1. London for the history, Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, the best museums in the world and excellent art galleries.
2. Barcelona for the wonderful Gaudi buildings, particularly the unfinished Sagrada Familia Cathedral.
3. Rome. The Vatican – an audience with the Pope (along with a few thousand other people – every Wednesday) was fantastic, as was the Vatican Museum and St Peter's. And again, the history – the Pantheon, the Roman ruins in the Palatino & the Forum, the Colloseum, the mosaics, Villa Boghese plus the Trevi Fountain and the many churches and cathedrals.
4. Athens. Just to see the Parthenon and the Acropolis, although the National Museum and the ancient Greek ruins dotted around the city are definitely worth visiting. Sitting in a taverna having a leisurely lunch is a must.
5. Vienna, Paris, Budapest and Prague. Historical palaces, beautiful gardens, castles, superb art galleries/museums, cathedrals, talented musicians…I can't choose.
And in all of the above – the food is generally excellent. And yes, I've been to them all.
You may not find a video. The quote comes from a story that was run in the Wall Street Journal from an interview.
"In a sign of one major internal difference, Mr. Chu has called for gradually ramping up gasoline taxes over 15 years to coax consumers into buying more-efficient cars and living in neighborhoods closer to work.
"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," Mr. Chu, who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in September.
But Mr. Obama has dismissed the idea of boosting the federal gasoline tax, a move energy experts say could be the single most effective step to promote alternative energies and temper demand."
A related blog article…
They may not want a direct tax but could be achieving goals of allowing higher prices affect how people buy cars or think about energy solutions. By not investing in other measures to produce lower cost bio-fuels, it would also fall in line with Chu's philosophy regarding global warming concerns. The Congress recently raided the Patent Office of over a 100 million dollars ( and has raided millions more prior to this) which hampers invention and innovation at a time when it's needed to protect innovations to produce more biofuels or other options.
Chu speaking on goals for renewable energy…
Coal issues…
Chu on climate change…
Energy alternatives..
There are methods to produce biofuels from renewable sources which are carbon-neutral or negative. The question remains why are these not being developed further? A form of soil called Terra preta can also sequester huge amounts of carbon for centuries and improve poor soils, allow more crops to be grown, improve crop yields up to 350 percent, retain nutrients longer and use less water, fertilizers, etc..
"The difference between terra preta and ordinary soils is immense. A hectare of meter-deep terra preta can contain 250 tonnes of carbon, as opposed to 100 tonnes in unimproved soils from similar parent material, according to Bruno Glaser, of the University of Bayreuth, Germany. To understand what this means, the difference in the carbon between these soils matches all of the vegetation on top of them. Furthermore, there is no clear limit to just how much biochar can be added to the soil.
… Johannes Lehmann, soil scientist and author of Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management, believes that a strategy combining biochar with biofuels could ultimately offset 9.5 billion tons of carbon per year-an amount equal to the total current fossil fuel emissions!"
Related video..
"Is Garbage The Solution To Tackling Climate Change? ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2009) — Converting the rubbish that fills the world’s landfills into biofuel may be the answer to both the growing energy crisis and to tackling carbon emissions, claim scientists in Singapore and Switzerland. New research published in Global Change Biology: Bioenergy, reveals how replacing gasoline with biofuel from processed waste could cut global carbon emissions by 80%."
The US currently produces over 9 billion tons of garbage and wastes per year…and rising.
Saline-tolerant crops… "Saltwater-loving plants could open up half a million square miles of previously unusable territory for energy crops, helping settle the heated food-versus-fuel debate, which nearly derailed biofuel progress last year.
By increasing the world’s irrigated acreage by 50 percent, saltwater crops could provide a no-guilt source of biomass for alt fuel makers and tone down the rhetoric of U.N. officials worried about food prices, one of whom called the conversion of arable land to biofuel crops "a crime against humanity."
Meh, I was wondering the very same thing ever since my sister dragged me off to see it with her. He looks suspiciously like another guy I've seen somewhere, though I can't put my finger on just what movie or commercial I've seen him in.
I've never heard a historian claim that.
Maybe you mean a unified Europe, since it spanned such a large area. Still an odd claim, as if the continent didn't exist before then.
he said that to the wall street journal in september of 2008. at that time gas was 1.49$ he got what he wanted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122904040307499791.html
1. London for the history, Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, the best museums in the world and excellent art galleries.
