Solar Tower
Land has been purchased- 25,000 acres in Australia- for the world’s first large scale Solar Tower, generating electricity by heating air and funneling it up a kilometre high chimney to drive wind turbines.
Technorati tag: Solar Power
Daily archives: March 14, 2005
Be slightly worried, very slightly worried
The great big Al Quaeda trained insurgent threat that would to destroy us all and requires evil laws to be stopped, doesn’t exist.
Technorati tag: Terrorism
Big biodiesel
America’s biodiesel producers are forming co-ops to increase output and raise their profiles.
Technorati tag: Biodiesel
Small plots
The Windowsill Organic Gardener.
Technorati tag: Gardening
Blown over
Germany is way ahead of us in generation of electricity from windfarms and is aiming for 20% generation. However, a recent report claims that the cost of connecting all these farms to the grid is exorbitant and other methods would reduce greenhouse emissions more cheaply. Of course, the antis have jumped on this, but I say we should be looking at the long term needs for power supply and realise that costs can be spread over quite a long time.
via Human v Nature
Technorati tag: Wind Power
How I learnt to love the bomb
A new attraction for visitors to Las Vegas- the Atomic Testing Museum traces the history of the atomic bomb and testing in Nevada. However, some “downwinders” feel it is glossing over the damage done by fallout and official complacency to its effects.
Technorati tag: Las Vegas
Osama Bin Whowhat?
Great moments in double takes.
Technorati tag: Terrorism
Solar Tower
LAnd has been purchased- 25,000 acres in Australia- for the world’s first large scale Solar Tower, generating electricity by heating air and funneling it up a kilometre high chimney to drive wind turbines.
Technorati tag: Solar Power
Fab
Treehugger on prefabricated houses.
Technorati tag: House
Directories
Two directories that should hold some useful information. I’m putting them here so I can come back later and mine them when I have the time-
DOE National Laboratories : National Renewable Energy Laboratory : Research Databases
DOE National Laboratories : National Renewable Energy Laboratory : Research Areas
Technorati tag: Renewable Energy
DeltaCycle
Some very nice ideas for bike storage. Sadly this company is on the other side of teh Atlantic. Is there a UK equivalent?
Technorati tag: Cycling
Tony Viagra
The Labour Party recently spammed thousands with an email claiming to be from Tony Blair himself.
via Spamfo and the spam weblog
Technorati tag: Spam
I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song
It’s scary, but I almost agree with David Blunkett. He’s calling for a reclaiming of pride in being English, a celebration of identity that takes nationalism away from the racists. I was thinking much the same thing yesterday whilst walking through the market they’d set up for St. Patrick’s day. (Strictly speaking, by birth at least, I’m Welsh, so what I really want to do is reclaim the Union Jack from the racists.)
(New England, by Billy Bragg, or by Kirsty McColl)
Technorati tag: England
instant Scene Modeller
This sounds a bit CSI but, unlike their special edition Photoshop packages, it’s a real piece of software. Using the same technology that lets an Aibo recognise its docking station, iSM takes images from a special video camera and uses them to creat 3D models of crime scenes.
Technorati tag: Technology
Gotham
Gridskipper collects pictures of New York as it might have been. I’d like to see a larger collection with bigger pictures, but this is cool.
Technorati tag: New York
Divided we fall
Normally, Spinneyhead couldn’t give a toss about football, but the news that Malcolm Glazer is still trying to buy control of Manchester United allows me to run this phonecam picture I took a while ago and also to point to Framed Shares, who will sell you a share in Manchester United.
Technorati tag: Football
Geological time
Mass extinctions come every 62 million years, give or take 3 million years, and we’re 65 million years from the last one. Of course, this could just be a fluke of statistics, you know what they say about statistics. And it would have been much more fun if the period had come out as 42 million years.
Technorati tag: Science
Little leagues
Wired on the plight of the indie video game designer.
Technorati tag: Games