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A small company in the north of England has developed the “air capture” technology to create synthetic petrol using only air and electricity. Experts last night hailed the astonishing breakthrough as a potential “game-changer” in the battle against climate change and a saviour for the world’s energy crisis.

The technology, presented to a London engineering conference this week, removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The “petrol from air” technology involves taking sodium hydroxide and mixing it with carbon dioxide before "electrolysing" the sodium carbonate that it produces to form pure carbon dioxide. Hydrogen is then produced by electrolysing water vapour captured with a dehumidifier.

The company, Air Fuel Syndication, then uses the carbon dioxide and hydrogen to produce methanol
which in turn is passed through a gasoline fuel reactor, creating petrol.
Company officials say they had produced five litres of petrol in less than three months from a small refinery in Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside.

The fuel that is produced can be used in any regular petrol tank and, if renewable energy is used to provide the electricity it could become “completely carbon neutral”.

The £1.1m project, in development for the past two years, is being funded by a group of unnamed philanthropists who believe the technology could prove to be a lucrative way of creating renewable energy.
While the technology has the backing of Britain’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers, it has yet to capture the interest of major oil companies.

But company executives hope to build a large plant, which could produce more than a tonne of petrol every day, within two years and a refinery size operation within the next 15 years.
Tonight Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) officials admitted that while the described the technology as being “too good to be true but it is true”, it could prove to be a “game-changer” in the battle against climate change.

Stephen Tetlow, the IMechE chief executive, hailed the breakthrough as “truly groundbreaking”.
“It has the potential to become a great British success story, which opens up a crucial opportunity to reduce carbon emissions,” he said.

“It also has the potential to reduce our exposure to an increasingly volatile global energy market.
“The potential to provide a variety of sustainable fuels for today’s vehicles and infrastructure is especially exciting.”

Dr Tim Fox, the organisation's head of energy and environment, added: “Air capture technology ultimately has the potential to become a game-changer in our quest to avoid dangerous climate change.”
Peter Harrison, the company’s 58 year-old chief executive, told The Daily Telegraph that he was “excited” about the technology’s potential, which “uses renewable energy in a slightly different way”.
“People do find it unusual when I tell them what we are working on and realise what it means,” said Mr Harrison, a civil engineer from Darlington, Co Durham.

“It is an opportunity for a technology to make an impact on climate change and make an impact on the energy crisis facing this country and the world.
"It looks and smells like petrol but it is much cleaner and we don't have any nasty bits."

News Source: http://www.kevindjakpor..com/2012/10/british-engineers-produce-amazing.html

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A Lagos trader, Modinat Nike Dada, in her late 30s is seven months pregnant for Funke Akindele’s husband, Kehinde Oloyede, E24-7 MAGAZINE can authoritatively reveal.

Modinat Mother of two boys and popularly known as Mama Dayo, was formerly married to a man simply known as Dayo. Both have since separated. The marriage crashed some years back due to irreconcilable differences and alleged domestic abuse. Her former hubby was a wife beater, alleged some sources.

” But when the situation became life threatening she had to leave the man and joined her elder sister, a successful clothing merchant in her shop at Oshodi.

Her former hubby, Dayo, was a graduate of Ogun State Polytechnic, Abeokuta. Not a few family members were surprised to know that the marriage did not last because they were like two inseparable lovebirds when
they were dating. The former hubby took the two children away from her and kept them in her mother’s custody in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State. Though life threw a big storm at her, she found solace in the love and care from her immediate siblings who were not only always around her but promptly responds to her needs. Modinat in her late 30s quickly picked her life up and became industrious. She traded in some fast consuming goods which she was selling in wholesale to retailers.

When she finally moved to her sister’s shop, her path crossed with Kehinde Oloyede, popularly known as Kendoo. Incidentally, Kendoo , a property merchant is the landlord of her sister’s shop in Oshodi. He found in her a good and amiable friend and as fate would have it, she found herself in his arms.
Modinat and Kendoo instantly became an item and they were seen together at some of their close friends’ private parties. The romance thickened, they shared great moments together and there was pressure to get pregnant. Not once or twice inside sources said the Ota, Ogun State-born trader was accompanied to several spiritualists and gynecologists by Kendoo in their bid to seal their romance with a baby. Sometimes in March, she got pregnant and filled with joy, she announced to her lover-boy, who close sources said was not ecstatic about it. “He practically took off, he stopped coming to her house, shunned all entreaties and stopped picking her calls,” E24-7 MAGAZINE’s source hinted. The following month, Modinat was shocked to read in magazines and newspapers that Kendoo wanted to marry the Return of Jenifa’s star actress, Funke Akindele. She was devastated, flustered but once again, her family rose and stood firmly behind her.

