Do you wish you could just get rid of weeds, in your garden, once and for all? This article may have you Thinking Twice. A Chemical in One Kind of Weed may kill Cancer.

New Discovery Finds Garden Weed Offers Hope for Cancer | Care2 Healthy Living

While stinging nettles may be the bane of gardeners across the land, new research found that they offer hope in the treatment of cancer. Traditionally used for allergy relief and as a way to boost dietary nutrition, a substance in the weed identified as JPC11 was found to fight cancer in two ways.

 From article, (While stinging nettles may be the bane of gardeners across the land, new research found that they offer hope in the treatment of cancer. Traditionally used for allergy relief and as a way to boost dietary nutrition, a substance in the weed identified as JPC11 was found to fight cancer in two ways.

New research published in the medical journal Nature Chemistry found that these nuisance weeds may offer hope in the treatment of cancer. The researchers identified a substance called JPC11 which appears to interfere with cancer cells’ ability to divide rapidly—a process necessary to the survival of cancer in the body.

JPC11 in stinging nettles seems to have an innate intelligence to differentiate between healthy and cancerous tissue, leaving healthy tissue unharmed.

While the research on JPC11 as a potential treatment for cancer, and prostate and ovarian cancer in particular, is still in the preliminary stage, it could offer a more effective and focused cancer treatment. Researchers concluded that their findings “offer a new approach to cancer therapy.”

Earlier research found that stinging nettles may also be helpful for precancerous conditions. In one study researchers found that nettles was superior than the drug treatment finasteride for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which is a condition in which the prostate becomes enlarged and is often a precursor to prostate cancer.)

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Me, "While this article tells you how to find nettles in your backyard. I would still buy them at a farmer's market to make sure you are getting the real thing."

A Zero Carbon World will need Carbon Capture.

Bipartisan approach to combat climate change is stuck in Congress

CLOSE WASHINGTON - A proposal mired in Congress could go a long way to curbing the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change - and Republicans from fossil fuel producing states are helping lead the effort.

 From article, (A proposal mired in Congress could go a long way to curbing the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change — and Republicans from fossil fuel producing states are helping lead the effort.
The bill would extend and expand a tax credit to reward companies for practicing “carbon capture and storage,” an expensive process supporters say can extract up to 90% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from the use of fossil fuels in producing electricity and other industrial processes.

In Texas, the independent power company NRG Energy last year completed a $1 billion venture known as Petra Nova that's become the world’s largest post-combustion system for capturing carbon at a power plant.
Petra Nova separates more than 90% of the carbon dioxide from 240 megawatts of coal-fired power at a generating plant near Houston. It injects the captured gas into the ground to extract more crude.

But the use of the process has been limited by its high price tag. Carbon capture is only going to succeed if its readily available and affordable, objectives the revamped tax credit seeks to accomplish, said Waltzer with the Clean Air Task Force.

“If we’re going to get these kinds of technologies applied not just in the U.S. but in countries like India, like China, we’re going to need to get them deployed and see the costs come down," he said. "We think (carbon capture) is a crucial component of getting to a zero carbon world.”

The FUTURE Act, which has the backing of 25 senators and 44 House members would increase the amount of the credit for each ton of carbon extracted, eliminate the 75 metric ton limit for new projects, and allow companies to take advantage of the credit if they start building before Jan. 1, 2024. 

Waltzer said the last provision is especially important because lenders would be more willing to finance carbon capture and storage projects knowing the government was investing in the project. He compared the proposed credit favorably to the tax breaks Congress granted in the 1990s that elevated the fortunes of the wind industry.)

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