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Simple Energy Sensing

Behold! I present to you… the future!

According to Engadget, Intel has a new sensor on the market that will make it easier than ever to measure your energy usage in the home. What makes this different from other power monitoring sensors? Evidently, you only need one. Just one plug, somewhere in your house, and you get detailed information about all your energy consuming appliances. This can give you instant feedback on spikes (microwave, printer, etc) and encourage you to turn off those lights when you leave the room.

Posted by admin on 22 April 2010 at 6:32 pm under News.
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Go science!

From the article:

“A team of researchers at MIT has just announced that they have successfully modified a virus to split apart molecules of water, paving the way for an efficient and non-energy intensive method of producing hydrogen fuel. The team engineered a common, harmless bacterial virus to assemble the components needed to crack apart a molecule of water, yielding a fourfold boost in efficiency over similar processes.”

So, we’re closer to a cheap source of hydrogen. Instead of passing lots and lots of electricity through water… we let an icky virus do all the work. Brilliant! This means those silly, zero emissions hydrogen cells maybe aren’t so silly after all.

Posted by admin on 14 April 2010 at 10:57 am under News.
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Hooray, we’re even less significant than we thought!

According to this article, our Universe has just grown by a factor of 10. Scientists found the missing 90% by searching for a different (redder) wavelength of light given off by hydrogen, instead of the typical ultraviolet light used to detect the galaxies we already know about. So, we already knew that the universe was huge, but now we know it’s FRIGGIN’ huge!

What’s this mean for us? Well, we were already insignificant in the greater scheme of the “huge” universe, so I guess we’re 10 times less significant now. Or in layman’s terms: FRIGGIN’ insignificant!