Bill Gates gives boost to renewables storage – PV-Tech:
This is pretty cool. Use salt water as a storage medium for energy (battery, if you will). This is probably not a good solution for every occasion, but stationary power should work well…
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City of Melbourne Certified Carbon Neutral | Pro Bono Australia
City of Melbourne Certified Carbon Neutral | Pro Bono Australia:
Wow. Melbourne is Green!:0)
Aiming for Neutral CO2 by 2020.
Of course that is a long way from having the whole of the city run at Zero-emissions. Especially Transportation & Electric.
But you gotta complement them. That’s a big effort.
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Vringo Requests Court to Increase Royalty against Google + AOL
Vringo Requests Court to Increase Royalty Rate to Be Paid by Google, AOL | Fox Business: “Vringo Requests Court to Increase Royalty “
Ouch. The royalty rates on AdWords by Google & ads by AOL could really get expensive.
Google has kept a competitive advantage because of their bid-to-ad technology. That’s where they have historically made most of their money.
The computation formula would be based on 20.9% of Googles adword revenue as the base. And 3.5% of that… That is only 0.7315%. So less than 1% of Google’s AdWords. Still lots of millions.
This looks like it will start to get expensive for them and AOL to keep using the technology owned by Vringo. Huge winnings already in place but aiming for a 7% royalty going forward.
Wow. This could get to be interesting.
Keywords: patent, Vringo, Google, AOL, AdWord, willful, infringe, court
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World Water Day… March 22… Cooperation … Whatcha gonna do?
World Water Day is upcoming on March 22…
Most of us don’t realize, or don’t think about it much, the nexus of water, energy and food. It takes a lot of water to make energy; it takes a lot of water to make food… It takes even more water to make food that is higher on the food chain (beef vs. corn). It takes a lot of water to make clothes.
One day per year we all pause to contemplate water. International year of water cooperation at www.UNWater.org.
What are you gonna do to save water? (and/or energy and/or food and/or plastics and/or clothes)?
Water Foot Print calc.