Hemp fibres 'better than graphene'

The waste fibres from hemp crops can be transformed into high-performance energy storage devices, scientists say.

They "cooked" cannabis bark into carbon nanosheets and built supercapacitors "on a par with or better than graphene" - the industry gold standard.
Electric cars and power tools could harness this hemp technology, the US researchers say.
They presented their work at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco.
"People ask me: why hemp? I say, why not?" said Dr David Mitlin of Clarkson University, New York, who describes his device in the journal ACS Nano.
"We're making graphene-like materials for a thousandth of the price - and we're doing it with waste.
"The hemp we use is perfectly legal to grow. It has no THC in it at all - so there's no overlap with any recreational activities."
Secret sauce In countries including China, Canada and the UK, hemp can be grown industrially for clothing and building materials.
But the leftover bast fibre - the inner bark - typically ends up as landREAD MORE

SEAGULL -NOT THAT BAD

Yes i know seagulls can be a problem when scavenging scraps.But it is our fault for encouring them to ffed,i dot agree with spraying them with water -similar to riot
control.

Climate 'key driver' in European forest disturbances

Europe's forests have experienced increased disturbances throughout the 20th Century from wind, bark beetles and wildfires, a study has shown.

A team of European-based scientists identified climatic changes as a "key driver behind this increase".
However, they added, how the expected continuation of climate change would affect Europe's forests in the future remained unresolved.
The findings have been published online by the journal Nature Climate Change.
The researchers wrote: "Natural disturbances, that is, large pulses of tree mortality from agents such as wildfire, insect outbreaks or strong winds, are integral drivers of forest dynamics and contribute to the diversity and adaptive capacity of ecosystems."
But co-author Rupert Seidl from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna observed: "These disturbances have intensified considerably in recent decades, which increasingly challenges the sustainable management of forest ecosystems."
The authors said the frequency and severity of large wildfires had increased around the globe over the past decade.
They added: "In addition, recent bark beetle outbreaks, for example, in North A;READ MORE

Cfz-The Event

Weirdweekend is  coming upon us again, this year in Hartland for reasons I could not go into. As part of the annual cfz event iam doing a raines explains-a cartoon through a tablet app about the event in a part normal and part weird way. This is event number 2 for me, no don't need toilet paper, well not yet. It may have hiccups - weather, BT doing work that weekend, speakers running late, panic, mayhem but this is cfz and I find it normal. You may see me-i am the pirate look alike crutch in one hand, no parrot, not like Monty Python stretch, ie dead, dark glasses, tattoos, earrings, and a ex Essex old boring fart. So eat, drink, watch, debate, enjoy and remember the effort  for your enjoyment from the smallest cog to jon and Corinna Downes, who in my opinion deserve a gold bamboon, well a plastic one with gold spray paint , show starts soon

Raines explains

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Raines explains

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RAINES EXPAINS

Robin Williams RI P

From the early days as a street performance were he was spotted by a productive member of happy days , tv show in usa.He then went on to play mork , alien , in happy days which launched his career. He appeared in many films my favourite is jack. He battled with demons all hid life, thanks for the laughter.

REPLY FROM EMAIL SENT TO LONDON ZOO

Dear Mark,

Thank you for contacting ZSL. Unfortunately, our keepers are unavailable for public interviews due to the demanding nature of their work. However, you may like to check out the experiences we offer on our website: www.zsl.org/experiences

We have Meet the Lions and Meet the Tiger experiences which include a very short opportunity to ask the keepers any questions you may have.

Kind regards,

Samir Hafiz

Supporter Services Coordinator

Zoological Society of London

Regent's Park

London NW1 4RY

Tel: 020 7449 6200  www.zsl.org  

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

LIVING CONSERVATION

No matter what

Why for l like this song it due to lyrics .from thr fact can be  religious or how in my life judged and came back.i remember this when get stressed or upset -I only kjow what is true

Raines explains

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Staffordshire cemetery experiment creates extra burial plots

Fresh space has been created in a Staffordshire cemetery by using a new system which allows burials in plots separated by plastic walls.

The remaining land at Eccleshall Road Cemetery in Stafford is too sandy to allow conventional burials, Stafford Borough Council said.
Instead 12 plots have been created using plastic partitions sunk into the ground.
The method makes the graves safer and uses less space, a spokesman said.
The council said the burial system is believed to be the first of its kind used in this country.READ MORE

ELEPHANT SCRATCHS VW POLO.

