Power for the future
It’s been a very busy octane fueled week for me with a motor show and the F1 circus just winding up here in Melbourne (I hope I never have to choose between gadgets and cars!) One of the things that…
An encyclopedia of all life
A group of eminent natural sciantists from some of the worlds best know instituations (like Harvard, the Smithsonian and the Natural History Museum) have gotten together to launch an ambitious project to build a catalog of the 1.8 Million known…
WorldWide Telescope
I put out a challenge to my podcast listeners to try and guess what Robert Scoble cried over when he saw it, and today he revealed it is the WorldWide Telescope. After watching the short videos on the site, all I…
Record setting laser
University of Michigan has created a laser that produces 300 TerraWatts of power (which is a large number). It only produces it for a millionth of a billionth of a second in an area 100th of the diameter of a…
CO2 back to petrol
The frustration with the attitude we have taken in addressing global climate change concerns is some of the cool technologies that could be already but have not been able to get funding. Now that the general public opinion, and therefore…
Best green tech 2007 – Print on solar panels
The problem solar panels have had to date is that they are more expensive than coal power ($3/W to $1/W). This is only really a problem of scale and funding though as is proven by the Nanosolar Powersheet which won…
Shuttle Launch
If you are a fan of the space shuttle, photography, space or any combination you will enjoy this arial shot of a space shuttle launch. It’s not a new photo being of a Columbia launch in 1981, but a fantastic…