The Italian weekly magazine Oggi published a colorful spread about the Census of Marine Life in its 26 June 2006 edition entitled “ET swims in the abyss.” The opening page includes a photo of Jesse about to go to work on an arctic ice floe.

The Census of Marine Life announces discovery of a rare microbial biosphere. Jesse notes that a swallow of seawater might contain 1000 kinds of bacteria.

Press release:
http://www.coml.org/embargo/embargo706.htm

The Continental Supergrid is featured in the July 2006 issue of Scientific American:

ENERGY
A Power Grid for the Hydrogen Economy
By Paul M. Grant, Chauncey Starr and Thomas J. Overbye
Cryogenic, superconducting conduits could be connected into a
“supergrid” that would simultaneously deliver electrical power
and hydrogen fuel.

We are delighted that the Supergrid concept has advanced strongly from the November 2002 and October 2004 feasibility workshops.

Our 1996 paper Elektron introduced the notion of an appliance, “The Splicer”, a multipurpose minigenerator at the level of the individual consumer that could produce heat, electricity, and cold on demand, and help the electric power system for peaking and standby and thus reliability. We are delighted to find engineer Andreas Gratzer of the Austrian company OMV has developed a working splicer of 70,000 rpm and 115 kw. A German report details his thinking.