It came as a surprise to a couple in a vw polo when an elephant in photo fancied a scratch.Normally in the wild their use logs,small,trees,rocks to relieve itch or remove parasites-Pilanesburg National Park,South Africa.

Rosetta spacecraft reaches Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

European spacecraft Rosetta became the first ever to catch up with a comet on Wednesday, a landmark stage in a decade-long space mission that scientists hope will help unlock some of the secrets of the solar system.
Scientists and spectators at ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, cheered Wednesday after the spacecraft successfully completed its final thrust to swing alongside comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
A Twitter account run by the ESA tweeted a photo of the craft's approach shortly after 5:30 a.m. ET.read more ,see photos and video link

FLOWER LOOKS LIKE BIRD.

This  picure  is  a PINK MOTH ORCHID  and  how it formed a head,eyes,baek like a bird. Taken by Christan  Kneidinger at a botanical garden ,Litz, Austria.

HI E.T

DR.Sara Seager,Massachusetts Institute Of Technology  is  claiming  that  evidence of  alien life  could  be found  within 2o years.This  is  due  to a new  generation of  super powered telescopes that  can  peer into distant planets atmospheres for chemical footprints and  due  to  launch 2018.

HI BIRDMAN

On Monday 4th august  it  started out  a normal garden duty day  at  cfz headquarters.Then along  came  aunt  Beth with come doves,pigoens,a couple  of  rabbit  cages.Then  me ,jon,corinna,graham preceded to take them to the  pheasant  home.Where me  and  aunt  Beth released  them, and  after a moment  1,2 then 3 birds  were  on my baseball cap on my  head  much  to the  amusement to the  cfz family.Jon filmed for   cfz on the  track  and  said my  new name was birdman.All the birds  brought in were tame and  each had  a tale to say,one came from appledore and was perching on people,aut beth is a person who is pasionate about animals.

HEDGEHOG HOUSE

Day 1 - the hedgehogs are settling in their new envroment   at c.f.z headquarters,woolsery.Day 2 -a visit by  jons wife corinna to check if we need food,water.Day 3 Aunt beth  comes to visit us and explain to jo,corinna,graham what our poo looks like ,coming soon to cfz on the track .

Lights Out' ends day of WW1 centenary commemorations

A candle-lit vigil at Westminster Abbey and a "lights out" event have concluded a day of ceremonies marking 100 years since Britain entered World War One.

People were invited to turn off their lights for an hour until 23:00 BST, the time war was declared in 1914.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and David Cameron attended a twilight ceremony at St Symphorien Military Cemetery near Mons, Belgium.
The Prince of Wales was at a service in Glasgow, among other commemorations.
The Lights Out event - organised by 14-18 NOW, a cultural programme to mark the centenary - saw households, businesses and public buildings across the UK turn out their lights to leave a single candle or light burning.
The event was inspired by the words of wartime Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, who said on the eve of WW1: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
The conflict between 1914 and 1918 - which became known as the Great War - left 17 million soldiers and civilians dead-.READ MORE AND VIDEO LINK

The family that pulls strings

A long time ago, in a land far away, there was a little girl who made puppets. "I made them myself," recalls Lyndie Wright. "I filled my mother's oven with papier-mache." One day, a touring puppet company came through Pretoria, in South Africa, where the little girl lived. She went to a show and was spellbound. "There is a picture in the archives somewhere, showing me in the audience," she says.
Years later, the puppet company came back. By now, Lyndie was a student at art school, but she joined up to be general dogsbody and went touring through South Africa and neighbouring countries. The man who ran the theatre, John Wright, was older than her, but they fell in love. When Lyndie moved to London to study at the Central School of Art, John came too.
In a back alley in Islington, they found a ruined temperance hall. There was no roof and trees were growing in the main space. They decided to buy it and set up a permanent puppet theatre. They offered £750, John's inheritance from an aunt, and for this sum they were given the hall and a tiny adjacent cottage.
That was 50 years ago. Today, the Little Angel Theatre is known as the home of British puppetry, with an extraordinary reputation for developing talent. Patrons include Judi Dench, Simon Rattle and the author Michael Rosen. To mark the anniversary, the theatre is putting on a version of The Tempest in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The show has just opened in Stratford before coming home to the tiny north- READ MORE