Breakthrough may lead to 500-gigabyte disc from GE.

Techies only know techie woes. Not surprisingly the solutions too. Imagine that you can take the entire data of your desktop in a single “CD”. Wow..!, right?   Let us hope that this will be a reality soon, ofcourse as cost effective too.   "SAN FRANCISCO,...

IBM is to buy Sun?

Some interesting changes are maybe on the horizon. If this deal happens maybe lot will happen in the software era as Sun has a lot of software in its hands, like Java and MySQL and Solaris to name a few. Lot of...

From shortage to glut, oil markets struggle to stabilize

A tightening oil supply in conjunction with a surplus in gasoline reserves is an indication that the slowing demand for oil and gasoline, a consequence of the global recession, is resulting in simply a shift in...

A bright idea: Hybrid cars could be energy-storage units

by Tracy Davis | The Ann Arbor News Monday November 24, 2008, 1:14 PM Scientists at the University of Michigan are rethinking the role of electric cars in the future. What if, instead of sucking up resources, those cars could serve as storage for alternative energy, and...

PFNC Global Communities, shipping container homes for the homeless

A company out of New Mexico, PFNC Global Communities, has come up with a novel solution to the growing homeless problem; turn shipping containers into social housing.  Career homebuilder Brian McCarthy...

Shipping containers could be 'dream' homes for thousands

This type of thing should have been done for Katrina victims, and with today's economy and foreclosures, this could end up being the home for millions of Americans."CORRALES, New Mexico (AP) -- It was a side trip...

Small Business Expenses that are Tax Deductible

Business expenses are the cost of carrying on a trade or business. These expenses are usually deductible if the business is operated to make a profit. What Can I Deduct? To be deductible, a business expense must be both ordinary and necessary. An ordinary expense is one...

Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant to replace batteries for wind and solar p...

  The technology stores off-peak energy, in the form of compressed air in an underground reservoir, and releases this energy during peak hours. CAES can be used for load management of intermittent renewable...

Next Generation Compressed Air Energy Storage

Public Service Enterprise Group announced plans to partner with Dr. Nakhamkin to work towards a new generation of energy storage that can be used in conjunction with solar, wind, and nearly all current energy sources to balance peak consumption electrical rates. Though it...

YouTube Producers Milk Fatal Toronto Explosion For Fun And Profit

"The fiery mushroom cloud that rose over downtown Toronto last week must have been pretty scary to everyone who saw it. The explosion of a propane storage facility killed two people and forced 12,000 people to...

Abandoned ashes stack up at funeral homes

"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. ...

Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage potential

""In the past 20 to 30 years, researchers have been able to shrink the size of devices and the size of the patterns that you need to make those devices, following the use of the same types of lithographic...

EL-Baradai admits Plutonium leaking at IAEA Austria

        Plutonium is the most dangereous form of nuclear material,milligrams can contaminate 100 to 1000 persons. In case itreaches somehow the Ozone layer, it is extremley dangerous.The...

Harvest the Sun — From Space

"AS we face $4.50 a gallon gas, we also know that alternative energy sources — coal, oil shale, ethanol, wind and ground-based solar — are either of limited potential, very expensive, require huge energy...

Apples Beat Pears Due to Better Circulation

Thanks to science, we now know why apples stay fresh longer than pears. "It is all to do with how oxygen is able to find its way to the centre of the fruit after it has been picked. Belgian researchers used one...

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