Moving electricity through salt water
EcoGeek explains the technology of underseas cables that can move electricity from offshore generation to land. Fascinating stuff.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day July 21, 2008
Biofuel from seaweed and algae
Seaweed doesn’t need cropland to grow or need fertilizer and it has a higher oil content most land-grown biofuel sources. Algae also has a high oil content. A “commercial-scale algae facility” is planned for Maui that will grow algae for…
Possible economic scenario
It looks like Europe will get hit by the ongoing recession and deflation worse than the US. China could get whacked by a double blow of 1) a global recession clobbering their overheated economy and 2) the impact of their…
High-end housing starting to fall
Foreclosure: It’s not just for subprime low and middle income folks anymore. High end prices are falling in Manhattan, the SF Bay area, and many other places as well. Two weeks ago Barron’s had a full page ad for a…
Google solves incredibly weird computer problem
So, all of a sudden, my laptop starting typing bizarrely. The letter “o” would type as the numeral “6”, that kind of thing. Multiple keys would do this, always typing the same incorrect letter. Rebooting didn’t help nor did anything…