In the last few months, Modinat has been under intense pressure to keep her mouth sealed and advised to avoid the media. Sources close to her confirmed that she has been inundated with calls by several people close to the famous actress, Funke Akindele, to keep a low profile and keep the ‘family’s’ dirty linen away from the public. She has been promised juicy offers if she delivers without spilling the bean and grudgingly she has accepted.

Modinat, who currently lives in a tastefully furnished apartment in Agege area of Lagos has accepted her fate and rejoices in the fact that the baby she is expecting would bring joy back to her again. Since her former hubby took her two boys away she has not set her eyes on them, she feared the estranged hubby might move them abroad and cut her links to them forever. Her consolation is in the baby she’s expecting to be her companion in years to come.

As it were, Funke Akindele’s hubby with five kids already is expecting in the next few months three additional children in his harem. His second wife, Fadekemi is in the last trimester of her pregnancy and is due to deliver soon. Modinat will also have her baby latest in December latest while Funke, reported to be in her first trimester is expected to deliver mid-July 2013.

News Source: http://kevindjakpor..com/2012/10/im-seven-months-pregnant-for-funke.html

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A man who had lost his job and feared he could no longer support his family doused himself in alcohol and set himself on fire in front of the presidential palace in Italy on Thursday.
The 55-year-old Romanian severely burned his legs and torso, but does not have life-threatening injuries, police said.

A police officer burned his hand trying to put out the flames in the incident in Rome outside the 16th century palace, which serves as residence and office for Italy's head of state, Giorgio Napolitano.

The Romanian, who lives in the northwest Italian region of Piedmont, had recently lost his job as a truck
driver and was struggling to take care of his wife and baby girl, Italian media reported.

The country's year-long recession has been worsened by tax rises and pension cuts introduced by Mario Monti's government to try to help rein in the massive public debt. Unemployment is at its highest level since monthly records began in 2004.

A wave of highly publicized suicides linked to financial woes this year has highlighted the human cost of the crisis.

In August, a man set himself on fire in front of the Italian parliament after battling unemployment, and died a week later.

News Source: http://kevindjakpor..com/2012/10/truck-driver-sets-himself-on-fire.html

guy, chitika sucks!!!! Seun is dumb. he should use adbutler to rotate ads and allow people to buy ads like a self service in his site. what is wrong with this guy seun?

The race is close right now and Mittens Romney is now topping the polls as we go into the final stretch to the election this fall.

Yeah, right! The Jobs report for august have been released and it was awful. Obama looses, Mittens Romney will become President and start a third world war!!! Wanna bet? Obama looses this november.

^^ lol

Na wa for Nigerians o! Illiterates them be.

@dhtml, Hey dude, what's so funny here?

Moderator please close this Topic, the issue has been resolved.

@activeman, you should not have put up that graph picture, It's against voguepay's terms i suppose.

I hate to say this but it beats my heart to see how interswitch and their partners bill clients and deduct money from their accounts while on the other hand telling the clients on the merchant's site that their transaction was not successful. I've been mailed twice by 3 site members now thier their bank accounts were deducted several times while trying to make payments which were unsuccessful and yet their accounts were deducted. One clients had her account deducted thrice!!! And yet interswitch and voguepay and giving us the "Waiting" game? What do i tell my clients because as far as they know, it was my website they made the purchase? Na wa oooooo!!!

We were not aware of the problem at first because Interswitch has connectivity issues with bank servers once in a while (e.g when your ATM card is debited and ATM machine does not dispense.). For those that reported early, the support team thought it was one of those problems. It was when the report became consistent that we had to start troubleshooting it.

Accept our sincere apologies.

We believe that the problem has been resolved now and you will be notified officially once we confirm that it is working flawlessly.

Apolgies accepted. It was not your fault though but i really lost lots of sales.

This is a problem with GTPay Portal. It affects only the cards processed through gtpay/Interswitch.
We have been communicating with GTPay and Interswitch and we hope it will be resolved tomorrow.

We have also triggered a notification to all VoguePay merchants which should be visible once they sign in. All failed transactions are being refunded to buyers' bank account or credited to merchant wallet upon manual confirmation of any payment till GTBank resolves this problem.

