Monthly Archives: November 2007

http://www.news.com/Can-baking-soda-curb-global-warming/2100-13838_3-6220127.html

From the page: “Jones, the founder and CEO of Skyonic, has come up with an industrial process called SkyMine that captures 90 percent of the carbon dioxide coming out of smoke stacks and mixes it with sodium hydroxide to make sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda. The energy required for the reaction to turn the chemicals into baking soda comes from the waste heat from the factory.

“It is cleaner than food-grade (baking soda),” he said”

BBC – Press Office – BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 to launch joint on-demand service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2007/11_november/kangaroo.shtml

BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 to launch joint on-demand service

BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 today announced the creation of a commercial three-way joint venture to launch an on-demand content service in 2008 with the working title of ‘Kangaroo’.

The service will bring together an exciting collection of over ten thousand hours of the very best of the UK broadcasters’ current and archive programming, with the convenience, simplicity and ease of use of one overarching service.