| CC warehouse has AC units stolen twice
CORPUS CHRISTI Corpus Christi police are looking for persons who stole an air conditioning unit from the Plumber's Warehouse overnight on Wednesday and Thursday. The four-ton AC unit was striped of the copper tubing and most of the parts overnight Wednesday and police were called to the store on 3210 Gollihar at 2:40 p.m. Wednesday. Police were back on the scene Thursday when a second unit of damaged in the same manner. The damages are estimated at nearly $6000 for both units, which were the working units for the store. .
Tesoro, Seawater AC, Hoku Scientific and Wall Street
Tesoro, owner of the larger of Hawaii's two refineries, says gasoline price margins have shrunk so it will make less gasoline. Tesoro says its Kapolei refinery will be dialed back to as little as 74% capacity. Here's an alternative to oil for downtown office buildings. Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning has lined up more than 10 million dollars in equity financing. U.S. and Swedish investors are chipping in for a zero emissions seawater air conditioning plant. Downtown building owners could save a fifth of their air conditioning costs by using seawater instead of a system-based on freon. Hoku Scientific has installed two solar power systems on neighbor islands. Its newest turnkey photovoltaic systems are at the Lihue and Kona operations of Paradise Beverages. The company uses a lot of power to refrigerate its warehouses, since it's the Hawaii distributor of Coors, Corona, Miller and Heineken.
German scientists launch space flight with fish to study motion ...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) _ German researchers on Thursday launched a rocket carrying 72 small fish on a brief space flight to study motion sickness.
The cichlids were in an unmanned rocket that blasted off from a launch pad in northern Sweden, said Professor Reinhard Hilbig, who was in charge of the project.
The thumbnail-sized fish were filmed as they swam around weightlessly in small aquariums during the 10-minute space flight.
The German team will now study the video to see if some of the fish swam in circles because that is what fish do when they experience motion sickness, said Hilberg, of the Zoological Institute at the University of Stuttgart.
He said the scientists hope the experiment can help shed light on why some people experience motion sickness while others do not because the mechanisms involved are similar for both fish and humans.
Sam Champion's Just One Thing
We love our pets, but just like humans, dogs and cats have a big impact on the environment. Check out these innovative green pet product recommendations from Prevention magazine. Every year, 10 million tons of animal waste ends up in landfills. Even when it is left on the ground, the waste can seep into the ground water … which is dangerous because pet waste is full of pathogens. Flushable Pet Pick-Up Bags
The most eco-friendly way to dispose of dog waste is to flush it down the toilet so it does not end up in landfills. A dog lover in Wisconsin invented the flushable pet pick up bag. It is made out of meltable polyvinyl alcohol film, an environmentally friendly, non-toxic sister to the compound that makes up Elmer's glue. The bags will dissolve when flushed down the toilet or degrade quickly if buried in the back yard.
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