Comments on: NASA Space Tech to Make Green Buildings More Efficient

By: Rowan Thorpe

Rowan Thorpe — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:11:43 +0000

Very interesting, and I hope it is successful. Every one of these ecologically conscious “drops in the ocean” are what end up creating the… “ocean”. My only reservation is – with all that gathering and centralising of information, who will be “watching the watchers” and preventing this kind of information being exploited for Big Brotherly control (particularly by paranoid employers with an inadequate conscience). I’m sure it is feasible and affordable to implement a reasonable level of safeguards and transparency, but as usual the question is whether the manufacturers/distributors/implementors will feel pressured enough to actually do so… Let’s see…

By: Rowan Thorpe

Rowan Thorpe — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:11:00 +0000

By: Kali

Kali — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:45:34 +0000

Another dream about the future.

There is no space program without oil. The rockets might be fueled differently but the infrastructure needed to make this happen is never going to run on windmills and solarpanels.

If we are to see a human-beeing on mars we need to prepare using our resources on a one-way suicide mission right now.

Oil put man on the moon, made us computers and gave us industry. Human innovation was a passenger.