Dean Kamen is working on a Stirling engine car and it’s on the road… The same day that Ford and General Motors announced catastrophic third-quarter losses, Dean Kamen was showing off his new electric car. The prototype vehicle, a zippy two-seat hatchback designed with more than a passing resemblance to the Volkswagen Beetle, can go […]
There are lots of reasons why we should be weaning our society off of carbon based fossil fuels and moving to sustainable, renewable fuels. Pick which ever reason you like and get to work: Security: Do we need to barricade solar panels and wind mills like nuclear power plants? Decentralized power: If a corporation owns […]
This is a really amazing sculpture by Thomas Traxler that uses solar power to create even more sculpture. I really like the end product, and how it creates a physical representation of the data gathered throughout the day. Powered by nothing but sunlight and some threads, Thomas Traxlers’ “The idea of a tree project” shows […]
As part of the promotion around The Best of Instructables Volume 1, PT offered me a guest blogging spot at Makezine, which I naturally jumped at. This is the first of my periodic posts In the best talk of the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit Al Gore called for president-elect Obama to make a man-on-the-moon-like pledge […]
I did a post on the Make blog a while back on making recycled paper and it covered making paper from dryer lint – here’s a tutorial about making modeling dough from dryer lint.
I did a post a while back on making recycled paper and it covered making paper from dryer lint – here’s a tutorial about making modeling dough from dryer lint.
Technology Review – laser sensors for wind turbines… A new fiber-optic laser system can measure wind speed and direction up to 1000 meters in front of a wind turbine, giving the massive machines enough precious seconds to proactively adapt to gusts and sudden changes in wind direction. The device, developed by Catch the Wind, a […]
