[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
While astronomers at the Macdonald Observatory in Fort Davis, TX are studying the solar system, the BLOOMhouse has one of its own.
Nestled high up on a mountaintop outside of Fort Davis, TX is where the solar powered BLOOMhouse now resides. The BLOOMhouse was one of the entries in the biennial Solar Decathlon that was […]
Tokyo has been hit by a particularly hot summer this year, and according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, this will continue well into late September. As most rented living arrangements in Japan commonly come with built in air-conditioners, that leaves many of us new to the whole concept of self control repeatedly reaching for the […]
(Photo: sonofgroucho.) At the beginning of August, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his colleagues from Argentina and Brazil spoke about Latin American integration and Chavez threw an ambitious idea out: a train that would connect Venezuela’s capital (Caracas) with Argentina’s (Buenos Aires), and cities in between.
Even though he admitted this was an utopia, now the […]
The inedible South American native jatropha plant, could be a winning biofuel alternative, according to the Israeli company Galten. I spoke with Galten’s Doron Levi yesterday. He in Ghana, me from my home office in Jerusalem.
The biofuel industry, he said recognizes the potential in the jatropha’s oily seed (up to about 40 percent oil), […]