Why do we — along with 75 other countries — alternate between standard time and daylight time? Although many people believe it has an agricultural provenance, daylight time has always been a policy meant to save energy. As Benjamin Franklin argued, if people moved up their summer schedules by an hour, they could live by ”sunshine rather than candles” in the evenings. nbsp; nbsp; Energy conservation was the motivation for daylight time during World Wars I and II and the oil embargo of the 1970s, and it remains so today — even though there has been little scientific evidence to suggest daylight time actually helps us cut back on electricity use.

This is a modified version of the last motor. Only difference is the mounting stand and some tweaking with the commutator to get more speed. It's a little bouncy and rough around the edges, but it's much higher RPMs than the last version. Only 8 turns on each coil of 6 stranded phone wire, and it runs on 1 AA 1.5V battery. RPMs are unknown.

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img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/1_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtpWhat are the social consequences when science allows us to see things that had previously been invisible?/pp Scientists have revealed microscopic life, nanoscale molecules and galaxies billions of light-years away. These images have revolutionized the disciplines in which they were made, but they also transformed the public's imagination, giving common people new things to think and dream about. /pp The intertwined social, scientific and artistic impacts of 19th century photography is the subject of a new exhibit, Brought to Light Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900, at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. /pp This gallery looks at some of the more astounding images and stories from the exhibit. /p pstrongLeft: br / Hermann Schnauss, Electrograph of a brass wire gauge, 1900/strong As the men of industry attempted to harness electricity for profit, the public — which knew electricity primarily as lightning — had to be persuaded that this powerful, invisible force was something to invite into their homes. Electrographs like this one, produced by exposing a photographic negative with electricity, helped the public visualize and understand the mysterious electromagnetic waves that scientists were discovered populating the air. /pp "This is a moment where [scientists] are trying to harness electricity for practical purposes, but the general public was kind of skeptical," said Corey Keller, curator of the Brought to Light exhibit. "Their experiences with electricity were generally through lighting, which they knew could burn things down and kill you, if you weren't careful. So a great deal of time and money was spent trying to make electricity understandable and approachable." /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/3_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApIn the early history of photography, capturing motion was out of the question. The photographic negatives of the time were not sensitive enough to light to be exposed over the short time periods required to capture fast action. /pp "If you look at 19th century cityscapes, you would think that Armageddon had taken place. You don't see any people," Keller said. "It's not that they aren't there, it's just that they don't show up because they walked through too quickly." /pp But by the end of the 1870s, more sensitive negatives brought motion within reach. Edward Muybridge was one of the first photographers to take advantage of the new abilities. /pp In this photo, we see one of Muybridge's motion studies: two men boxing in jock straps. Historians note that despite the scientific trappings, Muybridge's work was just art; it did not produce good scientific evidence about bodies' movements. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/4_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApThe ability to capture motion in photography opened up a previously invisible source of scientific data. Etienne-Jules Marey was a scientist trying to understand biomechanics, or the motion of the body, and he used photography to acquire information he couldn't get any other way, as in this photograph of a man on a stationary bicycle. /pp "What happens in this picture is that each split second exposure is layered on top of each other, so you get the sense of the full arc of the motion," Keller said. "And he's put a piece of tape down the arm and torso and the leg where the joints articulated, so as the leg went around and around the whole pedal stroke is outlined." /pp This wasn't just to create beautiful pictures; Marey was on a committee in France to improve the ergonomics of the newly popular bicycle. /pp "So by studying the motion of the leg, he would have been able to improve the engineering of the bicycle," Keller concluded. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/5_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApWhile forward-looking scientists like Marey were using photography to understand, for example, how animals moved, as in this photo, others were less enthused about this new technology. /pp In particular, photographers' ability to capture images beyond what the human eye could perceive called into question an important tenet of 19th century science. /pp "What's amazing is that this is a moment where empirical observation in science is the most important thing, that idea of objective observation. And this kind of photography proved how completely useless a human observer was," said Keller. "So you end up with this photographic data that cant' be corroborated in any other way. It exists independently of any kind of perceptual experience." /pp Technology's ability to capture detail and motion more accurately than our eyes has only accelerated, of course, as anyone who has seen a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/water-falling-a.html"incredible ultra-slow-motion YouTube videos can attest/a. