18 June 2010
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Everything will be fine, trust us
If 5,000 feet is deep enough to make it very hard to fix any problems with an oil well, it would seem that 8,530 feet would deep enough to warrant extraordinary precautions (if you're going to be drilling at all, not something I'm in favor of). But Chevron, who's drilling a well at this depth off the coast of Newfoundland says that a relief well isn't necessary (even though a relief well could probably have avoided the Deepwater Horizon disaster).... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The National Renewable Energy Lab has Done It!
As Lloyd and other sensible people keep 
Goat Tech 1.0
An internet giant's datacenter might not be the first place where you would expect to find a herd of goats, but if you happen to be at Yahoo!'s datacenter in Quincy, Washington, you could very well meet some very special employees working to clear out invasive weeds.... 
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