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ASUS Bamboo Laptops: Notebook Computing Made Greener |  crispgreen.com - 0 views

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    ASUS has always been known for making some of the best gaming computers in the world. Now they can also be known for making some of the coolest: ASUS now has two notebooks that are built using bamboo - and selling for under $1,000. The ASUS U6V and U2E Bamboo Series Notebook computers use industrial-strength two-year-old Moso bamboo for virtually the entire casing of the product. "We spent the last couple of years perfecting and working with bamboo," said Jonney Shih, Chairmen of ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated. "It is trendy yet responsible." Pound-for-pound, bamboo also has a regeneration rate that is simply unmatched in nature. It has been known to grow two feet in just 24 hours and using less energy in to manufacture than those made out of metal alloys from refined petroleum.
Infogreen Global

Solar cells can be made thinner, lighter and cheaper - 0 views

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    Metallic nanoparticles can direct light better into the solar cell and prevent light from escaping. In conventional 'thick-film' solar cells, the nanoparticles would have little effect because all the light is absorbed by the film due to its thickness. For thin films, however, the nanoparticles can make a big difference.
crishgayle01

How you can increase the speed of your internet connection - 0 views

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    Unfortunately, in today's time, every second user is facing slow internet speed. Also, people get irritated when they have stopped their work in mid. Here you will find some beneficial points to increase the speed of your internet connection. Also, by joining Att customer service you can easily overcome from your slow internet connection speed. Keep your router on the perfect location The good place for a router is in the center of the house, and instead of the floor, on a table or shelf. Keep the router in the open area - free of walls and obstacles - it helps, as the antenna points directly above. Use the Helmthalge comparison, some researcher found that it is desirable to limit the number of corners and walls, which is to follow the signal. Keeping it in the center of the home is the optimal method to avoid black places. Keep your router away from the electronic device Maximum people place their router near a TV or a telephone, but it disrupts the signal of your internet. It is sufficient to separate your router from another electronic device, such as fairy lights, TVs, speakers, monitors, AC power doors, etc. 1-833-554-5444 You should Set router apart from the wire-free signal Do you know baby monitors and Bluetooth speakers may disrupt the speed of your wireless signal? If you cannot keep your router or other devices' interference, then get a dual-band router. You can put the router in the beer can An empty beer can be used as a DIY elliptical antenna - a contemplative case it will pass the signal from another device while increasing the signal from the router. Then you should cut the beer cans from the top and bottom and then cut it off the middle so that it converts a metal sheet. Wrap it behind your router's antenna so that it takes the form of a dome, causing the unexpected front - violet out. Empty Pringles cans also move for simple DIY Wi-Fi speakers. Keep the strong password of your internet Guarding your house broadband internet network w
Skeptical Debunker

Bloom Energy Promises Cheap, Emissions-Free Power From a Small Box | Popular Science - 0 views

  • The Bloom Box idea came from K.R. Sridhar, a former NASA rocket scientist who once built a similar box device to generate oxygen on Mars for future colonists. Sridhar simply turned the concept on its head by pumping oxygen into the box, along with fuel. The oxygen and fuel combine within a new type of fuel cell to create the chemical reaction that makes electricity. There's also no need for power lines coming in from an outside source, and Sridhar envisions the box eventually providing energy wirelessly to homes and businesses. That could do away with traditional power plants and the power grid. Such transformative power may only come about if the Bloom Box fuel cells can work reliably and efficiently -- other fuel cell technologies have proven notoriously finicky. Sridhar makes his fuel cells based on cheap sand-based ceramics, coated with special green and black "inks" that allow for the chemical reaction which makes electricity. One of the simple disks can power a light bulb, and a stack of 64 disks with cheap metal plates in between them can supposedly power a Starbucks. And unlike fuel cells that require pure hydrogen, the Bloom Box can use fuels ranging from natural gas to bio-gas.
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    A boxy power plant that could one day produce efficient, inexpensive, clean energy in every home might sound like a pipe dream, but it's the very real product of a Silicon Valley startup called Bloom Energy. Twenty large corporations that include Google, FedEx, Walmart and eBay have already purchased and begun testing the Bloom Boxes. 60 Minutes recently got a sneak peek at this possibly game-changing energy device.
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    Here's SOME of the "rubs". How long will the device's last and what are the maintenance costs (if any)? What will the cost of the fuel be and how much is used? Will the manufacturing process "scale up nicely" (and easily) so that "economies of scale" will actually bring the price of a home-system down to around $3-5K? Will the price of the system, its maintenance, and fuel actually come out to be significantly less than the price of "grid delivered" electricity? Without "good enough" answers to such questions, this system may be more of a good remote generation facility than a grid replacement.
Verny Gregory

Great Ways to Give your Old Electronics a Second Life - 0 views

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    Do you have old electronics sitting around and don't know what to do with them? Instead of throwing them in a landfill, you can give them a second life. They are a mine of precious metals and discrete components which can be processed and used over and over again for years together. And what is more - They save you some bucks, curtail the negative impacts on earth and leave behind the moments of your accomplishments. To help you get started, Veracity World has listed out a few of the ways to give used electronics a second life. Use these ideas and encourage others to do the same.
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