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  Computer Loo

  02.19.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Photo Credit: Unknown You know you’ve got a serious ‘net addiction when the setup above graces your loo…We have a laptop house, but this is taking it a bit far I think!

• Humor, Technology & Science

  Percussive Maintenance

  02.17.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Have you ever been so frustrated with a piece of computer equipment you feel like chucking it out a window? Smashing it with a baseball bat? Shooting it with a shotgun? If you have felt this way you’ve felt the urge for percussive maintenance. Recently having taken a new position and having to revert 10 […]

• Innovation, Technology & Science

  DIY Steam Engine

  02.16.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on DIY Steam Engine

  Artist’s rendering of Hero’s aeolipile Quick, who invented the steam engine? Thomas Newcomen? James Watt? Or a hero? The answer is Hero of Alexandria (sometimes Heron of Alexandria) around 60 A.C.E. He created a hollow metal globe with small angled exhaust points 180 degrees offset and mounted it in a frame allowing free rotation of […]

• Energy, Innovation, Technology & Science

  Shallow Survey Success

  02.15.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Shallow Survey Success

  Here at MeV, we’ve been shallow temperature survey fans for some time, see the first article we wrote on the subject from the 2007 Stanford Geothermal conference. Well, this week, the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy is releasing information on the discovery of new geothermal resources by shallow temperature survey (and other confirming means.) […]

• Energy, Technology & Science

  Infinia scores some Green

  02.11.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Stirling engine manufacturer Infinia closed a $50M series B investment with a veritable who’s who of funders including: Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures, Bill Gross’ Idealab and Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital. The firm intends to use the funding to accelerate the productization of their stirling engines attached to generators for use in large scale solar thermal […]

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