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/6_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApWhen William Roentgen announced his discovery of X-rays, a photo of his wife's hand accompanied his paper as it made its way into the scientific community. /pp Over the next few years, images like this one of a skeletal hand with the ring came to symbolize X-rays. Practically, the hand is relatively flat and therefore easy to X-ray, but it was the aesthetics and grim-reaper symbolism that Keller said hit a nerve with the upper classes. /pp "It became fashionable to have an X-ray portrait taken of your hand," she said, calling attention to x-ray hand portraits of the last tsar of Russia and his wife. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/7_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApThe discovery of X-rays also touched off a lower-brow commercial craze. Within three months, DIY X-ray kits were available on the market. Photographers, who had access to most of the tools needed to make the images, began to train this new form of light on just about anything that might be beautiful. /pp "They were X-raying everything just to see what it looked like," Keller said. /pp One stunning example is this X-ray of a foot in a shoe from 1897. In fact, the connection between X-rays and extremities has remained strong. Even into the 1960s, shoe stores kept X-ray machines in their lobbies, both as marketing tools and to help their salesmen fit their patrons' feet correctly. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/8_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApThroughout the second-half of the 19th century, photographers strived to unite the camera with the telescope. The moon, in particular, held a lasting fascination for astronomers and artists alike. /pp Imaging the moon, after all, was an immensely difficult task. The Earth rotates and the moon is actually a relatively faint object. It wasn't until John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond figured out how to rotate their camera ever so slightly to cancel out Earth's movement that simple images of our only satellite became possible. /pp What's interesting is that despite the fascination with creating pictures of the moon, like this striking image created in Spain, the images didn't add much for science beyond what detailed drawings could already do. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/9_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApIf you wanted close-up photos of the moon any time before the Apollo missions, you were pretty much out of luck. Unless, of course, you built incredibly detailed plaster models of lunar craters and then snapped carefully lit pictures of them. And that's exactly what an engineer and astronomer did in 1874 to tremendous acclaim. /pp James Nasmyth, the inventor of the steam hammer, and James Carpenter, then at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, released a hugely successful book, The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, illustrated by their incredible moon mock-ups. The august journal Nature gave the book a rapturous review. /pp "No more truthful or striking representations of natural objects than those here presented have ever been laid before his readers by any student of Science," the reviewer wrote. /pp But what's really appealing about the images isn't their "truthfulness" but their "truthiness." /pp "Astronomers were perfectly aware of what they were looking at," Keller said. "But they felt that because they were photographed, it added a layer of authenticity to the undertaking that simple drawings didn't have." /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/10_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApAt the other end of the scale of size from the moon, other photographers were pushing their discipline into the microscopic realm. They had to devise new emulsion chemistries and types of equipment to capture clear images of tiny things. /pp Leading the charge was Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch, who worked to overcome any challenge that scientists threw at him. Unfortunately, he died during social unrest in France in 1871, and his images lay in a photographic archive until Keller brought them to the US for the exhibition. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/11_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApEven as they solved technical challenges, the photomicrographers faced social resistance. The idea of representing a specific living thing instead of a generalized abstraction of an organism forced scientists to let go of long-held notions about their discipline. /pp "Prior to the 19th century, the scientific illustrations tend to represent a type, an ideal. So if you were going to do a picture of a flower, for example, the illustrator would look at 20 flowers and then take the common features and make an ideal flower," said Keller. "So, if that particular one happens to have a defective petal or something peculiar to it, you never really know: Does that photograph substitute then for that type of flower in general, or does it only represent that one specimen?" /pp While it may have posed a challenge for scientists of the 19th century, it's the unique nature of each photograph taken during this early period that wows us, even now. /pbr style="clear: both;"/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:cbbf63f1fb7e67b9e527dab439e4ba21:vhnm7352PkhDZ3b08Y2sMp4jzO%2FvufrreaVV1%2FrMy42ouvVreaTTDJcKqzYRuG4%2FgvMTMWdfcoiISQ%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:3cf235586c06605892691e6a3cc9a6cb:7YUWc87MfIHrwmN9P9TT7ITHhbOVnGVHD5aVfAni2CwHKV3OjhBRXoUQPCYhFP0YAqd3k1E%2BIINZ'img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:699763cdf092463708984ca1c5702e58:bEbuTfq1BfCFGUCGXcjZyzj2%2BUs8JYt6eLxbw%2BRZPyloK9TZCe4fvvSwrlZP%2BZzee5meVRIX8gW2'img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:452d5247e5154eb1c537fb798e02025d:keBjN8UUXzm6OdqnEZk2bgxHIa%2FOmVXDvgbaX7IYXrGoPzG2vgzcUEAVnZm%2FCv8f61qPB2Dqa28%2B'img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'//a br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=cdc22e1d5623ce9533eb24f0beb19af9p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=cdc22e1d5623ce9533eb24f0beb19af9p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=cdc22e1d5623ce9533eb24f0beb19af9" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=CwnoSm"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=CwnoSm" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/461399892" height="1" width="1"/

