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- Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech company
- Thermal testing. Courtesy Industrial Nanotech. Energy costs are now serious business for industries, office managers, and home owners across the world. Buildings account for over half of the energy use in the U.S. and a fair portion of that is for heating and...
- Tags: Insulation, Clean Technology, European Union, Nansulate, Energy Cost, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Photos: Shuttle suffers gouge out of heat shield
- NASA says the damage to the space shuttle Endeavour is minor, but are examining its ceramic tiles to determine a plan of action.NASA discovered a 3.5-inch gouge out of the space shuttle Endeavour''s heat shield and are deciding whether to send astronauts on a space walk to repair it. Teacher-turned-astronaut...
- Tags: Shuttle, photograph, shuttle, tile, NASA, walk, inspection, truss, insulation, shield, ice, scanner, Earth, scientist, handheld
- Image galleries 2007-08-13
- Can nanotechnology be good for climate?
- The UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Defra has recently released a long report stating that nanotechnology might offer hope for climate change. This study has focused on 5 specific areas: fuel additives, solar cells, the hydrogen economy, batteries and insulation. The conclusion of this report is that...
- Tags: Energy &, Environment, Health &, Medicine, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
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- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaSre: USCODA has past experience of getting badly burned in the US and when I spoke to Roche about this, he said that the GTM with SFdC provides a significant degree of insulation against those risks.RE: CODA2Go and the economics of PaaSI think we need...
- Tags: PaaS, CODA2go, Coda
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech company
- Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech companywhat about other uses e.g. Space Shuttle, airplanes, etc?If this stuff is so good NASA should be buying it by the bucket to insulate their flight vehicles including the Back To The Moon Lander.What about Boeing using it for airplanes instead of whatever they...
- Tags: Nansulate, R-Value, cleantech company, clean technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- OLPC stuck key issue drawing attention
- The so-called "stuck-key issue" being reported by OLPC XO owners is gaining a fair amount of media attention as the first large-scale deployments in Mongolia and Peru are taking off. First reported about four months ago by buyers from the OLPC Give One Get One program, the problem, according...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- HDMI survival guide for home theater
- HDMI survival guide for home theaterUm,the 1960s ended ;)It was UHF not UHV and it is still there.That is where the digital channels are placed.We still got them, but it's blocky when the signal is badWe still got them, but it's blocky when the signal is bad or insufficient. ...
- Tags: Network technology, home theater, HDMI, cable
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- HDMI survival guide for home theater
- There's a lot of money to be made in the HDMI cabling and switch aftermarket and unfortunately that means a lot of consumers are getting tricked in to paying outrageous prices. I've spent quite a bit of time helping my friends set up their home theaters recently and I thought...
- Tags: Home Theater, HDMI, Cable, HDMI Splitter, DVI, HDCP, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- (Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)
- (Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)safely ignited in space?How did toxic fuel get safely ignited in space? Space is a vacuum with no oxygen to enable combustion.RE: (Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)Just wondering, can anyone explain to me how spaceship/satelite propels itself in space when there is nothing...
- Tags: combustion, missile, oxygen, satellite, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Off the grid: energy independence in the real world
- Off the grid: energy independence in the real worldTarget a non-desert climate next time!Interesting, but it'd be far more interesting if there were someone doing this for a climate other than desert (aka California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas) - such as, for instance, Western Washington. We have...
- Tags: Western Washington, power source
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Happy Valentine's Day: your home is toxic
- That was the ahppy message to numerous families from the feds today. Specifically it was FEMA telling displaced Katrina refugees that their government-provided travel trailers contain unsafe levels of formaldhyde. In testing by gthe federal government at least 5% of the trailers had off-gassing severe enough to cause...
- Tags: Furniture, Health Care, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Formaldehyde, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Follow the money, it may lead to more green energy
- Exxon is the world's largest oil company. By some measures it's simply the world's largest company. The U.S. is the world's biggest military power, energy user and debtor nation. Together they think they can out-muscle a Latin American leader who may not even have the loyalty of...
- Tags: Venezuela, Green Technology, Exxon Mobil Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Nanotechnology-based self-cleaning fabrics
- A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes how Australian researchers have used nanotechnology to develop 'self-cleaning' wool and silk fabrics (scroll to article #4 in the PressPac). The researchers 'prepared wool fabrics with and without a nanoparticle coating composed of anatase titanium dioxide, a substance that is known...
- Tags: Silk, American Chemical Society, Fabric, Fiber, Nanotechnology, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Green-walling with patented new tech
- I had a serious talk with the chief of Serious Materials. And the company promises some serious energy savings with their new products. But in my talk with CEO Kevin Surace I hit a green wall on one topic: how do they make this stuff? ...
- Tags: Window, Product, Aluminum, Kevin Surace, Construction, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Found cure for higher energy prices: recession panic
- Today the price of crude has dropped below $90 a barrel. Prices on a lot of other commodities have also dropped. However, it's not likely energy will become so cheap once again that homes and offices will be built with single-pane glass and no insulation like they were...
- Tags: Green Technology, Federal Reserve Board, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Generation Green: The truth about age and green-tech adoption may shock you
- I KNOW what they say about assuming things. But, yes, I've been walking around under the impression that green tech adoption was probably higher among 30-somethings or 40-somethings like me. No particular reason for this. I just was using my both my own parents and in-laws as benchmarks because, frankly,...
- Tags: Green Technology, Survey, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Eco-friendly next-generation mobile homes
- Usually, mobile homes are not associated with terms such as long-term quality or environmental friendliness. Now, a professor of architecture at Mississippi State University MSU wants to change this. He has developed the concept of the GreenMobile home, an ultra-affordable and ecological-minded, factory-built housing unit. The first prototypes of these...
- Tags: Mobile, Home, Mobile Home, GreenMobile, Utility Cost, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Green Tech boon. But is the new U.S. energy law cornographic?
- A new U.S. energy bill has been signed into law by the President. Here are some of the green tech relevant provisions: Higher fuel-efficiency for cars and light trucks, up to 30 MPG average by 2020. That is currently the standard already in China. Europe already...
- Tags: Green Technology, U.S. General Services Administration, Law, Corn, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Big Coal making big announcement...fate of states awaits
- Big Coal making big announcement...fate of states awaitsSmall Woman Owned Business Goes GreenRestorative Medical Inc., a small woman owned company whose products are totally Made In America, is proud to announce its Green Initiative. We are dedicated to preserving our Earth’s natural resources while protecting our environment. Some...
- Tags: Big Coal, Java RMI
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- Measuring green opportunities
- Measuring green opportunitiesMark Twain Nailed It"Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics." You make some good points about real impact of supposedly green technologies. There's information pollution to go with the environmental variety; responses tend to be well meaning but badly mistaken. It interests me how lemming-like environmentalists tend...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Monitors & displays, data center, Just Like Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
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