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CNET News Daily Podcast: Apple, labels sing new tunes on iTunes
Macworld--the last Macworld with Apple as a participant--got under way in San Francisco on Tuesday, with Apple unveiling plans to expand DRM-free tunes. CNET News' Greg Sandoval, who broke that story Monday, also talks about Apple's plans to roll... ...
[0:01:00] ... dollars. According to preliminary figures released by the clean tech group. Following solar energy firms in attracting BC dollars more companies. That specialized in biofuels. With 11%. Of green tech venture investments. While transportation companies such ...
CNET News Daily Podcast: Apple, labels sing new tunes on iTunes
Macworld--the last Macworld with Apple as a participant--got under way in San Francisco on Tuesday, with Apple unveiling plans to expand DRM-free tunes. CNET News' Greg Sandoval, who broke that story Monday, also talks about Apple's plans to roll... ...
[0:01:00] ... dollars. According to preliminary figures released by the clean tech group. Following solar energy firms in attracting VC dollars more companies. That specialized in biofuels. With 11%. Of green tech venture investments. While transportation companies such ...
1-6 The WCCO Morning Show with Dave Lee
Dave Lee talks with US Senator Amy Klobuchar.
[0:02:17] ... like roads and schools and and did everything else that -- begun energy jobs and I just based on my. Did it all around our state we still have -- slow Internet access expensive Internet ...
[0:04:00] ... dollars. Also from tax incentives that hope for things like wind and solar and biofuels. And other. Wait -- really stimulate the economy in addition to that money going into the infrastructure you look back ...
Sun in a Bottle (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 06 January 2009)
Fifty years ago, scientists predicted that fusion would provide the world with an endless supply of energy. That hasn’t turned out to be true. Charles Seife , author of Sun in a Bottle , talks about whether or not nuclear fusion will ever be a viable energy source.
[0:00:40] ... The creators of the hydrogen bomb tapped into the vast source of energy in our solar system. Fusion the same phenomenon and that makes the sunshine. In son in a bottle the strange history of fusion in the ...
[0:01:17] ... and Marie Carrie. How did there work begin ever pursued a fusion energy. ...
[0:01:23] ... uncovered mystery. For. Long time scientists realize that you couldn't really create energy out of nothing. That's every source of energy had to have an ultimate its recent and a final source. And radium. Was. A seemingly to a source of power without any reason. But it wasn't. Electric source apparel and magnetic source of power it was just producing energy without any any real reason to be. He put it in any chunk of -- and I switched just melt and you can keep. Freezing ice and keep melting. So that energy had to come from somewhere. It turned out they didn't notice of the time that the energy was from the breakdown of matter itself conversion of matter into an entry. ...
[0:02:47] ... apart if you get them closer to iron in -- he release energy. And you release it because some of the tiny little bit of matter in the atom. It's converted by the equation equals MC squared into an enormous amount to an entry. So efficient. The stuff of the first atom bombs the stuff that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was efficient. Big Adams breaking apart becoming more like iron and released energy. Later on Edward teller and a number of other scientists figured out you can get even more energy. But sticking together light elements like hydrogen to get them like iron. It's a much more powerful reaction but it's hard to ...
[0:04:57] ... strong enough to hold. So. One of the real little lures fusion energy is that you don't need. Fissile material to get us started and it really doesn't produce waste that we have to worry ...
[0:08:27] ... fusion of these since fusion is the way the sun produces energy. I concede fusion as something that we might want to employee. To create. Electricity for example. And it sounds like a much ...
[0:08:51] ... You basically have -- a sudden. You're that you went produces infinite energy. With very little ways and very little radiation is this what beliefs you two your sub title here wishful thinking that's right. Since the 1950s and the first atom bomb even before since the first touched upon even before that. Scientists thought -- wouldn't be great if we can get this son and a bottle but. After more than half century. We are more or less where we started. Initially -- were predicting fusion energy endless energy and in your at your fingertips. Who's twenty years away. Now the estimates are 35 to forty years of so after after ...
[0:11:32] ... hunk of metal -- holed up in their hand they were creating energy out of basically nothing. And if correct. It would have basically put all the gas companies out of business. That you have a power plant the size of coffee -- that mr. fusion out of back to the future. The problem lies that. A fusion reaction causes neutrons and they weren't detecting entrance if they were getting energy. The amounts they were claiming. The talk became have been so redirecting it would've killed everyone in the room so physicists in ...
