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Aircord Lab's N-3D concept turns an iPad into world's second least practical 3D display (video) {Engadget}
Jul 28th 2010 2:53PM @johnvillar I have one eye that's at 40%. I don't see 3D. My brain isn't able to process a good and a blurry picture into 3D objects.
Your daughter isn't able to see 3D because you need two eyes to see 3D. The brain needs those two images from two different eyes to put it together into 3D.
Your daugther sees the world in 2D and always will for the rest of her life, just like me. All the both of us will ever see is two different angles of an object in rapid succession which kind of transports a pseudo-3D effect. That is not real 3D. It doesn't give us depth-perception. And again, it never will
Terra-Gen lands major funding, expects to complete America's largest wind farm next year {Engadget}
Jul 26th 2010 12:15PM @wobbles
http://www.eia.doe.gov/aer/pdf/pages/sec1_9.pdf
has all the complete data.
99.304 quadrillion BTU (british thermal unit).
7.300 of that from renewable sources (yikes. That's less than 10% even WITH hydro power)
A quadrillion has 15 zeros, times 99.304 is
99,304,000,000,000,000 BTU
1,000,000 BtuIT = 1055.05585262 MJ ≈ 293.071 kWh
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_thermal_unit
Meaning you devide it by 1 million and you get how many million BTU you have and that times 293.071 is the kWh
= 29103122584000 kW/h = 29,103,122,584 MW/h
29 billion MW/h.
Yeah... uhm... right. 570 MW/h surely is... err... not that much.
Now you have to know that the number I gave or better linked to is the energy consumed by every way of using it. Fuel for cars, coal power plants, heating et cetera is all in there. Meaning not every MW/h that is given here is currently even transported on the power networks. It's more likely to reside in your gas tank and refineries as well as on coal trains. Meaning even if the US was to go "fully electric" it had to also built a whole new energy grid to even be able to transport all that energy.
This way or another, 570 or even 3000 MW/h seem miniscule compared to that number...
If my math is wrong please correct me. I didn't chose to publish the US energy consumption in BTUs. What a silly way to measure it. Energy is measured in Joule. But whatever :-)
Dawson Is Back! James Van Der Beek Joins 'Mercy' {PopEater}
Feb 6th 2010 11:27AM Oh so now being married to Tom Cruise and having a three episode guest role on "Eli Stone" is considered success?
Yeah right.
Fresno-Yosemite International taps into solar power {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2008 9:12PM You can think of the power grid as the canal system in Venice. Power generating devices fill power into the system like water. This is why we will never be able to rely on solar and wind enery alone, since those won't be able to keep the level of "power" in those canals at the same level.
So during times of no sunshine or low winds, the nuclear and coal power-plants kick in.
I don't really get the whole discussion here. Solar and wind energy is an add-on to the current system that is harnessing energy that is otherwise unused (namely heating the ground instead of being used to generate power).
And since we know that CO2 is a green-house gas, why is it so hard for even the nuclear supporters to accept this solution as an add-on? Why has it always ONE way? Is it so hard to accept other forms of generating energy?
It's the same thing with the Toyota Prius. That thing needs resources that are expensive, heavy and in the end it would be just as good if you buy a small car with a Diesel or Electric engine with some actual trunk space. But people gut so stuffed with the Prius' image that they can only accept hybrids as the ONE solution instead of maybe trying to think on a broader spectrum.
Always with the tunnel-vision.
Microsoft launching SideWinder X6 keyboard this fall? {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2008 8:33PM The side-profile is of a Wireless Keyboard 7000.
I know because I picked mine up and looked at it from the side.
Euro 2008: Turkey's flags competing with Germany's in Berlin {Gadling}
Jun 27th 2008 4:13AM Es war zum Teil schwer, sich auf dem Heimweg an den enttäuschten Türken vorbeizumogeln, ohne zu grinsen.
Gestern hat mich ein Türke in der Eisdiele angesprochen - herzlichen Glückwunsch und so, aber es war ja alles so knapp.
Hätte der Schiedsrichter den Elfer gepfiffen wär da eine ziemliche Weile gar nix knapp gewesen.
Jetzt ist Ruhe im Karton und gut is :-)
