Archive for 'Science' Category
Ideation: List Combination
15 April 2007I just made a post recently about Glowing Bacteria and how it is a good example of “convergence problem solving”. Basically where you are leveraging advances in adjacent fields with your core piece or expertise of technology to really do something beyond the scope of any of the individual pieces you are […]
Glowing Bacteria
15 April 2007
The original article for this post was actually carried by the BBC News a while back, but I thouht it was worth some
discussion here.
The news announcement in question talks about some work done by Steve Rimmer’s research group at the University of Sheffield. Their research is basically about how to generate lumiscence when […]
Google Trends, Biodiesel, Crude Oil, and Carbon Footprint
14 March 2007I was actually watching an episode of “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe” where he was working with someone making biodiesel from waste cooking oil. I was surprised at the relative straight-forward nature of the process. This started me thinking about the growth in awareness of biofuel.
For a while now I have been somewhat following the […]
Nanotube Pillars
12 March 2007I was reading my copy of NASA Techbriefs this morning and came across this article describing some work by Harish Manohara and Michael Bronkowski of Caltech for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. What really caught my attention was the image below (click to enlarge).
The image shows as array of Bundles of Carbon Nanotubes […]
Boats Towing Giant Water Ballons for Water Distribution?
7 March 2007I saw this article in my mailbox this morning:
“The Japan Water Agency and the Monohakobi Technology Institute (MTI) are undertaking joint sea trials in which water transportation sacks filled with fresh water will be towed by a tugboat. The material used for the sacks is Kuraray’s VECTRAN polyarylate superfiber. “
MTI has built a giant ballon/sack […]