Cornell’s entry to the Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon takes a slightly unusual approach to home-building. The premise of the competition is to design, engineer, market, and build a home that is 100% solar-powered.
The competition sumamry, from the DOE’s website:
For three weeks in October 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy will host the Solar Decathlon—a competition [...]
Discover Magazine recently published an article about the current state and potential future state of the GPS system (the article can be found here). From the article:
The U.S. government has announced increasing concern over the quality of its Global Positioning System (GPS), which could begin to deteriorate as early as next year, resulting in regular [...]
Most of the rest of the world uses Celsius to tell temperature, uses the 24-hour system to tell time. It’s understandable that converting to such a “foreign” scale or system can be daunting. Plus, why relearn something for which you might already have an intuitive sense, like with the Fahrenheit scale, for us here in America?
Outside [...]
Greetings! The semester is over now, and we are back. Many thanks to all you loyal readers and casual readers out there, and your patience during our recent “down time.”
We now return to the feature presentation…
It turns out that aircraft wings are specially designed to provide an upward lift force when the aircraft is moving [...]