[0:14:53] ... you speak to the scientists now they say that this is an energy project. That what they do is they shoot lasers at a tiny -- production and by using those lasers to heat and compress this -- version that makes -- miniature sun. And in theory if you got this across -- sufficient enough you could produce energy. The problem is and if laser is not efficient enough by a long stretch to produce energy. ...
[0:15:16] ... So we can actually produce. Energy in theory but it would cost us more money and more to produce it then we would say if that's is the cells like some many of our energy. Developing schemes. ...
[0:15:28] ... That's right that certain energy sucking device is of no use to anyone and all the fusion devices short of -- hydrogen bomb. All fusion devices now are energy sucking devices and they're trying to figure out how to produce more energy. Out openly use consume to start the reaction. That's very hard hard project so how realistic is the possibility of harnessing fusion energy for peaceful uses. Well. I have a wager but going a thousand dollars that we won't have it working power plant between ...
[0:16:18] ... largely. Wishful thinking they keep thinking that they're going to get this energy out and yet all these problems surfaced. That prevents. That suck energy -- Annan's. So after sixty years of its twenty years when it's twenty years where it's twenty years away. I think we ...
[0:17:10] ... be online in 38. And its proponents say it will produce more energy and by factor of ten minute sucks and however. If you look at the counting sheep it's really close to breakeven if it works perfectly and it's not going to put anything on the -- So -- may actually break the jinx of fusion devices that. Don't produce more energy -- the consume but. I think it's still quite a distance away from a practical fusion power. But you have to do ...
[0:19:39] ... economy. In theory if hydrogen is a really couldn't. Way of storing energy. If you burn it becomes water it's very -- so you either put it in a fuel cell or you -- directly in a car and its its pollution free. The problem is you need energy to produce the hydrogen you need to put electricity into water to crack. Or you have to put strip hydrogen off any methane. Molecule. So in itself. Hydrogen is not a source of energy and less effusive. Getting hydrogen costs energy and so. Like like fusion devices a hydrogen fuel cell. Needs to you need to put energy and get to work. ...
[0:20:59] ... the United States. So I do think it's gonna be hard although energy is going to be big -- the new administration's. Profile. And John -- who has just. Name to be the of these sites advisory is big on energy in the confusion. I think the short term they're going to concentrating on more practical. Research areas like clean efficient. ...
01/05/09 Marketplace
Obama plan calls for plenty of tax cuts; Property taxes on the rise; Slumping automakers spend less on ads; The problems with a fiscal stimulus; Sex slaves pay high price for trafficking; Congress questions SEC on Madoff scam; Eating green saves workplace green
[0:08:31] ... a lot of project ideas won't put unemployed people to work. Take solar energy which would be wonderful if it were cheaper. The whole point of solar energy is that the sun does most of the work. The new technology could be invented by scientists. And designed by engineers but ...
KNX Business Hour 01.05.2009
Stocks pull back on the second trading day of the new year on new concerns about the economy. After a triple digit run up Friday, the Dow closes down 82 points. Car companies report dismal December sales. President elect Obama says the economy is bad and
[0:05:23] ... be that we actually saw a pretty decent pop out of the energy stocks you already mentioned one of the reasons of course crude oil. Getting back up to just shy of 49 dollars. And despite bad move -- stocks like YREW. Big trucking and logistics company that was up another 11% today. So I think there's a combination of some of these so electronic. Companies but what people. Some of the -- stocks in the you know solar energy space in particular that are reacting along with the energy move. And obviously stocks like wire VW. So we're very cheap single digit stocks. Those have been the one of the people ...
NBR Program - Monday, January 5th | PBS
Top stories include: President-elect Obama talks to lawmakers about an economic stimulus, and a Congressional committee investigates the SEC's failure to spot the Madoff Ponzi scheme. Plus, an update on auto sales and the latest retirement report focuses on immediate fixed annuities.
[0:14:50] ... Jobs who -- six dollars 73 Microsoft the nineteenth and advanced. First Solar up six dollars thirty Research in Motion gained a dollar 38. Intel 29 cent laws while Cisco moved up fifteen cents and ...
[0:20:10] ... Russia's state run energy giant -- from cut more fuel to Ukraine today has the back and forth dispute over natural gas supplies continues. -- problem ...