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Water technology sure to become more profitable. Great "Dry" Lakes study released. Our food is consuming our water.

The Great Lakes are a major source of fresh water for much of the industrial and agricultural Midwest as well as southeastern Canada. Now the US Geological Survey has released a report on what happens to the water after people take it out of the lakes. You can...

Tags: Food, Clean Technology, Water, Livestock, U.S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-23

The cost of a bicycle

The cost of a bicycleLived through itin the 70's, the Great Lakes were being polluted on a grand scale. DDT, PCBs, etc. were drained into the lakes through polluted streams and rivers. Remember when Lake Erie caught fire?What happened since? The US and Canada realized the problems were getting out-of-hand,...

Tags: Strategy, personal property, Great Lakes, pollution

Discussion threads 2006-05-26

Additional Resources

Navigation Rules for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Navigation Rules for iPhone contains a complete copy of the International regulations for preventing collisions at sea, including amendments and the Inland navigation rules, in effect for all inland waters, including the great lakes. This app includes an annotated table of contents and links within the text to help the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Navigation, Mobile, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-04

What do you believe, your eyes or somebody's numbers?

There is no disagreementThere really never was. Scientists are in agreement that global climate change is happening you may have noticed the conferences.We will always have idiots. It's just that some of them happen to own media and political parties or are making way too much money with...

Tags: climate change, mankind

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Apple leaves Chamber of Commerce in green dispute

Cap and TAX dramatically increases green house gassesGood for the chamber of commerce to have their eyes open. All this energy tax legislation does is move energy consuming manufacturing off shore to countries where the production of that energy is dramatically more pollution producing. Apple needs to pull it's head...

Tags: Apple Inc., Obama, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

The good news about WalMart

The magic of jiu jitsuYou praise what a company reviled by the left is doing. The right rises. Then you point to WalMart's support of true health reform, and pound them with it. How does this help the public option?I don't see it.So you are saying that because of some...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

_Pro Surfer (Mobile)

Pro Surfer v - 2.1 - Get the info before you go. Access to up to the minute information such as Wave data, Weather Forecasts, Marine Advisories, and more, wirelessly from your handheld PDA or cell phone. Includes info such as Significant Wave Height (H0), Swell Height SwH, Swell Period...

Tags: Mobile, Web Browser, Info, PDAs, Web Browsers, Internet, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-07

_Pro Mariner (Mobile)

"Pro Mariner" - Wireless access to "real-time" nautical information from a cell phoneNOTE! - Device browser and internet access requiredMariners can now get access wirelessly to up to the minute information such as, Real time Buoy Information, Severe Weather Warnings, Marina Listings, Weather Forecasts, as well as Marine Services search,...

Tags: Lake, Mobile, Hurricane, Pacific, Web Browsers, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Software downloads 2009-08-07

Microsoft retail store pitch: Whither PCTV?

Microsoft retail store pitch: Whither PCTV?you won't see M$ stores in EUIf M$ opens a store in EU, the commision will force it to display Linux PCs too and that will be the best thing for FOSS.M$ should better save the $$$ for the lawyers.Guru barmary, you forgot to mention...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., BSOD, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Renewable energy: who's got it, who's getting it?

The NRDC has just put online maps showing where the renewable enerrbgy rresources of the U.S. are. And each maps shows where there are facilities already useing those resources, or are in planning stage. Click here to check out wind, solar, and biomass resource maps for the U.S....

Tags: U.S., Renewable Energy, NRDC, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Terragen 2.0 (Mac)

Terragen 2 is a powerful solution for rendering and animating realistic natural environments. Create entire worlds from your imagination, or import real world terrain datasets and use Terragen 2 to create the most realistic visualisations possible. You control the weather, landscape, rivers, lakes and oceans, suns, moons and stars. With...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Terrain, Planetside, Terragen 2, Engineering

Software downloads 2009-04-25

Open Source Haggadah, chapter 2

Last Passover, I spoke of the Commandments that companies should follow in order to be good Open Source citizens. Also read: Open Source Commandments I Also read: Open Source Commandments II My, what a difference a year makes -- or maybe...

Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Richard Koman, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Open Source, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Intel awards innovation around Classmate PC

Intel awarded four $100,000 prizes today at IDF as part of their INSPIRE/EMPOWER Challenge. Interestingly, three of the prize winners made use of the Intel Classmate PC. According to Intel's press release, The challenge called on the developer community to bring forth the most...

Tags: Innovation, Intel Classmate PC, Researcher, PC, Intel Corp., MSCC, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Desktops, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Don't even imagine the oil age is over

A new report by the U.S. Interior Department gives great support to those who say, "Drill, baby, drill." The report shows how little we really know about how much oil is, or isn't, under the oceans within 200 miles of the U.S. mainland. That would be the Atlantic,...

Tags: U.S., Coast, Energy, Wind Energy, Offshore Wind, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Navionics USA Central 1.0 (Mobile)

This is Navionics renowned Gold XL9 USA Central navigation chart, now available for your iPhone. Most popular with both recreational navigators and professional fisherman alike because of its clear, seamless chart detail, comprehensive port plans and port service guides including phone numbers, tides & currents where available, and huge coverage...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Navionics S.p.A, Navionics USA Central, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-17

Discovery World Uses ProCurve Network to Showcase Technical Innovation, Possibilities

With hundreds of exhibits, an HD television studio, several labs, two HD theatres, public WiFi, corporate rental spaces, point-of-sale systems and office operations, Discovery World has just about every networking requirement imaginable. The interactive center for innovation and learning established a state-of-the-art IT infrastructure using a variety of HP ProCurve...

Tags: Innovation, Point-of-sale, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, HP ProCurve, Utility Computing

Case studies 2008-10-01

Astroturfing, sockpuppets, and SCO

Astroturfing, sockpuppets, and SCOMisplaced sympathySeveral years ago, someone where I was working a Unix house was lemanting about how Microsoft had treated poor IBM. At the time IBM's profit was bigger than MSs turnover. As if IBM could not look after itself after 90 years!Many have willingly taken adopted Google...

Tags: Sort-of, Sarah Palin, Astroturfing, SCO Group Inc., Internet

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Data center energy use

Data center energy useHmmmm....1. It's still a positive contribution, even if it is a small one. 2. And I think real enterprises are seriously eying desktops a real money sinks when it comes to power.3. The same argument could be applied to oil. We shouldn't...

Tags: Data centers, Operating systems, Servers, hardware, Data Center Energy, Sun Microsystems Inc., data center, Process Protection

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...

Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

Fill 'er up: biodiesel company in ship-shape for future

Innovation's Newark plant. I recently spoke with the head of a biodiesel firm that's on the production side of the business. Innovaton Fuels was formed from the merger of smaller start-ups and already has one production plant in operation, and a second on the...

Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-29