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Ed's Articles
Costa Rica: Free From Fossil #fuels?
May 14 2018 12:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Costa Rica, in 2017 had, . . . 300 days, in which, . . . renewables met its entire demand for electricity. But, they have too manny cars, and trucks, . . . using gasoline, and diesel for transportation. 5-14-2018 Source: Costa Rica: Free From Fossil #...
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Follow The #money: Computer Hardware Cost
May 01 2018 12:50 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Computer hardware "FLOPS," . . . is defined as one floating-point operation per second. Historically, the Cost of computer hardware, . . . designed for high-speed mathematics in dollars, . . . (adjusted for inflation to 2017 values) was: . . ....
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#robot-Assisted Vaulted Classrooms For China
Apr 19 2018 08:05 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
“To minimize construction time, and also . . . reduce the number of separate building elements required, . . . to be transported to the school’s remote location, . . . ZHA proposes to combine the local skills of in-situ concrete construction, . . . wit...
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#energy Secretary: $1.8 Billion Supercompu...
Apr 17 2018 05:35 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The new supercomputers, . . . will be follow-on systems to the first U.S. exascale system, authorized by . . . Secretary Perry this past June, named Aurora, . . . which is currently under development at . . . Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), and . ....
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#energy Flow Chart
Apr 09 2018 06:15 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
How to read an energy flow chart from . . . Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) https://www.youtube....h?v=G6dlvECRfcI What is "Rejected Energy"? and . . . Why can't we use it?
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Chevy Bolt Vs #tesla Model 3
Apr 02 2018 09:45 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
The Chevy Bolt cost . . . $10,000 more to make than, . . . the base model of the Tesla Model 3. Normally, the Chevy Bolt compact car, is cheaper to produce, because of: . . . . . . higher volumes, (1,000 cars a YEAR) . . . . . . lower cost of pa...
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Follow The Money: #fukushima
Mar 30 2018 12:55 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Work to scrap the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and . . . deal with radioactive water buildup at the site, is expected to cost around . . . 660 billion yen over the next . . . 3 years. 3-30-2018 Source: Follow the Money: #Fukushima
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New #apple Watch Coming This Fall
Mar 29 2018 01:10 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
With new health sensors beyond the heart rate sensor on earlier Watches, . . . 15% larger display, . . . more health monitoring features, and . . . longer battery life. 3-28-2018 Source: New #Apple Watch coming this fall
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#car Of The Year?
Mar 28 2018 12:25 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
Yup, that’s right — the Tesla Model 3 won! https://www.youtube....h?v=V-GOdnV5N_k 3-28-2018 Source: #Car of the year?
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#3D Printed: Rocket Nozzle
Mar 23 2018 06:40 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is developing, a . . . 3D-printed rocket nozzle, . . . that is cheaper, and simpler in design than comparable ones, . . . yet is able to withstand extreme temperatures, and pressures. https://www.youtube....h?v=m...
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