Daily Archives: July 18, 2008

Sunrise VR Scene with the BBC at Old Faithful

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While capturing this sunrise scene at Old Faithful recently, I learned that the BBC is shooting a 3 part series on Yellowstone. Their videographers, equipped with some very nice equipment, spent the past two mornings waiting for the “perfect” sunrise behind Old Faithful. This scene, on their third day, was best, according to their National Park Service Ranger minder. The program will evidently air in the UK this fall and here sometime in 2009.
Location: 44.460174 -110.829563
The kind ranger also mentioned that she is often asked “where they put the animals at night?”
Full screen vr scene.

Biofuels Deathwatch Map

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Craig Rubens:

Biofuel plants have been put on hold faster than your phone company’s tech support line. With corn and soy prices hitting record high prices and an ethanol glut flooding the market, ethanol’s profit margin per gallon has dropped to a meager 25 cents from $2. That’s causing numerous ethanol and biodiesel plants to get put on hold or downright canceled. Hundreds of millions of gallons of production capacity and hundreds of millions of dollars in biofuel investments are now hanging in limbo, as investors hope prices will level out.
That’s not to say that ethanol is dead in the water. There’s a variety of positive reports coming out on the future of the industry — there’s reports that see a meaningful future for ethanol , as well reports saying ethanol could be deliver a better-than-expected energy return. Add in a healthy merger and acquisition market and biofuels will play a role in the future of weaning the U.S. off oil.

21 Great Technologies That Failed

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Jeremy A. Kaplan and Sascha Segan:

The most innovative tech doesn’t always succeed. Here we present 10 great technologies each from Apple and Microsoft that were simply too far ahead of their time.
Mention technology that failed and people instantly think of Microsoft Bob, the IBM PCjr, and worse. But those weren’t necessarily great products—heck, Bob wasn’t a good idea at all. The ideas and innovations that succeed aren’t necessarily the best either; they just happened to be in the right place at the right time.