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Robot Furniture - The Walking Chair (GALLERY) - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 04 Feb 08 - Cached
  • No need to ask your robot to rearrange the furniture, just ask your chair to take a hike.
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Transformer Robots Closer To Reality Than We Think (VIDEO) - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 04 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Rob Reid at the US Air Force Research Lab is collaborating with the Carnegie Mellon team to develop even smaller prototype robots. Reid and colleagues can fold flat silicon shapes into 3D forms as little as a few hundred microns diameter. “We will drive those using electric forces too, by patterning circuits and devices into the silicon design,”
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Housing Illness Spreading to Rest of Construction - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 04 Feb 08 - Cached
  • A PLUNGE in construction spending threatens to drive the American economy into recession.
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IEEE Spectrum: A Plug-in Motorcycle - 0 views

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  • Too Pricey?: The Enertia electric motorcycle goes for US $15 000. But don’t worry—you can always charge it.
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BBC NEWS | Business | Overseas sales help Toyota profit - 0 views

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  • Japanese car giant Toyota has reported a rise in quarterly profits as demand in emerging markets such as China offset a slowdown in the US.
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BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Robert Peston - 0 views

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  • Tonight’s decision by BHP on whether to press the go button on a £61bn takeover of Rio Tinto is not just a big event for these two monsters of the mining industry. It’s also a big “who-runs-the-world?” moment. This takeover contest may no longer be decided in a conventional way by the shareholders of the two companies and competition regulators in assorted jurisdictions. The reason is that on Friday the state-owned Chinese mining and metals group, Chinalco, snapped up 8% of Rio through a daring stock-market raid. And it exercises control over 9% of Rio, through a partnership with Alcoa of the US. This was more than £6bn of Chinese government money saying no to the BHP deal.
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Environmental Economics: I have a trusted role at the WSJ - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 06 Feb 08
     
    Job creation from going green is a little discussed issue so this article has been posted.
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John Grant: Waking Up To Green Innovation on PSFK - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 06 Feb 08
     
    When the idea of a low carbon economy first raised its head some expected a sea change in public attitudes. This change would impact the regulatory framework, acknowledge the responsibilities of businesses,  encourage development of sustainable practices and generally save the world from itself. It seems that some observers are surprised at the slowness of the sea change. Perhaps the level of innovation required is not materialsing because the need, in fact, is not urgent enough in the minds of business, government or consumers. Over the last decade, governments have put in place frameworks for action, but the timing is over many years - a serious commitment which should encourage. On the other hand, perhaps we should not expect a huge change in lifestyle look and feel as we grow into an efficient low carbon society.
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The Ironton Tribune > Archives > News > TASER: Shock to the system <br> - 0 views

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  • A TASER is a non-lethal, gun-shaped device that shoots two metal prongs connected to copper wires into a suspect. The TASER uses the copper wires to generate a 50,000 volt, low amperage electrical current into a person’s muscles and stops voluntary movement. The device turns off after five seconds.
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Carectomy.com: Removing Cars from People - Australia Announces World's First Solar-Powe... - 0 views

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  • The Tindo bus is the stuff of car-free, green, geeky dreams: It epitomizes efficient urban transportation and energy use, and to top it all off, it’s free. Our friends at EcoGeek first tipped up off to the story.
  • Colin Bennett on 08 Feb 08
     
    World firsts are always interesting. Here, a bus network in Adelaide, Australia will operate using a solar photovoltaic system. Of course, the region has enough sun to keep energy levels topped up. In regard to using solar for other city systems, it will be interesting to see how this model works .
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Scientists make unique knee-brace power generator | Science | Reuters - 0 views

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  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Scientists in the United States and Canada said on Thursday they have developed a unique device that can be strapped on the knee that exploits the mechanics of human walking to generate a usable supply of electricity.
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Biofuels emissions may be 'worse than petrol' - earth - 07 February 2008 - New Scientis... - 0 views

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  • Biofuels, once seen as a useful way of combating climate change, could actually increase greenhouse gas emissions, say two major new studies. And it may take tens or hundreds of years to pay back the "carbon debt" accrued by growing biofuels in the first place, say researchers. The calculations join a growing list of studies questioning whether switching to biofuels really will help combat climate change.
  • Wee Lam Tay on 09 Feb 08
     
    Related article: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35971/113/ Biofuels could actually increase greenhouse gases by a recent study.
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Get Fat and Smoke to Reduce Health Care Costs - 0 views

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  • A new Dutch study reports that smokers and the obese actually cost less over their lifetimes than healthy people.
  • The reason that smokers or obese people spend less on health care is that they die off quicker
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Baking Soda to Cure Global Warming | Got2BeGreen - 0 views

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  • solution to global warming: Baking Soda. The novel system, Skymine, uses carbon dioxide emitted from smokestacks to make baking soda.
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Fluxxlab's Revolution Revolving Door | Got2BeGreen - 0 views

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  • Fluxxlab studio has developed a creative way to capture wasted human energy. You might be asking yourself, what? And how so? Their Revolution Door is claimed to capture otherwise wasted energy from revolving doors seen usually at large buildings.
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Grand Challenges for Engineering - 0 views

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  • With input from people around the world -- much of it on this website -- an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century.  Now their conclusions are revealed on this website.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk - BBC News Player - Digital home of the future? - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 18 Feb 08
     
    A practical vision of the digital home of the future. Controlling home functionality more closely may lead to more efficient use of services. From this articles view it seems that there will be increased demand for electronic equipmnent such as monitors in the hom eof the future.
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Self-Powered Programmable Streetlights - The Autonoma - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 18 Feb 08 - Cached
  • This solar public lighting pole is totally autonomous and can be placed in any isolated area where electricity is not available.
  • Colin Bennett on 18 Feb 08
     
    Thankfully, designers continue to explore solar powered public lighting. This version includes more intelligent functions.
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New solar cell cuts out the middle man, harvests hydrogen from water - Engadget - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 19 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Some Penn State researchers are taking a cue from nature and have built the first solar cell that can effectively split water to harvest the hydrogen
  • ty gritty of dye usage and other such nonsense, we do know that such a system could eventually attain 15% or so efficiency, providing a nice and clean way to gather power for that fuel cell car of the future.
  • Colin Bennett on 19 Feb 08
     
    Another advance on the solar energy front. The article itself summarises the importance of this article "while we do not pretend to understand the nitty gritty of dye usage and other such nonsense, we do know that such a system could eventually attain 15% or so efficiency, providing a nice and clean way to gather power for that fuel cell car of the future".
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