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- Way past peak oil but U.S. oil production still up for 2009
- Artificial StatisticSaying we are way past peak productions is disingenuous, as there are a large number of places we could drill for oil, but can't because of environazis Still working on your numbers?Good job. Try to count to 30 next time. I bet you can do it.What's up with Harry...
- Tags: Blogging, Telecom & Utilities, Kinda, U.S. Oil, Godwin, Nazi, blog
- Discussion threads 2009-11-27
- East Anglia: one hacked U.S. scientist is hacked off
- I say then be pro-active...If it is out of context, pro-actively publish EVERYTHING and PROVE they are out of context. If the hacked scientists DO NOT provide context, publish everything they say vindicates them, then we know the truth. If they simply fall behind the mantra of "it's...
- Tags: global warming, East Anglia, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-11-22
- 60 Minutes: We're not ready for a cyber war
- Just like 9/11 thousands will have to die Before we give a damn. It's really a shame.and everything workshow's that possible?Unfortuantely, it will take a disasterIn the US, until disater strikes no one will do anything. Once it does happen then there will be screaming for heads to role....
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Regulations, FERC, Obama, hacker, Bush
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%
- Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...
- Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficient
- RE: Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficientIt would require an encyclopedia simply to list all the turbine applications developed over the past century. What turbines continue to dislike, however, is speed alterations. Change their speed and you lose much of their efficiency. That's...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, gasoline engine, disk, diesel, combustion, turbine, battery
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Smart grid grants
- Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S. today. President Obama has chosen a Florida solar power plant as the location for making his announcement. He'll be in Arcadia, Florida, at Florida Power and Light Co.’s...
- Tags: Grant, Monitors & Displays, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Components, Wireless And Mobility, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Could Congress head off action by EPA on emissions?
- There's a move sponsored by Republicans to keep the EPA from taking administrative action to curtail industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The opponents of EPA action say the Clean Air Act was never intended to stop greenhouse gas emissions. Regardless of Congressional action, it is highly unlikely President...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, U.S. Congress, Greenhouse Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Midwest tech firm now wind driven
- Other World Computing OWC is in McHenry County, Illinois, and now their power comes from the wind. OWC claims the title of "first 100 percent on-site wind powered technology manufacturer/distributor in the U.S." It's using Vestas-made wind turbines for all its daily electricity needs. ...
- Tags: Turbine, Other World Computing, Other World Computing HQ, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Could diabetes fight the obesity epidemic?
- Nice one, Dana.When are you going to write something relevant - like IT - on this site?There is no IT in this blog. Just pointing out the obvious.When will you learn to use google?This is among the worst medically releated post you have written. And please stop quoting the...
- Tags: Exenatide, diabetes, GLP-1, secretion
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- EPA creates new resource for green-tech home retrofits
- Somehow in the scheme of personal economic priorities, retrofitting your home with a "smart" new set of energy-efficient appliances or heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems probably isn't at the top of your list. While intellectually those retrofits might help save you up to 30 percent off your...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Brickbats over bricks
- Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....
- Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Could you green the world brick by brick?
- One California-based company is going to try. And they're going to make those "green" bricks in Wisconsin, not ship them in from China. The new-fangled brick has been pioneered by CalStar Products. A basic ingredient of the CalStar brick is coal ash, residue from burning coal. There...
- Tags: Brick, CalStar Products, Coal Ash, Michael Kane, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress
- Here's another sign that whatever happens on energy in Congress, if anything, will be a sideshow: the EPA plans to reject a permit for a new coal mine in West Virginia. The planned mine would be yet another mountaintop removal. That is a direct slap at Big Coal...
- Tags: Permit, West Virginia, Coal, Wind Farm, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Battle, WEST VIRGINIA COAL Here, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?
- Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...
- Tags: Landfill, Computer, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Government, Hardware, Components, Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2009-10-18
- The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy
- I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...
- Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-17
- GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000
- GM Spark, photo courtesy of GM. But, of course, this car will not be sold in the U.S. or Canada. The all-electric Spark will go on sale next year in India. There GM partners with Reva Electric Car Co. The standard combustion engine Spark, sells...
- Tags: India, Car, Electric Car, General Motors Corp., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- LG Bliss - white (US Cellular)
- LG is one of the top makers of touch-screen feature phones, and though many of them go to big national carriers like Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless like the LG enV Touch and the LG Xenon for example, quite a number of them make it to regional carrier U.S. Cellular...
- Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, U.S. Cellular, LG Electronics Inc., home screen, LG Bliss, phone, Bliss
- Product reviews 2009-10-14
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