Harvard University to Install Photovoltaic Panels for Solar Electricity
Environmentalists, Cambridge Massachusetts’ residents and the community of Harvard University students, faculty and alumni are excited to learn today that the prestigious university will soon become one of the most energy efficient, too. According to Boston Globe reports, Harvard University will be installing solar panels along the roof of their largest office building. The panels, which will span a length of more than 240 yards on that roof, are expected to generate more than 7% of the electrical needs by the building’s tenants
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The good news: Oil doesn’t have to rise that much more for cellulosic ethanol to become economically viable. The bad news: You people in the labs have a lot of work ahead of you. Sandia National Labs will soon release a report on cellulosic ethanol and what sort of barriers need to be knocked down so that cellulosic can become at least a 75 billion gallon a year business, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital blog.
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$90 a Barrel Oil Is the Floor for Cellulosic Ethanol, Says Study
Codexis, one of the many companies that hope to harness the magic of biology to produce fuel, wants to do carbon capture too. Alan Shaw, CEO, says that the company has an enzyme that could be implanted into smokestacks to reduce airborne carbon dioxide, according to Reuters. Most likely (i.e., my best guess), the enzyme would bind it to another substance to transform it into something that wouldn’t pollute the atmosphere or that could be easily sequestered, perhaps a solid
This two minute video clip taken yesterday at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 features White House Council on Environmental Quality Van Jones. At yesterday’s summit, Jones delivered a series of powerful remarks, comments and ideas, all of which demonstrated how clean energy industries can create jobs and lift Americans out of poverty. Clean Skies then followed up with another video recap and interview with Van Jones taken at the UNLV campus
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NCES 2.0 Videos: Van Jones on Clean Energy Job Creation
Polychlorinated biphenyl (or “PCB”) continues to contaminate the Hudson River in upstate New York. The contamination levels found after recent dredging have caused the Environmental Protection Agency to halt a $750 cleanup being sponsored by General Electric. Associated Press writer Michael Gormley published an article earlier this morning on the news… The dredging was halted Friday after tests conducted Wednesday and Thursday found average PCB levels just over federal drinking water standards.
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Contamination Halts $750 Million Cleanup of Hudson River
The interest in 3D Stereo solutions is continuing to grow lately and one of the products that a lot of people expect is the Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D W1 digital camera that can record both in 2D and in 3D (still images and movies). The Real 3D W1 camera uses two separate Fujinon lenses along with two 10 megapixel CCD sensors to be able to simultaneously take two images just like the eyes of a normal human see everything. The two images can then be combined into a 3D stereo picture with the help of the RP (Real Photo) Processor 3D or into a 3D stereo video clip with resolution of up to 640×480.
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Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1 is a Stereo 3D Digital Camera
Meet the new I-Dog Soft Speaker – the snuggly, squeezable pooch that loves to get down to your music. After the big success that was the first plastic version of the I-Dog speakers and the later smaller mini versions now we also have a new plush model… The new I-Dog soft speaker version is available in white, blue or pink so you can pick the one that best suit your taste or even have them all if you want to
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New I-Dog Soft Speaker Version
If you are planning to order an InvisibleSHIELD screen protector or any other Zagg product in the next three days (until the end of this year) you should act now in order to get a 30% discount from the regular price for all InvisibleSHIELD products. In order to use the discount and get protectors for your gadgets at a real bargain price you’ll need to type the discount code SITEWIDE30 when doing your purchase.
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30% Off for all InvisibleSHIELD Products until the End of 2008
The Fiio E5 portable headphone amplifier is probably the world’s smallest headphone amplifier that is designed to improve not only the volume, but also the sound quality of almost any digital audio player such as a MP3 or MP4 Player, Mobile Phone, Laptop, or just about any other portable music device. It is an upgraded model of the Fiio E3 Headphone Amplifier which is already very popular around the world because of it’s great results and very affordable price
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FiiO E5 Portable Headphones Amplifier
Hardcore Computer officially announced the launch of their Reactor PC – the world’s first commercially available high-performance computer with total liquid submersion cooling technology. The Reactor PC has been developed for hardcore computer users such as gamers, graphic artists, audiophiles, industrial designers, engineers, medical imaging technicians and military technologists with the idea to provide top performance and lots of features in a really unique form. With a Reactor PC you can not only get the latest technology such as Tripple SLI with the latest Nvidia GTX 280 video cards, Quad Core Intel CPU, SSD disks combined with a really cool and innovative oil cooling that gives you not only quiet working, but also a highly overclockable computer
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Hardcore Reactor the Oil Immersion Cooled Computer
The USB Humping Bunnies are not much different than the USB Humping Dogs at least when we are talking about their purpose, which is just the same – to entertain you and your friends for a while. When you plug one of these USB Humping Bunnies in your laptop it will start humping it and that is what is fun about them, at least for a while, plus the bunnies look cuter than the dogs, although that depends on your personal preferences. The USB Humping Bunnies have one advantage over the dog version, because they come with 1GB built-in flash memory, which makes them somewhat useful and not just some weird and fun gadget
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USB Humping Bunnies
While face detection has become a common feature in modern digital cameras, Sony took one step ahead and developed the first camera with smile detection, the DSC -T300, and proudly announced it today. The main attraction of this camera is certainly Sony’s new smile detection technology. So how does this new feature work?
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Sony DSC-T300: First Camera with Smile Detection
O2 released its first 3.5G Pocket PC in HK on the last day of February. The new Xda Atom Life basically looks pretty much the same as its predecessor, the Xda Atom: a black body with simple and clean outline, a 2.4-inch QVGA display, a media player navigation panel along with the basic Pocket PC buttons, and a pair of shortcut bottons on the lower right side of the phone’s body. In addition, it has a 0.3-megapixel supplementary camera for video conferencing purpose.
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O2 Xda Atom Life, A HSDPA Pocket PC [4]
Jabra recently introduced a new Bluetooth 2.0 headset, the Jabra BT8010, which comes with pretty much everything you would want for a Bluetooth headset. The BT8010 features supports for A2DP and AVRCP , the new Jog Wheel rotating control, and a supplementary earphone which allows you to enjoy dual channel stereo sound while listening to music on your mobile device.
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Jabra BT8010 Stereo Bluetooth Headset [7]
Sony Ericsson today announced two new Cyber-shot phones, the K810 and the K550. The K810 basically share the same features as the K800, it comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera with auto focus, Cyber-shot Xenon flash with red eye reduction, 17mm thin 2.0†QVGA 262k TFT display, M2 slot with 128MB M2 in-box, 64MB user free memory, and other similar functions.
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Sony Ericsson Announced Two New Cyber-shot Phones [4]
Just when we thought the DELL XPS M1710 is gonna top the most powerful notebook computer for this year, PC MicroWorks released the a duo core SLI capable notebook computer – the Vega . It seems that the best things come in pair for the Vega, it is powered by AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core processor, jaw dropping dual 512MB nVidia Geforce Go 7950GTX or dual 512MB nVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M SLI GPUs, and dual 160 GB SATA hard drives (it also offers options for up to 600GB Perpendicular at 4200RPM)
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Vega – Dual Core SLI Capable Notebook [8]