FM Global World Headquarters is LEED Gold certification.

FM Global World Headquarters is LEED Gold certification.

 

Constructed by The fine people at Dimeo Construction and designed by the creative staff of Vision 3 Architect . 

Never Need to Focus Again! Game Changer ?

Shoot first focus second. New York Times story talks about Lytro's focus second camera. At the Lytro's web site you can try it yourself. Becouse it the focus is done later it will allow simple cameras to have no digital lag! This should be a game changer!

Testing Wind Blades Locally

The Boston Globe wrote a story about the state’s new Wind Technology Testing Center in Charlestown.
A project by Mass Clean Energy Center Another example of Making it in Mass. !

Bloom Box

60 Minutes did a piece on this and I found it really interesting.

(CBS)  In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that's inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public its invention: a little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally in your backyard.

You'll generate your own electricity with the box and it'll be wireless. The idea is to one day replace the big power plants and transmission line grid, the way the laptop moved in on the desktop and cell phones supplanted landlines.

It has a lot of smart people believing and buzzing, even though the company has been unusually secretive - until now.

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Here is a link to the video.

Bloom Box now powers Google and Ebay.

Speaking of Google, Google Invests $280 Million in SolarCity

Wind Turbine at Berkshire East

Traveling to a shoot at Mass. College of Liberal Arts in North Adams yesterday and saw this wind turbine.

Subsequently learned it was at Berkshire East Ski Area. Great to see!