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  Silicon-free Solar

  02.22.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Recently I ran across a reference to the Swiss company Flisom which is a 2005 spinoff of ETH Zurich (The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.) Traditional photovoltaic (PV) cells use monocrystalline silicon wafers to capture photons in sun light to excite electrons which are then directed to a conductor resulting in direct current. These PV […]

• Innovation, Technology & Science

  Adjusting to new technology

  02.20.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Adjusting to new technology

  Martin Hardee posted an excellent video on this subject yesterday, to make things efficient, I’ve posted it below. Rarely have I seen such an accurate satire of humans faced with the adoption of new technology. My favorite quote: “Compared to the scroll, it takes longer to turn the pages of a book.” This all boils […]

• Business, Innovation

  Carbon Prize: Talk about putting your money where your mouth is…

  02.09.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Richard Branson today announced a $25M prize for the first viable means of “scrubbing the atmosphere of billions of tons of carbon gases from the atmosphere.” It’s a big challenge, sort of the same spirit of the Ansari X Prize that gave $10M to the first non-government organization to reach space with manned flights twice […]

• Energy, Innovation

  Enormous Geothermal Canal Proposed

  01.30.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Well here is a bold and interesting idea: Dig a long canal >128km (>80 miles) about 15 meters in diameter (~50 feet) at a depth of >5km (>3 miles) from the ocean on the Atlantic coast inland. Why? Because temperatures exceed 150C (~300F) at that depth, there is no shortage of ocean water, and the […]

• Business, Innovation, Media

  Something new in advertising

  01.22.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Something new in advertising

  As evidenced by my earlier entries on advertising in the Rose Bowl and in an NFL Playoff game, I’m not really interested in constantly being advertised at. In part, it’s because it happens alot and in part because the ads are generally bad and in part because people are so rarely selling anything I’m the […]

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