Well here's an amusing company. ^^ They want to start taking elements of shuttle design and other commonly used aspects of launch vehicles, and start mass producing commercial grade vehicles. Plus they want to start building bigger and better space stations.

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The Space Island Group, seems to want to make use of a rather novel idea. Namely recycling ( Read more... )

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Continued from my previous entry, I got additional information back from the company making the Power Dish solar generators.


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Tomby likes. :3

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Just one of those generates 3kw of energy. That's more than enough to power your home and then some, likely putting far more back into the grid than you're using. Just think of what that could do to the world of power generation, if everyone had one of these things out on their lawn. Even without a battery system for times when the ( Read more... )

Damn, this is a mighty impressive solar energy project right here ( Read more... )

Oh my, am I ever hoping this project gets off the ground. :3 As many of you may know, I'm a sucker for Archology projects. I think they're a great way of efficiently using land, and easing urban sprawl. Personally I think a handful of mega cities within large buildings would be far better than spreading roads and suburbs over every usable chunk of ( Read more... )

Well today marks another anniversary for Viking 2, which landed on Mars and started doing its thing way back in '76.


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Well, I'm jobless again. I've been officially dismissed from my prior place of employment. I've since applied for EI, several other jobs I've been able to track down in one afternoon, and I've attempted to get in touch with the union. We need to have some words, seeing as this could be seen as wrongful dismissal ( Read more... )

I think shipping container homes are awesome. :3 Moar need to be built! The containers are such a useful building material, and apparently relatively easy to work with. The units are already conforming to standards as well, so there could be quite a lot of conformity and potential for modular parts. Here's a home that got put up a few years back in ( Read more... )

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See? Further proof that we're not the only deviants with a love of big squeaky puffed up things. :3 That pony sure knows how to have a ball! :D