Sun Turtle
A friend of mine in Norway told me about a company is working with called Bright Products. The Norwegian company is on a mission to light up the world through “smart, simple, and sustainable power solutions”. Their vision is “A world where people see new possibilities”, literally. More than a billion people in Africa, Asia, and South America live […]
The Emergence of Solar Trees
This is an elegant solution to a very real problem, the large amount of space required for solar panels. Daljit Singh Bedi, chief scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in New Delhi said that the solar tree utilizes about 43 square feet of space to produce energy which would require 100 times that space. The […]
WorldCat – The World’s Largest Library Database
This week 45 years ago, Ohio University entered library catalog information about 133 books into an IBM mainframe database. This was the beginning of an online database about books. During the four and a half decades, librarians around the world have contributed to the database, called WordlCat, and managed by OCLC, a nonprofit, library cooperative based in […]
The Irony of Ballots
The day Election Attitude launched on Kindle, I received an email from Flagler County, Florida saying “Vote-by-mail Ballot Returned Undeliverable“. The reason for the email is I am away for the summer and my mail is forwarded to me. Election officials do not allow forwarding of ballots, so the ballot was returned to them. This is […]
Election Attitude Now on Kindle
The process to get from a Word manuscript to a paperback book to a Kindle book is quite amazing. There are dozens of steps involved with the description, pricing, what countries to sell in, rights and royalty arrangements, and so on. The paperback version of Election Attitude was published on August 12. Eleven days later, […]