Michael Giberson Via Reuters: Researchers at New York University’s interactive telecommunications program have come up with a device that allows plants to tell owners when they need water or if they’ve had too much via the social network blogging service Twitter. If only I had had such a device last August, maybe I wouldn’t have …
Michael Giberson Unlike Lynne, I don’t Twitter. (No Facebook or Myspace, either. I don’t text from my phone – well, only to reply when my kids text me first; I used to IM, but I don’t anymore.) I do have a LinkedIn profile, but other than blogging here and responding to the occasional email, that …
Lynne Kiesling Eric Morris, guest-blogging at Freakonomics, has two guest posts (one) and (two) on road congestion pricing. Congestion pricing is a much-discussed topic here at KP, and the two Morris posts are excellent discussions of the benefits of congestion pricing. In his first post he explains how variable tolling can generate the optimal level …
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Lynne Kiesling As a cyclist, I occasionally measure my power output on the bike (you fellow bike weenies know how much attention we pay to wattage!), and wonder about using my work to some beneficial purpose beyond my own enjoyment, health, and sports training. There are gyms here and there that use their stationary bikes …
Michael Giberson It is the sort of thing that makes me wish I lived nearer New Orleans and simultaneously wonder whether I’d ever get any work done if I did. From the WWOZ website: WWOZ broadcasts the second annual Tuba Tuba Tuba music festival featuring a 30-sousaphone second-line, live band performances, and street-corner ensembles. Performers …
Michael Giberson Texas, 33 yet Texas Tech, 39 Autumn weekend game Also see column by Ivan Maisel at ESPN.com. More.
Michael Giberson You’ve heard the old joke about the weather, right? — everybody talks about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it. Well now you* can do more than just talk about the weather, you* can bet** on it. *By “you” I mean, “accredited investors with a minimum net worth of $1 million,” …
Lynne Kiesling OK, here’s another one for the “how cool is this?” file: a new material than can generate electricity from engine waste heat in hot environments, such as automobile engines: The new material is called thallium-doped lead telluride. The development could have a direct application for converting car engine exhaust heat into electricity, according …
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Lynne Kiesling Over the past six years here at KP I’ve discussed the development of high-temperature superconductor technologies and their application to electric power systems, and today we have reached a milestone in that development: Power executives, engineers, and the media gathered recently to officially throw the switch at the $60 million Holbrook Superconductor project, …
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Lynne Kiesling Those Prius engineers at Toyota keep working and working … a third-generation version of the hybrid vehicle is due on the market next year, and they are already working on rooftop solar panels to generate the power to run the car’s air conditioning. See also the the picture available at Engadget. I’d like …
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