Bookmarks for February 14th

Feb 14, 2011

When I'm not blogging, I'm browsing. Here are sites and pages that I bookmarked on February 14th:

Europa helps astronomers peer inside Jupiter's missing belt: The ongoing turmoil inside Jupiter's missing South Equatorial Belt is now visible in unprecedented detail thanks to the Keck II telescope and the icy Jovian moon Europa.
CTAHR receives $6 million: UH Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources was recently awarded $6 million by the U.S. Department of Energy to increase Hawaii’s energy security using locally produced renewable energy.
Hawaii baby enters long-term national health study: Researchers said Miwa is the very first of what they hope will be a thousand children in Hawaii, who will be tracked periodically through a study center at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
Remote Pacific Island a Living Laboratory for Climate Change: The series of islands and islets, totaling 700 acres arranged in a horseshoe pattern around shallow lagoons and supported by a 16,000-acre coral reef, is more than a remote paradise
Sea urchins the perfect janitors to keep Kaneohe coral clean: With the help of a canoe club, state workers placed about 1,000 baby collector urchins this month on a patch of coral cleaned of an obnoxious alien seaweed with the state's "super sucker" vacuum cleaner.
Kamehameha Schools planning wind farm in Haleiwa: Twelve Clipper Liberty turbines will generate 30 megawatts of electricity, enough to power almost 8,000 Oahu homes, cutting Hawaii's oil consumption by nearly 140,000 barrels a year.
Aegis BMD Facility To Be Set Up In Hawaii: A new testing site is being planned in Hawaii to mirror other BMD testing facilities there. Work should start on the site within the next couple of years.
Losses at Hoku accelerate as delays hurt plant: Honolulu-based Hoku Corp. said yesterday it has fallen further behind schedule and over budget on a polysilicon plant it is building in Pocatello, Idaho.
Publishers Oppose Hawaii Liability Legislation: The Association of American Publishers opposes a proposed law that would hold travel writers and publishers of visitors’ guidesliable for injury or death suffered by readers who trespass on privately-owned land.
Hawaiian Electric announces first utility-scale solar project [PDF]: Hawaiian Electric Company and IC Sunshine LLC have reached a power purchase agreement (PPA) for IC Sunshine to sell electric power to the utility over 20 years from a five-megawatt solar farm to be located in Campbell Industrial Park on the island of Oahu.