Solar Decathlon 2011. Tongji University, China
Made from six shipping containers. Interior is super-configurable.
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.
Month September 2011
Driverless tractors and trucks are coming. Goodbye jobs
Google has been experimenting with driverless cars. It seems plausible that truck drivers may soon be losing jobs to robot vehicles. The same trend is happening in agriculture too with autonomous farm equipment. ReadWriteWeb isn’t sure if this is a…
Polizeros podcast tonight
Concluding our three-part discussion of solutions. Foreign Policy reforms: A resurgent Peace Corps so that practical things can again be done by people who don’t carry guns, ending wars and occupations that don’t address core interests, realistic “future threat” and…
The Occupy Wall Street non-agenda
Doug Henwood wonders what the agenda is, if any. Certainly the location of the protest is a statement, but when it comes to words, there’s a strange silence—or prolixity, which in this case, amounts to pretty much the same thing.…
Solyndra violated loan terms but still got more federal money
The U.S. Department of Energy learned in December that Solyndra was violating its federal loan deal, but the agency changed the loan terms to allow the solar company to continue receiving taxpayer funds, federal officials confirmed Wednesday. Sheesh, hand me…