Interesting article I read from EcoGeek via Greentech Media… http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2346/. I never knew that computers and LEDs ran on DC power… hybrid AC/DC buildings might be the way of the future for consumer cost savings and overall sustainability. Brief overview of DC Electricity http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/dc.htm
And we really wonder why we are in a financial crisis!?
Can someone please help me logically justify the rate of return on “investing” $12 billion a month on the war in Iraq? Is that really what the oil reserve in Iraq is valued at? I assume more if you include inflation over the past 5 years. WTF. For more insane statitics from US Senate and Congressional Services
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The Driving Plane
I love ideas which turn accepted orthodoxies on their heads. In this case, the science, fiction, and science fiction perspective on the future of transportation has long been the flying car. Imagine being stuck in traffic and then blasting over the jam, touching down and taxiing right into your driveway. Cool, but I’ve never seen
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Will humans live to see 10G or even 20G wireless technology???
From the creation of the internet by Tim Burners Lee in 1989 to the latest technology running in 3G wireless networks, the world has literally seen what some call the greatest human invention of all time grow up right before their eyes. (Always funny to think about what work must have been like before 1990…
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Bioethanol from Olive Stones
I read this article on Gizmag Bioethanol from Olive Stones and it slapped me in the face. Living in Turkey, I see a lot of olive trees. Not just a lot but A LOT. Albeit I absolutely despise the taste of olives, I love every other product that comes out of the incredible fruit. And
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More Kindle News
If you are a new reader here at the Spreed:Blog, you will find out in due time that we are quite obsessed with digital publishing and the ways that we take in digital content. Spreed’s goal is to make the digital reading experience more efficient on any electronic device. Our speed reading application is only
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192 Lasers, Nuclear Weapons and Fusion Power
The human brain is incredible… The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was built by the Department of Energy to gather data on the thermonuclear reactions that occur inside atomic weapons. And as an excellent side bonus, NIF (rhymes with stiff) could unlock the secret of harnessing fusion for unlimited, clean electricity. To
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Report: The Hubble Telescope is Running off my home PC – From 1999.
So the Hubble is broken again, and its running of a redundant system to keep it going. Sadly that system is powered by a 486 – pre-pentium processor. The same kind in my home PC from 1999. I remember writing an essay about Roman Empire in word, it crashing about 4 times, and the s-l-o-w..ness
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The Loneliest Organism on Earth
I am fascinated to find out what kind of scientific breakthroughs are going to come about from studying Desulforudis audaxviator. Any predictions? Check out the article in Wired, http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/one-organism-ec.html.
A Response to the Luddite Literati
The article Online Literacy is a Lesser Kind where Mark Bauerlein asks us to “restrain the digitizing of all liberal-arts classrooms” reminds me of one of the oldest jokes in the book. You know the one – a man walks into a doctor’s office and raises his arm above his head and says “Doctor, Doctor,
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