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Geoengineering and Terraforming Artificial Earthquakes Through Fracking to Save Lives?
Geoengineering Artificial Earthquakes to Save Lives? This blog has focused primarily on practical solutions to the problems of PM2.5 air quality pollution. Things like inexpensive dust particulate sensors for your home, ultra-cheap DIY air purifiers made from duct tape. We’ve run a fashion section with inexpensive masks that are handy to keep stockpiled not only for air pollution and wildfires but also in case of Ebola and Bird Flu panics (both happening at this writing). We just wrote a blog article on big data analysis of earthquakes, and recommended only the cheapest and most-practical immediate crowdsourcing solutions. Can Artificial Earthquakes Save Lives? Click To Tweet But frequent readers will not that we have not been afraid to speculate or address controversial topics. We know of no other corporate blogs that discuss geoengineering, astroengineering, or terraforming. (If you know of one, get in touch.) If we don’t do it, who will? Cosmos and Sagan on Astroengineering A re-make of the Cosmos TV series is currently being aired.… Read the restBig Data Analytics: Articles, Movies, Songs Robo-written by Computer?
First in a series of articles on big data analytics This is the first in a series of planned blog articles on applications of big data analytics. We are Internet of Things analytics company, focusing initially on indoor air quality analytics with our AQcalc app. Home environment and health/fitness applications are the first killer applications for the Internet of Things. This is driven by the dramatic price drop in technology that permits everyday appliances, devices, sensors — even traditionally ‘dumb’ and static objects like washing machines, windows, kitchen cupboards, and refrigerator shelves — to be connected to the Internet (see our Cisco CES talk article). Consumers are seeing the first killer applications for these devices in the form of fitness trackers. (The much rumored Apple iWatch may well turn out to be a cross between an iPhone and something like a FitBit or a Misfit Shine.) You have Internet-connected devices such as the Nest learning thermostat or their smoke alarm.… Read the restCheap air filters for the broke?
Cheap air filters when you can’t afford to make a fashion statement? Air pollution is serious enough to create elevated cancer, trigger allergies and asthma is of concern in nearly every major city in the world. However, according to NASA, the worst PM2.5 pollution is in Chinese and Indian cities, places where it may be difficult for the average citizen to afford a traditional, consumer-grade air purifier. As most people don’t want to wear a mask all day long and look like a medieval plague doctor, the hunt is on for other cheap technologies, such as dirt cheap air filters and purifiers. [UPDATE: Thomas Talhelm of Smart Air Filters emailed us some comments/corrections on the article. We’ve included these in the comments below.] One Chinese/American startup, based in Beijing and the US [Update: they are mainly in Beijing], may have a solution. Smart Air Filters has come up with inexpensive kits consisting of little more than a fan, some duct tape [Update: it’s a velcro strap], and a HEPA filter.… Read the restTraditional dirt sensor vacuums resist the robotic onslaught
Rise of the machine … dirt sensor vacuums In an earlier post on the latest CES-announced robotic vacuums with airborne dust sensors and for people with allergies, we promised to do a post on traditional (manual) vacuums that incorporated dust sensors just like their robotic dirt sensor vacuum peers. We explained why this was necessary. If your carpet is relatively clean and is just getting a weekly maintenance vacuum, most people (and most cleaning services) will just do a single pass. As the robotic vacuums clearly show, that’s not enough. You still want to do multiple passes, and extra passes where there is extra dirt. Robotic dirt sensor vacuums can detect this extra dirt from footfalls and places near windows and doors where air currents deposit airborne pollution. Humans can’t see this (although they’ll notice the robotic vacuum has managed to get the carpet just a tiny shade lighter even if it’s vacuumed every week).… Read the restRecent Comments
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