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Friday, December 9th, 2005
The Philippines, New Zealand, Japan are among a few countries which already use commercial volumes of geothermal energy. The existing system uses steam from underground reservoirs and springs.
In Australia, there is a group planning to generate steam from hot rocks found 4.5km underground.
Idea is: pump water down unto the hot ...
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Saturday, October 8th, 2005
I heard from a colleague from one of the telcos that they had plans of deploying GSM payphones. The idea is, it’s easy to install GSM stand-alone payphones in far-flung areas.
The idea gets juicier: users bring their own SIM. Interesting, huh? Bring your own SIM, make calls charged to ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
My second Vendo story is from our trip to Singapore. Singapore can’t help but be connected. And it shows with the numerous vendo internet kiosks all around the place.
There were a couple of these vendo Internet kiosks at our hotel lobby (Hotel Grand Central at Orchard Road). They are ...
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