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PC Tricks & Tips ( Windows 7/Vista )

2010 February 1
Posted by jacob4reds

Trick Number 1 : GOD Mode in Windows 7

God Mode is a simple folder that brings all aspects of Windows 7 control in a single place.

Steps :
Create a new folder anywhere.
Rename the folder by pasting this name exactly as it appears :

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Voila !!

Trick Number 2 : Create shortcut for System Shutdown/ Restart/ Sleep and more:
Only for Windows Vista/7)

Man !! It takes too much time going to Start menu and selecting Shutdown. You see, I am a very busy
person. If this is the case, then you can make a shortcut for these utilities !

Steps :
1.Right click on desktop and create new shortcut.
2.And in location dialogue box type the code just as below with out quotes:
“Shutdown.exe -s -t 00” and give whatever name you want and select Finish.
You just made a Shutdown shortcut !!

For Restarting “Shutdown.exe -r -t 00″
For Sleep ”rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0”
For Hibernating “rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll,SetSuspendState”

Hydrogen Fueled Cars

2010 February 1
Posted by jacob4reds

Cars being powered by hydrogen have always been something that many presidents and environmentalists have discussed. Hydrogen cars have often been discussed, that that concept is really picking up steam. Supporters have always said that one day we will need to free from our dependence on oil, and hydrogen is the way to do this. While those whom don’t thing that hydrogen will work due to it being impractical argue that the energy and automakers are focusing on hydrogen fuel sources instead of looking to more practical sources of fuels for our cars.

Those affected by the hydrogen fuel argument include the transportation industry, which has concerns over the transport of hydrogen and the ability to generate and utilize the hydrogen fuel in a safe and environmentally friendly fashion.

Hydrogen is Abundant
Production of hydrogen has huge advantages over other fuels due to the abundance of the fuel. Luckily, hydrogen is so abundant that it can be found in many fossil fuels, in alcohols and hydrogen can even be found in water. Today, common ways of producing hydrogen include reforming natural gas (in which four hydrogen atoms are separated from a carbon atom) and electrolyzing water (which decouples two hydrogen atoms from an oxygen atom). The fact that hydrogen can be produced in so many ways means that, unlike petroleum, supplies of hydrogen can’t run out, nor will they be concentrated in one area of the world. They key to hydrogen production lies with the fact that it needs to be captured, hydrogen capture is more difficult that one may think.

Hydrogen Capture
Pure hydrogen is more difficult to find that impure hydrogen, making hydrogen capture a very difficult task. Hydrogen, due to the make-up of the gas at the atomic level, causes hydrogen to bond with other elements and creates many instances when impure hydrogen is all that can be found. In order for hydrogen to be a useable source of fuel, it must be detached or removed from other elements, and that takes energy. Finding the balance between hydrogen separation and the energy that hydrogen produces will be the key in making hydrogen an effective fuel source.

The hydrogen capture or hydrogen separation situation can be explained by understaind that through electrolysis, you can turn 1 kilogram of hydrogen by using water, this would require roughly 55 kWh of electricity from another source.

Using Hydrogen as a Fuel Source
You really must follow the source of energy that is used to detach hydrogen from other elements. This is where we can see whether hydrogen is a clean source of energy or not, often times around the world, coal power plants are used for energy, which is not a good idea. When you use coal power plants to generate the energy to make hydrogen you actually loose energy and the cleanliness of that production suffers.

It is very smart make hydrogen if the original energy comes from renewable sources, such as hydroelectric, geothermal, solar, or wind power.

Global Warming

2010 January 29
Posted by jacob4reds
The average facade temperature of the globe has augmented more than 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1900 and the speed of warming has been almost three folds the century long average since 1970. This increase in earth’s average temperature is called Global warming. More or less all specialists studying the climate record of the earth have the same opinion now that human actions, mainly the discharge of green house gases from smokestacks, vehicles, and burning forests, are perhaps the leading power driving the fashion. Melting Glaciers

The gases append to the planet’s normal greenhouse effect, permitting sunlight in, but stopping some of the ensuing heat from radiating back to space. Based on the study on past climate shifts, notes of current situations, and computer simulations, many climate scientists say that lacking of big curbs in greenhouse gas discharges, the 21st century might see temperatures rise of about 3 to 8 degrees, climate patterns piercingly shift, ice sheets contract and seas rise several feet. With the probable exemption of one more world war, a huge asteroid, or a fatal plague, global warming may be the only most danger to our planet earth.

Global Warming Causes
As said, the major cause of global warming is the emission of green house gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide etc into the atmosphere.Gasoline Causing Global WarmingThe major source of carbon dioxide is the power plants. These power plants emit large amounts of carbon dioxide produced from burning of fossil fuels for the purpose of electricity generation. About twenty percent of carbon dioxide emitted in the atmosphere comes from burning of gasoline in the engines of the vehicles. This is true for most of the developed countries. Buildings, both commercial and residential represent a larger source of global warming pollution than cars and trucks.

Building of these structures require a lot of fuel to be burnt which emits a large amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Methane is more than 20 times as effectual as CO2 at entrapping heat in the atmosphere. Methane is obtained from resources such as rice paddies, bovine flatulence, bacteria in bogs and fossil fuel manufacture. When fields are flooded, anaerobic situation build up and the organic matter in the soil decays, releasing methane to the atmosphere. The main sources of nitrous oxide include nylon and nitric acid production, cars with catalytic converters, the use of fertilizers in agriculture and the burning of organic matter. Another cause of global warming is deforestation that is caused by cutting and burning of forests for the purpose of residence and industrialization.

