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Patagonia M10 jacket weighs only 10 ounces

In my household, we have an almost unhealthy obsession with all things Patagonia. The environmentally conscious surf-and-climb brand from California has just released its lightest fabric ever via the new M10 jacket — it has three layers of waterproof material, air vents for your armpits, a giant hoodie, and weighs only 10 ounces.

[+719] Norway conquers infections by cutting use of antibiotics

The best way to cut down on infections is to reduce antibiotic use, Norway finds……………….

Scientists discover giant plastic rubbish patch in North Atlantic | Mail Online

The large dump is north of the Caribbean and off the U.S. coast. Researchers say it has 200,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre

[+556] Worlds Biggest Wind Turbine Generates 10 MW And It Floats!

In an attempt to make offshore wind farms more profitable, Norway plans to build the world’s largest turbine standing (or floating) 533 feet tall — and that doesn’t include size added by the underwater ballast.

[+501] 25% of US grain crops fed to cars, not people

One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies.

LED traffic lights don’t melt snow

Cities that installed LED traffic lights to save money are learning that the incandescent lights they got rid of had a useful purpose: their waste heat melted the snow that covered them in winter storms.

Municipalities around the country are taking different steps to keep their signals shining brightly in the face of Mother Nature. Crews in St. Paul, Minnesota, use compressed air to keep their lights clean. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, city workers brush the snow off by hand in a labor-intensive process.

Unintended Consequence of Technology: New LED traffic lights can’t melt snow

Tesla cover story in Wall Street Journal gets it right: Roadster is a blast!

Farm family put under surveillance for selling raw milk

Rogier van Bakel reports that a Missouri farm family “was put under surveillance, then prosecuted, for selling raw milk from its own cow, Misty.”

From Naturalnews.com:

…the bovine mother’s milk, unpasteurized, unprocessed, non-homogenized and wholly pure, natural and innocent. The stuff America was raised on. The stuff your parents fed you when you were a kid, if your family was lucky enough to have a cow. In Missouri today, selling such a natural product is now apparently a criminal act. What’s next? A ban on farm-fresh eggs because the Dept. of Health doesn’t control their quality?

Farm family put under surveillance for selling raw milk

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Diesel-Electric Supercar Has 80 Mile Battery Range, Gets 44 MPG After That

Capstone Turbine Corporation—a company normally known for making microturbines that provide back-up power for industrial and commercial operations—has built a prototype extended-range, diesel-electric supercar that has a 0-60 mph time of 3.9 seconds, a top speed of 150 mph and can go 80 miles on battery power alone before a diesel-powered microturbine kicks on and charges the battery on the fly for an additional 420 miles on one tank of fuel.

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