Ivanpah, is currently the world's largest group of solar/thermal power plants and it has come online. The plants function by reflecting sunlight at giant towers containing water.  The water boils and generates steam which turn turbines and produce electricity.  The three plants, combined, generate enough power to support 140,000 homes every day.  In order for a coal, oil or methane ("natural" gas) plant to power that many homes for 25 years, they would add 13 MILLION TONS of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The plant covers nearly 5.5 square miles and utilizes over 300,000 mirrors.   Read more [...]

  Remember back in the day when those Dianetics commercials first started airing (with the volcano??) and Scientology was all crazy mysterious (as opposed to just crazy)? Or maybe you don't remember those commercials, because you're not as ancient as me. That's okay, because chances are you can still remember a time when Scientology was THE hot celeb cult religion lifestyle trend pyramid scheme whatever you want to call it, right? Well. Ever since Tom Cruise started acting a little ... odd, the church of Xenu has been slowly losing its prestige, with secrets leaking out all over the place in the form of tell-all books and celebrity escapes and snubbed potential spouses, and the latest nail in Scientology's Read more [...]

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