Saudi Arabia to Replace Oil with Sun Power for Desalination Plants

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is now interested in using solar energy to provide the power needed, instead of oil. According to an article on the UAE Top News media site, the Kingdom is now planning to build solar energy based desalination plants in order to save on energy costs, as well as be in tune with new environmental polices. This might be to secure membership in the International Renewable Energy Agency, otherwise known as IRENA.By using solar energy instead of oil, it will focus more on using renewable energy and even become an exporter of this clean form of energy as it has been doing with oil. A tremendous amount of oil is currently being used to provide power for the country’s desalination plants; around 1.5 million barrels per day. This has caused the price of desalinated water to rise as oil prices have risen.

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US ‘Tectonic Weapon’ Caused Haiti Quake:Chavez

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

A ‘tectonic weapon‘ under testing by the United States caused the Haiti earthquake, according to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.President Chavez said the US was ‘playing God’ by testing devices capable of creating eco-type catastrophes, the Spanish newspaper ABC quoted him as saying.Chavez said the killer earthquake followed a test of ‘weapon of earthquakes’ just offshore from Haiti.

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Did a Nuclear Blast Give Birth to the Moon?

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Discovery reports scientists are proposing in a new theory about  formation of our moon: they think a massive nuclear explosion occurred at the edge of Earth’s core, flinging red-hot, liquid rock into space. The orbiting detritus gradually congealed into what is now our planet’s lone satellite.

Researchers think that as the molten Earth spun, radioactive thorium and uranium accumulated at the boundary between the core and mantle in large enough quantities to spark a runaway fission reaction. Heat and energy built up until  a nuclear jet pushed giant globs of molten rock into space…

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Global Warming Slowed by Decline in Atmospheric Water Vapor

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

A sudden and unexplained drop in the amount of water vapor present high in the atmosphere almost a decade ago has substantially slowed the rate of warming at Earth’s surface in recent years, scientists say.Water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas, the decline has slowed the increase of global temperatures, Rosenlof, Susan Solomon, also of NOAA in Boulder, and their colleagues report online January 28 and in an upcoming Science…

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