On average, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 use 150 watts and 119 watts of electricity, respectively, more than prior generations of the consoles.

President-elect Obama wants to get rid of daylight saving time in the United States to conserves energy. Turns out, according to two academics on the NYT Op-Ed page, there is little scientific proof that this reduces energy consumption. It also turns out that this practice could be wasteful, a bit annoying, and a lot of people, including Obama, want to get rid of it. A study in Indiana, a state that recently started DST, showed an overall increase of 1 percent in residential electricity use with occasional increases of 2 to 4 percent in late spring and early fall. So much for conserving energy. I hate DST. It throws me and my kids out of whack for a couple of days. I hope Obama gets rid of it. too. Obama Looks to Axe Daylight Time...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=def079bc3020490c112d885d371858bfp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=def079bc3020490c112d885d371858bfp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=def079bc3020490c112d885d371858bf" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

What's after electrical charges and electricity in computer storage? Lasers and excitons. Theorists from the John Hopkins University have drafted a theory that uses low-power lasers and crystalline insulators to store data. In the theory, lasers would excite electrons in a crystalline-like lattice in order to record data; the atoms would vibrate at a certain frequency to indicate the type of bit. A side effect of using lasers and insulators is reduced heat output. The heat is reduced because the atoms do not exchanging electrons as current computer components do. The EE Times has a more detailed write up as well as WebIndia, TopNews.in, Eureka Alert, and Small Times.

