Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Remember the speculation about Google deploying an army of datacenter-in-a-box shipping containers? The suggestion, based on a patent filing and a rumored prototype hidden somewhere in Mountain View, was that Google would take advantage of shipping containers as self-sufficient datacenters and somehow disrupt the marketplace. Of course, this completely ignored the economics of scale and [...]
This article is interesting because it again highlights the superior fuel economy of diesel and U.S. regulatory hostility to diesel. It absolutely kills me that I can’t buy a diesel car easily in CA (that Mercedes is only available as a lease option, BTW). This article is also interesting because it highlights the complex financial [...]