OnScreen Technologies is a company doing research into alternative ways to cool servers. Todays servers generate a lot of heat, that heat is typically dispensed with a fan cooling system. The drawbacks to this are that the fan itself uses energy, they are inefficient and noisy too!
These folks have a system called WayCool. [...]
Engineers at Purdue University have been doing some exciting things. They have been working on hydrogen based energy source development. The article I read discusses the idea of adding water to aluminum and gallium. Aluminum does its oxidation thing (the search for oxygen) and splits the water. During this process hydrogen [...]
Over the last decade the US government has provided $165 billion in subsidies to the largest 20% of farms. These farms grow lots of what we eat in a mass produce fashion. What if some of that money had been used to get small local organic farms up and running? We could [...]
I was reading about solar backpacks today. There are many varieties, colors, shapes, sizes, etc.. Kids going back to school can use one of these babies to charge their MP3 player, Cellphone, Blackberry (no laptops though). They are not cheap, prices I have seen range from $70 to $250.
Pretty much every child [...]
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