In Iceland and a few other countries, geothermal energy delivers a large part of the energy used for heating or cooling, through geothermal heat pumps. You may be surprised to hear that there are hundreds of thousands of buildings in [See the full post…]

There’s a lot of enthusiasm right now around ethanol as a potential solution to our oil addiction. Not everyone shares that enthusiasm, though. Margot Gerritsen speaks with UC Berkeley Professor Tad Patzek for a different perspective. Patzek is certain that [See the full post…]

Mark Jacobson is a world expert in wind energy and air pollution. He sees wind and solar power — not biomass — as the most optimal energy sources. He says that the increased use of ethanol will not improve the [See the full post…]

Mark Jacobson is a leading expert in wind energy and the atmosphere. He hears some of the claims being made on behalf of E85 — that it’s supposed to be cleaner, that it will reduce ozone-forming pollution and the release [See the full post…]

Wind energy is a very attractive energy source with very low emissions and low space requirements (especially when compared to biomass crops). My colleague, Mark Jacobson, has done extensive research into available wind resources in the U.S. and abroad. He’s [See the full post…]

When I visited Geneva, Switzerland to speak at the LIFT Conference, Laurent Haug, planner of the conference, invited Maryam and me on a tour of one of Switzerland’s most famous watch makers: Franck Muller. Here, you get a little taste [See the full post…]

Tony Martindale is head of Connaught, a British car company developing a new high-performance hybrid sports coupe called the Type-D H GT. The Type-D H features the world’s first V10 hybrid power train, which aims to combine high performance and [See the full post…]

For this podcast we return to the office of David Knight, vice president of WebEx Connect. In this conversation we go a little deeper into what makes WebEx Connect a powerful tool for organizations to partner with when looking into [See the full post…]

“d-frag” from Germany attended the DCMM, Deutschen Casemod Meisterschaft (German Case Mod Championship) show in Dortmund, Germany last year. He shares pictures of some of the incredible mods from Germany and other EU countries. Attendance at years show is expected [See the full post…]

A-Tech Fabrication’s Glenn Lirhus talked with PodTech about his company’s Intel Core 2 Challenge PC design. A-Tech’s design was inspired by a remote control, and is intended for the home-theater enthusiast. Like many of the Core 2 Challenge contestants, A-Tech [See the full post…]

Just the best stuff from Digipede‘s interviews and demos where they talk about how easy it is to build an application that uses a grid architecture with the Digipede Network. This is a great video for developers and CTO types.

Daniel Ciruli, director of products at Digipede, demonstrates how to build a grid architecture using the Digipede Network and Visual Studio. This video will be of interest mainly to developers and CTO types.

John Powers, president and CEO of Digipede Technologies, and Robert Anderson, Digipede’s CTO, talk with me about how they are enabling .NET developers to build grid computing architectures. This lets developers on Windows get incredible scale across many machines. This [See the full post…]

This is a profile of a young, up-and-coming artist who has a unique style that blends digital photography and traditional techniques. She started creating art as a kind of self therapy and now it’s turning into her career. You can [See the full post…]

Here’s a demo of Weblo.com, a virtual world where you can buy and trade cities, countries, properties, domains, and other things. It’s fun and potentially profitable.

Rocky Mirza, founder and CEO of Weblo.com, tells me about his new virtual world where people can buy and sell real estate, corporations and domains: all virtually. It’s fun and you can make some dough (or spend it to buy [See the full post…]

John Poisson, founder and CEO of Tiny Pictures, shows off its new social network: Radar.net. It lets you have photo conversations with your friends and family. Hours of entertainment with your cell phone’s camera.

You’ve heard of Flickr and Twitter, but here is Tiny Pictures’ Radar, which lets you entertain your friends and family with your cell phone’s camera. Here we talk with John Poisson, Radar’s founder and CEO.

Shi-Zheng Chen is a renowned singer, choreographer and director of operas all over the world. I spoke with him at the San Francisco Asian Fim Festival, where his directorial debut feature film, “Dark Matter” played closing night.

Less than one year ago, LaVerne Council joined Johnson & Johnson, charged with crafting a new IT strategy to drive the global enterprise. In part two of this two-part podcast, join host John Gallant and Council, who takes audience questions [See the full post…]

Less than one year ago, LaVerne Council joined Johnson & Johnson, charged with crafting a new IT strategy to drive the global enterprise. In part one of this two-part podcast, join host John Gallant and Council, who takes audience questions [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Bob Holleran, chief operating officer for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks about Hitachi GST‘s recent consolidations, new products, and the challenges ahead, as the hard drive market adapts to new mobile and home entertainment demands. This podcast [See the full post…]

While at SXSW 2007, comedian, author and vigilante pundit, Baratunde Thurston, captured a protest by Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir who ask, “What Would Jesus Buy?” in their upcoming movie.

Most IT departments allocate a significant portion of the total cost to labor yet do not apply any formal estimation methodology to determine the appropriate allocation, growth, and productivity of their labor. The use of an estimation model can have [See the full post…]

Kris Krug is one of our favorite photographers, he’s a photographer up in Vancouver, Canada. Here, he hosted a session on photography that I participated in and am sharing the video here.