POSTED ON NOV 9 2011 BY TRISTAN ROBERTS
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The three-blade Alden hydroelectric turbine achieves high generation efficiency while allowing fish to pass through unscathed.
An environmentalist dies and reports to the pearly gates, but there is a mix-up and she is sent to the gates of hell. Once in hell, she is horrified by the air and water pollution, global warming, and habitat destruction. But she gets to work to improve the situation, and soon the hellscape is covered with grass and plants, the food is organic, the air is clean, and the people are happy.
One day, God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, “So, how's it going down there in hell?” Satan tells God about the improvements brought by the environmentalist, and God says, “What? You've got an environmentalist? That's a mistake — send her up here or I’ll sue.” Satan laughs and answers, “Yeah, right. And just where are you going to get a lawyer?”
It takes all types to deal with our environmental problems — and today I’d like to focus on the researchers who are toiling away in laboratories, trying to eke out greater efficiencies from technologies that most of us never give any thought to. Here are some recent highlights that I have dug up.
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