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Potsdam to New Amsterdam: your subways will flood: Savor this New York City official website photo of lower Manhattan in 1944. The coastline of the city hasn't changed much since then. But now some sare saying it won't be long.... The Old World is telling the New World to beware of...; Tags: Sea, Associated Press, Carbon Dioxide, Potsdam, Global Warming, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-09

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Bridge traffic powers its monitoring sensors: Researchers at Clarkson University, NY, have developed wireless bridge sensors which work without batteries. Instead, they are powered by the vibrations caused by passing traffic. This is good news for all the people in charge of maintaining bridges, who will no longer to have to replace batteries installed in hard-to-access...; Tags: Researcher, Monitoring, Sensor, Clarkson University, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-10-23
Potsdam II: Gotta grow to get green: A group of Nobel Prize winners and other big thinkers gathered in Potsdam to talk climate this past week. That was before Al Gore got his prize so he wasn't invited. And at that conference, sponsored by the German government, there was much discussion of human addiction to...; Tags: Nation, Conference, Global Warming, Government, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-13
Locating an earthquake in 5 minutes: When a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia's West Java on August 8, 2007, it took exactly 4 minutes and 38 seconds to be detected, located and sized by the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System GITEWS currently under construction in Indonesia. Even more remarkable, the location of the earthquake was found after...; Tags: Tsunami, Sensor, Indonesia, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-08-15
Software business model challenged by SaaS, says Plattner: Remarks by SAP chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner last week caused a bit of a kerfuffle back at SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.Speaking last Tuesday at his own Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Plattner pictured said that "delivering software over the Internet would present a critical challenge to traditional business...; Tags: SAP, ERP, Business models; Blog posts 2007-07-04

A roundtrip to Mars in one day?: According to ideas developed in the 1950s, it should be possible to build an 'hyperspace' engine allowing a spacecraft to reach Mars in 3 hours. It would also allow us to travel to stars more that 10 light years away in 80 days by slipping into a different dimension. But...; Tags: theory, magnetic field; Blog posts 2006-01-09