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  Yves Rossy is the Jet Man

  04.19.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Yves Rossy is the Jet Man

  If you’ve ever wanted to see personal jet transportation, here’s your chance. SwissAir pilot Yves Rossy has crafted a light weight composite wing and attached two small jet engines to it. Rossy becomes the fuselage after, get this, jumping out of an airplane with the rig on. You really have to see it to believe […]

• Innovation

  Farecast Acquired, Now Give Me My Money

  04.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This is the third, and final entry about Farecast on Musings from the Coast. For those who don’t know, Farecast is a travel service that allegedly has a model that predicts airfare cost and advises travelers based on that when to purchase a ticket. Sounds great, right? It doesn’t work. A good idea poorly implemented […]

• Innovation, Technology & Science

  Just how Smart is that Car?

  04.09.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Just how Smart is that Car?

  Photo Credit: SmartUSA While driving around the San Francisco Bay Area this week we’ve had our first sighting of the Smart Car, a small vehicle taking Europe by storm. This is a conventional gasoline powered vehicle in tiny size: 1 liter/70hp engine, 61″x106″, and maximum weight of 2,300lbs. The vehicle gets between 33-41 mpg (EPA […]

• Energy, Innovation

  Tidal Turbine

  04.08.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Tidal Turbine

  Bristol, UK firm Marine Current Turbines successfully installed a 1.2MW turbine in Northern Ireland in the fast moving Strangford Narrows. This is the largest tidal harvest turbine installed to date (not including the tidal barrage systems that have been in use for some time in France for instance.) MCT has plans for a 10.5MW project […]

• Energy, Innovation, Technology & Science

  The Smarter Plug

  04.07.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on The Smarter Plug

  When we started looking at business opportunities in the clean tech space, one of our original concepts was that of the “smart plug.” Given the heavy tech background of the team, a tech device made a huge amount of sense. We obviously decided to go another way, however, we still believe the idea has merit. […]

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