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Eclipsenow

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January 24, 2017

Seaweed to save the world from climate change & starvation?

This next quote from Dr Tim Flannery suggests that truly enormous kelp farms could provide us with all the protein we could want, all the fossil-fuel replacement we could want, all the NPK fertilisers we could want, and all the biochar we could want (to sequester CO2 + fertilise farms + restore soil), all from one gigantic industry. Anyone already know an industry that basically runs the world? 8) Basically, if big oil ever get onto this, I say let them at it!

Professor Tim Flannery again:-
“The most exciting, if least well understood, of all the biological options involve the marine environment. Seaweed grows very fast, meaning that seaweed farms could be used to absorb CO2 very efficiently, and on a very large scale. The seaweed could be harvested and processed to generate methane for electricity production or to replace natural gas, and the remaining nutrients recycled. One analysis shows that if seaweed farms covered 9% of the ocean they could produce enough biomethane to replace all of today’s needs in fossil fuel energy, while removing 53 gigatonnes of CO2 (about the same as all current human emissions) per year from the atmosphere. It could also increase sustainable fish production to provide 200kg per year, per person, for 10 billion people. Additional benefits include reduction in ocean acidification and increased ocean primary productivity and biodiversity. Many of the technologies required to achieve this are already in widespread use, if at a comparatively minuscule scale.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/20/climate-crisis-future-brighter-tim-flannery
November 25, 2013

Does Netvibes have a good NATIVE bookmark widget?

Hi all,
I need a really good start page as I'm always moving from computer to computer, and I never know where I'll be able to grab one for lunch and a quick internet browse, and a start page like old iGoogle is a great idea, but I've never used one.

I'm playing with Netvibes and can see some good RSS features. But I wish I could have all my home bookmarks in there as well. Does anyone know how to use the NATIVE netvibes bookmarks, and how to get them to import my bookmarks files? I tried a net based one and work has them blacklisted, so I can't use them at lunch... which is kind of the whole point.

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