Archive for the ‘architecture’ Category
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Unlikely as it is to occur anytime soon, I'm all for it! But before a subway to the sea gets built, MTA has plans for other subways going other places. Here's an LA Times article on some other subway-not-to-the-sea proposal. This one would connect the green line ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
"Improving the Efficiency of the Solar Cell" was the title of my 7th grade science fair project. It was kinda lame... I basically got a fresnel lens, a parabolic mirror, and I tested each of them at concentrating light onto the cell to see if the solar cell would ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
If I had a huge computing task that could only be accomplished by a massive network of computers working together over time, I'd be worried about how to convince millions of people to let me use some time on their cpus. Creating a botnet like storm is one way... I ...
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
Ecogeek.com is reporting that an architect named David Fisher has designed a skyscraper that he claims could power itself and ten other similar sized buildings by capturing the wind energy with individual rotating floors.
"While the technical details of the wind-power system are sketchy at best, the architect, David Fisher, ...
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