links for 2006-09-02
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On plans for "an Autonomous NanoSatellite Guardian for Evaluating Local Space (ANGELS)."
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Technical advances and falling costs make possible '[h]ome grown' data acquisition and near-real-time satellite data analysis, archiving, distribution and, ultimately, multi-sector applications" in Africa, by African nations.
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CUNY Clean Fuels Institute "will focus its attention on two of the most serious problems confronting us today: 1) Global Warming... and 2) Energy Supply Shortages."
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Argues that models of the "hydrogen economy" are plagued by nearly-insurmountable problems, while cheaper alternative generation and delivery systems abound.
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"Companies can generate growth and satisfy social and environmental stakeholders through a "great leap" to the base of the economic pyramid, where 4 billion people aspire to join the market economy for the first time."
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Lessons from the 2003 Networked World conference about reaching the "base of the pyramid:" rethink traditional metrics; see the poor as an opportunity and source of innovation; and assume that if you don't do it, your Chinese and Indian competitors will.
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"Electronic spy 'bugs' have been secretly planted in hundreds of thousands of household wheelie bins" in the UK. The "and they're made in Germany" is a nice xenophobic touch. (No word on where the wheelie bins are made.)
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London could soon have a network of scientific stations to monitor the great city's carbon "footprint".
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"The power needed to cool buildings over the next two decades is expected to rise faster than winter heating costs will drop from global warming, confirmed Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers."
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"Microchips in bins which help councils charge for the weight of rubbish collected could be common across the UK within two years."
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