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  1. -Measurement - Converting Between Units of Weight (SearchThingy.com)
      Provides instant conversions among ounces, pounds, grams, kilograms, stones, and tons. United Kingdom (UK) spelling is millimetres, centimetres, and kilometres. 6-01

  2. -Measurement - Converting Between Units of Length (SearchThingy.com)
      Provides instant conversions among inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers. United Kingdom (UK) spelling is millimetres, centimetres, and kilometres.11-01

  3. -Measurement - Converting Between Units of Area (SearchThingy.com)
      Provides instant conversions among square inches, feet, yards, acres, miles, millimeters, centimeters, hectares, and kilometers. United Kingdom (UK) spelling is millimetres, centimetres, and kilometres. 11-01

  4. -Measurement - Converting Between Units of Volume (SearchThingy.com)
      Provides instant conversions among liters, pints, gallons and cubic feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers. United Kingdom (UK) spelling is litres, millimetres, centimetres, and kilometres. 11-01

  5. Converting al Qaeda Agents Into U.S. Agents in the U.S. (Time)
      Provides details on how the U.S. Department of Justice is converting al Qaeda supporters in the U.S. into agents for the U.S. government." 6-03

  6. Converting Mechanical Energy into Electrical Energy (PBS News)
      "This lesson plan will take approximately 50 minutes." 5-07

  7. Converting Degrees Centigrade (Celsius) to Fahreneheit (Online Calculators)
      Provides conversions.

  8. Converting Coal Plants to Biomass (DailyCamera.com)
      "Much of the excess wood is now burned in place or at slash drop-off areas. A five-county initiative based in Fort Collins called Peak to Peak Wood, which includes Boulder, is actively trying to create markets for the excess biomass, so it can be sold instead of burned." 06-09

  9. Green School - How to Start a Green School (Alliance to Save Energy)
      Provides the steps necessary to start a Green School within your community. A Green School involves teachers, students, administrators, school staff, parents, and the community in converting an existing school into an energy efficient school, with interactive projects for students. 8-00

  10. Hydrogen Fuel Benefits (U.S. Senator Harry Reid)
      Provides reasons for converting to hydrogen as a fuel source, such as that it is not toxic and produces no pollution. 12-00

  11. Awesome Talking Library (Awesome Library) star
      Converts online text into spoken words through the Awesome Talkster program. Awesome Talkster has one of the clearest synthesized voices on the Web.

      Converting online text into speech has many uses. For example, Talkster can speak online stories or books to children while an adult supervises. The voice can be put in "Boy" or "Girl" mode to add a character with a bubble over his or her head. The bubble will show each word as it is spoken and the voice can be put on "slow" for your child to follow. Talkster can thereby assist your child in learning how to pronounce words while reading.

      Talkster is also useful for adults. It can speak news articles to you in one open browser while you are searching for information in another browser window.

      For persons with visual impairments or poor coordination, Talkster can be navigated with keystrokes.

      The Web can be navigated using a version of Awesome Library in a different language, such as Spanish, while using a voice for that language that is available through the Awesome Talkster. Links to different language versions of the Awesome Library are available at the bottom of most Awesome Library pages. Links to free voices for different languages can be found on the Awesome Talking Library's help page. 9-02

  12. Bluetooth Adapters (PDAMart.com)
      Provides adapters for converting a USB port, printer, or computer to Bluetooth wireless. 7-03

  13. 11-14-04 Ion propulsion rocket gets to the Moon (CBS News)
      "A European Space Agency rocket entered moon orbit Monday in a unique mission using a pioneering power plant."

      "The s-called SMART-1 spacecraft blasted off from Kourou, French Guiana, Sept. 27, 2003, on top of an Ariane 5 rocket, the Washington Post reported."

      "Since then its ion propulsion engine has been slowly moving the spacecraft by expelling positively charged atoms, or ions, of the gas xenon, accelerated by an electrical field inside the spacecraft's engine."

      "The engine does not combust fuel; rather it splits atoms with electricity to get ions, accelerates them at high speed, and then ejects them, driving the spacecraft forward. SMART-1 generates its electricity by converting sunlight with outsize solar arrays that give the spacecraft a 45-foot wingspan." 11-04

  14. -Coal Gasification (DOE.gov) star
      The United States generates over 50 percent of its electricity from coal plants. The USA is number one in the world in coal reserves.

      "A coal gasification power plant, however, typically gets dual duty from the gases it produces. First, the coal gases, cleaned of impurities, are fired in a gas turbine - much like natural gas - to generate one source of electricity. The hot exhaust of the gas turbine is then used to generate steam for a more conventional steam turbine-generator. This dual source of electric power, called a 'combined cycle,' is much more efficient in converting coal's energy into usable electricity. The fuel efficiency of a coal gasification power plant can be boosted to 50 percent or more."

      "Higher efficiencies translate into more economical electric power and potential savings for ratepayers. A more efficient plant also uses less fuel to generate power, meaning that less carbon dioxide is produced. In fact, coal gasification power processes under development by the Energy Department could cut the formation of carbon dioxide by 40 percent or more compared to today's conventional coal-burning plant."

