The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“Zombie” Servers and Inefficiency Drive Energy Waste at Data Centers U.S. server facilities are riddled with underused machines, report says. EXTRACT The high energy demand of those servers is well documented, but up to 30 percent of them are drawing power without actually doing anything. Read full article.
Millennials Are Renting Instead Of Buying And The Retail Industry Is Freaking Out “Never mind buying a second home when you can rent a chateau in France on Airbnb for $200. Why hire a chauffeur when they don’t come with an app that tracks their relative location to yours, like Uber?” she says. “Even owning …
Huh? War on waste: Pentagon auditor spotlights US billions blown in Afghanistan EXTRACT: It’s not clear how much of the reconstruction aid is considered to have been wasted, but SIGAR officials say that during 2012, Sopko’s first year on the job, the general inspected projects, programs, and general issues that totaled $10.6 billion in funding …
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LENR (aka Cold Fusion) entails the production of industrial-scale excess heat — often times producing energy densities associated with traditional “Hot Fusion”. In traditional hot fusion experiments, the reaction is not yet proven controllable and all sorts of harmful radiation result, which demands all sorts of precautionary measures costing huge sums. In the case of …
Senior Air Force Officer: The F-35 Is An Epic Waste A senior US air force officer says Britain’s new stealth jet may be no better than existing aircraft. Britain’s long-delayed $117 million stealth fighter may need to be cancelled because of its poor performance, according to analysis by a senior US Air Force officer. The …
Secrecy = culture of waste. Balancing Transparency and National Security Is keeping military funding secret truly necessary for national security? Not according to Pieter and Siemon Wezeman. Greater transparency not only makes governments more accountable, it also helps reduce the causes of insecurity and conflict. By Pieter Wezeman and Siemon Wezeman for SIPRI EXTRACT The …
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The Favela Chef Turning Food Waste Into Organic Dishes | Food For Thought | Slow Food International – Good, Clean and Fair food. From www.slowfood.com – February 17, 10:59 PM Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food …
