Genetic Algorithms Drive Circuit Board Design, & Sculpture!
Theo Jansen brings his strangely poetic and technologically driven sculptures to the beaches of the Netherlands. They are uniquely constructed, based on genetic algorithms that are often used to design...
View ArticleIcelanders Don’t Owe Us a Dime
There’s a new banker in town, and he doesn’t care about how much money you have or you owe. He runs a new kind of bank that checks out your carbon footprint, then sends you a bill, or issues you a...
View ArticleThe Great Wildlife Documentary Ripoff
In this world, certainly in America, their seems to be people and their vocational endeavors that add to the world, and those that subtract. Some lawyers spend all of their professional lives suing...
View ArticleLexar Media Announces Energy-Efficient Crucial DDR2 FBDIMM Memory for Servers
FREMONT, Calif. – Lexar Media (NYSE:MU), a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today announced immediate availability of Crucial 1.5V DDR2 FBDIMM server memory modules. As...
View ArticlePeak Oil, Peak Oil, Peak Oil – There, I’ve said It
The words “Peak Oil” aren’t supposed to be in our vocabulary. It’s unAmerican. We’re not supposed to know, or at least verbalize the fact the oil is a finite resource. The “American way” is to smile...
View ArticleHybrid Conversion kit in the works…
As fuel prices climb and people switch to more fuel efficient vehicles, millions of gas guzzling pickups, SUVs, and vans will still be on American roads for many years, even decades. The average age...
View ArticleThe new Battery-Powered Plane
There are battery powered cars, scooters, semi trucks, and now there is a battery powered plane. The plane, that got its certification in April, features a 5.6 kWh lithium battery with a projected life...
View Article“American Spirit” Alive and Well
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) Larry Horsley and David Kennington are fed up. They’re among a growing number of Americans who are refusing to wait for big-car manufacturers to deliver mainstream electric...
View ArticleSolar Updraft Towers To Be Deployed In Namibia For Energy And Food
In a future with no need for fossil fuels and with the need of renewable energies, solar power seems to be the best option available on the market. In order to be efficient and cost-effective, the sun...
View ArticleCash for Clunkers, a Flawed System.
The Car Allowance Rebate System is a US federal program that helps US citizens to purchase a new, more fuel efficient vehicle when trading in a less fuel efficient vehicle. Thousands of Americans are...
View ArticlePlant Something Green in Your Office
Planning ahead can save big $$ on energy bills As you can see from the chart, IT departments consume a great deal of the companies overall power consumption. Some recent advances in OS’s and hardware...
View ArticleMost Important Report in Human History: IGNORED
By James Wilson Last Sunday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that if the world does not curtail the amount of atmospheric carbon, there will be “severe, pervasive and...
View ArticleClimate Change and the 5 Stages of Grief & Loss
Many climate change scientists tell us that unless we act aggressively to curtail climate change in the next few decades, at the very least civilization as we know it will be decimated, and the extreme...
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