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A new tidal generator design

What happens if you run an electric motor backwards? In short, it stops being a motor and becomes a generator. Following this principle, researchers at the University of Southampton have built a new kind of tidal stream generator. Their simple and elegant design has fewer parts than most current tidal...

Tags: EPRSC, stream generator, tidal stream generator, turbine

Blog posts 2006-06-22

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Scientists replicate the physics of a stellar jet in laboratory

Astronomers will tell you that among the most beautiful structures observed in the Universe are the intricate jets of matter speeding away from accreting stars, such as young proto-stars and stellar mass black holes. But they have a hard time explaining it. A pair of professors the University of Rochester...

Tags: Jet, Magnetic Field, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Wind dying down...for the nonce

Wind dying down...for the nonceSo China is building a third generator?All I ever see is coal fired plants when I am there.Translated..."driven partly by new federal laws and policies"Subsidized. By OUR tax dollars. If it can't compete on its own costs...STICK A FORK IN IT.Does that mean take...

Tags: subsidy

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobs

Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobsIf I were a Sun employee I'd be looking for another job.There seems to be a never ending stream of layoffs at Sun. Very demoralizing.RE: Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobsi think it's hard to compete for Sun in the new IT market place. The...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Linux, Operational accounting, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Now Let, Careful Murph, Sun Microsystems Inc., job

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Apr 08/May 08

OK, it's time once again for ... drum roll please ... The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Apr 08/May 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. These components are on...

Tags: ASUS, Card, Video Card, Performance, Board, Motherboard, CPU, List, Intel Core 2 Duo, RAM, Graphics, Intel Corp., LGA775, AM2, ASUS Maximus Extreme, Maximus Extreme, DDR3, PSU, Corporate Governance, Performance Management, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-28

Twitter: show me the money!

Twitter: show me the money!Very perplexing question - corporate deployment perhaps?Simply as an ad revenue generator, Twitter would have to be like the ZDNet blogs and scores of other sites, perhaps with ads relating to the Twitter stream (i.e. like AdSense). However, I see tremendous value in Twitter behind...

Tags: Twitter

Discussion threads 2007-10-15

REplay PLAYer 3.2 (Mac)

REplay PLAYer is a computer program based on the paradigms of granular synthesis. The program de-constructs a given sound file and re-composes it by using realtime composition algorithms - a field of research that has been investigated by Karlheinz Essl since the mid 1980ies. With this project, the author is...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dr., Music, REplay PLAYer, Productivity

Software downloads 2007-08-22

Doubts arise over fate of breathalyzer source code in Minn. case

Doubts arise over fate of breathalyzer source code in Minn. caseBettera drunk driver get off scott-free, than justice be done.Closed-source voting machine software, anyone?:o)Remember stateshiding the code is not a good idea and if justice is to fairly rule on the full status of the accused, the govt may...

Tags: source code, conviction, blood test

Discussion threads 2007-08-10

Windows Media Player 11 for Vista

Microsoft has been consistently updating Windows Media Player WMP for the past several years, and each iteration has been better than the version before it. It makes sense, then, that version 11 of the multimedia jukebox is the best one yet, and WMP11 for Vista is slightly better than its...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Windows Vista, WMP11, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows

Product reviews 2007-01-29

Indium 1 (Windows)

The Indium real random number generator is without doubt the largest most complex random number generator ever designed. It uses all the major data encryption algorithms, one way hash functions, and pseudo-random number generators available. It is completely free and in the public domain. It is a open source project...

Tags: Internet Connection, Random Number Generator, Radio, Microsoft Windows, Sin City Software, Internet

Software downloads 2007-01-25

Vegas Vault 1 (Windows)

Vegas Vault is the World's Strongest Data Encryption Program. It uses every major data encryption algorithm, one way hash function, pseudo-random number generator, and hundreds more esoteric entropy randomization algorithms. This program is in the public domain and comes with all 1100+ C source code functions. It uses the Indium...

Tags: Algorithm, Microsoft Windows, Sin City Software, Vegas Vault, Engineering

Software downloads 2007-01-25

ActiveGrid recipe: Soak in XML. Integrate. Scale.

For companies looking to speed up integration between new and legacy systems (or, just new and new systems), Ive seen a lot of products out that there that use Web services standards namely XML to (1) give everything that needs to be integrated a common XML interface and (2) provide...

Tags: XML, ActiveGrid, Peter Yared

Blog posts 2006-10-06

HeckleWorks Pro 4.0 (Mac)

HeckleWorks is a robotic heckle, jibe, insult and realtime personality evaluation generator. It can be used for filling evaluation forms, intermittent analysis while you work, or general heckling. HeckleWorks features a broad vocabulary and some grammatical variations, for de novo jibe generation. Alternatively, you can specify the targets, for the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, HeckleWorks, E-mail, Desktops, Telecommunications, Online Communications, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-10-12

Look out, Google, Microsoft, AOL- here comes...eBay? Yes, eBay

As you may be well aware by now, eBay is buying Skype for $2.6 billion.The debate now centers on "what does this tell us," and "where do we go from here."Last week, I wrote about why such a deal makes sense. I gave two reasons, and I'm stickin' by 'em.Reason...

Tags: eBay Inc.

Blog posts 2005-09-12

Backpack turns hiker's energy into electricity

Backpack turns hiker's energy into electricityis it available? who makes it?. . . does anyone know?I think that this is an excellent technology and hope that it takes off.85 pounds!!!Who's going to carry [b]85 pounds[/b] around just to power their PDA? I doubt most people could walk for more...

Tags: Fuel cells, PDAs, Engineering, hiker

Discussion threads 2005-09-09