WATER FREE ENERGY CAN BE USED IN ORDER TO POWER CARS

Water free energy is a technology that has been explored in hydrogen powered vehicles, and the technology has been proven to be powerful enough to completely replace gasoline.

There have been cars that have been created that have shown all a vehicle needs is water and the power to convert that water to hydrogen and it will then be able to be completely fueled.

The problem is, though, is there are those who have fought against this type of technology to the point of making water free energy all but disappear.

They refuse to allow any type of free energy to be used as a replacement of oil, and at most, what the government will agree to is water can be used along with gasoline in order to create fuel.

'Cloud Seeding' Doesn't Produce Rain

In many areas of the world, including California's Mojave Desert, rain is a precious and rare resource. To encourage rainfall, scientists use "cloud seeding," a weather modification process designed to increase precipitation amounts by dispersing chemicals into the clouds.

But research now reveals that the common practice of cloud seeding with materials such as silver iodide and frozen carbon dioxide may not be as effective as it had been hoped. In the most comprehensive reassessment of the effects of cloud seeding over the past fifty years, new findings from Prof. Pinhas Alpert, Prof. Zev Levin and Dr. Noam Halfon of Tel Aviv University's Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences have dispelled the myth that seeding is an effective mechanism for precipitation enhancement.

Saturn's Tsunamis of Ice

The mysterious rings and bright colors of Saturn hold a fascination for most of us, especially those of us with an interest in weather. What lies behind those rings? What kind of atmosphere fuels the ever-present orbs that circle the second largest planet in our solar system?

Amazing new information has surfaced about Saturn and its mysterious rings. Scientists say mile-high tsunamis of icy particles are circling in Saturn's rings. Using data from NASA's Cassini probe, scientists say the so-called ice tsunamis move hundreds of feet each day.

Want to Save the Planet? Stop Buying CDs, Start Downloading Music

It seems intuitive enough that downloading music would be less carbon-intensive than buying a CD that has been transported in a truck and wrapped in multiple layers of plastic. Now a study (PDF) funded by Intel and Microsoft and performed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University has confirmed it: Purchasing digital music cuts carbon emissions by 40% to 80% compared to buying CDs.

Climate's Tipping Points Arrive Suddenly

"Climate scientists worry about 'tipping points' ... thresholds beyond which a small additional increase in average temperature or some associated climate variable results in major changes to the affected system. Among the tipping points we face in the near future are the complete disappearance of Arctic sea ice in summer, leading to drastic changes in ocean circulation and climate patterns across the whole Northern Hemisphere; acceleration of ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, driving rates of sea-level increase to 6 feet or more per century; and ocean acidification from carbon dioxide absorption, causing massive disruption in ocean food webs."

“An understanding of this event, in the context of timing and magnitude of the change, has important implications for how the climate system operates and what the potential future response in a warmer global climate might be,” said Harwood. “A clear understanding of what has happened in the past, and the integration of these data into ice sheet and climate models, are important steps in advancing the ability of these computer models to reproduce past conditions, and with improved models be able to better predict future climate responses.”

WA drought boosts snow in Antarctica

THE SIGNIFICANT DROUGHT IN southwest Australia may be linked to increased snowfall in the Antarctic over the past 30 years, researchers say. Understanding the connection could help farmers in Western Australia plan for years to come.

Analysis of ice cores, drilled at Law Dome just inland from Australia's Casey Station in the Antarctic, shows snowfall may be linked to climate in the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean and southwest WA.

Dr Tas van Ommen, principal research scientist with the Australian Antarctic Division in Hobart, presented his research results at Curtin University in Perth on Monday. He said the ice cores from the Law Dome site provided a record of annual snowfall variations stretching back over 750 years. And and over the past 30 years, the cores indicated there had been a significant increase in snowfall in that area, he said.

This was associated with significantly lower rainfall and subsequent drought in the southwest of Western Australia. "So when there's extra moisture at Law Dome, the same circulation pattern is starving Western Australia of moisture," Tas said.

Further work is underway to explore these connections and understand the reasons behind them, he added.

Electric Clouds

In a recent press release, scientists from the Weizmann Institute and the Goddard Space Flight Center announced that a mysterious zone of previously undiscovered particles fills the airspace around clouds.

Ilan Koren of the Weizmann Institute wrote: “The effects of this zone are not included in most computer models that estimate the impact of aerosols on climate. This could be one of the reasons why current measurements of this effect don’t match our model estimates.”

What appears to be clear blue sky around clouds, such as in the image above, is actually a region of particles that do not correspond to water vapor or the pollution-induced gasses that investigators expected to see. Since clouds have a high albedo and scatter polarized light from their outer margins, it is challenging for the MODIS research team to detect anything near them. So that glare from specular distortion does not obscure their results they avoid scanning an area about one kilometer distant from cloud boundaries.

World Wide Lightning Location Network

University of Washington in Seattle operating a network of lightning location sensors at VLF (3-30 kHz). Most ground-based observations in the VLF band are dominated by impulsive signals from lightning discharges called “sferics”. Significant radiated electromagnetic power exists from a few hertz to several hundred megahertz, with the bulk of the energy radiated at VLF.

"With our network of sferic sensors we are producing regular maps of lightning activity over the entire Earth. Our map showing the entire world uses coloured spots to indicate lightning strokes (red stars inside an open circle are active WWLLN lightning sensor locations). Click on the map for explanation."

Freak Forecasts: Bizarre Weather Phenomena

Our biosphere is chock-full of meteorological oddities: freakish cold snaps, dust devils, rains of frogs or fish. Here is a sampling of the oddest of the odd:

Red sprites and blue jets. Occasionally, a storm cell will release a giant, reddish charge into the upper atmosphere—called a “sprite,” these discharges of energy can top out at 30 to 55 miles high, practically high-fiving the ionosphere. Sprites are triggered by a large, normal lightning flash lower down.

Another type of capping cloud, called a “pileus,” forms over other rising air masses rather than mountaintops. Pilei can be seen over cumulus clouds, nuclear explosions, even volcanic eruptions—as on June 12, 2009, when the International Space Station took this startling video-like series of photos of Sarychev Peak, a violently exploding Russian volcano.

Properly called a parhelion, a sun dog occurs when sunlight bends through a high, icy haze in the atmosphere. On either side of a faint halo around the sun appear two bright—sometimes very bright—spots, the result of refraction.

Giant snowflakes/hail. The largest snowflake on record was 15 inches in diameter. The biggest flakes are created when thousands of symmetrical, 6-sided snow crystals freeze into one large disk.

Video: Incredibly clear view of Igor

Amazing satellite imagery, called Rapid Scan, of Igor. You can clearly see the well defined eye. This video is courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.