earthquake Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 08:42:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Japan’s Emissions Slightly Rise, But Not From Nuclear Shutdown https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japans-emissions-slightly-rise-not-nuclear-shutdown-20160926/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japans-emissions-slightly-rise-not-nuclear-shutdown-20160926/#respond Mon, 26 Sep 2016 08:42:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60633 The earthquake that terrorized Japan in 2011 led to the shutdown of nuclear energy. There was an increase in CO2 emissions by 11.8 percent from 2010 to 2014. Could the reported increase be caused by the shutdown after the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant disaster? Sources claim the rise in emissions wasn’t much of a rise at […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japans-emissions-slightly-rise-not-nuclear-shutdown-20160926/feed/ 0 60633 How Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Global Warming are Connected – A Plausible Theory https://www.greenoptimistic.com/earthquake-global-warming-theory-20120120/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/earthquake-global-warming-theory-20120120/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:36:43 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=22109 The recent volcanic eruptions in Indonesia and March 11th’s massive earthquake in Japan (and the ensuing tsunami) may have a simple rational scientific explanation: land ice melt. The oceans have risen 4 inches in the last 50 years (wikipedia.org/Current sea level rise). Two inches of this rise is due to thermal expansion (the oceans have […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/earthquake-global-warming-theory-20120120/feed/ 2 22109 Solarial: Solar Power for Disasters https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solarial-solar-power-for-disasters-20080515/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solarial-solar-power-for-disasters-20080515/#respond Thu, 15 May 2008 12:40:37 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=343 I recently found a website providing some design details to make a solar powered balloon, or zeppelin to assist the rescue teams in case of a natural calamity, such as the one in Burma, the earthquake in China, and so on.

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