div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"The U.S. government may be poised to reverse course on its market-only approach to rolling out broadband and a smart electricity grid to all corners of the country, advocates said Thursday./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"With a Democratic Congress and a Democratic and tech-savvy president in Barack Obama, the upcoming months will be the time to push for government involvement in building network infrastructure, said Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, a communications policy advocacy group./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Google#39;s CEO says#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/18/Googles_Schmidt_Innovation_must_come_first_1.html?source=rssamp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/18/Googles_Schmidt_Innovation_must_come_first_1.html?source=fssr"private efforts not enough; government must take the lead/a. And Ted Samson#39;s#160;a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/?source=fssr"Sustainable IT blog/a#160;reports how#160;a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2008/11/sun_joins_in_ca.html?source=fssr"coalitions are calling on Congress for a clean energy economy/a. Your source for the latest in government IT news and issues: Subscribe to InfoWorld#39;s a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"Government IT newsletter/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In recent years, some conservatives and broadband providers have called on the government to stay out of broadband rollout, saying such quot;industrial-policyquot; intervention could lead to a heavily regulated industry, with little competition and high prices. quot;I#39;m about to use some words that have been profane in this town for the last eight years,quot; Scott said at a Google-sponsored forum on broadband and electricity policy. quot;We need an industrial policy.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The U.S. broadband market isn#39;t competitive now, with most people having only one or two providers, Scott said. The U.S. pays more per megabit of service than most other industrialized nations, and it#39;s 15th among industrialized nations in broadband adoption, speakers said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"If policy makers agree that universal broadband and a higher broadband adoption rate are crucial for the U.S. economy, quot;then we#39;re going to have to take some really aggressive measures to get there,quot; Scott said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Thursday#39;s event was the first of three Google-sponsored discussions in Washington, D.C., concerning policy recommendations the company has for the next Congress and the Obama administration. In a speech Tuesday, Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt a target="_blank" href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/11/eric-schmidt-on-whats-ahead-in-2009.html"laid out/a many of Google#39;s policy goals, including a national broadband policy, energy independence, and a more open and accessible government./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In addition to addressing broadband, Thursday#39;s panel talked about a need for a quot;smartquot; electricity grid, which would allow customers to monitor their electricity use in real time and allow them to work with electricity utilities to reduce use during peak demand. Both universal broadband and a smart electricity grid will take major investments and require leadership and strong public support, said Michael Oldak, senior director of state competitive and regulatory policies for the Edison Electric Institute, a trade group representing electric companies./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Oldak compared the challenges facing the outdated electrical grid to the challenge of sending astronauts to the moon in the 1960s. quot;We need that same kind of drive to get more kids into science and engineering,quot; he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Asked if the public would support higher prices for an improved electrical grid, Oldak said that#39;s the wrong question to ask. In pilot programs using quot;smartquot; thermostats, customers have saved 10 percent to 15 percent on their electric bills by allowing electric companies to control electricity use during peak hours. For instance, an electric company could adjust the temperatures of air conditioners or heaters via the thermostats to reduce electricity consumption. Without smart grids, the U.S. will continue to waste energy and the energy industry will have to build dozens of new power plants to keep up with demand, he said./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;You can#39;t look at this as adding $5 to people#39;s bills,quot; he said. quot;You#39;ve got to look at what the situation will look like with or without smart grids.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Since Schmidt#39;s speech, there have been some detractors to Google#39;s policy vision. While privacy groups have raised concerns about the practices of Google and other online companies, Google#39;s policy goals don#39;t mention privacy, said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy and a frequent Google critic./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;Failing to acknowledge privacy online is a glaring omission and undermines the company#39;s credibility,quot; Chester said. quot;Google should acknowledge that protecting online privacy must be a key task for the new administration and Congress. Google is so generous making suggestions, but fails to reflect how its own data collection house should be put in order.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Blogger Matt Sherman, of a target="_blank" href="http://www.onlyrepublican.com/orinsf/2008/11/is-broadband-a-public-utility.html"The Only Republican in San Francisco/a , questioned remarks by Obama transition official Susan Crawford, suggesting broadband should be treated like a public utility, one way the government could get involved in broadband rollout./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;Is there anyone in the technology world who sees public utilities as a model for innovation?quot; Sherman wrote. quot;A 1.5 megabit connection (T1) was an unimaginable luxury when I started in tech in the mid-90#39;s. It was for well-funded companies only. Today, it is a low-end consumer connection and costs around 80% less. Has your sewage service followed a similar trajectory?quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"But a national broadband policy would not have to mean excessive government subsidies, said Gigi Sohn, president of digital rights group Public Knowledge. It could mean tax breaks for companies that roll out broadband in underserved areas and a thorough review of wireless spectrum use, she said at Thursday#39;s forum./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"People who aren#39;t connected to broadband will have more and more social and economic disadvantages, added Scott. quot;What are the consequences of not being connected to the 21st-century network?quot; he said./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"#160;/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=dd96176bee8af15b0e35346af1551d70p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=dd96176bee8af15b0e35346af1551d70p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=dd96176bee8af15b0e35346af1551d70 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

What's after electrical charges and electricity in computer storage? Lasers and excitons. Theorists from the John Hopkins University have drafted a theory that uses low-power lasers and crystalline insulators to store data. In the theory, lasers would excite electrons in a crystalline-like lattice in order to record data; the atoms would vibrate at a certain frequency to indicate the type of bit. A side effect of using lasers and insulators is reduced heat output. The heat is reduced because the atoms do not exchanging electrons as current computer components do. The EE Times has a more detailed write up as well as WebIndia, TopNews.in, Eureka Alert, and Small Times.

