A collection of links. Firstly, there is a story in the SMH about how the government is approving building and upgrading some power stations. One of the plans is to upgrade capacity using Gas Turbines. Interesting. Mostly because these are going to be similar to the Gas Turbines sold off as surplus about 10 years back. The major upgrade is to be done to Mt Piper Power Station. I was responsible for handing the drawings for Mt Piper over to Delta Electricity when I was working for Pacific Power.

But most interesting is the announcement that there would be three stations in the ‘Hunter Valley’ upgraded. Well, on page 4 of the SMH it showed the location of these on a graphic, on the central coast. Maybe the SMH should employ a fact checker.

Something else that is cute is This add-on for an alarm system. I have to build one when I get some time. Not sure when that will be though.

This is an MIT project designed to detect the wearer’s movements and adjust to it. The green with the red looks sort of cute.

And also a story here about how the Stanfard Linear Accelerator is being used to read a parchment of Archimedes.