSecurity: The number of rogue SSL certificates issued by Dutch CA DigiNotar has balooned from one to a couple dozen to over 250 to 531 in just a few days. As Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor project shared the full list of the rogue certificates, it became clear that fraudulent certificates for domains […]
The Urban Farming Guys
September 3rd, 2011Via: The Urban Farming Guys: We took the seeds in our pockets and every square foot we owned and went about like mad scientists testing out innovative ideas from all around world and making them work in one of the most blighted neighborhoods in the US. Everything from urban fish farming to alternate energy. Now […]
Japan: Nuclear Plant Worker Dies of Acute Leukemia
August 30th, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: Kyodo: A worker in his 40s who had been engaged in recovery work at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has died of acute leukemia, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday. Tokyo Electric said the worker’s death is not linked with his work at the plant, citing results of […]
4 Million People Without Power in Northeastern U.S.
August 28th, 2011Via: CNN: Trees toppled and streets flooded Sunday morning as Irene lashed some of the biggest cities in the Northeast with wind gusts and torrential rains. Even as Irene weakened to a tropical storm, authorities in the region warned that its impact was not waning. “We’re not out of the woods yet. Irene remains a […]
Japan Triples Airborne Radiation Checks as ‘Hot Spots’ Spread
August 24th, 2011Ok, so a diabolical regime with no credibility at all is going to step up monitoring efforts. That’s nice. Via: Bloomberg: Japan will more than triple the number of regions it checks for airborne radiation as more contaminated “hot spots” are discovered far from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power station. The government […]
Japanese Researchers Trying to Find Rice Varieties that Absorb Less Cesium from the Soil
August 22nd, 2011Grim. Via: Kyodo: A research agency in Fukushima Prefecture recently began examining some 110 varieties of rice from in and outside Japan in search for strains that absorb less radioactive cesium from soil. The project, which the Fukushima Agricultural Technology Center initiated in the wake of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, […]
China Claims Fukushima Disaster Has Contaminated a 252,000-Square-Kilometer Area of Pacific Ocean
August 20th, 2011Via: Asahi: Radioactive substances that leaked from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have spread over far broader areas of the sea than Japan has acknowledged, according to the State Oceanic Administration of China. An Aug. 15 article in the electronic version of Science and Technology Daily, a Chinese newspaper, cited an ocean […]
BP and Other Companies Asked to Investigate “New Sheen” in Gulf of Mexico
August 18th, 2011I guess sheen is newspeak for oil spill. Via: CBS / AP: Oil giant BP says it is investigating a new sheen in the Gulf of Mexico. A catastrophic explosion at the energy giant’s Macondo well in the Gulf on April 2010 killed 11 men and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. […]
