16 days ago
deusx : Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system - Yahoo! News - "Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units."
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16 days ago
nelson : Wireless power - 60 watts transmitted via magnetic fields
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1 month ago
Andy Baio : NYT's roundup of home electricity monitoring tech - isn't it against the utilities' best interest to provide tools to monitor and reduce usage?
veen : Prototype - Finding and Fixing a Home’s Power Hogs - NYTimes.com - “We have all the technology we want in our cellphones and plasma TVs and cars, but in electricity we’re still like our grandparents were."
joshua : Prototype - Finding and Fixing a Home’s Power Hogs - NYTimes.com
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Linkorama : The Power Paradox - True power requires modesty and empathy, not force and coercion, argues Dacher Keltner. But what people want from leaders—social intelligence—is what is damaged by the experience of power.
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9 month ago
nelson : Makani power - Google's working with Saul Griffith to build electricty generators using kites
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12 month ago
factoryjoe : The Green Grid: Home - The Green Grid is a consortium of information technology companies and professionals seeking to lower the overall consumption of power in data centers around the globe. The organization is chartered to develop meaningful, platform-neutra
Linkorama : The Green Grid - The Green Grid is a consortium of information technology companies and professionals seeking to lower the overall consumption of power in data centers around the globe. The organization is chartered to develop meaningful, platform-neutral standards, measu
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Rod Begbie : NSTAR: NSTAR Green - Starting in January, our leccy company will be selling wind-generated electricity for $0.03 more per kWh -- an approximately 15% premium. I'll be signing up for that -- makes more sense to me than carbon credits. #
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16 month ago
nelson : PowerTOP - Linux software to tell you what parts of your OS are using the most electricity
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17 month ago
Linkorama : An Administration's Epic Collapse - I've tried to be respectful of the man and the office, but the three defining sins of the Bush Administration--arrogance, incompetence, cynicism--are congenital: they're part of his personality. They're not likely to change. And it is increasingly difficu
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Powercast Wireless Power - Incredible to think of the consumer electronics revolution this will unleash.
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adamrg : My National Security Letter Gag Order
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Second Life Economic Statistics - Fantastically interesting insight-generating whatsits into the amount of people, land and money in Second Life and what they're all doing...
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23 month ago
deusx : TIME.com: The End of a Revolution -- Oct. 16, 2006 -- Page 1 - "holding on to power has become not just the means but also the end for the onetime reformers who in 1994 unseated a calcified and corrupted Democratic majority."
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24 month ago
fastclemmy : usbcell.com - usbcell.com by fastclemmy Clever idea. An AA battery that can be charged via USB. hotlinks power aa usb battery energy charging Copy | React (0)
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34 month ago
Linkorama : A democracy of groups - These technologies are enabling groups not only to create community but also to wield power and create rules to govern their own affairs. This paper examines the significance of decentralized groups to promote collective action in economic, civic and cult
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39 month ago
Linkorama : Google invests in power-line broadband - Wonder if their S-1 said they would make non-strategic investments
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plasticbag : From the new issue of Wired: The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea - Two articles in the same wired about highly implausible geniuses with theories that the mainstream are suspicious of - getting more visionary or am I reading Fortean Times?
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43 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The 48 Laws of Power - The 48 Laws of Power: advice for dictators
jkottke : How to achieve, grow, and maintain a powerful position - Not sure if this is tongue-in-cheek, but I still wanted to take a shower after reading it.
plasticbag : The 48 Laws of Power - Hideous, selfish, dishonourable and sickening approach to life that makes me feel nauseous and depressed
Matthew M. Boedicker : The 48 Laws of Power
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