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Rapid web-based app development: good or evil?
in The CIO Weblog, on February 27, 2009
...dge. Both Mike and I recognize the danger of this scenario in the long term, having seen tremendous wastes of effort duplicating or reproducing logic or data which was originated through such mechanis...
Samsung is Releasing an Environmentally Friendly Phone that Actually Matters
in The Gadgets Weblog, on February 13, 2009
...een attempts at green computing and cell phones in the past, but most of them have been absolute wastes of time . samsung 's new will have none of that. The Blue Earth Phone is both function...
Gpr41 Receptor Molecule in Intestines, Target for Anti-Obesity Drugs?
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...dentified a receptor molecule present in the intestinal wall called Gpr4 , that, when activated by wastes of gut bacteria, controls the movement of food through the intestine, thus regulating nutrien...
Religious Foes Of Slot Machines Cause Job Loss In Maryland
in The Gambling Weblog, on August 20, 2008
...ry sales. So everyone drives to California and Arizona to play their lotteries, including me, which wastes gas and takes money out of the State. But what do I know about politics and big business?
If...
HP goes green
in The CIO Weblog, on January 25, 2008
...l fix). All that extra horsepower, which is already paid for, sits idle most of the time and simply wastes electricity the rest of the time.
The solid-state hard drive is a bit gimmicky at this point...
Cliche crunch
in Sox First, on December 9, 2007
...tes. "Crunch seems just right, combining the sound of an icebreaker plowing through the Arctic wastes with the happy sound of breakfast cereal snapping, crackling and popping in the mouth." ...
PG&E Solar Powered Billboards
in The Gadgets Weblog, on December 5, 2007
...s particular one is in San Francisco, and it generates more energy during the day than the power it wastes during the night. It can generate about 3.4 kilowatts worth of energy, or 2.5 on a cloudy day...
Can bootstrapping combat recession?
in BootStrapMe, on December 2, 2007
...k Natural Capitalism which looks at business waste. In a purely monetary sense, bootstrapping wastes less investment than VC or other outside funding which sometimes backs losers.
• Bootstrappi...
Garcia Márquez Banned in Iran and Criticized in Colombia
in Latina Viva, on November 15, 2007
...critics in Colombia. Luisa Margarita Henao, one of his open critics, has said:
"The author wastes a superb opportunity to make a tribute to oldness, to aging, now that it's happening to him...
Indirect Consequences: How a Bridge Collapse Could Lead to Higher Gas Prices
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 8, 2007
...lapses and why you'll potentially be paying more to try to prevent such mishaps, while Congress wastes our money on new projects that have no purpose other than to get the Congressman who suggest ...
Laser Fusion
in IfEnergy, on June 4, 2007
... Helium . This process releases a lot of energy but leaves only lowl-level radioactive material wastes afterwards. The technology is still far from commercially acceptable, but from the looks of i...
No Nuclear Says Austria, Iceland, Ireland, and Norway
in IfEnergy, on March 30, 2007
... the inherent risks and problems associated with its use. I guess they are referring to the nuclear wastes generated by the use of plutonium, which up to now cannot be managed effectively.
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Ted Turner of CNN Says: Switch to Renewables
in IfEnergy, on February 25, 2007
...ly a wholesale approach can save us, and that means favoring nuclear power over coal, biofuels from wastes rather than crops, and until wide-spread technology is available, use wind, solar, and hybrid...
No Dirty Gold
in The Jewelry Weblog, on February 14, 2007
...ns, and workers rights. Mining companies must also take care of the environment by not dumping mine wastes in water sources, protecting fragile ecosystems, and picking up all the costs of closing down...
The 2007 State of the Union Address
in IfEnergy, on January 25, 2007
... of producing ethanol -- (applause) -- using everything from wood chips to grasses, to agricultural wastes.
We made a lot of progress, thanks to good policies here in Washington and the strong resp...
How Your Charger Wastes 95% of Your Electricity
in The Smart PDA, on January 22, 2007
Apparently, leaving your charger plugged into a wall when not in use can waste lots of electricity. If that's a regular habit, only 5% of the power you consume goes into your gadget's battery . While the other 95% goes nowhere, since there's probably no smartphone or PDA to catch the...
Biodiesel from Chicken Fat
in IfEnergy, on January 2, 2007
...yson Foods, Inc., is catching the biofuel wave by putting up its renewable energy arm to use animal wastes as biodiesel feedstock. It does put less pressure on using soy oil by making what used to be ...
Chevron Dabbles In Kitchen Wastes
in IfEnergy, on November 27, 2006
... What's an energy company like chevron doing around the kitchen, poking at wastes, and turning it into some slew? Making energy, that's what!
Chevron Energy Solutions, a subsidiary...
Cargill Joins the Biofuel Development Industry
in IfEnergy, on October 25, 2006
...developer Environmental Power . The agreement is for the development of fuel-related uses for farm wastes and by-products. Read the rest of this story here.
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Half Your Staff Use the Internet at Work for Personal Use
in Small Business Unplugged, on September 18, 2006
... company computers to write a business plan to develop a business idea they have - an employee that wastes time on the job is a problem. Before you go out firing people, I advise caution.
What does...
A New Kind of Recycling: Junk Wood To Energy
in IfEnergy, on September 12, 2006
... A lone timber jack bundles old wood, rotting timber, and other forest wastes in North America. It's a growing trend, as more and more people are beginning to see just how substitutable ...
Chocolate + E.coli = Renewable Energy
in IfEnergy, on August 22, 2006
...rsity's School of Biosciences have found a way of extracting hydrogen from confectionery wastes. The justification for your extensive craving for chocolate now becomes the goal of producing...
Waste to Fuel
in IfEnergy, on August 21, 2006
...erating gas at minimum losses. With such a conversion ratio, there really wouldn't be any "wastes" left for further processing, and certainly minimal emissions to harm the environment.
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Corn: More Than Just Ethanol
in IfEnergy, on August 21, 2006
...icant amounts of energy.
The possible applications of microbial fuel cells that are based on corn wastes are endless. For the rural communities where wastes are available, a variety of uses can easi...
Waste to Fuel Technology from a Seattle-based Company
in IfEnergy, on August 1, 2006
...leaner and purer that diesel sold at the pump.
The company says that all landfill materials and wastes can be converted into re-usable fuel with water being removed and purified in the process as ...
Baby Gucci Shoes
in The Parenting Weblog, on July 3, 2006
...o save money. And then, there are those who just seem to have money growing on trees.
Parents who wastes money on Diamond Pacifiers surely could afford to buy even more expensive stuff for their b...
American Society for Microbiology Meeting Highlights Energy-Producing Bacteria
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 24, 2006
...rding to lead researcher, Derek Lovley, Microbial fuel cells show promise for conversion of organic wastes and renewable biomass to electricity, but further optimization is required for most applicati...
Microbial Biotechnology: The Prescription For Earth's Environmental Health
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 17, 2006
...water.
"Scientifically, it might be easiest to let the microbes convert the energy is organic wastes directly to electricity. However, they also can generate useful fuels, such as methane and hy...
Fun And Games
in The Online Universities Weblog, on November 26, 2005
... Kurt Squire asks: How can video games be used to improve online learning?
Long seen as wastes of time and even as social black sheep, video games may now add important elements to online ed...
GOVERNMENT GOSSIP
in The Celebrities Weblog, on September 23, 2005
...ey thought the latter was related to Karl Marx?
Now we all know that the Federal Government never wastes a penny, and goes to great length to gather as much money as possible for the betterment of t...