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Australian researchers say biodiesel from saltwater algae can be cost competitive with petroleum diesel. They also state that due to the cost of transporting biodiesel from an algal farm, the best scenario may be to locate an electricity generating plant in the same vicinity and simply convert the chemical energy into electricity. Creating such a [...] Sounds fanciful, but this is MIT talking… MIT will announce its patent next week of a cheap, efficient, manufacturable electrolyzer made from cobalt and potassium phosphate. This technology, powered by a 6 meter by 5 meter photovoltaic array on the roof, is capable of powering an entire house’s power needs plus a fuel cell good [...] I'm twittering too! Or I suppose you could look at plants to determine if they need watering. But that’s so old school. Pothos, a test plant, has 2,300 followers on Twitter anxiously awaiting updates on its soil moisture status. Electricity transformed our way of life forever. The internet is doing the same. But it’s not all upside, says Nicholas Carr. In the early days of electricity, many factories made their own power. Everyone had their own way of doing things and the equipment and generators wouldn’t work elsewhere. After a bit, electricity was [...] D.J. Mitchell photo. Dr. Sharif Abdullah, Executive Director of the Commonway Instutute in Portland, Oregon, is currently on the ground in Sri Lanka. He offers this perspective: In a recent article, the fair and objective “International Crisis Group” (ICG) laid out the problem of the continuing war in Sri Lanka and its devastating consequences [...] Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, is working for a week in their distribution center in Kentucky. No photo ops or interviews. He wants to see what being an employee is like. He apparently wants to see what it’s like to be a rank-and-file Amazon employee. More CEOs should try that once in a while. [...] FargoFloodStage on Twitter from the National Weather Service shows the relentless rise of the Red River and links to an ominous flood crest prediction. The river was supposed to crest at 39 feet. Now it looks to be 42 feet, something that has never happened before. Plus they are having heavy blizzards and power outages. [...] Just published from City Lights. Mumia tells how prisoners have learned law and freed other prisoners. Introduction by Angela Davis. In Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners—many uneducated or illiterate—and in [...] Fargo residents are using email, Facebook, and Twitter to mobilize against the incoming monster flood and to keep each other notified. Our DSL was down for 28 hours. Turns out it was a loose wire and all is well now. But it made me realize two things. 1) Sue and I are really dependent on the net. For most of us now, the net is as indispensable as having a car or phone. Until [...] |
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