New figures provide a fascinating insight into how we consume power – and how much of it we have left
The Guardian: Are we running out of oil? The world in energy statistics
Yearly Archives: 2009
Nokia develops phone that recharges itself without mains electricity
A new research prototype phone from the company is able to power itself on nothing more than ambient radiowaves – the weak TV, radio and mobile phone signals that permanently surround us. The power harvested is small but it is almost enough to power a mobile in standby mode indefinitely without ever needing to plug it into the mains, according to Markku Rouvala, one of the researchers who developed the device at the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge, UK.
The Guardian: Nokia develops phone that recharges itself without mains electricity
Chicken: Low Art, High Calorie
celebrates the varied and visual qualities of fast food signage, and the people involved. On the surface it may all look the same, but the differences reflect a ubiquitous, and humorous vernacular design. It will make you laugh, ponder and hungry for chicken!
Tender Support
Great customer support is hard to come by and even harder to deliver. What you need is a customer support system made for the modern web that works with you to help deliver the best support possible to your customers.
Tender Support: Support your product: Knowledge Base, Helpdesk, Forums
Sync Files and Folders Outside Your My Dropbox Folder
The popular cross-platform file-syncing application Dropbox is a hit among Lifehacker readers, but it has one major drawback: It only syncs files placed inside the My Dropbox folder. Here’s how to get around that limitation.
Lifehacker: Sync Files and Folders Outside Your My Dropbox Folder
Ugly and neglected fragments
Given the thousands or millions of sites hosted at GeoCities it’s remarkable how rarely one stumbles across any of them. Only with their impending disappearance do we realise what we’ll be missing.
Clean Coal? 10 of the World’s Dirtiest Power Plants
Drax provides 7% of the electrical power required by Britain. Drax is actually the most carbon efficient coal-fired power plant in the UK, even though it generates around 1.5 million tons of ash and 22.8 million tons of carbon dioxide each year, which just goes to show, even the cleanest of coal-fired power plants are dirty.
Web Ecoist: Clean Coal? 10 of the World’s Dirtiest Power Plants
Residents challenge Google camera
Angry residents in Milton Keynes blocked the driver of a Google Street View car when he started taking photographs of their homes.