Month: July 2015

  • Industrial-scale power storage and waste heat

    There will, eventually, be a giant wind farm above my house. I say eventually because though Switzerland is not immune from NIMBYism, our court system deals efficiently enough with oppositions so that if something is allowed by law (zoning laws, eco-protection laws, etc) then it does go through. The opposition (and there’s always opposition) does…

  • Hacking cars and fixing them

    A few years ago, I read an academic paper on how to hack cars. Today news came out that what was previously demonstrated via direct access is also possible over the air. I thought it would be fun to look at the firmware update file that fixes this, to see what format it is in,…