Month January 2009

Vegawatt. Grease into power for restaurants

Now, restaurants can simply dump their grease into a Vegawatt machine and have it produce electricity and hot water rather than pay to have it shipped away. Vegawatt calculates that 80 gallons a week of oil will result in a…

Option ARMs. The new subprime

With billions of Option ARMs due for recast in 2009 and 2010 another crisis is on the making. But this time problems are expected to be more pronounced than the subprime crisis since the economy is already nearing its trough,…

Track the Israel Gaza Conflict using social media

Mashable recommends using CrisisWire, WhosTalkin, and Social Mention to aggregate info on Gaza from dozens of social networking sites into one location. Remember, someone with a cell phone and a Twitter account can often get news out fast and first…