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The media have been wrong on climate change before...

The media have been wrong on climate change before...Newsweek often wrongMentioned elsewhere ...Newsweek has often gotten stories wrong.I stopped taking them seriously when they took the premise of Jurassic Park seriously.Cooling was not as big a concern to scientists of the 70's as the business and media institute think.See these...

Tags: carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Algae to the rescue

Algae to the rescueNot a bad planI think it has a fair shot of not only working, but turning a profit.RE: Algae to the rescue"The algae can be harvested from biodiesel or animal food."The other way around?ScaleIt will be interesting to see the scale needed to be effectiveWOWWhat an amazing...

Tags: carbon dioxide, Algae, rescue, Water Vapor

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

Our big carbon footprints

Our big carbon footprintsCould not any one prove many nations so?include only industrialized people? Does it take into account people living in areas that need never be heated? Does it count those living in Haiti or other parts of the globe that are lately surviving on wood fire cooked mud...

Tags: Water Vapor, carbon dioxide, vapor

Discussion threads 2008-04-29

Calculation of Flash Evaporation for Petroleum Fractions 1.0.0.1 (Windows)

This application calculates:- Temperature of beginning of mixture boiling, *C;- Temperature of end of mixture boiling, *C;- Saturated vapor pressure for each fraction, Pi;- Constant of phase equilibrium for each fraction, Kpi;- Mole fraction of component in liquid part, X'i;- Mole fraction of component in vapor part, Y'i;- Mass fraction...

Tags: Fraction, Vapor, Petroleum, GEngineering, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-01-17

Coal's in our future. So what IS wrong with Kansas?

Coal's in our future. So what IS wrong with Kansas?Diagrams?Gee the picture looks nice except for the great hole in it where they want to store the carbon.There is no such thing as clean coal - the carbon has to go somewhere and geological formations are the equivalent of...

Tags: coal

Discussion threads 2007-11-11

Images: Hurricane Dean ravages Mexico

Hurricane Dean hit the coast of Mexico as a Category 5 storm--earning the most destructive rating according to the Saffir-Simpson scale.Hurricane Dean is now a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, moving across the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico with average winds of 125 mph and gusts up to 200...

Tags: Hurricane Dean, Dean, Category 5, hurricane, vapor, coast, Here', satellite

Image galleries 2007-08-21

You've heard this before: turning chicken s#@* into...

bio-oil. Some folks at Virginia Tech have been looking into ways of using America's millions of tons of chicken...litter. An aromatic mixture I can tell you from my childhood on a farm: feathers, manure, rotting chicken food. Well, now there's research showing how to make this stuff...

Tags: Litter, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-19

Great balls of fire

According to National Geographic News, two Brazilian physicists of the Federal University of Pernambuco have created artificial ball lightning in their lab. Like the ones you may have seen during a thunderstorm, these ball lightning move erratically and burn whatever they touch, even drilling a hole in one of the...

Tags: Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature, ball lightning, lightning, vapor

Blog posts 2007-01-24

Near-final Windows Vista version issued

Near-final Windows Vista version issuedWell, you have to understand how hard it isfor them to come up with a rant. All their ranting material is old, everyone has heard it, everyone knows it's just ranting FUD.For them, it's like trying to come up a negative for sliced bread when...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Games, vapor, Microsoft Corp., Near-final Windows Vista, Near-final Windows Vista version, Microsoft Windows Vista, game

Discussion threads 2006-09-01

Microsoft releases key Vista developer technologies

Microsoft releases key Vista developer technologiesuseless softwareit's useless because nobody will use that half baked 'technology'.Linux already has everything you need.Indigo"WCF links server-based systems using Web services"I wonder if this will catch on better than SOAP did. Obviously now web based services and object models are now the buzz...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, vapor, Rep, rep, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-01-18

Photos: Gizmos for gearheads

Among other things, San Francisco car conference features a VW prototype that runs on liquid hydrogen and pumps water vapor out of its tailpipe.

Tags: vapor, hydrogen, VW, San Francisco, conference

Image galleries 2005-11-08

Photos: Gizmos for gearheads

Among other things, San Francisco car conference features a VW prototype that runs on liquid hydrogen and pumps water vapor out of its tailpipe.

Tags: vapor, hydrogen, VW, San Francisco, conference

Image galleries 2005-11-08

Photos: Gizmos for gearheads

Among other things, San Francisco car conference features a VW prototype that runs on liquid hydrogen and pumps water vapor out of its tailpipe.

Tags: vapor, hydrogen, VW, San Francisco, conference

Image galleries 2005-11-08

Itanium software upgrade hits bump

Itanium software upgrade hits bumpM$ is lazyIt's time that people start to sanction the M$ dinosaur for not being able to deliver and buy Linux instead.Vapor, vapor, and more vaporSo now that AMD has native 32-bit support in their 64-bit chip, Intel will try to retrofit it into theirs? ...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, 64-bit, Processors, vapor, Microsoft Corp., software upgrade, Itanium software upgrade, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., software, Intel Itanium

Discussion threads 2003-11-03

Additional Resources

A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards

Freezing it?"Popping it into a sealed plastic bag and freezing it for a few hours."Pardon my ignorance - what does this do to help?Except in this case, the problem is almostcertainly fried electronics because of the method in which the drive failed.Strange. Hu?I can't say how it works, but I...

Tags: logic board, hard drive, hard-disk recovery, Cooling

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Salesforce.com Plays In the Enterprise - Again

Back in 1999, I was a salesforce.com user and at that time, it was a rather kludgy sales force automation application that didn't do much right - for example if I tried to export a .CSV file it gave me an .XLS file and vice versa.  I read something by Marc...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Accounting, Financial, Sales Force Management, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Two Perspectives of the HR Technology show

Some positive surprises - strong attendance Last week, Dr. Katherine Jones and I attended the HR Technology show. Katherine is one the best known HR analysts out there and covered the space for Aberdeen Group for a number of years. Together, we sat down with 21...

Tags: Human Resources Inc., Katherine, Herewith, HR Tech, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Teens are generation Apple as iPod, iPhone dominance reigns

Look at fall 2007Two years ago, 13% said they planned to buy a Zune. And, almost none of them did.Apple owns this market in the USA and will until the category of MP3 player is no longer relevant.I wonder how many teens plan to buy a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone?Big...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, Apple Inc., MP3, MP3 player, iPod iPhone dominance reign, dominance reign, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Has the iPod idea train hit the buffers?

The "hype" Apple gave it?Apple sent out 2 notifications to the press. First there was an announcement of the event date and then later there was a "post card" invite that clearly marked it as a music event. Get something straight, Adrian, Apple didn't hype this event -...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, camera, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Adrian, buffer, phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Gute Nacht, Herr Edison

The European Union is phasing out the incandescent bulb. As of today the 100 watter can no longer be imported or made within the members of the E.U. By 2012 all incandescent bulbs will be illegal although those on stores shelves can be sold, and hoarded according to...

Tags: Energy, European Union, Retail, Engineering, Taxes, Free Trade, Regulations, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-01