Eagle: Entire Cities Could Run on Compressed Air 2019 UPDATE: Company Failed
2019 UPDATE: LightSail Energy Storage and the Failure of the Founder Narrative RELATED: Free Energy @ Phi Beta Iota
2019 UPDATE: LightSail Energy Storage and the Failure of the Founder Narrative RELATED: Free Energy @ Phi Beta Iota
With them, Force is. Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and …
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Smart paint lights your way on the highway By mid-2013, the Netherlands will feature glow-in-the-dark tarmac and dynamic paint that warns drivers of weather conditions. “The Smart Highway” is a concept designed by Studio Roosegaarde and Heijmans Infrastructure. Including glow-in-the-dark roads, interactive lighting and an induction priority lane for electric vehicles, the team wants to …
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Global warming is normal, not an imminent threat. Global warming, also known as climate change, is a tiny part of Environmental Degradation, top level threat #3 out of ten according to the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change of the United Nations. Global warming is a direct result of common ignorance, corporate greed, and …
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OpenBTS stands for Open Base Transciever Station. It is the foundation for free cellular service and Internet access. Ham radio operators were the first hackers, with active government repression until the government finally got a brain on this issue — ignorance always leads people with power lacking in integrity to do stupid things. Now OpenBTS …
Huh? Impact to US West Coast from Fukushima disaster likely larger than anticipated, several reports indicate Non-naturally occurring radionuclides from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant’s triple meltdown last year radioactively contaminated the entire northern hemisphere within days and the US west coast bore a significant brunt of so called hot particles, an independent scientific paper …
My friend Jeff Madrick lays out the outlines of the central economic crisis of our times: the hemorrhaging of high paying middle class jobs — a subject I addressed wrt to the loss of manufacturing jobs here. Chuck Spinney Our Crisis of Bad Jobs Jeff Madrick, New York Review of Books, 2 Oct 12 With domestic …
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