These days everyone is talking about alternative sources of energy. In the United States, President Barack Obama is touting the virtues of alternative energy technology, and the promise of green jobs, as well as reducing dependence on foreign oil and other environmentally harmful energy sources. The rest of the world is following suit, but the Japanese have really taken the lead in at least one area — kinetic energy generated by crowds of people walking through turnstiles at train stations. The new energy source uses piezoelectric foot mats installed beneath the ticket turnstiles to generate kinetic energy.
Japanese Train Station Powered by Kinetic Energy
Naysayers Claim Large Hadron Collider Could Destroy the Earth
The European Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a billion-dollar supercollider designed to smash protons together in an attempt to uncover the origins of the universe, is nearing completion and should go online by the end of the summer. But the appearance of the $6 billion supercollider has fueled fears among doomsday theorists that the powerful subatomic explosions created by the installation could create a black hole that will swallow up the earth.
A Doomsday Scenario Meant For the Sci-Fi Books
Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov might be musing in his grave with the most recent of stranger-than-fiction scenarios which have hit the popular consciousness in recent months. This has something to do with the possibility of a man-made black hole gobbling up Earth; yep – the possibility is legit, or the allegations concerning it, at least. Now that the Large Hadron Collider is almost operational, the concerns of two scientists are put to the test.
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