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(re)framed
A day made of glass: I’m reminded of an interesting passage in the book Glass: A World History: As we have seen, one of the rapid developments in glass technology was the making of panes of window glass, plain and coloured, which was particularly noticeable in the northern half of Europe [after the twelfth century]. […]
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(re)framed
A day made of glass: I’m reminded of an interesting passage in the book Glass: A World History: As we have seen, one of the rapid developments in glass technology was the making of panes of window glass, plain and coloured, which was particularly noticeable in the northern half of Europe [after the twelfth century]. […]
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Slashdot Submission | MIT Engineers release Open Source LED Lighting
“Four MIT Engineers, Brian Neltner (covered previously on slashdot for his work at http://led-artwork.com/ ), Daniel Taub, Perry Hung, and Russel Ryan, have in their spare time taken it upon themselves to produce an open-source, flexible, modular, and extremely high power LED light based on custom open hardware, and designed to make it easy for […]
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MIT Femtosecond Laser Camera Shoots Pics Around Corners, No Periscope Required
Femtosecond Transient Imaging Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab To most of us, seeing what’s around the corner before rounding the bend is known as premonition. For students and professors at MIT’s Media Lab, it’s called physics. The lab is working on a laser-based camera that can snap images around corners, imaging scenery that is beyond […]
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$1.1bn wasted on solar power
By using documents obtained from the federal Environment Department, the researchers found 66 per cent of the solar systems installed under the program were on homes in suburbs with at least a ”medium-high” socio-economic status. All solar panel systems installed under the program combined reduced Australia’s emissions by just 0.015 per cent, and cost up […]
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Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar
js_sebastian writes “According to an article on the New York Times, a historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar, hardly the cheapest of renewable technologies, is now cheaper than nuclear, at around 16 cents per kilowatt hour. Furthermore, the NY Times reports that […]
