稍歇 凝思

回眸瞰 單人床

空吊頂 一口窗

唯吾憩 落他鄉

山河志 猶未央

凯尔

New renewable resource: wastewater?

Organic wastewater into microbial fuel cells to generate electricity, and to produce clean water.
Sewage: the next potential for renewable resource of abundance?

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/08/could-sewage-be-our-fuel-of-the-future/

Portrait, in charcoal

Nastassja Kinski

Charcoal 1982 : 凯尔

樱花 梧桐

新村 东 一楼

樱花 京 英秀

凤凰 上 云游

梧桐 海 势悠

凯尔

Uncommon knowledge..

"As Benjamin Graham said:
In the short run, the market is a voting machine

but in the long run it is a weighing machine."

Warren E Buffett

5 Realities, for an entrepreneur

Being entrepreneurial:

An inventor

..invents new business.

Create opportunities

..does not buy, but create them.

Mutually affective contagion

..is affected by followers' uptake and passion.

Success is measured by growth

..thriving business, is the barometer of success.

Anyone can be entrepreneurial

..entrepreneur is made, not born, by an innate desire.

http://www.inc.com/michael-gerber/5-realities-of-being-an-entrepreneur.html

热气球

One cold dawn it shall be..

that I'll dare to leave

fear and unfettered grief

my possessions oh so brief

untether the balloon, please..

..to let space arise under me

go where ye shall, cold breeze

dew on my cheeks, bones rickety

hey moon, that new sun silently east

up, up and away with me.. we are free!

 凯尔

慎戰

上兵伐謀 其次伐交 其次伐兵 其下攻城

不戰而屈人之兵 乃善之又善

孫武 《孫子兵法》

Paint your own batteries?

Layers of carbon nanotubes and ultra fine graphite powder work as painted batteries.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/spray-on-batteries-120628.html

Is that so?

The Zen master Hakuin was known by his neighbours as one living a simple life.

A beautiful girl whose parents owned a food store lived near Hakuin. Suddenly, her parents discovered that she was pregnant. This made her parents angry.

She would not reveal who the man was, but after much inquiry she at last named Hakuin. In great anger the parents went to the master.

“Is that so?” was all Hakuin would say.

After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbours and everything else the little child needed.

A year later the young mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth: the real father of the child was a young man in the fish market.

The parents of the young mother at once went to Hakuin to ask for his forgiveness and, in apologizing at length, to get the child back. Hakuin was willing.

“Is that so?” was all he said, in yielding the child.

Story 3 - "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" 1994, 26th reprint, page 22

Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize

Aung San Suu Kyi's acceptance speech

Nobel Peace Prize, Norway 16 June 2012

 

Bacteria to mine minerals, from seawater

Using bacteria to biologically "mine" minerals from the sea,

out of brine waste from reverse osmosis desalination process..

Singapore may now tap into the vast natural resource: an endowment of the sea,

abundantly upon the island's shores, and achieve water security in the island state.

Dilemma, in logical form

“If a certain condition or policy leads to a given outcome and

if the pursuit of the opposite measure or policy leads to the same outcome,

then that is the outcome that will result.

No matter what you do, you get that outcome.

So, in choosing what to do, you have only a choice of means, not of ends.”

“That, ..is what you call a dilemma.”

“And if the outcome to which you are being delivered,

like it or not, is an unwelcome, unpleasant and unbearable one,

then what you are facing is a disaster.”

Clive S Kessler
Emeritus Professor of Sociology & Anthropology
University of New South Wales, Sydney

So, logically.. pursue the measure that will change the condition.

Inner space, where spirit lives

Quek Shio Chuan
A short film, made in Malaysia

Morphology? Technology + Landscape

Windstalks

Carbon fibre whiskers, with alternate layers of piezoelectric ceramic

discs and electrodes, that generate current as they sway in the wind.

Thrive on chaos and turbulence. No blades, no friction loss, completely silent.. and glows!

http://news.discovery.com/tech/wind-power-without-the-blades.html

三毛 另感

 
成長 是一種演變
失舊了 春花催秋月

歲月 是一樣完美
流逝的 夏日問冬雪

凯尔

Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!

The goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
Gates' equation for innovation: CO2 = P x S x E x C

From Mariana to Unobtainium: Google + Avatar

Larry Page and Eric Schmidt have joined with James Cameron to form
Planetary Resources, Inc. an "out of this world" venture for
space exploration and (possibly) asteroid mining.

http://mashable.com/2012/04/20/google-execs-james-cameron-space-venture/

The new Planetary Resources, Inc. is co-founded by former
NASA Mars Mission Eric Anderson and Peter Diamandis, ex-Microsoft
Charles Simonyi, Google director K. Ram Shriram and billionaire heir Ross Perot Jr.

"All men dream: but not equally.." these are
"...dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes"

Lawrence of Arabia