$1 per watt solar panels from NanoSolar... Thanks again Google.

Googling Green
Recently Google posted an article on there blog about encouraging green energy. They also made it obvious that, as usual, they were ready to put their money where their mouth was.

Where is Google's mouth?
Well, at moment Google's billion dollar mouth is salivating all over a change-the-world sandwich. First bite: The way we produce electricity.

A few years back Google invested in a little startup called Nanosolar. Fast forward to today's headline and we see that Nanosolar has come a long way. They figured out a way to "print" solar panels. That's right, semi-conductor ink and all. This process turned out to be way cheaper than traditional ways of producing solar panels. That's why they can charge such a coal busting rate of $1 per watt.

We're talking about finally accomplishing what the tree-huggers have been praying for the last several decades: Renwable Energy as a our main source of electricity.

Revolution?!... where... I don't...?
Well, for now the company is backed up for 18 months from their first shipping date. So it may be awhile before the general public gets their hands on these things. But you just wait. One day you'll all be at Target/Walmart getting some eggs and you'll pass by the rolls of Nanosolar sheets. Then I'll throw an elbow in your eye so that I can get them first. Sorry...



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Body Clock 'Control Switch' Found

Our DNA amazes me. It is a complete language describing how to build a human. Beautiful. The good ole BBC came out with this interesting story a day or two ago. "Researchers say they have identified the chemical switch that controls the genetic mechanism regulating our internal body clock." Read on with the links below.

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007: w00t

That's right..."This year's winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t ("leet," or "elite") speak—an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters. Although the double "o" in the word is usually represented by double zeroes, the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for "we owned the other team"—again stemming from the gaming community."1. w00t (interjection)expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word "yay" ex.{ w00t! I won the contest! } or more accurately { w00t! 10 head-shots in a row!} Digital Culture has exploded on in large part to the success of video games and the evolution of online gaming. Soon we'll all be speaking to each other in chat room shorthand. TTL.

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Microwave beam car stopper fries cars in nanoseconds.

There is a new weapon on the police force. At 5 feet 200 pounds an officer may not be effective on the highways when faced with runaway criminals. Given his stature he may not even make it back to his patrol car before the vandals completely escape. But 5 feet 200 pounds of microwave laser gun mounted to the top of a patrol car would get the job done easily. As soon as the bad guys started to pull away the microwave beam would "fry" all electronics in the get-away car, rendering it motionless. Eureka Aerospace has built such a weapon and are getting powerful results.

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Light to shrink computer clusters

IBM is looking to replace the well-known copper circuitry in computers with beams of light.

What are the benefits of using light instead of clunky copper wiring in computers?

Here are a few:
-100 times faster
-more powerful
-much smaller
-produces less heat
-and uses less energy

How? Well, since they replaced the copper wiring with beams of the good stuff (light) data is traveling at 186,000 miles per second.

So...supercomputers that fill up an entire room can now be the size of your laptop. Didn't this already happen about 25 years ago? Yes. And now it's happening again. Technology gets better and smaller as time goes on. Eventually computers will be a tiny speck that's more powerful than anything around today.

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Digital Culture: Guy gets dumped via Facebook status

This girl changes her status to break it off with her boyfriend. Hahaha! Welcome to digital culture. The phone call use to be the lowest form of breaking away from a potential mate. Thanks to the 2007 Web 2.0 social networking extravaganza we don't even have to hear their quivering voice ask, "Why?" And to add insult to injury...the whole world gets to watch it go down. This is another example of computers stepping in to do the things humans find inconvenient. At first it was our math homework. Now it's communicating with significant others. What will computers be doing for us in the future? Living for us? (cough)Second Life(cough!)

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Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results

Google is experimenting with Digg style voting features on search results that allow users to vote up or bury search results they see.

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