vendredi, novembre 06, 2009

The accordion is not what I though it was !

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mardi, juillet 28, 2009

Supercapacitors in 2009

Supercapacitors are coming... and these guys now their stuff...

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Very cost effective and time effective. So I think we've got that well under hand. I think the materials is a very very nice story there. Barite, which was Barium, was used in the front end of TV sets. If you go buy a TV right now there's no more ... it is hard to find a CRT TV set unless it is a small thing for a computer. Most of it now in fact is very ? DLP and or other types of technologies. CDP and so ... We're the best friend of the Barite company the Barium company's got in the world. There are major sources of Bariite found in the United States. But a new one is just found in Nevada. We're writing? to get the sole rights to that. And looks like that's going to be done. Then we have large amounts of it in Mexico. And owned by US companies. You can also bring that in from other parts of the world in very high volume. So, the United States Geological Service, with *out* the stuff I've got in Nevada, says there's at least 2 billion tons of stuff in known reserves.

That's unlike Lithium ion where there is a small amount down in Chile, where they got the brine. You run out of that, then you've gotta' go over to China an get it from China. Uhhh, if you think we're in trouble with oil, wait till you have to go to China to get your Lithium.
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Music by Barcelona

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vendredi, juillet 10, 2009

Robocup 2009

The Robocup aims to create in 2050 robots able to play one to one with humans (and win). 40 years downstream we start seeing the first encounters...



Not yet a great match, but hey: it started only 12 years ago...

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Sausages, muffins and pancakes

2009, not the same anymore...







ps: no, the videos are not accelerated, these are 2009 german industrial robots.

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mardi, juin 30, 2009

We do not see the world, we see its illusions


Do you see green and blue ? Well look again.

lundi, juin 29, 2009

"""
We’re an international tobacco company focused on creating value for our shareholders.
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pretty much everything I could hate in a big company, put as the main message of their website.

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jeudi, juin 25, 2009

if you are white...

It is easy, if you are white you will not get killed in Brooklyn.

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vendredi, juin 19, 2009

Just change the scale

Simply put, the best argument I have heard on why we should not use Carbon/Gas/Oil/Nuclear energy/'Anything that does not come from outside the Earth':

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Just change the scale.
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(look at it on a 4000 years span)



As others said, "earth is a closed system for materials, but an open system for energy".

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feel -> do -> think

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Everything we do is filtered by our emotions, first.
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