From Neatorama:
A stretch of interstate highway near St. Louis, Missouri is now paved with asphalt made from pig manure: "Whew!" gasped a worker with Pace Construction Co., the St. Louis County road contractor that joined forces with Innoventor, the Earth City-based engineering
what is the allowable vibration limit for air preheater drive train?
Magnificent: The Big Picture has a series of incredible pictures from the latest Soyuz and Shuttle missions to the International Space Station.
They are all amazing, but I think I like this one the best:
I know, it’s not what you’d think I’d pick, is it? But it shows astronaut Soichi Noguchi in the station’s cupola, taking one of his astonishing photographs that he posts on Twitter. Looking at this picture of him, and thinking of his incredible photos, really brings home the fact that humans are in space right now, circling the Earth over your head.
From The Engineer - News:
The US geothermal power industry continued to grow in 2009, according to a new report by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). The April 2010 US Geothermal Power Production and Development Update showed 26 per cent growth in new projects under develo
From Discovery News - Top Stories:
President Barack Obama said Thursday he is aiming to send astronauts into Mars orbit in the mid-2030s as he sought to quell protests over his earlier space policies. "By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to be
Looks like Elonex saw IWOOT's April Fool's gag and decided that actually, what the world is crying out for is an iPhone to iPad converter. More »
Google hinted at their aspirations towards putting everything—including printing—in the cloud when they first announced Chrome OS last year. Today, they're taking the first steps with Google Cloud Print: a vision of a web, mobile, and desktop printing ecosystem without drivers. Presumably, you'll be able to print from any device to any printer in the world. More »
Tonight at Coney! The final lecture in the Congress for Curious People series; tomorrow the symposium--as detailed in this recent post--begins! Hope to see you there!
Charles Wilson Peale and the Birth of the American Museum
An Illustrated Presentation by Samuel Strong Dunlap, PhD, Descendant of Charles Wilson Peale
Date: Friday, April 16th
Time: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: The Coney Island Museum
Long time historian and editor of the Peale Family Papers Dr. Lillian B. Miller (now deceased) described Charles Willson Peale as a true renaissance man. Peale is perhaps best remembered today as the founder of America’s first cabinet-of-curiosity like museum–the Philadelphia Museum (later the Peale Museum)–which housed a diverse collection of botanical, biological, and archaeological specimens and can be viewed in the image above. Famously, Peale’s museum also pioneered the habitat group–or natural history diorama–an art form memorably perfected by such museums as the American Museum of Natural History and Chicago’s Field Museum in the early 20th Century.In this illustrated lecture, we will learn about Peale the museologist, and examine how his museological work continuously overlap with his inventive, artistic, scientific, literary and exploratory interests. Peale was a friend or acquaintance with most of the military, scientific, diplomatic and foreign individuals who played significant roles in our revolutionary war and the early growth of our democracy.
To find out more about this event and the larger Congress of Curious Peoples--including nightly performances and the epic opening night party--click here. For more about the Congress for Curious People, click here. Click on image or click here to download a hi-res copy of the above broadside. For information about the Coney Island Museum--including address and directions--click here.
Image: The Artist in His Museum (self-portrait, 1822)
In a move that could sheld light on the future of MacBooks and other related devices, Apple has patented a new pico-projector that could be integrated into a wide array of Apple devices ranging from the iPhone and iPad to your Macbook. While the company's intended plans are unclear, Apple's designer
Please can you help with the formula for calculating the length of the overlay of the materials for welding broken earths in substation. I have information on the type of material (e.g copper) with resistivity of 1.72 X Exp.-8, melting point 1084ºC and required c.s.a. mm² / kA of 12.5
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Right now, Xbox Live releases content like new downloadable games on Tuesdays while PSN doesn't offer (what's often the same) content until the following Thursday. But this May, Sony will shift weekly updates to Tuesdays to match Microsoft. More »
A customer of my lend me a 1 1/4 L.P plug gauge without any stand off and notch and they even don't know the stand off can anyone pls help me on the stand off
ResearchBlogCast is now on iTunes. You can search for it under “ResearchBlogCast” in the iTunes store and subscribe, or, just subscribe via this web page. We’re talking about the DASH diet next. Feel free to suggest ideas if you have anything clever, or want to hear our opinions on a specific topic. Just not something weird like Calvinist soteriology where there’s no chance that any of us are going to be able to follow the lingo.
The 15-inch MacBook Pro, with all-new Core i5 chip, got ripped to shreds by iFixit, who found...not much difference between the previous model, really. More »
WE have one 160 Kva cummins DG set running on Diesel . the average load on this DG is only 60 KVa, I have tried to calculate the per litre unit generation and which came out 1.9 unit per lts. I hear that on an average DG generate 3.5 units per lts. Pl. guide me
please, can u give me a circuit for load test on single phase transformer
Responding to a Swiss fan who emailed accusing Jobs of "deliberately pulling the wool over the rest of the worlds eyes" about the international iPad delay, Jobs used some fruity language in reply. More »
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im looking for ac generator voltage regulator 8 amps, i google it and found some types saying that its 15amps, but when i checked the manual, it says that it can handle only 6amps continuous current and 12amps for only 10 seconds.
my question is, what they mean when they say 15
