The red glow of warm adapter plugs shows they keep using power even when the appliances they’re connected to are turned off —as much in a year, in some cases, as the appliances themselves.
Today’s internal combustion engines are inefficient at converting fuel to motion. Cars waste up to 85 percent of the energy [...]
South Korean Professor Cho Jae-Phil of Hanyang University and his team have developed lithium batteries that are 90% more efficient than current models. You will be able to do stuff 8 times longer – cell phones, notebook computers, cameras, etc. They replaced the graphite in the batteries with three-dimensional porous silicon particles. Professor Jae-Phil [...]
Cool Earth Solar has announced their Solar Balloon technology – an inflatable plastic thin-film balloon (solar concentrator) that focuses sunlight onto a photovoltaic cell held at it’s focal point. This design produces 400 times the electricity as would be possible without the “solar concentrator”.
Cool Earth is constructing a power plant in Livermore, CA using [...]
Bruce McIntire over at It’s Car Stuff has a great post on something we are all thinking about these days – Gas and how to make it go furrrrrther.
His tips include:
Your feet - don’t use the pedals as a foot rest and walk rather than drive when you can.
Plan and combine - Plan [...]
US $4.00 per gallon gas and now the United Arab Emirates, a tiny country with the 5th largest GDP per capita in the world, will build an LED screen that can be seen from over a mile!
Don’t get me wrong – I don’t blame the Arabs for our predicament. I blame us and [...]
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Worlds in Flux
Our physical world is in constant flux.
A chaos of ever-changing geometries.
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A message from the future - A “Temporal Blowback” occurred as a result of a tachyon field failure in CERN’s Large Haldron Collider (LCH) on 22nd October 2008 resulting in the vaporization and destruction of the world.
See 15 Spectacular Lightning Photos Here
And here is a cool slidedeck of lightning photos:
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Get your XR3 Hybrid Plans from Robert G. Riley Enterprises, do a little project in your garage and get from 125 to 225 mpg with this cool two seater plug-in/deisel hybrid:
The times are a changing - the high cost of gasoline/diesel will drive the change to sleeker, smaller and more fuel efficient automobiles and other [...]
Ma as-salaamah
(Goodbye & Good Riddance) to Foreign Oil
Scientists mimic essence of plants’ energy storage system
‘Major discovery’ from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution - MIT News Office.
“Requiring nothing but abundant, non-toxic natural materials, this discovery could unlock the most potent, carbon-free energy source of all: the sun. “This is the nirvana of what we’ve been [...]
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