Inside the war on coal: Wow, this is a very thoughtful and well presented article on Coal. The real demise of coal is too fold: raising costs of trying to make coal a little cleaner (less dirty); and the increase of cheaper alternatives. Number 1 in all of this is the dirty cheap costs of NatGas which is a by-product of much oil production. We in the US flair about half of the NatGas we…
Nation’s Startup Activity Reverses Five-Year Downward Trend, Annual Kauffman Index Reports | Kauffman.org: Business Startups are up. That’s great. Entrepreneurship and new business formation is a great advantage to the economy. The olde adage: the worst time to start a business is at the onset of a recession. The correlate to that is: the best time to start a business is at the end of a recession. Well, it has taken 6 years but the…
Meet the teen who just won $75,000 for inventing a system to keep germs from spreading on airplanes http://wapo.st/1d3L2EoWang, the young winner, created a way to give everyone on an airplane their own space, with kind of air walls around them. His simulation shows a 55 times reduction in the air transmittable diseases. The retrofit for an existing airplane? It takes one evening and cost a whopping $1000! With the reduction in sick time, the…
Top 15 Contaminated Fish You Shouldn’t be Eating: What’s the USDA recommendation for Mercury intake? If you eat some of these fish, you will exceed safe levels if you eat it more than once every couple weeks. Sharks and swordfish I new about, but others in the list are a real eye-opener. Biomagnification is where toxic chemicals such as mercury build up more and more as it moves up the food chain (to humans). This…
Here it is the United Nations water report for 2015: http://www.sustainablebrands.com/digital_learning/research_report/leadership/united_nations_world_water_development_report_2015?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=schtweets&utm_campaign=social As California suffer through water shortage, imagine what the rest of the world looks like. Now, imagine what the rest of the world will look like in the year 2050? By that time we should have moved to a population of 9 to 11 billion! The first chapter is on non-sustainable uses of water. The trends, including use of water, that are not sustainable,…
Moore’s Law Shows Its Age – WSJ: This is a great story of 50 years of computing with geometric growth in speed and halfing price of costs. Of course the cost of a factory has gotten a little bit pricey!… Here is a sister article: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-promise-at-technologys-powerful-heart-1429310535?KEYWORDS=moore%27s+law There are some physical limitations that really kick is as very small levels, say 12 nanometers. Getting smaller at that point is no longer as “easy” as it has been….
