(Reuters) - German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity - through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said.
"We are a community of people crazy enough to build our own book scanners. We also write Free software for book scanning. We are the missing link between your bookshelf and your e-reader. Join us! Get involved by trying a simple scanner, or push the limits of scanning technology."
Summarizes, albeit indirectly, the ideology of the nuclear renaissance. Updated in March 2011. Provides overview and links: "There are already examples of the globalization of the nuclear industry. At the commercial level, by the end of 2006 three major
Av Anders Lotsson, Computer Sweden, 19.12.2010. " Den goda nyheten är att det kanske inte är så svårt att bygga en kvantdator som vi trodde. Den dåliga nyheten är att kvantdatorer gör all kryptering på internet oduglig" "Det blir konstigare och konstigar
Warden and Allan point out that the file is moved onto new devices when an old one is replaced: "Apple might have new features in mind that require a history of your location, but that's our specualtion. The fact that [the file] is transferred across [to
| Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/26/2010 "I would use my Kindle at the beach or the pool and my iPad in bed or on an airplane," says Doug Alexander, who has been a digital reader since the release of the first-generation Kindle in 2007. What he doesn't like a
Firoze Manji and Molly Kane 2010-10-07, Issue 499 : "The technologies, or more precisely corporate control of the new technologies, represents a potential and growing threat to the continent. A continent that has already faced a turbulent history of colo
David Dickson editorial 6 May 2009 : "Nowhere is the promise of nanotechnology stronger than in water treatment. Nanofiltration techniques and nanoparticles can reduce or eliminate contaminants in water and could help deliver a key Millennium Development
Intentional, large-scale manipulation of the environment by humans to bring about environmental change, particularly to counteract the undesired side effects of other human activities. - Retooling the Planet: New ETC Group Report on Geoengineering
"The Book and Discussion Forum for Networked Activists"; the book was Edited by Jon Lebkowsky and Mitch Ratcliffe. but the discussion in the forum, which started 2004, seems to have died last year. The book contains "Emergent Democracy" by Joi Ito. ;
"The textbooks are outdated, as far as I'm concerned, and there's no reason why our schools should have our students lug around these antiquated and heavy and expensive textbooks" -- Arnold Schwarzenegger 3 June 2009
Nyhet fr 2007. Egentligen får Barnett och hans forskarlag på Delaware-universitetet en stor del av sina pengar från USA:s institut för försvarsforskning, Darpa. Militären vill minska bördorna för amerikanska soldater i fält, till exempel i Irak. I dag slä
"Technocratic" article from 1984, by Ron Miller. "Technocracy is not an ideology. It is not a value judgment of the proper disposition of financial resources that includes one group and excludes another. Technocracy is an analysis of the resolution of ou
Journeyman Pictures reports about the 100 km range electrical hybrid car, the F3, from the Chinese BYD company, which started as a producer of batteries for mobile phones. Charging the battery of the car with solar panel is becoming integrated. "China's s
Bill Joy [quoted from Wired 8.04]: "A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control." --. " Uncontrolled self-replication in these newer technologies runs [...]a risk of substantial damage in the physical world.
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