Basleria
Clippings for my own little world.
Posts tagged "energy"
June 27, 2011
May 29, 2010
December 6, 2009
Watts are not units of Energy!
Maybe we’ll start saving energy when our news reports can get the terms right.
November 30, 2009
October 10, 2009
“ Alternative energy is going to be an enormous market, one that will give birth to the next Google and Microsoft. Will those future tech giants be based in the United States? Only if we support our scientists instead of throwing up obstacles.
April 18, 2009
March 24, 2009
“ To get 10 terawatts, less than half of what we’ll need in 2050, … we’d have to build 10,000 reactors, or one every other day starting now
January 12, 2009
“ a Google search uses just about the same amount of energy that your body burns in ten seconds
January 9, 2009
“ Entropy. A measure of randomness, a
parameter of disorder… energy
broken down in irretrievable heat.
What might appear to be chaos… even
decay… is really a system’s way of
smoothing out differences — its
search for equilibrium. Uncorrelated
parts interact… find
their connections in an evolving
system…… so, from one perspective,
entropy is a clock… charting the
irreversible.
parameter of disorder… energy
broken down in irretrievable heat.
What might appear to be chaos… even
decay… is really a system’s way of
smoothing out differences — its
search for equilibrium. Uncorrelated
parts interact… find
their connections in an evolving
system…… so, from one perspective,
entropy is a clock… charting the
irreversible.
