Category Archives: space exploration

Googlez plans for cheaper solar power

2009-9-9 – 6:47 pm

“Bill Weihl, Google’s Green Energy Czar, sat down at Reuters’ Global Climate and Energy Summit in San Francisco and talked about Google’s solar thermal project, infrastructure costs and where he sees the energy mix heading in 20 years.”

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Cap’n, to whom do I send the distress signal?

2009-4-8 – 9:09 pm

Just a reminder… the Borg coal did win the 2008 election

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Graphene

2008-8-27 – 8:44 pm

Pencil lead – commonly known as graphite – is made up of one-atom-thick graphene sheets squeezed together.

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Testing Materials, Maintenance and Original Engineering of Wind Power in the Frozen North

2008-1-5 – 9:49 am

“Systems engineered for use in that environment will do just fine,” says Treehugger Don.

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Strength through Surveillance

2007-6-24 – 2:36 pm

Electro Energy to develop an advanced, light-weight, rechargeable lithium ion battery to help collect solar power used to operate the high altitude airship in a geostationary position while providing an array of communication and navigation services for both civilian and military purposes.

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You are here

2006-10-12 – 1:08 pm

Here being a place of no space and no time and infinte energy. Whether there is a profit to be made on it is, of course, another story…

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Bidirectionality, Sense-making and Information

2006-9-17 – 6:10 pm

Well, yes, it is all too much. An abundance of information yields a poverty of attention, Herb Simon said. But never mind, because here we are at the end, or quite possibly a new beginning, but definitely, not the middle. I mean, it doesn’t look like a middle, now does it?

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Keeping It Together Cosmically

2006-8-24 – 9:49 am

Seeing is believing, but finding visible evidence of invisible phenomena is a bit of a challenge.

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Schools and Undersea Robots

2006-8-8 – 10:10 am

School competitions over undersea robot swarms.

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Lethality & Survivability

2005-11-7 – 9:40 am

Besides better human weaponry, human performance augmentation also has implication for people who are disabled.

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