Daylighting is something I’ve been fond of for a long time, and I’ve thought about how to harvest daylight and bring it into a building in an efficient manner from time to time over the past few years. I had an idea a long time ago (not sure exactly when, college?) to use a large [...]
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SunCentral Computerized Mirror Array
Posted in Green Building, Science & Technology, tagged SunCentral Computerized Mirror Array, SunCentral on 12/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Definitions to Perspectives: Resourceful and Artifact
Posted in Culture/Society, Personal Experiences, Science & Technology, tagged FreeCharge, PEG, sustainability on 11/11/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am studying a lot of vocabulary for the GRE and have subscribed to a vocabulary podcast to listen to while on the way to work. On Monday, the word ‘resourceful’ popped up. Listening to the definition and example sentences made me look back at how resourceful I’ve been throughout my life, and how valuable [...]
PS3 Linux, Two Games, and Sustainable Sim City
Posted in Science & Technology on 11/03/2009 | 1 Comment »
Christmas is slowly approaching. I make more money than usual with all the generous holiday tips, and its hard to look at my wad of cash and not put it to work, so after I splurge a bit on friends and family, I maximize the effectiveness of that moolah. Usually, I rearrange my technology setup [...]
Folding@Home
Posted in Science & Technology, tagged folding@home, ps3 on 04/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I stumbled across this project while surfing the net, daydreaming of owning a PS3.
“Since October 2000, over one million CPUs throughout the world have participated in this distributed computing project. The goal of this project is to research protein folding and misfolding to gain an understanding of how these are related to disease.
Targeted diseases include [...]
New Horizons: Vertical Farming and Other Eco-Minded Pursuits
Posted in Culture/Society, Current Affairs Commentary, Science & Technology on 12/03/2008 | 1 Comment »
Links to cool emerging (or widely unknown) efforts into making our 21st century lives better:
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=173624
http://www.verticalfarm.com/
Follow the link to Comedy Central even if you don’t have the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
Something to watch for sure… and do some research into. Cool quote: “No economic system stands apart independently from its eco-system; therefore, all [...]
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