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New physics as applied to solar tech

New physics as applied to solar techNone of which will make a bit of differencebecause of the fact that incident sunlight striking the earth is 1 kw/m^2.An insufficient energy density for an industrialized society. Stick your fingers in your ears and cry la-la-la all you want. Even at 100% efficiency,...

Tags: New Physics, solar tech

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

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Science of better fuel cells

Get realSo we are going to have 1-ton work trucks with a battery.PleaseYou are an idiot, please shut up.Misleading. Not produce, STOREThis article is misleading.If you can produce excess solar energy during the day, you can use some for electrolysis to create hydrogen, which may be easier to store, and...

Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos

google should move away from linuxI suppose they could easily take away all those messes of the current os by doing that. Haha! Crummy-um "Chromium OS and Open Source" video-- the guy is calling it Crummy-um! Sounds about right.RE: Chrome OS: Some Early Preview VideosAnd ZDNet falls hook, line,...

Tags: Corporate communications, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ChromeOS, Chrome, Chrome OS, early Preview Video, operating system, Preview Video, video

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Widespread BlackBerry data outage reported, is it time to move on?

umgotta say this sounds like a justification for an iffy iphone purchase or usage maybe? you make it sound like if BIS goes down you're dead in the water, but if BIS goes down all you lose is what you don't have with any other service anyway, you still get...

Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, BIS, outage, BlackBerry Data, RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Greenland becomes green land; Brazil gets good news

Yes we know it is all lies...http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming.htmlhttp://www.climatechangefraud.com/Did the dinosaurs pass some gas and causethe ice age? I guess they should have beentaxed for passing gas!;)Do you do any actual research?Or do you just try to scare people into thinking the way you do?Greenland is one of the worst examples you...

Tags: BE TRUE, information technology, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Water, water everywhere. So why not use it to create steam?

Here is a lesson on how little we can put in the blog...and still call it our own. Could you write less and still get paid ???sheshEver heard of Nuclear powered ships? They heat water that flashes into steam and thus turns the turbines.This short article.I think the...

Tags: Fuel cells, hydrogen, steam

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Indian cement company buys American solar technology

Indian cement maker goes solar with American tech. by Harry Fuller

Tags: Tech, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Scary tech!

Time to drop your Time Warner Cable internet access :P I'm kidding, but that is how they are around here, constantly going down.You need helpPeople are known to become dependent on things they don't need for ages. You should seek some help. Or just get out and enjoy some...

Tags: Network technology, United Parcel Service of America Inc., SCARY

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon

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.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-27

There's still VC juice out there for greentech firms

A Washington State solar power company just got over three million dollars in additional funding. Earlier Infinia had investments from both Vinod Khosla and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. That's another little tech company based in Washington State. Infinia uses parabolic dishes to focus...

Tags: Solar Energy, Infinia Website, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Get a charge out of this (or, more solar power to go)

i.Tech Dynamic has added another mobile solar charging gadget to its steadily growing line. Actually, it has taken the solar charger part of its i.Tech SolarSet 905 carkit and broken it out as a separate product that carries a suggested list of $59.99. The latest product is...

Tags: Solar Energy, USB, i.Tech Dynamic, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Tracking efficiency

Array Technologies has been in the solar tracking business for a couple decades. And using GPS systems for solar tracking is nothing new. GPS itself is now an ancient tech dating back to 1993. Hell, it's older than even the public-access Internet. GPS itself is a...

Tags: Panel, Array, GPS, Handhelds, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Copenhagen countdown

"climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, sea surface temperature, wealth transfer, tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe

Harry, cut the BS. Write about tech some time.or get a job.Stop Preaching...and writing in a condescending tone. You and Blanchenwhatshisname should start your own site and stop posting this junk to a TECH site. Throwing in a line at the end about Green Jobs doesn't mean your...

Tags: Gender and diversity, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

iPhone app review: Mantis Bible Study

boo!if i wanted religion, i would have gone to my nearest parish. cmon zdnet, this is a business tech site, not jesus's facebookWhy is software excluded from'tech' just because it happens to be for religious purposes? Are you saying that software made by, dare I say it, religious people...

Tags: Bible

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

How the cordless Powermat charging system took my iPod touch hostage [review]

Unnecessary..... POS if you ask me!Cordless charging will work only whenit will be standardized and built into the various devices.what about solar-charging wireless?i've heard it was on the drawing boards...has anyone refined this 'green tech' to the point where it can be relied on?Oh, well... The transformer is such an...

Tags: Smart phones, hostage, iPod touch hostage, cordless Powermat, Powermat, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000

it would be nice......if GM would sell these cars in North America...just my two centsRE: GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000It aggravates me. Why is the US the last one to get this type of innovation that is affordable. I WANT ONEOh yeah people in a...

Tags: car, General Motors Corp., electric car, small electric car

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

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