Palo Alto, Calif.-based Nanosolar’s strategic investors include power company AES Corp., equity firm the Carlyle Group, and electric utility company EDF–the three of which formed AES Solar as part of the deal, Roscheisen said. Those alliances will presumably help Nanosolar develop utility-scale solar power that would be cost efficient. Other investors were hedge fund Lone [...]
Read more →http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/business/27grid.html Also discusses the nature, function and structure of the grid in interesting and relevant ways. Recommended reading for an overview of grid issues.
Read more →Yeah, this was good. Really, really good. Tragedy he’s on the sidelines, but he wasn’t burning this hot when he was in the primaries.
Read more →http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7583805.stm On an astronaut’s laptop. NO WINDOWS IN SPACE! Interestingly, they say it’s happened before, but I’ve never heard of it.
Read more →http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2627001/Chinese-cop-killer-becomes-internet-hero.html Seen as an act of rebellion, a protest against the brutality of the state, comparisons with ancient Chinese folk heros. Uhuh. That’s what I’m thinking too.
Read more →http://oddline.blogspot.com/2008/08/science-and-beer.html Looks like a legit study indicates that it might. Very interesting indeed.
Read more →Polymeme isn’t too high traffic, and claims to cherry-pick items of general interest from the blogs of experts and specialists, more or less, using Magic Algorithms. However it works, it does what Metafilter used to do, before it got so inbred. Here’s what I got from the last week or so’s accumulation in my RSS [...]
Read more →Originally designed as refugee housing, a Hexayurt can be built for $200 from fire-safe insulation boards and industrial tape. The Hexayurt Project follows a free and open source model; plans can be downloaded at the project’s website. I visited two of these innovative shelters last year at Burning Man. One belonged to Lindsey Darby, a [...]
Read more →http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=649579&cid=24654733 Quite nicely done. Would like to see a linguist take a crack at the list of phonemes, though.
Read more →Deep reexamination of my field of projects, figuring out what stays and what goes, what prospers and what should be killed. I’m feeling very close to the end of this round of work on household infrastructure and called back towards the state level infrastructure stuff – State In A Box, not just the Identity Services [...]
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