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According to the International Energy Agency, at least 20 percent of the planet's inhabitants are still without electricity. In Sub-Saharan Africa, and the slums of India instead they use candles, gas lamps, and open fires. Dr Evan Mills, the founder of the Lumina Project, which promotes low-carbon alternatives to fuel-based lighting. According to studies conducted by Mills and his colleagues at Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, kerosene lamps consume 77 billion liters of fuel worldwide. If a kerosene lamp burns for four hours a day it gives off 100 kg. of carbon dioxide a year. Kerosene lamps can also cause respiratory problems. Now Mills has created a lamp that is solar powered, called the LED lamp. It burns 100 times brighter then a kerosene lamp on very low wattage.

Organizing Information Assignment

I keep my computer organized at home by having folders for different things. Such as, downloads, pictures, documents, videos,etc. I use a nonhierarchical system on my computer.Tagging is something used to make it easier to use bookmarks. Social bookmarks are methods for internet users to organize, store, manage, and search for bookmarks for resources online. An example of tagging would be tagging someone in a photo on Facebook. An example of social bookmarking is adding a bookmark of YouTube to your computer so that when you go on the internet all you have to do is click a button to get to it.

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Shares in a solar power company, First Solar fell over 20 percent in early trading Wednesday after the firm lowered its sales forecast for 2011. The company is a leading maker of thin-film solar panels, and also a developer of solar power projects, predicted net sales in 2011 of $2.8 to $2.9 billion. That's down from earlier projections of $3.0 to $3.3 billion. Lower sales were due to delays in its projects caused by weather and other factors. The new robust project pipeline will help First Solar generate a significant amount of money in 2012.

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Yahoo has been having lottery scammers. In 2008 Yahoo arrested eight John Does for using its name and logo as a part of the scam. On Monday, a federal judge awarded Yahoo $610 million in damages from Thai and Nigerian scammers that the company was able to identify through Internet records.Yahoo's complaint reveals that between December 2006 and May 2009, more than 11.6 million fake lottery emails were sent through its email system. The judge ordered 50 dollars per scam, giving them another $583 million dollars.

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Bernard Piccard is inventing a aircraft that only runs on sunlight fuel. His grandfather Auguste Piccard shared the same interest as him. What Bernard wants to build is a solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world, and to harness an unlimited form of renewable energy using technologies that won't contribute to environmental concerns. Last July his solar power airplane was the first to go in a full daylight circle. Now there still working on ways to let more passengers on the plan without causing pollution. Right now it has a 200 foot wingspan, and is 4000 pounds.

Reflections On First Marking Period

In the first marking period of Web 2.0 I learned a lot more about blogging, and new technology in the world. For example, we had tech articles due each Friday. This taught me a lot about technology. Especially listening to other peoples tech articles. I learned more about cars, video games, blogs, phones, and even devices that'll help make the world better. Our project of the first marking period was to make a survey with a partner, and ask questions about social networks, and learned peoples dislikes and likes in social networks. Then my partner and I made a power-point presentation about a social network we would make and the features it would have. My social network was called iBook. The main purpose of our website was to let people meet other people with the same interests in books as them.

My Weekend

This weekend my school had four days off of school because of a teachers convention. During the weekend I went to the movies and watched the movie "In Time" with my friends. My sister came home from college on Friday, and stayed home for 2 1/2 days. I also went ice skating with my friends in Hackensack.