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ABC 20/20: Can a Garden Hose Stop Global Warming?
October 27, 2009
Part 3 of the 20/20 special “20 Questions: You Never Thought to Ask.”
Author: ABC
Source: ABC
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ABC 20/20: Why Eating Kangaroo Can Save Polar Bears
October 27, 2009
Part 4 of the 20/20 special “20 Questions: You Never Thought to Ask.”
Author: ABC
Source: ABC
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Intellectual Ventures Profiled in SuperFreakonomics
October 15, 2009
Intellectual Ventures is profiled in the book SuperFreakonomics. A great quote from Stephen Dubner in this Guardian interview with him and Steven Levitt. We’re big fans of Freakonomics and delighted to have some of our climate science inventions featured in their upcoming sequel, SuperFreakonomics.
Author: Intellectual Ventures
Source: Intellectual Ventures
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John Gilleland: On the traveling-wave reactor
September 1, 2009
TerraPower LLC has been launched by the company Intellectual Ventures to design a traveling-wave nuclear reactor...
Source: Nuclear News
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IV Shifts Gears
July 1, 2009
With a mountain of money in the bank and a wide-ranging investment strategy, Intellectual Ventures continues to drive the IP market forwards.
Author: Nigel Page
Source: Intellectual Asset Management
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More than “renewable” energy needed: Microsoft
June 24, 2009
The head of Microsoft Corp's $9 billion research unit thinks the debate over stopping climate change is being muddied by talk of renewable energy.
Author: Peter Henderson
Source: Reuters
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Coin Deflation
June 23, 2009
Via Built on Facts comes this slice of awesome from the Intellectual Ventures Lab site. They strap a scary big capacitor onto a U.S. quarter and zap it with 15,000 Joules, a truly terrifying amount of energy to pack into a few square centimeters. And what happens when they do?
Author: Phil Plait
Source: Discovermagazine.com
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Safer Nuclear: Six Generation III + reactors set for the U.S
June 11, 2009
The Big Picture: It's nearly impossible to imagine making meaningful carbon dioxide reductions without designing safer, cleaner reactors and rolling them out immediately — because no one wants to build more of the reactors we have today.
Author: Sean Captain
Source: PopSci.com
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Monitor — Zap!
June 6, 2009
Researchers are devising laser-defence systems to shoot down mosquitoes and prevent the spread of malaria...
Author: The Economist
Source: The Economist
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Sen. Maria Cantwell and Nathan Myhrvold Talk Statewide Innovation
May 27, 2009
It’s not every day you get to watch a U.S. senator swallow a swirling ball of liquid nitrogen-cooled foam...
Author: Gregory T. Huang
Source: Xconomy.com
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