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- New lean, mean, green machine
- I just want to ride on my motorcycle. And now I can do it without buying gasoline. Today, CNET's Michael Kanellos looks at the progress being made in building and marketing electric motorcycles in the U.S. The photo here shows him tooling around on a Zero.Vectrix also...
- Tags: green tech, energy, cars &, traffic, Blogroll, air pollution
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- A matter of degree
- If you have any doubts that some folks are rushing to get in position to get rich off climate change and high energy prices, I gotta bridge I'll sell ya.Perhaps no finer proof of the gold rush around energy: a new university training program in "carbon management." The University...
- Tags: global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Hard cheese for hard coal
- They may stop mining hard coal in Germany. The energy source that literally fueled Germany's manufacturing in the 19th and 20th Centuries will no longer come from German mines in the Ruhr Valley. The Washington Post article today points out how heavily the German underground coal mines have...
- Tags: renewable energy, nuclear power, global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution
- Blog posts 2007-07-29
- Your computer's making you sick
- A new study from Britain's Imperial University says your computer and other electronics could be making you sick. A London newspaper says the study's going to be published in August. The research will blame electrical charges from computers, TVs, stoves and other electrical appliances for giving people asthma,...
- Tags: research, green tech, Blogroll, air pollution
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- Ozone revisited
- There's a detailed, delightful (if you're a chemist) explication of the recent ozone research over on the realclimate blog. It's helpful to follow the realclimate blog's explanation of the vast difference between ozone's behavior on the earth's surface, and in the stratosphere.I early blogged the original research publication right...
- Tags: research, global warming, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Good news for the future
- Airplanes are a cursed blessing. They make travel over long distances possible in less time than anybody could have imagined 120 years ago. A week to take a steamer from New York to Liverpool. Sound like fun?But the curse comes with all that crud jets spew into...
- Tags: research, green tech, global warming, fossil fuel, federal government, energy, climate change, Blogroll, aviation &, aeronautics, air pollution
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Ozone: too much here, too little there
- Hey folks, can we just get our ozone in balance? Seems like crystals and mantras aren't gonna do it. There's no political stigma on climate change research in Britain so they're regularly coming with up new findings.Today comes a study saying there are chmicals in the Antarctic that...
- Tags: research, green tech, global warming, climate change, air pollution
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Finding fault in Japan
- The July 16th earthquake that hit Japan's Niigata prefecture has left the country shaken: sesimically, politically, economically. There are elections for the nation's upper house on July 29.The elections could be affected by public anger and fear after the quake badly damaged the world's largest nuclear power plant, measured...
- Tags: nuclear power, green tech, global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, air pollution
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Why bloggers may live longer
- Blogging fronm home could be good for your health, 'cause that commute's a killer. And now "Forbes" had done some figurin' to find out which of the 25 largest metro areas in America have the deadliest commute.The study compared three major factors to find which urban commutes by car...
- Tags: air pollution, cars &, traffic, federal government, fossil fuel, mass transit
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
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- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletI WANT ONE!!Dang, I'd buy it in a heart beat. I already have an iPod Touch love it and getting ready to buy an iPhone.RE: Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletMay sound very nice, but unfortunately, like all Apple things, it will probably...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Mystery Solved, iTablet
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- (Photos: Pushing cars from pump to plug)
- (Photos: Pushing cars from pump to plug)How Ironical....I consider it the greates irony that this conference was held in California... The same California that won't let another electrical generation plant to be built and can't keep all it's existing A/Cs running... Just where to they think they are going to...
- Tags: car, charger, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- What is the "product transition" Apple alluded to?
- During Apple's Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts, Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO and Tim Cooke COO both mentioned a "product transition" that Apple is preparing for that will cut profit margins to help shut out rivals. Both executives punted on several analyst questions for more "color"...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Product Transition, iTablet, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Ultra-light micro air vehicles
- Ultra-light micro air vehiclesReal virtual game!It would be very cool if it were affordable enough to hook up for an average user to 'Shoot down' flies and other insect annoyances ;-)RE: Ultra-light micro air vehiclesIf this is "remote controlled" how does the term "autonomous" apply? I had thought that term...
- Tags: Games, micro air vehicle, air vehicle
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Ultra-light micro air vehicles
- Dutch engineers have built the third generation of the DelFly autonomous air vehicle. The DelFly Micro made its first public flight earlier today in Delft. This micro air vehicle weighs only 3 grams and has a wingspan of 10 centimeters. This very small remote-controlled aircraft carries a 0.4 gram camera....
- Tags: Gram, Photograph, Centimeter, Micro, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Delivering nada. Zip. Zilcho. Zero.
- Delivering nada. Zip. Zilcho. Zero.Sub-Contractor High-FiveANY subcontractor who can get millions out of a company and deliver nothing gets my applause.. do you realize how hard it is to keep taking money when you're not really doing anything viable?Maybe Im just twisted, but this speaks a lot more to me...
- Tags: FUBAR, sincerity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- The App Store's buggy update process
- The application update procedure for iPhone is a complete and unadulterated nightmare. The App Store tells you you need updates with a nice little red bubble in the upper right of the App Store icon, simple enough, right. Unfortunately that's where the fun ends. The update process...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iTunes, Computer, App Store, Update Process, Digital Music, Digital Media, Productivity, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
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