Yeah

rough cost of the AIG Bailout- One hunded fifty billion dollars

Cost of installing a solar power system for each individual in Seattle, if each individual owned their own home- 3 billion dollars.

How do we fix this?

Some new photos

I went out for a walk a few days ago. It was sunny. Here are some of the pictures I took while I was out and about. Oh, and the lights are actually inside the studio, part of a new space set up.

So there's this new electric car out called the Tesla Roadster. Does 0-60 in like 3 seconds. Costs about a hundred grand. They link directly to a company called SolarCity, that leases out solar energy solutions for 15+ years a pop. I have mixed feelings about it. I like that they're finding a way to push solar on the -rich- now. Plus, putting it in a lease gives you that "this is going to sit here for a decade or so" feeling, rather than going away like a fad... However, leases can always just be pulled if the company goes under. So, yeah, kinda mixed about it.

Oh, wow, Wind is a great energy source?

Found on slashdot, a top researcher from Stanford lays out some awesome reasons as to why wind power could rock the world. IE, provide a stable, clean, feasible alternative to nuclear, coal, and biofuel.

But you all knew that, right?

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2009/january7/power-010709.html

New stuff found on slashdot

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/08/17/2034210

Found again on boingboing

Yeah, I know.

I need to get out more.

Robot, complete with biomechanical brain. So, would this be our first foray into "real" cybernetics?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1009&tag=nl.e550


also, dancing oil

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/13/video-dancing-magnet.html