Why China, India, Russia and the US are in a Moon Race.

"Nuclear fusion reactors using helium-3 could provide a highly efficient form of nuclear power with virtually no waste and no radiation.

One of many problems associated with using helium-3 to create energy via nuclear fusion is that, at least on the Earth, helium-3 is very, very rare indeed. Helium-3 is produced as a by-product of the maintenance of nuclear weapons, which could net a supply of around 15Kg a year. Helium-3 is, however, emitted by the Sun within its solar winds. Our atmosphere prevents any of this helium-3 arriving on the Earth. However, as it does not have an atmosphere, there is nothing to stop helium-3 arriving on the surface of the Moon and being absorbed by the lunar soil. As a result, it has been estimated that there are around 1,100,000 metric tonnes of helium-3 on the surface of the Moon down to a depth of a few metres. This helium-3 could potentially be extracted by heating the lunar dust to around 600 degrees C, before bringing it back to the Earth to fuel a new generation of nuclear fusion power plants.

About 25 tonnes of Helium-3 (or a fully-loaded Space Shuttle cargo bay's worth) could power the United States for a year. This means that Helium-3 has a potential economic value in the order of $3bn a tonne (yes, 3 billion dollars a tonne!) -- making it the only thing remotely economically viable to consider mining from the Moon given current and likely-near-future space travel technologies and capabilities."
From: ExplainingTheFuture

Energy Psychology in post-earthquake Pakistan, 2006

This is a short video of the work that Sarah Bird and I did in the earthquake region of northern Pakistan and Kashmir in 2006, when we introduced Energy Psychology techniques to medical professionals, community workers and children, to heal the emotional and physical effects of earthquake trauma and PTSD.

Data spike from the Global Consciousness Project

Dean Radin has reported a data spike from the Global Consciousness Project Collective consciousness at the time of the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Have a look!

Why Black?

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. The choice of 'black' for the blog page was inspired by Blackle.

Blackle is a Search Page created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

I encourage you to set Blackle as your home page. This way every time you load your Internet browser you will save a little bit of energy. Remember every bit counts!