Annual Greenhouse Gas EmissionsGlobal Warming is Inspiring Scientists to Fight for Awareness
Scientists all over the world are making predictions about the ill effects of Global warming and connecting some of the events that have taken place in the pat few decades as an alarm of global warming. The effect of global warming is increasing the average temperature of the earth. A rise in earth’s temperatures can in turn root to other alterations in the ecology, including an increasing sea level and modifying the quantity and pattern of rainfall. These modifications may boost the occurrence and concentration of severe climate events, such as floods, famines, heat waves, tornados, and twisters. Other consequences may comprise of higher or lower agricultural outputs, glacier melting, lesser summer stream flows, genus extinctions and rise in the ranges of disease vectors. As an effect of global warming species like golden toad, harlequin frog of Costa Rica has already become extinct. There are number of species that have a threat of disappearing soon as an effect of global warming. As an effect of global warming various new diseases have emerged lately. These diseases are occurring frequently due to the increase in earths average temperature since the bacteria can survive better in elevated temperatures and even multiplies faster when the conditions are favorable. The global warming is extending the distribution of mosquitoes due to the increase in humidity levels and their frequent growth in warmer atmosphere. Various diseases due to ebola, hanta and machupo virus are expected due to warmer climates. The marine life is also very sensitive to the increase in temperatures. The effect of global warming will definitely be seen on some species in the water. A survey was made in which the marine life reacted significantly to the changes in water temperatures. It is expected that many species will die off or become extinct due to the increase in the temperatures of the water, whereas various other species, which prefer warmer waters, will increase tremendously. Perhaps the most disturbing changes are expected in the coral reefs that are expected to die off as an effect of global warming. The global warming is expected to cause irreversible changes in the ecosystem and the behavior of animals.

Global Warming ProjectionsA group of scientists have recently reported on the surprisingly speedy rise in the discharge of carbon and methane release from frozen tundra in Siberia, now starting to melt because of human cause increases in earth’s temperature. The scientists tell us that the tundra is in danger of melting holds an amount of extra global warming pollution that is equivalent to the net amount that is previously in the earth’s atmosphere. Likewise, earlier one more team of scientists reported that the in a single year Greenland witnessed 32 glacial earthquakes between 4.6 and 5.1 on the Richter scale. This is a disturbing sign and points that a huge destabilization that may now be in progress deep within the second biggest accretion of ice on the planet. This ice would be enough to raise sea level 20 feet worldwide if it broke up and slipped into the sea. Each day passing brings yet new proof that we are now in front of a global emergency, a climate emergency that needs instant action to piercingly decrease carbon dioxide emissions worldwide in order to turn down the earth’s rising temperatures and avoid any catastrophe.

It is not easy to attach any particular events to global warming, but studies prove the fact that human activities are increasing the earth’s temperature. Even though most predictions focus on the epoch up to 2100, even if no further greenhouse gases were discharged after this date, global warming and sea level would be likely to go on to rise for more than a millennium, since carbon dioxide has a long average atmospheric life span.

Solar PanelsYou Can Help Fight Global Warming
Many efforts are being made by various nations to cut down the rate of global warming. One such effort is the Kyoto agreement that has been made between various nations to reduce the emissions of various green house gases. Also many non profit organizations are working for the cause. Al Gore was one of the foremost U.S. politicians to heave an alarm about the hazards of global warming. He has produced a significantly acclaimed documentary movie called “An Inconvenient Truth,” and written a book that archives his advice that Earth is dashing toward an immensely warmer future. Al Gore, the former vice president of United States has given various speeches to raise an awareness of global warming. He has warned people about the ill effects of Global warming and its remedies.

But an interesting side of the global warming episode is that there are people who do not consider global warming as something that is creating a problem. Skeptics of global warming think that global warming is not an ecological trouble. According to the global warming skeptics, the recent enhancement in the earth’s average temperature is no reason for alarm. According to them earth’s coastlines and polar ice caps are not at a risk of vanishing. Global warming skeptics consider that the weather models used to establish global warming and to forecast its impacts are distorted. According to the models, if calculations are made the last few decades must have been much worse as compared to actually happened to be. Most of the global warming skeptics believe that the global warming is not actually occurring. They stress on the fact the climatic conditions vary because of volcanism, the obliquity cycle, changes in solar output, and internal variability. Also the warming can be due to the variation in cloud cover, which in turn is responsible for the temperatures on the earth. The variations are also a result of cosmic ray flux that is modulated by the solar magnetic cycles.

Global Warming Skeptics
The global warming skeptics are of the view that the global warming is a good phenomenon and should not be stopped. There are various benefits of global warming according to them. According to the skeptics, the global warming will increase humidity in tropical deserts. Also the higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere trigger plant growth. As predicted, due to the global warming the sea levels will rise. But this can be readily adapted. Another argument of global warming skeptics is that earth has been warmer than today as seen in its history. The thought is that global warming is nothing to get afraid of because it just takes us back to a more natural set of environment of the past. Animals and plants appeared to do just fine in those eras of warm climate on the earth. According to few skeptics, the present chilly climate on the earth is an abnormality when judged over the geographical scale. Over geologic time, the earth’s mean temperature is 22 degrees C, as compared to today’s 15.5 degrees C.