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Plasma Ball is a new and exciting application that brings the popular Plasma Ball gadget from the 80s straight to your iPhone. With this interactive light ball, you can trigger incredible bolts of light with a simple touch of your fingers. Plasma Ball lights up your iPhone screen with colourful streams of electricity that are trapped inside the light ball. The plasma ball is fully adaptable to your own tastes. It changes color depending on which gas you select (helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon). You can also make it rotate by simply touching the orb. Trace your fingers on the screen and colorful bolts of electricity will follow your fingers. The Plasma Ball application provides you with an awe-inspiring lightning show at the tip of your fingers. -Watch the electricity flow in the globe, creating beautiful streams of light. -Rotate the ball by simply touching the orb on the screen. -Pick a new color by simply changing the gas used in the Plasma Ball. -Create dramatic lightning effects by tracing your fingers on the edge of the Plasma Ball.

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A report has been released blaming gamers for a US1$billion waste in electricity via their beloved consoles. But checking out the report further highlights a gross assumption.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/xbox-360-power-button.jpg" width="260" height="270" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/A recent report by the a href="http://www.nrdc.org/energy/consoles/contents.asp"Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)/a has revealed that video game console usage across America stands at approximately 16 billion kilowatt-hours per yearmdash;which is roughly the amount consumed by the entire city of San Diego. In other words, we are looking at some serious dollars going down the drain when we leave our consoles running for hours on end (not to mention the environmental impact). Even a href="http://gizmodo.com/5064137/energy-star-setting-consumption-guidelines-for-game-consoles"Energy Star has recognized the problem/a and begun setting standards on energy consumption for these devices. Obviously, the short-term solution to the problem would be to save your game and shut off the system when you are donemdash;but it's a bad habit that is hard to break. So, my question is: do you leave your game console running when you are not playing?/p pscript type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://static.polldaddy.com/p/1123515.js"/scriptnoscript a href ="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1123515/" Do You Leave Your Game Consoles Running When You're Not Playing?/a br/ span style="font-size:9px;" (a href ="http://www.polldaddy.com" polls/a)/span/noscript/p blockquotepResults from "a href="http://gizmodo.com/5093490/question-of-the-day-do-you-plan-to-gadget-shop-on-black-friday"Do You Plan to Gadget Shop on Black Friday?/a"/p pYes 18%br / Yes, but I'm sticking with online stores. 17%br / Yes, I will try online and brick and mortar stores. 11%br / No 37%br / Maybe 17%/p/blockquote p[a href="http://www.nrdc.org/energy/consoles/contents.asp"NRDC/a via a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081119-the-cost-of-gaming-consoles-use-more-electricity-than-you-think.html"Ars Technica/a viaa href="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/11/the_energy_used.php" DVICE/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=1b2e0a0e72e8c36fe15089916280d701p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=1b2e0a0e72e8c36fe15089916280d701p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=1b2e0a0e72e8c36fe15089916280d701" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=WuzKYKWM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=OMHLhz9I"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=zCA85RSx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=zCA85RSx" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=dbPP1vP6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=dbPP1vP6" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/WDOSrPWAqNs" height="1" width="1"/

An Egyptian court has banned the export of natural gas to Israel.

On May 8th Economy Arabia wrote:

