Snow leopard winter colors wallpaper.
The Snow leopard is still under going a bit of discussion as to its taxonomy. The snow leopards closest relative is the cheetah. While not the only reason, the fact that neither snow leopards or cheetahs can roar like the “big cats” such as the lion is why they have been grouped and ungrouped and grouped again with the Pantherine cats. There is some speculation that the snow leopards are intermediates between small cats like the lynx and large cats like the tiger.
Cultured Coral Could Help Repair Damaged Reefs
Coral might be the slowest-growing crop ever farmed by the University of Florida, but researchers say damaged reefs could be repaired faster if they perfect methods to cultivate the marine organisms.
UF experts are raising seven species of coral at the Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory in Ruskin, and next week they’ll dive to check the progress of farmed corals returned to the wild last year.
This is obviously great news. At the very least cause for hope. One huge challenge is that even if some cultivated coral can make a difference in the short term there is still the consequences of global warming on corals, cultivated or not. It is, lets say unfortunate to think that science will always rescue mankind from its poor decisions.
Applied to install biggest solar array
Assuming the project is completed on schedule in 2008, Applied will install “over 1.9 megawatts of solar power generation capability at its research campus in Sunnyvale” — producing enough juice on an annual basis to power about 1,400 homes.
That, reported Cnet’s Michael Kanellos, would be “bigger than the 1.6 megawatt facility search giant Google announced to great fanfare last year.”
A little friendly competition between two tech leaders and ultimately we all benefit from first adapters like Google and Applied. They work out the kinks in design and efficiency and bring down the costs for the rest of us.
