James Cameron on Avatar

pPersonally I think strongAvatar/strong was one of the most technology advanced movie I’ve ever seen. This is one of strongJames Cameron’s/strong best movies in terms of special effects, but James Cameron, according to a recent press release, that the story of the movie is more important than the technology. While I agree with James on some level technology used can help to make a movie. Special effects can make a bad movie better. Of course if there is not a plot then it does not work for me no matter how cool the technology is. /p pI’m not sure if this is the same with younger audiences. Most of the younger generation who have been raised on short clips from youtube, they don’t seem to care as much about the plot of a movie. These items take a back seat to cool special effects. Does this mean the James Cameron is out of touch with his audience or is this comments a reaction to Avatar not winning top honors with Animated films at the strongAcademy Awards/strong? /p pRegardless of the reasoning behind his comments, its fairly apparent that Avatar is going to change the way movies are done in the future. You can do things with special effects that you just can’t do by shooting an actor. As the computer technology gets better more and more of these types of effects make their way into movies. This is not likely to change anytime soon no matter what stronguJames Cameron/u/strong may think about the use of technology./p div style=”padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px” id=”scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:96fe766d-7505-4bcc-a987-3b523c7930b2″ class=”wlWriterEditableSmartContent”Technorati Tags: a href=”http://technorati.com/tags/avatar” rel=”tag”avatar/a,a href=”http://technorati.com/tags/james+cameron” rel=”tag”james cameron/a,a href=”http://technorati.com/tags/academy+awards” rel=”tag”academy awards/a,a href=”http://technorati.com/tags/youtube” rel=”tag”youtube/a,a href=”http://technorati.com/tags/movie+tecnhology” rel=”tag”movie tecnhology/a,a href=”http://technorati.com/tags/movie+animation” rel=”tag”movie animation/a/div

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Bloom Box – The Bloom Energy Fuel Cell

The Bloom Energy Fuel Cell has made the news again with a special aired on sixty minutes. The start up company has technology which could change the way we think about the best way to produce energy to power our homes. We reported on Bloom energy two years ago as a viable alternative which may solve our energy problems.

 

Bloom Energy’s vision is to use solid-oxide fuel cells which allow homes to generate the electricity used in the home. The fuel cells would use hydrocarbon fuel as a power source, and produce just half the carbon dioxide that today’s power plants do. One fuel cell should be enough to serve a home; homes could sell excess power back to the grid. Bloom Energy’s biggest hurdle is cost. The generators are currently very expensive and for it to be a viable solution for most home owners then it will need to reduce the cost of these machines to a few thousand dollars.

The system is still way too expansive for the average person to afford, but as more of these Bloom energy fuel cell devices are produced the cost of production will reduce. Hopefully so that they are cheap enough for anyone to afford and to allow people or cities to cheaply produce energy using the Bloom Energy Fuel Cell power plants. Many are wondering when Bloom energy will offer an IPO and see what the companies stock symbol will produce for investors. Bloom Energy promises to be a good investment for people who get in early. The bloom energy fuel cell has been tested by some big name companies such as eBay and Google and promises to be the standard for energy production.

Garbage Island – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

There is a story on ABS about garbage island coined the great pacific garbage patch. Garbage Island is a location in the pacific where all the trash dumped from ships and other waste seems to collate. This is an environmental nightmare and really needs to be cleaned up but how do you clean up a mass of floating garbage in the middle of the pacific. This garbage island is only going to cause more problems with the environment as it grows in size.

 

 

 

 

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