By JamesW on Jun 5, 2008 in Environment, Featured | 8 Comments
Forget corn! There’s fuel, there’s renewable fuel, and then there’s user-renewable fuel! What can be better than air?
The Compressed Air Car developed by Motor Development International (MDI) Founder Guy Negre might be the best thing to have happened to the motor engine in years.
The $12,700 CityCAT, one of the planned Air Car [...]
By JamesW on Jun 3, 2008 in Environment, Featured | 0 Comments
Wired Magazine featured a recent article suggesting that a “cure” for global warming, because of the seriousness of the situation (i.e., a complete change of life as we know it, or possibly eradication of the human species along with a few others), that we might need to reexamine a few approaches that are, well, less [...]
By JamesW on May 19, 2008 in Environment, Featured | 0 Comments
The words “Peak Oil” aren’t supposed to be in our vocabulary. It’s unAmerican. We’re not supposed to know, or at least verbalize the fact the oil is a finite resource. The “American way” is to smile on in oblivion to the fact, kinda like what many of us grew up with in [...]
By MaxW on May 19, 2008 in Environment | 0 Comments
FREMONT, Calif. - Lexar Media (NYSE:MU), a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today announced immediate availability of Crucial 1.5V DDR2 FBDIMM server memory modules. As part of its commitment to the enterprise-computing space, Lexar Media’s new energy-efficient Crucial server memory product line utilizes the industry’s first 1.5V, 1Gb-based components to deliver [...]
By JamesW on May 6, 2008 in Environment, Rants & Raves | 4 Comments
In this world, certainly in America, their seems to be people and their vocational endeavors that add to the world, and those that subtract. Some lawyers spend all of their professional lives suing people and businesses, ultimately leading to more restrictive laws, and sucking in money (to their bank accounts) that might [...]
By JamesW on Apr 26, 2008 in Environment, Featured | 0 Comments
There’s a new banker in town, and he doesn’t care about how much money you have or you owe. He runs a new kind of bank that checks out your carbon footprint, then sends you a bill, or issues you a credit, depending on whether or not you’ve been environmentally naughty or nice. As [...]
By JamesW on Apr 18, 2008 in Environment | 0 Comments
Theo Jansen brings his strangely poetic and technologically driven sculptures to the beaches of the Netherlands. They are uniquely constructed, based on genetic algorithms that are often used to design circuit boards and other neurologically artificial constructs. Using computers to help develop the designs, he strives to broaden our thinking about what is [...]
By JamesW on Apr 3, 2008 in Environment, World | 0 Comments
Planning ahead can save big $$ on energy bills
As you can see from the chart, IT departments consume a great deal of the companies overall power consumption. Some recent advances in OS’s and hardware can actually save you money. But you can do a few things today, without any new investments. [...]