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- Ethanol, our trash and our economy
- This story has everything: suspense, victory, tragedy and a cliff-hanger. We still can't be sure how it's going to turn out. It all turns on Blue Fire, a California company aiming to build commercial-scale ethanol production plants, turning trash into sugars which can be fermented thence into ethanol....
- Tags: Southern California, Biofuel, Trash, Landfill, Plant, Blue Fire, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- A Failure To Not Communicate
- The preliminary findings of the investigation of last week's commuter train crash in Southern California: Text-messaging was involved, the Wall Street Journal reports. This is a wreck that should make us think, about how much we need to communicate.. by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Tags: Southern California, Wreck, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- UAVs will study Californian smog
- The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles AUAVs to gather meteorological data as the aircraft fly through clouds over Southern California. The goal is to study smog and its consequences as...
- Tags: Southern California, Researcher, Pollution, Aircraft, Global Warming, UAV, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Images: Tracking California's wildfires
- As Santa Ana winds drive blazes across the Southern California landscape, state and federal agencies take vital data to the Web. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Southern California, Wind, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Marketing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-23
- Design and Implementation of a Real Time GPS Network for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
- The Metropolitan Water District MWD of Southern California, in collaboration with the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center SOPAC at University of California, San Diego, has undertaken the design and implementation of a 30-station Real Time GPS Network RTN. MWDRTN is currently in the final field installation stage first phase...
- Tags: Southern California, Network, MWDRTN, GIS, GPS, Networking, Handhelds, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- White papers 2006-05-24
- Photos: Going for the Lego gold
- Lego fanatics gather in Southern California to test their brick-building skills.
- Tags: LEGO Co., Southern California
- Image galleries 2006-05-23
- Photo: Blowing quietly in the wind
- An air-quality management district in Southern California offers this leaf blower at a discount in exchange for older, noisier models.
- Tags: Southern California, wind, photograph
- Image galleries 2006-02-22
- Photo: Blowing quietly in the wind
- An air-quality management district in Southern California offers this leaf blower at a discount in exchange for older, noisier models.
- Tags: Southern California, wind, photograph
- Image galleries 2006-02-22
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- Data center pilot helps Toyota reduce electricity demand by 10 percent
- Simply by visualizing where hot spots and cooling inefficiencies existed and moving to address them, Toyota Motor Sales USA has been able to reduce the electricity demand requirements it puts on its local utility. During a five-year pilot program with IBM and Southern California Edison, Toyota was...
- Tags: Data Center, Toyota Motor Corp., IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Redfin Real Estate 1.01 (Mobile)
- Redfin Real Estate is a MLS powered real estate app. Get all the details and photos on every home for sale, then add your own pictures and notes. GPS-enabled. It is available in Southern California, Bay Area, Sacramento, Seattle area, Chicago area, Washington DC, Baltimore, Westchester County, Long Island, and...
- Tags: Mobile, Redfin, Redfin Real Estate, Real Estate, GPS, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-09-29
- AT&T customers speak out over poor service
- RE: AT&T customers speak out over poor serviceAll that is AT&T is EVIL & bad! Did anyone really expect different with the pretty looking iPhone? - Sierra Night TideAT&T/iPhone in AtlantaI have been out to northern California and my iPhone and the other AT&T phones in my family are just...
- Tags: Smart phones, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, ATT, AT&T Corp., poor service, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- California's burning: greentech solution?
- Of course, there's no substitute for human arrogance an dignorance. We insist on living along earthquake faults from San Francisco to Tokyo. Folks love beachfront property in hurricane and typhoon zones. Italians rebuilt cities at the foot of Vesuvius. Cities and towns clog major floodplains all over...
- Tags: Biofuel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- News to know: Pixie; Google Books; Time Warner-YouTube; PayPal; iLike
- 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. Andrew Nusca: Next Palm webOS-ready phone, Eos 'Pixie', to arrive Oct. 2010 Richard Koman: Lawyer files a full-throated attack...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Canon Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Word, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Internet
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Southern California Edison's new mega contract for solar megawatts
- You can add another 170,000 homes to the solar capacity that Southern California Edison hopes to support in Southern California. The utility has signed a deal with First Solar to build out two projects in Riverside and San Bernardino counties with a generation capacity of 550 megawatts...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, First Solar Inc., San Bernardino, KWh, mW, Southern California Edison, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- CA digital textbooks initiative falls flat
- Here is California's review of digital high school textbooks. As AP reports, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been promoting the idea that schools would use these free texts as a way to save money and bring education into the 21st century. First, it's interesting to...
- Tags: School District, California, Computer Associates International Inc., Hardware, Standards, Textbook, CK-12, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Pedego electric bike photos
- Pedego offers electric bikes in Southern California. The bike comes with a battery powered motor that can propel the vehicle for about 30 miles at the speed of 20 mph. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Engineering, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-08-06
- Global warming and personal opinion
- Global warming and personal opinionCome on, Fuller,having lost time and again on the facts, now you are going to dismiss people who disagree with your alarmist nonsense as people with - here it comes - feelings?Stick to the facts man, that's enough.Oh, and why do you now call it 'global...
- Tags: global warming, climate change
- Discussion threads 2009-08-04
- New financing alternatives for solar power installations
- One very tangible reason that people have been slow to adopt solar technology, other than its questionable current efficiency posture, is that very few of individuals or businesses have excess money to plunk down on the systems. There have been all manner of financing and credit and...
- Tags: Solar Energy, kW, Financing, GRID Alternatives, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- KPCC Radio 1.0.2 (Mobile)
- KPCC Radio featuring news and cultural programming from NPR, BBC, and APM, as well as award winning local news and information. Southern California Public Radio is the member supported non profit organization that operates 89.3 KPCC in Los Angeles and Orange Counties and its repeater stations, 89.1 KUOR in the...
- Tags: Mobile, News, Southern California Public Radio, Development Tools, Advertising & Promotion, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-07-16
- iTrans LA Metrolink 1.7.3 (Mobile)
- See train schedules for any station at any time of day, browse the latest service advisories even while offline, go to current location with a tap, show any station in the maps application, search for stations with a few taps This app is for the Southern California Metrolink system.
- Tags: Station, Mobile, iTrans, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-07-09
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