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The power of Ra on Earth!

Imagine a future where you could distill and electrolize1 half a bathtub of crappy, waste water from your local harbour and create a potent nuclear fuel capable of powering your whole city. Sounds like the stuff of bad Keanu Reeves pseudo-sci-fi; but, our good friends south of the border in sunny California, are attempting to do just that!

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Sounds from space, microwaving your inner ears and other tricks of nature.

Sounds From Space…

I was watching the Leonid Meteor shower in 2001 on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island. It was cold, quiet and a site to behold. I was on a small outcropping of rock above an eerily still ocean, with my back to a dense forest of Jack Pines. The meteors were streaking in sometimes several times a minute, and were nothing more than faint streaking points of light, while the larger bolides cut huge celestial gashes across the early morning sky, leaving long, brief, luminous trails of plasma in their wake.

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