• Jun
  • 19

China’s Wind Power Industry: Blowing Past Expectations

Because wind power is proving to be a cost competitive source of power for this energy thirsty nation, the Chinese are aggressively ramping up capacity wherever wind resources can be found. China, currently the world’s 5th largest generator of wind energy, is accelerating their capacities at an astounding rate.

According to a National Development and Reform Commission plan, Shanghai will build a total of 13 land and sea-based wind farms in Nanhui, Qinjian and three islands (Chongming, Changxing and Hengsha). By 2020 Shanghai will have a total…

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  • Jun
  • 17

Do You Realize What Words Can Do?

This Is An Amazing clip?.Extremely THOUGHT PROVOKING, EMOTIONAL & POWERFUL.
A MUST WATCH FOR ALL THE YOUNGSTERS!!!!!!!

Posted May 31st, 2008 in Message Development, Public Speaking |

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  • Jun
  • 04

Growing Demand for Nanotechnology in Service Robots

In the future we will all have a completely new type of partner, one who really will lend a helping hand when it comes to the housework.

Tidy up? My robots done it already! The wrinkle-free polyurethane skin for service robots from Bayer MaterialScience. View High resolution image. photo: Bayer MaterialScience AG Shown in photo, to cover the external moving parts of the…

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  • May
  • 20

Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green

The planet is already heating up, and the point of no return may be only decades away. So combating greenhouse gases must be our top priority, even if that means embracing the unthinkable. Here, then, are 10 tenets of the new environmental apostasy….

Accept Genetic Engineering: Superefficient Frankencrops Could Put a Real Dent in Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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  • May
  • 08

Follow the Rainbow: 101 Color Resources for Web Designers | WHDb

More color advice then you ever thought you needed!

Many monitors still display only 256 colors, and this is why Web-safe colors still remain an issue for many designers. However, as those monitors slowly meet their demise (thanks to age more than anything else), other newer monitors…

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  • Apr
  • 30

Earth Observatory Feature: Cities at Night: The View from Space

Photos from space of our cities at night

In late 2002 and early 2003, astronaut Don Pettit, part of International Space Station Expedition 6, spent some time accumulating spare parts from around the space station, and constructed a device called a barn-door tracker. A barn-door…

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  • Apr
  • 26

Dubai Palm Jumeirah: the Eighth Blunder of the World?

Dubai’s sheikhs have claimed it is “the eighth wonder of the world”, and seen from space the tree-shaped sand and rock formation of the Palm Jumeirah looks exactly that. But after the hype and the novelty of living four miles out to sea has faded, that claim is starting to look shaky. It seems there is a little trouble in paradise.

Raffaele Cannas, 47, a British property consultant, was one of the first to pick up his keys in late 2006 and found himself squeezing a couple of England players into his Mini after they'd asked to see how he had decorated his apartment….

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  • Apr
  • 22

The green economy can kill three birds with one stone. It can solve the climate crises, provide good jobs and lower household costs for energy. What are we waiting for?

The green economy can kill three birds with one stone. It can solve the climate crises, provide good jobs and lower household costs for energy. What are we waiting for?

“As Myles Horton, the great community organizer at Highlander Center said, it's a “long haul.”Robert Giloth, Nonprofit Leadership.Nursing a cold yesterday, I indulged in the guilty pleasure of watching snippets of the Today…

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  • Apr
  • 20

Tesla v. The World: Does Silicon Valley’s Car Have a Chance?

Silicon Valley's car darling is out for blood in the courts. But do they have a case?

? TEST DRIVE: Tesla Roadster Plays Its Own Tune on the Streets

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  • Apr
  • 09

Surprise Yourself - Brain training and interactive puzzles

Discover what you’re capable of.

It’s all too easy to grab a croissant (or two) on the way to work. Bad eating does affect our health and looks, but there are ways to change

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