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Thu, 09 May 2013 22:46:08 -0500

raw-r-evolution: futurist-foresight: IBMs solar collector...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:20:22 -0500

futurist-foresight:

IBMs solar collector advances solar power by harnessing the equivalent of 2,000 suns.

smarterplanet:

IBM Solar Collector Harnesses the Power of 2,000 Suns | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

A team of IBM researchers is working on a solar concentrating dish that will be able to collect 80% of incoming sunlight and convert it to useful energy. The High Concentration Photovoltaic Thermal system will be able to concentrate the power of 2,000 suns while delivering fresh water and cool air wherever it is built. As an added bonus, IBM states that the system would be just one third the cost third of current comparable technologies.

Based on information by Greenpeace International and the European Electricity Association, IBM claims that it would require only two percent of the Sahara’s total area to supply the world’s energy needs. The HCPVT system is designed around a huge parabolic dish covered in mirror facets. The dish is supported and controlled by a tracking system that moves along with the sun. Sun rays reflect off of the mirror into receivers containing triple junction photovoltaic chips, each able to convert 200-250 watts over eight hours. Combined hundred of the chips provide 25 kilowatts of electricity.

The entire dish is cooled with liquids that are 10 times more effective than passive air methods, keeping the HCPVT safe to operate at a concentration of 2,000 times on average, and up to 5,000 times the power of the sun. The direct cooling technique is inspired by the branched blood supply system of the human body and has already been used to cool high performance computers like the Aquasar. The system will also be able to create fresh water by passing 90 degree Celsius liquid through a distillation system that vaporizes and desalinates up to 40 liters each day while still generating electricity. It will also be able to amazingly offer air conditioning by a thermal drive absorption chiller that converts heat through silica gel.

Replacing expensive steel and glass with concrete and pressurized foils, the HCPVT is less costly than many other similar installations. Its high tech coolers and molds can be manufactured in Switzerland, and construction provided by individual companies on-site. Through their design, IBM believes they can maintain a cost of less than 10cents per kilowatt hour.

what?

"This is a victory for free speech. This is a victory against the rise of economic censorship to..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:51:08 -0500

““This is a victory for free speech. This is a victory against the rise of economic censorship to crack down against journalists and publishers””

- Julian Assange

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rjulqn

(via anonmystic)

US Map of Natural Thermal Springs

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:46:39 -0500

US Map of Natural Thermal Springs:

Hoping this summer will be THE summer. So far it is looking promising.

Remote Reconnaissance of Another Solar System

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:14:19 -0500

Remote Reconnaissance of Another Solar System

Enormous Black Hole Spins at Near-Light Speed

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:11:03 -0500

Enormous Black Hole Spins at Near-Light Speed

Abandoned stable becomes off-grid, luxurious family dream home

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:47:05 -0500

Abandoned stable becomes off-grid, luxurious family dream home

Good album for late night work. :)

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:03:13 -0500

Good album for late night work. :)

I heard this last week and the melody in the chorus infected my...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:08:49 -0500

I heard this last week and the melody in the chorus infected my brain for three days straight! Hehe.

djtoe: globalconsciousevolution: lemurianvibrations: schumann...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:13:35 -0500

djtoe:

globalconsciousevolution:

lemurianvibrations:

schumann resonance

“Schumann resonances are the principal background in the electromagnetic spectrum^[1] beginning at 3 Hz and extend to 60 Hz,^[2] and appear as distinct peaks at extremely low frequencies (ELF) around 7.83 (fundamental),^[3]14.3, 20.8, 27.3 and 33.8 Hz.^[4]^[5]”

earthing

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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:08:25 -0500

Still alive, still free, still fighting. My apologies for the absence, but such things are...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 08:44:29 -0600

Still alive, still free, still fighting. My apologies for the absence, but such things are necessary at times.

I learned some new tricks while off radar. Fun times ahead.

A Fun Game to Play

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:26:40 -0600

My cat: *meo-

Me(interrupting): *meow*

a few seconds pass…

My cat: *m-

Me: *meow*

more seconds pass…

My cat(with annoyed inflection): *me-

Me: *meow*

Repeat this as long as you wish.

