7:10 AM
Cool photo of 10 billion tons of gas ejected after a sunspot erupted. The sunspot is roughly twice the size of the Earth:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/picture-of-10-billion-tons-of-gas.html
Radioactive iodine levels have increased 1,250x in the seawater offshore from the Fukushima plant, which will increased international concerns about Japanese seafood exports:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fgw-japan-nuclear-plant-20110327,0,7470073.story
The first traces of radioactive iodine from the Japan has been detected in San Diego County, with 7 other California locations detecting radioactive iodine and tellurium-123 detected at 2 of the sites in California. Earlier this week the EPA reported that their monitors had detected tiny amounts of iodine-131 as well as cesium-137 and tellurium-132 in Anaheim, Riverside, San Francisco and Seattle. It is unfortunate that some monitors (like the one in Kearney Mesa) have been down for maintenance since November!
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/mar/25/first-sign-japanese-radioactivity-reaches-san-dieg/
The high tech employment market is *very* healthy in California, leading to nearly 100,000 new jobs in California being created in February. Google will be hiring more people this year than any previous year, Facebook is going from 1,400 people in Palo Alto to 3,600 in Menlo Park, and Zynga expects to go from 1,500 people to 3,000 people. No wonder Google gave every worker a 10% raise...the job market will result in high tech salaries increasing notably this year in California:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/03/high-tech-industry-on-hiring-binge-in-california-google-facebook-and-zynga-lead-the-pack.html
Team of researchers have developed an entropy battery that gets energy from the difference between fresh water and seawater! They have a simple process to capture the energy that is naturally released when river water flows into the sea. Pretty cool to have a renewable source of battery power:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-entropy-battery-energy-difference-salinity.html
French company developed a technology to charge a mobile phone with a thin and transparent layer of photovoltaic film that can be built into the phone. The film is pretty thin already, less than 100 microns, so this could lead to a way to have built-in solar powered smartphones:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-solar-powered-cell-bye.html
The Del Mar school lunch program got a really bad grade from parents and students:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/mar/26/del-mar-school-lunches-get-bad-grades/
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/picture-of-10-billion-tons-of-gas.html
Radioactive iodine levels have increased 1,250x in the seawater offshore from the Fukushima plant, which will increased international concerns about Japanese seafood exports:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fgw-japan-nuclear-plant-20110327,0,7470073.story
The first traces of radioactive iodine from the Japan has been detected in San Diego County, with 7 other California locations detecting radioactive iodine and tellurium-123 detected at 2 of the sites in California. Earlier this week the EPA reported that their monitors had detected tiny amounts of iodine-131 as well as cesium-137 and tellurium-132 in Anaheim, Riverside, San Francisco and Seattle. It is unfortunate that some monitors (like the one in Kearney Mesa) have been down for maintenance since November!
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/mar/25/first-sign-japanese-radioactivity-reaches-san-dieg/
The high tech employment market is *very* healthy in California, leading to nearly 100,000 new jobs in California being created in February. Google will be hiring more people this year than any previous year, Facebook is going from 1,400 people in Palo Alto to 3,600 in Menlo Park, and Zynga expects to go from 1,500 people to 3,000 people. No wonder Google gave every worker a 10% raise...the job market will result in high tech salaries increasing notably this year in California:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/03/high-tech-industry-on-hiring-binge-in-california-google-facebook-and-zynga-lead-the-pack.html
Team of researchers have developed an entropy battery that gets energy from the difference between fresh water and seawater! They have a simple process to capture the energy that is naturally released when river water flows into the sea. Pretty cool to have a renewable source of battery power:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-entropy-battery-energy-difference-salinity.html
French company developed a technology to charge a mobile phone with a thin and transparent layer of photovoltaic film that can be built into the phone. The film is pretty thin already, less than 100 microns, so this could lead to a way to have built-in solar powered smartphones:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-solar-powered-cell-bye.html
The Del Mar school lunch program got a really bad grade from parents and students:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/mar/26/del-mar-school-lunches-get-bad-grades/