Brad Hankins http://bradhankins.com Be Like Water Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:23:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Nanoparticle electrode for batteries could make large-scale power storage possible http://bradhankins.com/design-engineering/nanoparticle-electrode-for-batteries-could-make-large-scale-power-storage/ http://bradhankins.com/design-engineering/nanoparticle-electrode-for-batteries-could-make-large-scale-power-storage/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:43:47 +0000 Brad Hankins http://bradhankins.com/?p=607 Continue reading →]]> The sun doesn’t always shine and the breeze doesn’t always blow and therein lie perhaps the biggest hurdles to making wind and solar power usable on a grand scale. If only there were an efficient, durable, high-power, rechargeable battery we could use to store large quantities of excess power generated on windy or sunny days until we needed it. And as long as we’re fantasizing, let’s imagine the battery is cheap to build, too. – Louis Bergeron

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/november/longlife-power-storage-112311.html

]]> http://bradhankins.com/design-engineering/nanoparticle-electrode-for-batteries-could-make-large-scale-power-storage/feed/ 0 Wolly mammoth to be reconstructed from bone marrow http://bradhankins.com/science-epistemology/wolly-mammoth-to-be-reconstructed-from-bone-marrow/ http://bradhankins.com/science-epistemology/wolly-mammoth-to-be-reconstructed-from-bone-marrow/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:42:12 +0000 Brad Hankins http://bradhankins.com/?p=604 Scientists in Japan & Russia have found a frozen bone they think is preserved well enough to reconstruct and clone a mammoth via elephant implantation.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-japan-russia-chance-clone-mammoth.html

]]> http://bradhankins.com/science-epistemology/wolly-mammoth-to-be-reconstructed-from-bone-marrow/feed/ 0 Water Changes Everything http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/water-changes-everything/ http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/water-changes-everything/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:41:15 +0000 Brad Hankins http://bradhankins.com/?p=602 Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It’s a crisis because it only starts with water — but water affects everything in life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHhwxvQqxg

]]> http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/water-changes-everything/feed/ 0 Income Inequality Across the UN http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/income-inequality-across-the-un/ http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/income-inequality-across-the-un/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:39:31 +0000 Brad Hankins http://bradhankins.com/?p=599 This is an infographic that demostrates income inequality across various countries in the world. The data used to generate it was gathered from the CIA Factbook.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/what-are-wallst-protestors-angry-about/

]]> http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/income-inequality-across-the-un/feed/ 0 Debtris http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/debtris/ http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/debtris/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:39:04 +0000 Brad Hankins http://bradhankins.com/?p=597 Brilliant video by Information is Beautiful concerning the state of American economics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Pahd2X-eE

]]> http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/debtris/feed/ 0 The Wall Street Pentagon Papers http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/the-wall-street-pentagon-papers/ http://bradhankins.com/philosophy-politics/the-wall-street-pentagon-papers/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:37:39 +0000 Brad Hankins http://bradhankins.com/?p=594 Data release reveals “emergency lending programs” that doled out $12.3 TRILLION in taxpayer money – $3.3 trillion in liquidity, $9 trillion in “other financial arrangements.”
-David DeGraw

http://pubrecord.org/nation/8622/pentagon-papers-wall-street/

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