three, two, one, let's jam
Mar. 14th, 2006 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdHere, this is cool: a vertical windmill intended to be installed on corners of office buildings. It claims to generate power at about 2.4c/Kwh, which is very good. (Found via Slashdot; tipped off to its existence by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stickmaker.)
Here, this is also cool: further development of a non-rare-earth fuel-cell that could possibly run on methanol and ethanol. This would be a much higher-value return than any other previous form of fuel-cell. The fuel-cell industry is infamous for overly-optimistic claims, so keep that in mind, but this approach may have promise. It's certainly heading in a better direction than the hydrogen mess.
I finished reading "Computation in a Single Neuron: Hodgkin and Huxley Revisited" yesterday; I understood the main point of the paper and a decent bit of the higher-level analysis, but just don't have the background for a lot of the actual data. This is definitely one I'll be re-reading later.
Why, why, why, why, why hasn't Rumsfeld been sacked? At this point, I have to wonder if President Bush is afraid of the book he'd write, or something else on that level. I honestly cannot imagine why else this complete disaster of a defense secretary hasn't been thrown overboard yet. Meanwhile, what the is administration going to claim the point is of being there at all if US defense forces won't help keep a peace if full-fledged civil war breaks out? Nicely fucked up again, Rummy!
stickmaker.)Here, this is also cool: further development of a non-rare-earth fuel-cell that could possibly run on methanol and ethanol. This would be a much higher-value return than any other previous form of fuel-cell. The fuel-cell industry is infamous for overly-optimistic claims, so keep that in mind, but this approach may have promise. It's certainly heading in a better direction than the hydrogen mess.
I finished reading "Computation in a Single Neuron: Hodgkin and Huxley Revisited" yesterday; I understood the main point of the paper and a decent bit of the higher-level analysis, but just don't have the background for a lot of the actual data. This is definitely one I'll be re-reading later.
Why, why, why, why, why hasn't Rumsfeld been sacked? At this point, I have to wonder if President Bush is afraid of the book he'd write, or something else on that level. I honestly cannot imagine why else this complete disaster of a defense secretary hasn't been thrown overboard yet. Meanwhile, what the is administration going to claim the point is of being there at all if US defense forces won't help keep a peace if full-fledged civil war breaks out? Nicely fucked up again, Rummy!
