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  Triple Play: Sou Hills Project

  10.09.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Triple Play: Sou Hills Project

  Originally published at Montara Energy Ventures. In August, 2007, MeV acquired a lease and development rights on ~1700 acres (~700 hectares) of land in Nevada’s East Dixie Valley. This area is a Known Geothermal Resources Area (KGRA) with a functioning plant, Ormat’s Dixie Valley 60MW facility, in the near vicinity. Given the parcel’s location in […]

• Energy, Innovation

  Spallation Drilling

  10.05.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Spallation Drilling

  Originally published at Watch a video of spallation here. One of the more interesting talks and technologies at the GRC Annual Meeting was given by MIT Researcher Potter Drilling in Redwood City and discovered that not only was it possible to keep the flame active in the high pressure aqueous environment, but that temperatures necessary […]

• Innovation

  Blogrush Update, Update

  09.26.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Blogrush Update, Update

  Guess I should have waited a day before posting the Blogrush update. In the mail this morning, I received a missive from the Blogrush team. I’ll post excerpts below with some commentary. The BlogRush team has been hard at work making major improvements for you and we won’t rest until BlogRush is running 100% smoothly […]

• Innovation

  Blogrush Update

  09.25.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Blogrush Update

  It’s been a few days since I started to experiment with Blogrush, the viral traffic generation tool. Since the initial entry on this, the Dashboard seems to be active, though the reporting is still not available. A new “feature” Blogrush “flavors” is being introduced, but is not yet available. Also, Blogrush has changed to a […]

• Energy, Innovation

  PHEV: Groundswell?

  09.25.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on PHEV: Groundswell?

  Originally published at Montara Energy Ventures. An interesting trend seems to be taking hold around vehicles like Toyota’s Prius, home-grown conversions from standard hybrid to plugin hybrid by adding battery power, a charger, and socket to plug the vehicle in for charging. The magazine GreenCar.com has an interesting article about this phenomena. It would seem […]

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