Random data from Steve Blom

All the work I have been doing over the last 6 months to promote national ninja day (yesterday) went off without a hitch. Ninjas were parading through every major city. Very few sightings though. The children were dissapointed. Well played, my ninja friends!

Solar power could easily power the planet in 20 years

Ok check out this graph, which is in powers of 10, showing an exponential growth of solar. If this trend continues, we could run the planet totally on solar power within 20 years. A new study shows that the efficiency of solar is a lot higher than previously thought, so really its more of a problem with the bankers than the technology. Go figure

Kurzweil-graph

For people interested in more details:

http://singularityhub.com/2012/01/21/why-dont-we-have-abundant-solar-power-blame-financing-and-industry-not-science/

I scoured the internet, looked up all the news reports, and concluded that the ultimate solution to the worlds problems lies in yet another minor blues tune. So here it is. 15 minutes plus.

This features Matt Webb on Drums and Kevin Ryan on bass, and nope we didn’t plan out anything beforehand.

Check it out.

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