Interesting report is out today from the IEEE Spectrum about the first 24 hours at Fukushima. While TEPCO has been rather quiet about the goings on, the authors and nuclear engineers have tried to ‘reverse engineer’ what happened by putting together public statements and other data. One of the more interesting tidbits came a few [...]
The boy who built a windmill in Africa has a new video up on TED.com. His book comes out this week and starts shipping via Amazon. Another good video is here. More of a mini-movie.
I just bought this book by this guy. A few years ago he was plucked from the obscurity of the Malawi countryside to speak to the TED Conference – a conference of ideas and visionaries. William Kamkwamba couldn’t afford school, but he decided to teach himself by looking at the diagrams in books at the [...]
Berlin is celebrating the opening of a new subway line with a grand total of three stops. Total cost: €320 million, or about $500 million US. And this is a pretty interesting station in that it serves only the Brandenberg Gate and Bundestag, so some are calling it the Chancellor’s line. Maybe we should just [...]
When you think about electric bills, you often have a picture of the massive sprawl being built out West, saying to yourself ‘all those damn air conditioners killing the environment. If only they lived in the NorthEast they could clean the air from all the pollution.” Not so fast. It’s been known and published for [...]
An environmental WMD? Many people are strongly against Global Warming not because it’s about the science or lack thereof, but because of the politics they know will come next. “It’s not about the climate. It’s about control of your lives” is a common thread to many. And there is new ammunition for these folks today. [...]
Ride one of these if you want to remain a bachelor. Saw a flock of DC Smartbikes today (they just sort of appeared overnight). Judging from the open spaces on the end someone is riding them. This gaggle was located at 14th and I just a few blocks from the White House. It’s actually close [...]
Washington DC has grown a select, privileged and elite group of world-renowned cities by adding a high tech ‘smart bike’ program to ease transportation around the cities inner-core. Euro-loving DC-ite’s are feeling quite smug.
‘Save the animals kill the humans’ morons in California launched a couple molotov cocktails on steroids over the weekend. The first destroyed a car, the second a professor’s home. One of the professors, his wife, and 6 and 7-year-old children had to flee their burning house via an emergency ladder. Police were expecting something like [...]
I thought the North Pole was melting… The Coast Guard was up on Capitol Hill begging for more money to enhance and replace parts of the aging Arctic ice breaker fleet. Two of the vessels are nearly 30 years old and costing more and more to keep afloat, and the typical Washington bureaucratic shuffle now [...]
DANG! So you know they want to put windmills off the coasts of most US cities, and the residents are constantly balking because their view will be ‘ruined’ by these 25 story monsters spinning day and night. I’ve always wondered why they just didn’t throw them even further offshore, and now I know. Connecting cables [...]
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