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  Chevy Volt

  01.10.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Chevy Volt

  Chevy’s Volt Forget the current breed of hybrid, the Chevy Volt is a new approach. It’s got a 3 cylinder 1.0 liter turbocharged gas (E85) engine attached to a 53 KW generator, batteries that store 16KWh, and a 120KW (160hp) electric motor. The gas powered motor is not attached to the drivetrain, only to the […]

• Business, Innovation

  Pets & Tunes

  12.20.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Pets & Tunes

  Last night was a busy one…but not how you’d expect with it being the silly season and all. It started off with a meeting of the community that is launching a startup around pet needs last night in Palo Alto (at Mandarin Gourmet restaurant – it’s very good, I recommend it.) A colleague has some […]

• Energy, Innovation

  Organic Rankine Cycle

  12.13.06 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is a fancy name for a binary system taking heat from a source and transferring it to a working liquid in a closed system to be vaporized and pressurized, typically turn a turbine, then condense back to liquid form before flowing through the heat exchanger again to repeat the cycle. […]

• Coastal Stuff, Energy, Innovation

  Return to the age of sail?

  12.05.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Return to the age of sail?

  You know fuel prices are going up and carbon emissions standards are tightening when we return to a prior age to harvest technology. Now admittedly, the picture above isn’t your garden variety xebec (great scrabble word btw,) but it is interesting that the hybrid technology of the 19th century is making a comeback. This kind […]

• Coastal Stuff, Innovation, Technology & Science

  Automated Tsunami Watch/Warnings

  11.27.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Automated Tsunami Watch/Warnings

  If you live on or near a coast, this is for you. NOAA, has launched a handy-dandy service that will inform you via email (to a regular account or mobile device) of tsunami watches/warnings. Pretty cool and potentially, very useful. Of course there are the normal disclaimers involved, but email is as reliable as any […]

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