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30 July 2008

My Faves for Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Quoted: Solar hot water could help states with the increasingly difficult task of meeting renewable portfolio standards (RPS). Elisa Wood explores this new market opening for the oft-neglected technology.
Solar hot water heating is a bit like the brilliant actor who never wins a blockbuster movie deal. The technology receives great reviews, but has yet to hit the big time in the US energy market.

Using the sun to heat water has taken a backseat, in particular, to its sister technology, photovoltaics, which uses sunlight to generate electricity.

[tags: solar]

Quoted: Besieged by problems such as unavailable site access, and paltry and irrelevant search returns, Cuil, the new search engine launched Monday, has drawn the wrath of users.

"I tried it for an hour," wrote a commentator on the TG Daily Website. "Any multi-word search generated completely useless results, which seemed completely random. By contrast, Google comes up with quality, relevant results. Cuil works about as well as if I typed random URLs into the browser. Absolutely useless!"

[tags: google, search]

Quoted: An Ottawa neurologist is part of an international research team that has uncovered a link between the genetics of blood cells and the brain cells that cause Parkinson's disease, opening the door to research that could lead to new treatments.

[tags: pd]

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