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- How Did the Hawaiian Islands Form?
- The Future of Geothermal Energy
- Chevron’s Interest in Indonesian Geothermal
- Teleporting Energy
- Can Hurricanes Trigger Earthquakes?
- Antarctica’s Penguins and Climate Change
| How Did the Hawaiian Islands Form? Posted: 03 Jan 2011 09:55 PM PST “The Hawaiian Islands are the tops of gigantic volcanic mountains formed by countless eruptions of fluid lava over several million years.” They formed as the Pacific Plate moved over a “hot spot” in Earth’s mantle. Quote from “Eruptions of Hawaiian Volcanoes – Past, Present, and Future”. |
| The Future of Geothermal Energy Posted: 03 Jan 2011 07:41 PM PST National Geographic has a series of articles on “The Great Energy Challenge”. Last week’s article was “Can Geothermal Energy Pick Up Real Steam?” It explores current and future developments in geothermal energy in several parts of the world. |
| Chevron’s Interest in Indonesian Geothermal Posted: 03 Jan 2011 07:35 PM PST Indonesia has a wealth of undeveloped geothermal resources and Chevron Pacific Indonesia is very interested in developing them. |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2011 07:30 PM PST A topic in theoretical physics: “The teleportation process allows you to inject quantum energy at one point in the universe and then exploit quantum energy fluctuations to extract it from another point.” Quoted from the MIT Technology Review. |
| Can Hurricanes Trigger Earthquakes? Posted: 03 Jan 2011 07:02 PM PST Brian Romans has an interesting post on the Wired Science Blog blog titled: “Can Hurricanes Trigger Earthquakes?”. In it he explores ideas that a hurricane might produce an accelerated surface process such as sediment deposition or erosion that could trigger an instability in the solid Earth and thus an earthquake. |
| Antarctica’s Penguins and Climate Change Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:15 PM PST National Public Radio has a podcast in which Fen Montaigne explains how climate change is making life difficult for many of Antarctica’s penguins. |
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