How much electricity does the Facebook app consume everyday by making phones vibrate with push notifications?

My silly little goal is to convince Facebook to pre-configure its mobile apps so they don’t make phones vibrate by default and push silent notifications to mobile users. Help me make an estimate, we need to know on average how many milliwatts the average phone will spend per notification, and an estimate of how many […]

Justin Hall-Tipping: No power plants, No grids necessary

What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of ‘normal’ can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.

Breaking Hydrogen from H2O – Think of this for your car

Maybe a smaller system could be done for your car. It’d draw power from the alternator to break hydrogen into a tank, once that tank’s pressurised enough with hydrogen, when you press the gas, hydrogen could be released and sent to the engine’s cylinders (instead of Gasoline, or with Gasoline), helping you save gas. Another […]

Are we in recession?

Disclaimer: I’ve no clue what I’m talking about, I’m a software engineer but I like to read a lot about economy and look the world around me instead of just listening to the media. I’ve probably not looked at enough variables, I just went for the GDP indicator and what I think the role of […]

The Cost of Gas in the US as of March 2008

As gas prices reach more than USD $4 per gallon, and the price per oil barrel hits USD $110 people post pictures to Reddit in relation to how gas prices feel like to them all over the country. Wired Magazine calls for more picture uploads. Here are my favorites so far: Do you think we’ve […]

Is Steorn a Big Bluff?

I’m not sure if I made a post about this on the past, but I know I certainly talked about it on my podcast… its about Steorn and it’s “ORBOS” technology, they claim they’ve developed a device that creates FREE ENERGY, that is, the output of energy in the machine is higher than the input, […]

Refineria Portatil que usa BASURA como Combustible (Tipo Back to the Future)

Fuente: Technology Review Investigadores han construido y probado una maquina (para uso militar) portatil que convierte de manera eficiente desperdicios en electricidad. Un proyecto de energia-apartir-de-desperdicios guiado por investigadores de la universidad de Purdue, le da un nuevo significado al termino “Poder Militar”. Cientificos del departamento de agricultura e ingenieria biologica de la universidad, han […]