http://energizetn.org/blog Your Source for Career Information News Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23317 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23317#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:01 +0000 admin http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23317 (NPR) With a law as long and as complex as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it’s natural people are still a little confused about what it does and doesn’t do. But some things being said or circulated on the Internet about the health law are well outside the realm of reality….9/3

]]> http://energizetn.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23317 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23318 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23318#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:01 +0000 admin http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23318 (Popular Science) Never mind that twisty compact fluo”rescent. The new energy-efficient way to light your home is with LEDs. An upcoming crop of bulbs draw 12 watts or less, edging out a typical fluorescent, and they have a more conventional shape, contain no mercury, and last at least 25,000 hours, three times as long….9/3

]]> http://energizetn.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23318 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23319 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23319#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:01 +0000 admin http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23319 (PhysOrg) Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and smaller. But its unique properties have also led to difficulties in integrating the material into such devices….9/3

]]> http://energizetn.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23319 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23320 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23320#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:00 +0000 admin http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23320 (BBC News) Across Africa, people often lay snare traps to catch bushmeat, killing or injuring chimps and other wildlife. But a few chimps living in the rainforests of Guinea have learnt to recognise these snare traps laid by human hunters, researchers have found….9/3

]]> http://energizetn.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23320 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23321 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23321#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:00 +0000 admin http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23321 (Forbes) With the support of the Obama administration, the Federal Communications Commission has created a bold plan to connect at least 100 million homes with affordable access to broadband….9/3

]]> http://energizetn.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23321 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23322 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23322#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:00 +0000 admin http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23322 (Biomass Magazine) Between 1978 and 1996, the Aquatic Species Program at the U.S. DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado expanded the biofuel portfolio beyond ethanol through its research on freshwater plants, wetland emergents and, of course, algae. That work eventually focused on biodiesel from microalgae, but the entire program was terminated due to low petroleum prices and the projected high costs of algal biofuel production….9/2

]]> http://energizetn.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23322 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23323 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23323#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:00 +0000 admin http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23323 (Asheville Citizen-Times) The railroad opened Asheville and Western North Carolina to trade, tourism and industry back in the 19th century. Interstate highways made the same inroads in the middle of the 20th century. Broadband is the latest infrastructure that will open our schools and businesses to the global economy of knowledge workers in the 21st century. There are only 100 miles, as the proverbial crow flies, between Asheville and Oak Ridge, Tenn., home to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the nation’s supercomputers, but data don’t just fly invisibly through the air….9/2

]]> http://energizetn.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23323 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23324 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23324#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:00 +0000 admin http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23324 (USA Today) Hurricane Earl churned past the North Carolina Outer Banks and its powerful gusts and driving rains were starting to be felt in southeastern Virginia early Friday, the beginning of at least 24 hours of stormy, windy weather along the East Coast….9/3

]]> http://energizetn.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23324 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23325 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23325#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:00 +0000 admin http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23325 (Knoxville News Sentinel) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to extend the public comment period on proposed new rules for disposing of coal fly ash, opening a slight possibility that a public hearing on the matter could be scheduled in Tennessee, a representative of U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander told residents attending a citizens meeting on the issue in Roane County on Thursday….9/3

]]> http://energizetn.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23325 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23326 http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23326#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:15:00 +0000 admin http://energizetn.org/blog/?p=23326 (Washington Post) Did creation need a creator? British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe….9/2 [Registration Required]

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