WHY ARE YOU SO DUMB EPA

I could be wrong, this could be a brilliant political move to erase the prevalent arguments of the coal lobby entrenched within the halls of government! Surely the comments will be overwhelmingly toward the more expensive option, especially with no giant interests paying smaller lobbying organizations to field mass potemkin write-ins. That's never been a common technique used all of the time, right?

Cynically speaking, the entire seeking-comment to produce a paper to advise a committee to allow the managers to deliberate so on and so forth is a traditional stall tactic to prevent legislation or changes from being implemented or even considered in the near future. Though the EPA can essentially appoint themselves powers at any time they are either doing this (it seems to me) on orders from the West Wing to allow further time for obamoperatives maneuvering or to provide themselves with validation for their self-appointments, because they believe that validation is going to make a difference justification-wise to the partisan Supreme Court, where a ruling would eventually be headed if Congress (when Congress) gets involved. The assumption that Congress wouldn't get involved if they receive lots of comment stems from a misunderstanding of how Congress is funded through campaigns, especially now that corporations have free reign to exercise their "freedom of speech".

TIM: I warned you! But did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all,
didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Well,
it's always the same, I always--
ARTHUR: Oh, shut up!

Stop Drilling Petition

I can't find the original petition text anywhere so hopefully this is not a corporate trick

Not that all corporate tricks are bad- Shazam!

On the other hand...

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FINALLY

The fact that 47 U.S. senators would vote against this bill kind of makes me want to drink bleach and burn my eyebrows off with a blowtorch

Want it

I don't understand how it can remain cool... And I wouldn't want gel over my food.

we cool things to slow bacterial growth in our food, the goo instead uses bioluminescence to disaffect any bacteria in it's vicinity so that it doesn't require cooling- and what if the goo is freaking delicious?

Naturally it won't keep icecream or pudding cool but it might regrow itself slowly as some bio-polymers have demonstrated the ability to do, it would likely eat ambient toxins for fuel. I doubt it would be difficult to wash off the stuff if necessary. If it ever gets to market I'll have you all over to try it out, I promise

Cost projections for staple food crops with global warming effect in fifty years

increased demand, diminished supply

naturally there needs to be a study on the effects of the chemicals leaching from the polypropylene bags as they are exposed to bleach, hot water, and soap though... that may be even worse cancer-wise

Solar Plane Level Up! 26 Hours++++

"We are on the verge of the perpetual flight," he said.

Jubilant pilot Andre Borschberg told Reuters television: "It was unbelievable, success better than we expected. We almost thought to make it longer, but ... we demonstrated what we wanted to demonstrate so they made me come back, so here I am."

By the Squared Cube Law I declare that Nebraska should be made into a giant wind turbine

Thanks Will for ruining my day ;) Really though, reading that article with that haunting Vivaldi in the background and seeing the grim reaper pic is, well, sad.

Kill all mosquitoes?

"They don't occupy an unassailable niche in the environment," says entomologist Joe Conlon, of the American Mosquito Control Association in Jacksonville, Florida. "If we eradicated them tomorrow, the ecosystems where they are active will hiccup and then get on with life. Something better or worse would take over."

stupid sexy flanders