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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.

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The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

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A Canadian potato turning to in-house fuel source to provide power. (Photo: net_efekt)

Cavendish Farms, a Canadian potato product producer has finished construction of its anaerobic digestion facility in Prince Edward Island that will generate biogas from potato waste. The ‘potato-gas’ project is believed to be the first of its kind in the world.

[hw] Cavendish has used anaerobic sludge from the treatment of its wastewater as a soil conditioner for more than ten years, but in 2004 began evaluating the possibility of using converted biogas from the anaerobic digester to power the boilers for two on-site processing plants. Two years later, construction began on the addition.

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LG's prototype solar e-book. Photo: LG Display

LG Display has developed a prototype thin-film solar cell designed to bring another kind of charge to the burgeoning e-book market. The specially-designed thin film cell was developed in-house by LG Display for the standard 6″ electronic book interface and recently showcased in Sony’s e-book at an event in Seoul.

The cell is thinner than a credit card and weighs just 20 grams so it won’t significantly increase the weight of an electronic book reader. Engineers at LG Display say the cell is also flexible and relatively stable against changes in the external environment.

Head of the Solar Cell Office at LG Display noted, Mr. Ki Yong Kim, “The idea of e-book combined with solar cell will offer users the added benefit of longer usage. We will continue to provide users with enhanced convenience and value to solidify our lead in next-generation, environmentally friendly products.”

How much time does it take to charge the e-book? Engineers say sunlight for about four to five hours would extend the running time of the e-book’s battery by a full day without the need for additional charging. But most electronic books already exhibit a long battery life because the units only draw power while their page is being turned. And with expected increases in solar energy conversion, people who spend time reading outdoors may rarely, if ever, need to charge their e-books.

While the addition of a solar panel could mean regular readers never have to worry about charging the devices again, they shouldn’t expect that anytime soon, LG Display says the products will not be ready for full commercial roll-out until 2014 – but by that time, engineers plan to have increased the energy conversion efficiency rate to 14%, almost one and a half times the efficiency of the current prototype.

Image via LG Display

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Boston-based Blue H USA has submitted a permit to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to test a structure that would be used for floating offshore wind turbines.

Blue H USA is applying to test a demonstration unit on the outer continental shelf approximately 23 miles off the Island of Martha’s Vineyard and about 32 miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island.

If all goes well with the test platform, Blue H hopes to develop a 120-turbine, 420-megawatt wind farm in a 40 square mile area near the test site.

Currently, only two floating wind turbine projects exist in the world. StatoilHydro’s HyWind project in Norway and a two-turbine pilot project operated by SeaEnergy Renewables, is located off the east coast of Scotland.

The plan

The location of the proposed test site is just 30 miles southwest of the proposed location of the embattled Cape Wind offshore project in Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind would be located in what is probably one of the best places on the East Coast to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm: in the near-shore, protected and shallow waters of Handkerchief Shoals. But that very proximity to land is what also has made it a very difficult place to build a wind farm — NIMBY opposition to Cape Wind has made the permitting process messy, expensive and long.

But floating turbines can be placed in much deeper waters, where the winds are stronger and more consistent—and the turbines can be virtually invisible from shore, alleviating some of the NIMBY pressure likely to bubble up from near-shore projects.

The technology

Blue H’s Submerged Deepwater Platform technology has been adapted from technology used on offshore drilling platforms and is now being applied to offshore wind power.

Each of Blue H’s units consists of a buoyant steel body, which is held ‘semi-submerged’ under water by chains. The chains connect the buoyant body to a counterweight on the sea bottom, keeping the buoyant body constantly tensioned.

Unlike a conventional wind turbine that rests on a monopole or tripod driven into the sea floor, Blue H utilizes a submerged deepwater platform anchored to the sea floor with pilings driven into the seabed. Blue H’s technology can be deployed in water depths from 30 to 300 meters and the proposed test will be conducted at a water depth of 51 meters (167 ft).

The unit will be constructed in a shipyard and will be towed to the proposed deployment site. On arrival at the site, the structure will be sunk into place.

This particular platform will be submerged 66 feet below mean sea level and anchored with a counterweight. A tower with monitoring equipment will be mounted on the platform and will stand approximately 197 feet above the ocean’s surface.

The demonstration unit will remain in place for one year, gathering engineering and environmental data and transmitting it to a shore station via satellite using a combination of photovoltaic cells and battery packs.

The Martha’s Vineyard Times

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As an R8 fan, I was psyched to see that Audi has developed an all electric vehicle concept on the R8 frame.  The Audi e-Tron matches beauty with performance with 4 electric motors, driving each wheel and providing Audi’s signature Quattro all-wheel-drive.

Powered by a liquid cooled Li-ion battery pack that account for a little less than 1/3 the cars weight, the e-Tron has an estimated range of about 154 miles.

It’s 313 hp may not blow your hair back but the 3,319 lb-ft of torque will.  It should go 0-60 mph in about 4.1 seconds, a little more sluggish than the Tesla, but faster than the original R8.

For more details check out Audi’s press release below the gallery.

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