بعد أشهر من الجدل حول صÙقة الغاز الطبيعي المصري لإسرائيل، والانتقادات التي وجهت إليها، ونÙÙŠ الحكومة المصرية مسؤوليتها عن الصÙقة، بدأ أمس تدÙÙ‚ الغاز إلي إسرائيل. قالت شركة كهرباء إسرائيل إن الغاز الطبيعي المصري بدأ يتدÙÙ‚ إلي إسرائيل عبر خط أنابيب للمرة الأولي أمس الخميس، مؤكدة أن أكثر من ٢٠% من الكهرباء المنتجة ÙÙŠ إسرائيل خلال العقد المقبل ستعتمد علي الغاز المصري. وأشارت إلي أنه ÙÙŠ المرحلة الأولي سيسلم الغاز إلي محطات لتوليد الكهرباء ÙÙŠ مدينتي تل أبيب وأشدود، وسيتيح لها زيادة إنتاجها من الكهرباء المولدة بالغاز. جاء تدÙÙ‚ الغاز تنÙيذا لاتÙاق تم توقيعه عام ٢٠٠٥ مع شركة غاز شرق المتوسط لتوريد Ù¡.Ù§ مليار متر مكعب من الغاز سنويا، ولمدة ٢٠ عاما. كانت شركة غاز شرق المتوسط، التي أنشأها رجل الأعمال المصري حسين سالم، والإسرائيلي يوس٠ميمان، قد قامت ببناء خط أنابيب تحت الماء لنقل الغاز المصري إلي إسرائيل
وقال حسين سالم، ÙÙŠ اتصال هاتÙÙŠ مع «Ø§Ù„مصري اليوم»ØŒ إنه باع حصته ÙÙŠ شركة «Ø¥ÙŠ. إم. Ú†ÙŠ» المصرية Ù€ الإسرائيلية لشركتين أمريكية وتايلاندية منذ Ù¨ أشهر، ولم تعد له علاقة بالشركة أو بموعد تصدير الغاز المصري حاليا. ونÙÙŠ ما يتردد عن أنه باع جزءا من حصته ÙÙŠ الشركة للبنك الأهلي، مؤكدا بيعها للشركتين الأجنبيتين، لكنه رÙض كش٠اسميهما. After months of debate about, and criticism related to, the Egypt-Israel natural gas deal and after the Egyptian Government dissociated itself from any responsibility relating to that deal, yesterday -Thursday - natural gas began flowing into Israel. The Israeli power company asserted that more than 20% of its electricity for the coming decade will depend on Egyptian natural gas.
To honor the deal that was originally signed in 2005 with East Mediterranean Gas (EMG), Egypt will deliver 1.7 billion cubic metres of gas per year for the coming 20 years. The company is a joint venture between Egyptian businessman Hussein Salem and his Israeli counterpart Youssef Miman.
Hussein Salem said in a telephone conversation with Al Masry Al Youm Newspaper that he sold his shares in EMG 8 months ago to an American and a Thai company whose names were withheld. He also denied selling his shares to the national Bank of Egypt.

On November 19, 2008 an Egyptian court ruled in favour of Ibrahim Yousri, a lawyer who said that Egypt is losing $9m for each day because of that agreement.

Egyptian Chronicles wrote:

Ok this is a blow to the government , to Hussein Salem and to Israel. The judicial administrative court bans natural gas exports to Israel today. Now the Egyptian Government is obligated to listen to the court order or will they neglect it as usual?? More to come. I am very happy by the way.

And in a follow up post, she wrote:

Economically the Egyptian government made a huge mistake when it signed the agreement to export natural gas to Israel through Hussein Salem’s EMG Co.

It is unacceptable to waste your natural gas for price less than the average price now especially prices are escalating and we are entering an energy crisis era.

It is unacceptable to export your natural gas to Israel without the approval of the people represented in the Parliament.

It is unacceptable to export natural gas to Israel when the people in Gaza got no fuel.

Then she quoted the basis of the court's decision as per the judicial administrative:

The oil ministry has broken the constitution and law with its agreement in 2005 to export natural gas to Israel for 20 years. According to article no. 123 in the Egyptian constitution “ The natural resources are considered a very valuable resources to be owned by the coming generations not only for the current generations and thus the administrative authorities before the exploit of these natural resources should go to the parliament to be grant the permission”

At the end of her post she concluded that:

… the regime could not dare and go to the parliament to get an approval because it knows very well the people would refuse it totally.

As for Israel's reaction, she wrote:

The Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructure expressed Israel's confidence that the political agreement between the countries' governments will remain in force in keeping with the memorandum of understanding the two countries signed in 2005!!

 I also will quote their closing line in the same article in Haatrez :

The court's ruling is subject to appeal in a higher administrative court and the Egyptian government sometimes ignores court rulings it does not like.