Author: Dave

I listened to a number of versions of this and I found myself preferring the studio version.

EDN Magazine reports on a new technology for making solar cells. Printing them. This week, Nanosolar put up a video of its 1GW (in annual production) solar ink coating machine, which the company says costs $1.65M. The coater, which works in a normal factory environment, and coats metal film with a proprietary ink based on…

Demand down, prices up. How can that be?

And for those of you wondering where I have been lately? Busy learning the ARM instruction set. Preparatory to writing a simple FORTH for the ARM. The whole concept is supported by a number of companies so code written for one companies chips should with modification work on another company’s chips. Right now I like…

At last John McCain is getting towards an energy policy I can back. Drill for oil. Most voters favor the resumption of offshore drilling in the United States and expect it to lower prices at the pump, even as John McCain has announced his support for states that want to explore for oil and gas…

I did a bit last night about a site with a bunch of Obama posters. It turns out you can make your very own. To prove it I made one of my own: To make one of your own just click on the picture. I had some trouble loading the site. It works. Just try…

Hard to Swallow has some very nice Obama posters for your viewing pleasure. I especially like this one: *

In Dymaxion Man Elizabeth Kolbert discusses the life of Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller. Prompted by a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art which opens later this month. One of Buckminster Fuller’s earliest inventions was a car shaped like a blimp. The car had three wheels–two up front, one in the back–and a periscope…

Alan Boyle has a new report on the goings on in New Mexico at EMC2 Fusion Labs. Emc2 Fusion’s Richard Nebel can’t say yet whether his team’s garage-shop plasma experiment will lead to cheap, abundant fusion power. But he can say that after months of tweaking, the WB-7 device “runs like a top” – and…

Abu Dhabi is buying solar cell manufacturing plants from the US in order to make solar cells 2.2 meters by 2.6 meters (7 ft 2 1/2in by 8ft 6 3/8 in). As part of its drive to become a world leader in alternative energy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-based Masdar PV announced this week it…

Professor X has written a wonderful piece on his troubles in a very low level English 101 class. He has studied the matter up close and personal and has some wise words on the subject. For I, who teach these low-level, must-pass, no-multiple-choice-test classes, am the one who ultimately delivers the news to those unfit…

In honor of this election season’s very own VooDoo child. Hendrix live at Berkeley (how appropriate) 30 May 1970.

I was reading something Wretchard wrote at The Belmont Club and came across this comment: Inasmuch as the economy is in the toilet and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are unwon, all the math is pointing toward the Democrat winning. Obama has one little problem. He doesn’t do unscripted. He also has a little problem…

In fact from the look of things it may always be the Fusion Reactor of The Future. A massive international nuclear fusion experiment planned for Cadarache, France, is set to cost up to 30% more than anticipated and be delayed by as much as three years, governments will learn next week. Construction has not even…

Here is a very funny audio clip if you have a bent mind. Thanks to RJ40. Cross Posted at Power and Control

This is a roundup on what is wrong with our voting system. Brad Friedman tries to vote. He had a lot of problems. Fortunately he was wired with the California Secretary of State’s office. This was not his first problem with voting irregularities. It was his first personal experience. The comment section (from which I…

It seems as if the schools in America are not producing the quality of output many Americans desire. There is a lot of “woe is me” out there. However, it does not reflect in any way what is really going on. Let us take my case, an impecunious student with a lot of time on…

Blogger Diana West at PoliticalMavens.com discusses Obama’s ties to The Nation of Islam. Very interesting. But that is not what caught my eye. “Another Obama connection to supporters of Farrakhan comes from Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod. “WND reported this week Axelrod sits on the finance committee of St. Sabina, the Chicago Catholic parish…