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  Apple’s Bite of the Market

  10.18.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Apple’s Bite of the Market

  Top 5 Vendors, United States PC Shipments Third Quarter 2007 (Preliminary) (Units Shipments are in thousands) Rank Vendor 3Q07 Shipments Market Share 3Q06 Shipments Market Share 3Q07/3Q06 Growth 1 Dell 5,010 28.0% 5,260 30.9% -4.8% 2 HP 4,346 24.3% 3,718 21.8% 16.9% 3 Apple 1,127 6.3% 973 5.7% 15.9% 4 Toshiba 940 5.2% 805 4.7% […]

• Energy, Innovation

  Small-scale geothermal systems

  10.17.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  At the GRC Annual Meeting earlier this month, the Chena Hot Springs project was discussed again. Chena is in central Alaska, about 65 miles northeast of Fairbanks and is home to a resort as well as a 400kw geothermal plant. At heart, the Chena geothermal power plant is no different than any other binary geothermal […]

• Innovation

  Drivemocion: Express yourself on the road

  10.15.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Drivemocion: Express yourself on the road

  Have you ever wanted to share your mood with drivers around you? Well, if so, the Drivemocion might fill the bill… There seem to be 3 versions available, though none have the kind of messages I’d expect to see in places say, like Boston, when signalling to other drivers! I suppose the Drivemocion is the […]

• Energy, Innovation

  Galloping Gertie Wind Harvest

  10.15.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Using aeroelastic flutter, the same effect that resulted in the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (aka Galloping Gertie), Shawn Frayne has created a wind harvest device that is small, cheap to produce, and simple. The 2:05 video below has details of the breakthrough. Frayne desribes the breakthrough Video of Tacoma Narrows Bridge Tip of […]

• Energy, Innovation

  Another Conservation Game

  10.12.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Another Conservation Game

  This time, from Chevron. In July we wrote about My Abodo, a consumer-focused exercise that enabled one to make choices about how they live then to see the impact of those changes on the environment around them. In retrospect, it was a very cool exercise and you can still see our little MeV home we […]

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