It warms my heart aplenty to see so much initiative by local governments and businesses in going green. The first announcement saw Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC) announce plans to buld as many as three 100-megawatt biomass electric generating facilities in the state of Georgia.
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Greentech is expected to lead the way in a turnaround of IPO activity, but not until 2010, according to a survey by KPMG.
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The first certified implementation of mobile WiMAX has gone live in a small deployment in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, through a partnership of Alvarion’s silicon and DigitalBridge Communications. The WiMAX Forum certified 10 mobile WiMAX products that use the 2.5-GHz band.Mobile WiMAX allows handsets or PC cards to receive WiMAX while on the road.
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Imagine a world where the internet is so fast that personal data storage units are obsolete, and HD films can be downloaded in seconds. With the switching on of the CERN particle accelerator this year, technology has taken one step closer to that reality.
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Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient’s own cells cloned outside the body. The 52-year-old man involved was free of melanoma two years after treatment. US researchers took cancer-fighting immune cells, made five billion copies, then put them all back.
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In case you didn’t know it, Thomas Edison’s invention, in use for more than 100 years to illuminate virtually everything, is quickly heading for the exits. What will eventually take its place is the light-emitting diode (L.E.D.) bulb, made up of tiny light sources the size of a head of a pin that use a fraction of a regular light bulb’s electricity
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Robots are close to being able to replicate themselves. Machines are under development that can digest plants, like we do, heal themselves and even poo.
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World leaders meet on global food crisis
04-Jun-08
World leaders open a conference on the global food crisis on Tuesday, with human rights activists and the World Bank demanding action to curb soaring prices that are pushing an estimated 100 million people into hunger.
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Quantum Systems Could Flout Physics Law
04-Jun-08
Scientists showed that if the energy of these systems is measured repeatedly, both systems and bath will undergo temperature increase or decrease, and this change depends only on the rate of measurement, not on the actual results of these measurements…The predicted effects may be the key to developing novel heating and cooling schemes
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ethanol for 1 dollar a gallon?
20-Mar-08
News - Clean Edge - The Clean-Tech Market Authority:
The Alternative Energy Technology Center, Inc. announced recently its plans to produce ethanol for the U.S. market at less than $1 per gallon. AETE claims it will refine biomass into fuel products using its exclusive technology.
Yes, we will see if this is all market hype or if they can walk the talk.
free voicemail for the homeless
01-Mar-08
DailyTech - Google Gives Free Voicemail to San Francisco Homeless
Lol, nice. Maybe that will help the situation.