Ocean waves are already being used as a source of renewable energy, but could differences in water temperatures in the sea be our next source of green power? A decade old idea to generate renewable electricity for the globe with offshore, floating Energy Islands could soon become a reality.
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If you want to build a wind farm in Minnesota right now, you’re in for a nasty surprise. A 612 year nasty surprise in fact.
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Lets face it- Valentine
s Day isnt really about the romance anymore- its about the chocolate, the Hallmark cards, and of course, the sexy lingerie. But sexy and sustainable arent mutually exclusive- in fact the most sexy skivvies are the ones that are so organic and natural they feel like a second skin.
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Farmers are planting corn like crazy, turning food crops into ethanol & biodiesel. Scientists are squeezing oil out of algae, while other developers are touting the battery-operated electric car. One company is even building a car that runs on compressed air… But, which system will survive?
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The beauty of running are the things you pass by as you run along. You get to see things that you don
t notice as you drive by in a car. You may have run the same route 50 times but you find yourself seeing something different each time. I ran by a tree than had […]
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…The Georgia Tech team
s goal is to create a sustainable transportation system that uses a liquid fuel and traps the carbon emission in the vehicle for later processing at a fueling station. The carbon would then be shuttled back to a processing plant where it could be transformed into liquid fuel…
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A prominent venture capitalist, Wal van Lierop, of Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, has begun to invest in companies (such as General Fusion) who are providing patents and technologies for economical fusion power.
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"We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004."
Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.