Mariah Power
The Windspire is a low cost, attractive, plug-n-produce wind power appliance that provides a safe and attractive method for harnessing power from the wind. At only 30 feet tall and … Read More
Day: March 16, 2009
Games: “a year from irrelevance”
From A Tree Falling in the Forest: Long and thoughtful article about the electronic games industry. The closing paragraph: I don’t believe either of these examples provide a roadmap for … Read More
Nanobatteries
From MIT Technology Review Monday, March 16, 2009 Nanocapacitors with Big-Energy Storage Nanopore arrays combine high power and storage capacity. By Katherine Bourzac The ultimate electronic energy-storage device would store … Read More
Tangled Web
Fascinating article about spontaneous tangling of agitated strings. If you consider the web a series of strings (tubes?) that are constantly being ‘agitated’ (edited?) then ‘knotting’ is to be expected. … Read More
When Great Planes Go Bad
From: SR-71 Disintegrates around pilot during flight test The cumulative effects of system malfunctions, reduced longitudinal stability, increased angle-of-attack in the turn, supersonic speed, high altitude and other factors imposed … Read More