Mar
16

Cutaway of a Boiling Water Reactor

This image of a cutaway of a Boiling Water Reactor, as manufactured by General Electric is similar to the ones used by Fukushima Daiichi. This image was taken from http://energyfromthorium.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/bwr-mark1-cutaway2.jpg and is used with respectful courtesy since we found no copyright notices on the Energy from Thorium blog. We hope that Kirk Sorensen is ok… Continue reading »

Jan
24

A Game of Phones

In order to understand real world bandwidth allocation, I conducted an experiment to gather actual data rates from both Verizon and AT&T. In this experiment, I used two modern smart phones (Internet enabled, dual radio): a Motorola Droid running the Android 2.1 operating system on the Verizon network, and an Apple iPhone running the iPhone 3G operating system on the AT&T network.