More random links
- Wind Lens Triples Turbine Output
- Seems like a low-cost change to turbines might be enough to do this. "Combining an inlet shroud, a diffuser, and a brim into a wind lens, power output has been improved by a factor of 2 to 5 times in several experiments." Very interesting if it works. Lots more details, including a 4-minute news clips, at the article.
- Tapped out: Water in California’s farm country is dangerously polluted
- "There is ample evidence that nitrates from synthetic fertilizer pollute the water in California’s farm communities. ... But a new report released by the University of California-Davis proves the problem is much worse than anyone may have suspected."
- Free Apps Drain Smartphone Batteries
- "Almost 75 percent of the energy consumed by free versions of apps is exhausted serving up ads, tracking user information and conducting other hidden tasks, unrelated to the application’s core functions"
- Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity
- "... most American workers don’t realize that for most of the 20th century, the broad consensus among American business leaders was that working people more than 40 hours a week was stupid, wasteful, dangerous, and expensive — and the most telling sign of dangerously incompetent management to boot." Also in the article "... research shows that knowledge workers actually have fewer good hours in a day than manual laborers do — on average, about six hours, as opposed to eight."