Me: It’s ok kitty *tries to pet*

My cat: *scratch*

*Take this string so that I may pounce on it!*

defendassange: It’s that important

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:08:35 -0600

defendassange:

It’s that important

carton-rouge: Cypherpunks: A Review I eagerly anticipated the...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:17:58 -0600

carton-rouge:

Cypherpunks: A Review

I eagerly anticipated the release of this book. The chance to be a fly on the wall during a conversation of four of the world’s most influential “hackers” and internet activists doesn’t happen everyday. And that is exactly what we are presented with in Cypherpunks. The book plays out in conversation format, with Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmerman discussing their own points of view regarding the state of the Internet and the role of government in today’s always-connected society. They each bring their own interesting perspective to the table during the discussion. Reoccurring themes in the book include the encroaching and totalizing force of social networking, the extent of government surveillance programs, and (of course) the threat that organizations like WikiLeaks pose for those in power.

defendassange: sweetskulls: Bradley Manning supporters in...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:36:49 -0600

defendassange:

sweetskulls:

Bradley Manning supporters in Washington, D.C. erected a “Free Bradley Manning” billboard on the route leading to the Fort Meade Army base, where the WikiLeaks whistleblower’s pre-trial hearings are taking place this week.

via In These Times

Defend Bradley!

Senate Unanimously Passes 2013 NDAA; Power to Arrest Americans Remains

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:47:26 -0600

Senate Unanimously Passes 2013 NDAA; Power to Arrest Americans Remains :

defendassange:

thefreelioness:

tommy35ss:

thefreelioness:

“Just after 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, the Senate did it again. By a vote of 98-0 (two senators abstained) lawmakers in the upper chamber approved the Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Not a single senator objected to the passage once again of a law that purports to permit the president, supported by nothing more substantial than his own belief that the suspect poses a threat to national security, to deploy the U.S. military to arrest an American living in America.”

I thought the Lee-Feinstein amendment was a part of this?

It is. It still does not stop the government from detaining American citizens without charge or trial in military prisons.

Congress=fired

Another new favorite. From Igorrr’s new album releasing...

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:04:00 -0600

Another new favorite. From Igorrr’s new album releasing 12/21/12.

progressivefriends: nox-aeris: Huge Mars Colony Eyed by...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:45:39 -0600

progressivefriends:

nox-aeris:

Huge Mars Colony Eyed by SpaceX Founder Elon Musk

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for perhaps $500,000 a trip.

Image: This still from a SpaceX mission concept video shows a Dragon space capsule landing on the surface of Mars. SpaceX’s Dragon is a privately built space capsule to carry unmanned payloads, and eventually astronauts, into space. Credit: SpaceX

In Musk’s vision, the ambitious Mars settlement program would start with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people, who would journey to the Red Planet aboard a huge reusable rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane.

“At Mars, you can start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it into something really big,” Musk told an audience at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on Friday (Nov. 16). Musk was there to talk about his business plans, and to receive the Society’s gold medal for his contribution to the commercialization of space.

Mars pioneers

Accompanying the founders of the new Mars colony would be large amounts of equipment, including machines to produce fertilizer, methane and oxygen from Mars’ atmospheric nitrogen and carbon dioxide and the planet’s subsurface water ice.

The Red Planet pioneers would also take construction materials to build transparent domes, which when pressurized with Mars’ atmospheric CO2 could grow Earth crops in Martian soil. As the Mars colony became more self sufficient, the big rocket would start to transport more people and fewer supplies and equipment.

Musk’s architecture for this human Mars exploration effort does not employ cyclers, reusable spacecraft that would travel back and forth constantly between the Red Planet and Earth — at least not at first

“Probably not a Mars cycler; the thing with the cyclers is, you need a lot of them,” Musk told SPACE.com. “You have to have propellant to keep things aligned as [Mars and Earth’s] orbits aren’t [always] in the same plane. In the beginning you won’t have cyclers.”

Continue..

Musk’s ambition is something you don’t see much anymore.

Does this make anyone else horny?

eatyofacedancin: ikilledhale: forever searching could it...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:57:10 -0600

eatyofacedancin:

ikilledhale:

forever searching

could it be..?!