Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mediaburn Energy Net "When we set out to build the Internet, we began with conserving bandwidth, with compression, packet switching, multiplex terminals and buffer terminals aimed at conserving bandwidth," he said. "Now, decades later, are we using less bandwidth now than before? Of course not, we are using million times more bandwidth. If the Internet is any guide, when we are done solving energy, we are not going to use less energy but much much more--a squanderable abundance, just like we have in computation." - Bob Metcalfe 'Enernet'--a smart-grid vision from an Internet tycoon. At the GreenNet conference in San Francisco, Ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe talks about Internet principles that should be applied to building a "smart" energy grid. [CNET News.com] 7:00:31 AM

Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions U.S. Navy scientists claim cold fusion breakthrough. Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group of scientists, for instance, describes what it terms the first clear visual evidence that LENR devices can produce neutrons, subatomic particles that scientists view as tell-tale signs that nuclear reactions are occurring. Low-energy nuclear reactions could potentially provide 21st Century society a limitless and environmentally-clean energy source for generating electricity, researchers say. The report, which injects new life into... [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] 6:40:26 AM