While VoguePay technical support works every day, Interswitch and GTPay technical support only responds on weekdays hence the delay in resolving it over the weekend.

Our support has been most responsive and all support tickets have been answered within minutes or at most, within hours. We have not left any merchant stranded on this issue and we will not leave any merchant stranded. We will ensure that no merchant will loose a penny even if we have to ask them to request a refund through their banks. Please submit a support ticket if you experience a broken transaction.

Please bear with us as we work with the Banks and Card Issuers to resolve this problem.

Okay, i understand now. But frankly speaking, i think GTB's GTPay sucks as this issue is so important that they should be able to tackle it on non-business days because customers make use of their portals 24/7 to buy goods and services.

In a case like this use multiple ways such as Email, forum, phone, Chat if all fail got to their office.

You have got to be kidding me!! I'm considering pulling out.....imagine the loss! Simplepay4u.com begged me to integrate, even though they had visa processing and i bragged about voguepay and now this? meeeen........i'm just pissed!!!! I'm still considering what to do...but if it continues by monday, i'll leave voguepay!

I just discovered after about attempts from my site members that voguepay has a problem as they are not able to process payments for people who want to pay for services right now. Voguepay used to work up till now but right now, it's not just working. And their support services were not helping matters when i contacted them. The bottomline, I've lost over N100,000 from my transaction history on my account on their website.

Now the question is: Is it that all these Nigerian payment processing companies are a joke or what?

Thanks all for your opinions shared about Afrisoft and VOGUEPAY

Every successful organization grows on the strenght of feedbacks. The truly good ones are bold enough to accept corrections (when they are in error) and are also proud to flaunt their success. The same goes with VOGUEPAY

Many of you may not know that VoguePay is only 3 months old. Our first transaction was in May 14. But after that, we have helped businesses like yours process over 3,500 transactions worth N3 Million securely. We have over 2,000 users.

So getting back to some of the issues raised:

N3,000 TRANSACTION LIMIT ON INTERSWITCH

3k limit is imposed by interswitch on some forms of online businesses that they(Interswitch) categorized as high risk especially bulk sms (we still have not understood why they did not impose it equally on all aggregators) but we held a meeting with them on this issue earlier today. So expect changes soon.
However, there is no limit for other cards like VISA and etranzact .

VISA CARD INTEGRATION
Our team of developers are working hard on the VISA integration. Should be up very soon.

OUR SUPPORT

Did you say our Support was awful?
I think that is our achilles heel. We have no excuse. We are deeply sorry for those who have had bad experience in one form or another with our support team. I already said we do not have any excuse and I am not trying to justify the delayed support or the time it takes to clear local and international support queue. (Yes! we have clients all over the world)

Our phones are not always switched off, they are always very busy. Those who have visited our office can attest to this.

With our newly restructured support (and additional phone lines coming soon), we believe you will enjoy a better relationship with Afrisoft and her subsidiaries.

We have learnt a few things here and we are already putting it to good use. Thank you all.

Let me round up with two good news:

1. if you are interested in signong up as an affiliate, you will make LIFETIME INCOME from every account holder you refer to VoguePay

2. We are looking to review our policy for merchants. You can now collect your money two days after the transaction as against the 5 days.

Do you have opinions for us...? We will be glad to hear from you and we will publicly tell the world that you are a good Samaritan

At VoguePay......we simplify online Payment in Nigeria

Leke Ojikutu
C. E. O
Afrisoft Interactive Ventures Limited.

I love this Guy! Since i started using voguepay, I 've been so impressed by your services. Leke, I look forward to your integrating VISA payments. Two thumbs up to voguepay!!!!

VTN is down again? i juast don't know what is wrong with these guys at virtualterminalnetwork.com?

@databoy247, save yourself the stress, Vogue pay rules. I like the fact the leke ojikutu of voguepay knocked off the yearly fees and stuck to just 1% of transactions, and her's the sweetest thing, VERY EASY TO INTEGRATE EVEN IF YOU ARE A NEWBIE OR A WEB GEEK!

My only problem with Voguepay is the fact that you can't pay for services with a Visa card. I hope he is working on this.

Mr. President: "The world (and Nigeria in Particular) will Not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything"! A word is enough for the wise.

It's on Oshiomhole (ACN) vs. Airhiavbere (PDP) governorship election debate is going on right now on AIT (Live)!!!

71,000 inactive and docile users! Lagbook sucks!