2. Barcelona for the wonderful Gaudi buildings, particularly the unfinished Sagrada Familia Cathedral.
3. Rome. The Vatican – an audience with the Pope (along with a few thousand other people – every Wednesday) was fantastic, as was the Vatican Museum and St Peter's. And again, the history – the Pantheon, the Roman ruins in the Palatino & the Forum, the Colloseum, the mosaics, Villa Boghese plus the Trevi Fountain and the many churches and cathedrals.
4. Athens. Just to see the Parthenon and the Acropolis, although the National Museum and the ancient Greek ruins dotted around the city are definitely worth visiting. Sitting in a taverna having a leisurely lunch is a must.
5. Vienna, Paris, Budapest and Prague. Historical palaces, beautiful gardens, castles, superb art galleries/museums, cathedrals, talented musicians…I can't choose.
And in all of the above – the food is generally excellent. And yes, I've been to them all.
You may not find a video. The quote comes from a story that was run in the Wall Street Journal from an interview.
"In a sign of one major internal difference, Mr. Chu has called for gradually ramping up gasoline taxes over 15 years to coax consumers into buying more-efficient cars and living in neighborhoods closer to work.
"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," Mr. Chu, who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in September.
But Mr. Obama has dismissed the idea of boosting the federal gasoline tax, a move energy experts say could be the single most effective step to promote alternative energies and temper demand."
A related blog article…
They may not want a direct tax but could be achieving goals of allowing higher prices affect how people buy cars or think about energy solutions. By not investing in other measures to produce lower cost bio-fuels, it would also fall in line with Chu's philosophy regarding global warming concerns.
The Congress recently raided the Patent Office of over a 100 million dollars ( and has raided millions more prior to this) which hampers invention and innovation at a time when it's needed to protect innovations to produce more biofuels or other options.
Chu speaking on goals for renewable energy…
Coal issues…
Chu on climate change…
Energy alternatives..
There are methods to produce biofuels from renewable sources which are carbon-neutral or negative. The question remains why are these not being developed further? A form of soil called Terra preta can also sequester huge amounts of carbon for centuries and improve poor soils, allow more crops to be grown, improve crop yields up to 350 percent, retain nutrients longer and use less water, fertilizers, etc..
"The difference between terra preta and ordinary soils is immense. A hectare of meter-deep terra preta can contain 250 tonnes of carbon, as opposed to 100 tonnes in unimproved soils from similar parent material, according to Bruno Glaser, of the University of Bayreuth, Germany. To understand what this means, the difference in the carbon between these soils matches all of the vegetation on top of them. Furthermore, there is no clear limit to just how much biochar can be added to the soil.
… Johannes Lehmann, soil scientist and author of Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management, believes that a strategy combining biochar with biofuels could ultimately offset 9.5 billion tons of carbon per year-an amount equal to the total current fossil fuel emissions!"
Related video..
"Is Garbage The Solution To Tackling Climate Change?
ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2009) — Converting the rubbish that fills the world’s landfills into biofuel may be the answer to both the growing energy crisis and to tackling carbon emissions, claim scientists in Singapore and Switzerland. New research published in Global Change Biology: Bioenergy, reveals how replacing gasoline with biofuel from processed waste could cut global carbon emissions by 80%."
The US currently produces over 9 billion tons of garbage and wastes per year…and rising.
A province in China is already converting waste plastics into oil to meet their needs…
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WPIO.php?printing=yes
Saline-tolerant crops…
"Saltwater-loving plants could open up half a million square miles of previously unusable territory for energy crops, helping settle the heated food-versus-fuel debate, which nearly derailed biofuel progress last year.
By increasing the world’s irrigated acreage by 50 percent, saltwater crops could provide a no-guilt source of biomass for alt fuel makers and tone down the rhetoric of U.N. officials worried about food prices, one of whom called the conversion of arable land to biofuel crops "a crime against humanity."
Meh, I was wondering the very same thing ever since my sister dragged me off to see it with her. He looks suspiciously like another guy I've seen somewhere, though I can't put my finger on just what movie or commercial I've seen him in.
it takes all kinds in this world don't it.
its not that funny
Yes, I am a fan of melted chocolate.