From what I can gather, Estonia is a net electricity producer and is energy independent from Russia (Estonia was a part of the now defunct USSR). The country has a lot of oil shale.
Jatropha, a plant which seeds have a very high oil content and which oil can be used on standard diesel engines, have been touted as the next biofuel crop. Still, it's unclear whether this plant can be harvested in an industrial scale.
France has gone for the nuclear option - it lacked natural resources like gas and coal. But it's still not energy independent: it imports roughly 50% of its energy.
Ooh, thanks for the link Scott K! Go for the Best 25 of the Worst Baby Names list, from the same website, here: Link
An excerpt: 2. Toolio Pretty sure it's a joke, but who cares! It's friggin' practical compared to some of the others.
3. Tierrainney I think this name is so densely packed with letters it will soon implode on itself, creating a star to rival our own sun.
12. Blaze I got an e-mail a while back from a lady who said she gave her potential baby names a test: did they fit better in the sentence, "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States [blank] [blank]" or "And now, on the main stage, the Lusty Beaver Adult Club presents the hot action of [blank] [blank]." I think hospital forms should be reformatted to force parents to do just that.
17. Kaytaquana and others I don't know what the hell is going on here. Most of the list is entirely random, but Kaytaquana gets extra credit for appearing to be a name-ization of katakana, a Japanese alphabet.
Well, the draconian American justice system (when it comes to drug offenses) is no laughing matter either - that's why it's best just to waste your time reading Neatorama. ;)
From the article, I got the impression that full medical diagnosis was not done before entry was denied. I think the parents were fighting for the baby to get that diagnosis performed.
Would it be possible for the government of New Zealand to permit entry of Baby Miracle whilst leaving medical care to be picked up privately (or strictly through donations?)
While I don't agree with unrestrained spending on a (medically) lost cause, I will never be quick to judge the "worthiness" of lives.
Although I agree with you that industrial hemp is harmless (and useless as a psychoactive drug), its role as a "savior crop" is highly overblown.
Before it was outlawed, hemp played little part in the US agriculture. Even now, industrial hemp is legal to import (just not to grow) - this posed little to no economic barrier to using hemp: the stuff is cheaper to import than to grow anyhow.
I'm not convinced that deriving ethanol from hemp is economically feasible. The problem with biologically derived ethanol remains their extensive use of water, which is an increasingly valuable commodity itself.
Brazil's use of sugarcane deserves kudos - but this solution was made possible because of its tropical geography (lots of rain there to grow sugarcane).
An interesting "garbage research" is the garbology by University of Arizona professor William Rathje. He found out that in most landfill, paper and paper products don't decompose well and actually last just as long as plastic do.
France has gone for the nuclear option - it lacked natural resources like gas and coal. But it's still not energy independent: it imports roughly 50% of its energy.
An excerpt:
2. Toolio
Pretty sure it's a joke, but who cares! It's friggin' practical compared to some of the others.
3. Tierrainney
I think this name is so densely packed with letters it will soon implode on itself, creating a star to rival our own sun.
12. Blaze
I got an e-mail a while back from a lady who said she gave her potential baby names a test: did they fit better in the sentence, "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States [blank] [blank]" or "And now, on the main stage, the Lusty Beaver Adult Club presents the hot action of [blank] [blank]." I think hospital forms should be reformatted to force parents to do just that.
17. Kaytaquana and others
I don't know what the hell is going on here. Most of the list is entirely random, but Kaytaquana gets extra credit for appearing to be a name-ization of katakana, a Japanese alphabet.
Would it be possible for the government of New Zealand to permit entry of Baby Miracle whilst leaving medical care to be picked up privately (or strictly through donations?)
While I don't agree with unrestrained spending on a (medically) lost cause, I will never be quick to judge the "worthiness" of lives.
Before it was outlawed, hemp played little part in the US agriculture. Even now, industrial hemp is legal to import (just not to grow) - this posed little to no economic barrier to using hemp: the stuff is cheaper to import than to grow anyhow.
I'm not convinced that deriving ethanol from hemp is economically feasible. The problem with biologically derived ethanol remains their extensive use of water, which is an increasingly valuable commodity itself.
Brazil's use of sugarcane deserves kudos - but this solution was made possible because of its tropical geography (lots of rain there to grow sugarcane).