      "The capability to produce electricity, hydrogen, chemicals, or various combinations while eliminating nearly all air pollutants and potentially greenhouse gas emissions makes coal gasification one of the most promising technologies for the energy plants of tomorrow." 10-05

  15. -12-06-05 U.S. House Leader's Indictment Not Dismissed (CBS News)
      "A judge dismissed a conspiracy charge Monday against Rep. Tom DeLay but refused to throw out the far more serious allegations of money-laundering, dashing the congressman's hopes for now of reclaiming his post as House majority leader."

      "When he was indicted in September, DeLay was required under House rules to relinquish the leadership post he had held since 2003. While Monday's ruling was a partial victory for DeLay, he cannot reclaim his post because he remains under indictment."

      The judge said "if prosecutors can prove that DeLay and his associates obtained the corporate donations 'with the express intent of converting those funds to the use of individual candidates,' or that they converted money legally collected by sending it to the Republican National Committee and asking for the same amount to be sent back to Texas candidates, 'then they will have established that money was laundered.' "

      "The alleged campaign-finance scheme had far-reaching political effects: With DeLay's fundraising muscle, the GOP took control of the Texas House for the first time in 130 years, then pushed through a congressional redistricting plan engineered by DeLay that resulted in more Texas Republicans going to Congress." 12-05

  16. Ethanol from Switchgrass or Corn Stover (Iowa State University - Baker)
      "The energy balance from corn, then, is slightly positive. However, ethanol can also be derived from another source, namely, cellulosic feedstocks such as corn stover or switchgrass. In this case, the energy balance is much improved, as shown in Table 1 of this paper by McLaughlin and Walsh. Their data show that while the energy gain from corn grain is 21%, the energy gain from converting switchgrass to ethanol is 343%!” Visitors sometimes spell as switch grass. 01-06

  17. -03-23-06 Afghan Man Facing Death Penalty for Becoming Christian (Bloomberg.com)
      "U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist urged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to 'use every diplomatic means necessary' to win the immediate release of an Afghan man facing the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity."

      "The dispute over the prosecution of Rahman has exposed religious tensions in a country the Bush administration has promoted as a tolerant, emerging democracy. The U.S. is spending almost $1 billion a month on military operations and rebuilding in Afghanistan."

      "Top Muslim clerics said today that Rahman, 41, should be executed, the Associated Press reported from Kabul. 'Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die,' AP cited cleric Abdul Raoulf as saying. Raoulf was jailed three times by the Taliban, according to the news agency." 03-06

  18. -03-27-06 Christian Convert Released in Afghanistan (CNN News)
      "An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released from prison after the case was dropped, the justice minister said Tuesday." 03-06

  19. Replacing Corn With Perennial Grasses Improves Carbon Footprint of Biofuels (eScienceNews.com)
      "Converting forests or fields to biofuel crops can increase or decrease greenhouse gas emissions, depending on where – and which – biofuel crops are used, University of Illinois researchers report this month. The researchers analyzed data from dozens of studies to determine how planting new biofuel crops can influence the carbon content of the soil. Their findings appear this month in the journal Global Change Biology Bioenergy."

      " 'From the time that John Deere invented the steel plow, which made it possible to break the prairie sod and begin farming this part of the world, the application of row crop agriculture to the Midwest has caused a reduction of soil carbon of about 50 percent,' said Evan DeLucia, a professor of plant biology at Illinois and corresponding author on the new study." 02-09

  20. -05-08-09 Study: Bioelectricity Better than Ethanol (Time.com)
      "For every acre of land planted with an energy crop — like corn or switchgrass — turning that biomass into electricity gives you more 'miles per acre' than converting it to liquid ethanol, which is how biomass is used today, according to the study. A small SUV powered by bioelectricity could travel nearly 14,000 miles on the energy produced by an acre of switchgrass, while an ethanol-powered SUV could go only 9,000 miles."

      "On carbon, too, bioelectricity was a winner. On average, the carbon offset from using bioelectricity is 100% bigger than the offset for using ethanol." 05-09

  21. Biochar Basics (Biochar-International.org) star
      "Diverting merely 1 per cent of annual net plant uptake into biochar would mitigate almost 10 per cent of current anthropogenic C [carbon] emissions (see Chapter 18). These are important arguments to feed into a policy discussion (see Chapter 22)."

      According to the chart on page 8, humans are responsible for putting 7 gigatons of carbon in the air per year but decomposing organic matter releases 8 times as much carbon into the air each year. Converting a fraction of the decomposing organic matter into biochar to keep it in our soil could be our most powerful route to avoiding catastrophic climate change. Biochar is also very good for our soil and our water supplies. 06-09

  22. How Much Thermal Energy Does the Syngas Produce? (TerraPreta.BioenergyLists.org)
      "The plant is converting 5 ton of DRY MSW to 2 ton (approx) of Charcoal."

      "At present the plant is not using the Gas. Gas, is burning in a Combustion Chamber & generating 1 MW of thermal power." 06-09

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