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A “technology writer” at the NY Times attacks Tesla Motors, taking more from their editorial page than the tech pages should, at least IMNSHO. Jason Calacanis disagrees also and has written a rebuttal article. He makes a few strong points: Yes Randy, the first version of technology tends to be expensive. Personal computers used to [...]
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No! Not that weed, jatropha, a plant that is not a food crop and can be grown in marginal agricultural land. Air New Zealand is planning on flying a Boeing 747 with a mixture of equal parts biofuel made from jatropha and conventional fuel running in one of the engines. Unlike many other biofuels, UOP’s jatropha jet [...]
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Key budgeting decisions have to be made by the incoming administration about NASA no later than April 30, 2009. The ability to get into orbit is vitial for multiple reasons, including National Defense, technology, economics, weather predictions, and the standing of the United States in the international community.
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Darpa is looking for a device to produce a steady supply of universal donor red blood cells. They want to be able to produce ready-to-be-infused Red Blood Cell packets for use near the battlefield. DARPA has awarded a $1.95 million contract to Arteriocyte, a Cleveland company that’s experimenting with a technology developed at Johns Hopkins that enables the [...]
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First customers would be US military personnel. From the MIT Tech Review: The majority of deaths on the battlefield occur within half an hour after injury–often too quickly for a soldier to get to a medic, let alone a hospital. But a collaboration between researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Clarkson [...]
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Tesla Motors has announced that it will be using the $40 million of in convertible debt financing it just recieved to ”accelerate production” of its current roadster model. It has shipped 50 so far, but still has a back log of 1,200 orders. Tesla Motors still plans to build their headquarters and a plant in San Jose [...]
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