April 08, 2008

The Future of Wind Energy

Went to the DaVinci Institute's Night with a Futurist last night. The guest speaker was Walt Musial Walt Musial is a principal engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He spoke about the history, mechanics, current advancements and future of the wind energy.

Very informative I left feeling I had a much better grasp of the subject. For more info see http://www.nrel.gov/wind/

Couple of interesting things mentioned that stuck out for me.
Paraphrasing

"Power in the wind is proportional to the area swept by the wind turbine.

Power in the wind is proportional to the wind velocity cubed.

A wind turbine cannot extract more than 59% of the wind energy."

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March 28, 2008

Integrated Alliance

In Ft. Collins at the Integrated Alliances

Full Day Bootcamp- Internet Marketing and Social Networking-includes morning Internet Marketing seminar, on-site Networking lunch-Taco Bar and an afternoon IA LinkedIn Basics Workshop.

Laurie Macomber of Blue Skies Marketing speaking on online marketing.

Mike O'Neil, CEO of Integrated Alliances speaking on using Linkedin.com

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March 05, 2008

The Boulder Denver New Technology Meetup Group

Last night was the The Boulder Denver New Technology Meetup Group in Boulder at the CU Campus. There must have been at least 150 people there and I heard that over 200 rsvp'd to show up.

There were several companies that presented.

Techbootstrap.com was mentioned.

CocoaHeads announced their group was forming.

First to present was Liquid Scenarios which is designed for tech startups working with venture capitalist funding. It is a system to track and project the financials. Their tag line "Do one week of analysis in 10 minutes."

Next came ToolPax an online software system to make fabrication easier to spec and price out.

Socialeyes came next which introduced the concept of sCRM or social customer relationship management.

Seekler is a system of reviews and referrals that aggregates opinions.

SocialThing was one of my favorites it takes all your social networks like facebook.com, flickr.com and twitter.com and aggregates it into a simple to follow feed.

Lastly Communikey was promoting their Festival of Electronic Arts coming on April 18-20, 2008 in Boulder, CO. I am looking forward to this one. Saw something similar at Georgia Tech once.

In the hallways after there was a lot of talk talk of SXSW, or south by south west, seems everyone was planning to attend. Venture Hacks was selling t-shirts. And everyone was mingling and networking. Saw Arron from Villij

Eventually we made it to the Foodzie and TeacherHubs I look forward to seeing their work come to market and wish them luck. They are in the running to be part of the next TechStars.

Over all an informative and enjoyable night.

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