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CoCreatr
Yokohama, Japan
Try what's new, make technology work for you. My professional passion is making work easier, more interesting, and more rewarding.
Interests: technology, collaboration, 2.0, two-way, recumbent cycling, improve, audio systems, make ears smile.
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More than a year has passed, and we have not been missing the HEMS. The monthly bills and paybacks tell us enough.
Now looking for a battery with a price performance point like Tesla's Powerwall. We asked, they are not sold yet in Japan.
Smart Home - HEMS and haws
Or: the not-so smart part of the smart grid. Thankful for the Yokohama Green Power project, part of Yokohama Smart City Project, we enjoy use of a 2011 version Home Energy Measurement System (HEMS). The diagram shows the energy management components surrounding the home gateway, the energy meas...
Just realized we are currently not paying the monthly fee of (YGP pays for the first 4 years as they get the data) for the Toshiba feminity network, basically a server programmed to prepare the data sheets and diagrams. Solar inverters elsewhere simply upload to an internet server, often provided for free by the solar system maker.
If I remember right, it was around 1000¥ per month, what a rip-off, it is almost as much as the basic fee for the electricity connection.
Smart Home - HEMS and haws
Or: the not-so smart part of the smart grid. Thankful for the Yokohama Green Power project, part of Yokohama Smart City Project, we enjoy use of a 2011 version Home Energy Measurement System (HEMS). The diagram shows the energy management components surrounding the home gateway, the energy meas...
Smart Home - HEMS and haws
Posted Mar 23, 2014 at ... a beginner at something
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CoCreatr is now following heathervescent
Mar 22, 2014
Third year solar, 4400kWh, great harvest
Posted Mar 2, 2014 at ... a beginner at something
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Innovation Insights
Posted Mar 1, 2014 at ... a beginner at something
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Everyday Sustainability - How to Gain With Choices at Home
Posted Jan 12, 2014 at ... a beginner at something
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Yes. It may take years to appreciate what really transpired at beginnings.
Being younger and single, I took a leap of faith and joined a 30 people small daughter company of a German enterprise in Asia. I shifted my personal vision to include "a world free of accidents caused by technology". 20 years later we were 3000 people working in multiple siblings in Asia. On the way I had met my wife-to-be at Tokyo PC User Group.
Looking so forward to seeing your story grow.
I was there in the Beginning...
You know those stories people tell, those who were there in the beginning of something that became a revolutionary change in the world. They love to look back and tell about the struggles of the early days, how it almost didn't happen. Then there are those people who were on the fence, but later...
Yes, good points. We are on the way to social self-organization. Back to the tools that last worked well for us. Blogs over likes. And then some new connectivity like Doc Searls VRM. .
Addressing the Eroding Power of the Social Web
I was fortunate to attend TEDxCamdrige last week and hear from a number of excellent speakers but the one that gave me the biggest pause for thought was Bruce Schneier, an online security expert. I have been watching with dismay at how there is almost an inverse relationship between online socia...
Thank you very much for the content, context, and the foresightful film. One of the things travelers dread, the currency conversion, may blend seamlessly into the background, once the transaction costs fall through the floor.
Looking forward to more innotribal insights.
The Experience of a Transaction at Tedx Zwolle
My Tedx Zwolle talk went online, so if you're were not able to attend in person, you can watch it online. I hope you enjoy my latest presentation on the changes happening to our financial system. Enjoy!
Project Management intro - tools I like
Posted Apr 4, 2013 at ... a beginner at something
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Project management - just got easier
Posted Mar 31, 2013 at ... a beginner at something
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Like your showing us visitors from Japan how Invisalign works, though we would not be your customers. Made a big difference for our son. Thank you. Glad I came here from facebook.
There is no "Get."
Very often, we receive ads like this in the mail and email: I object. My goal is not to "get" new patients. My goal is to meet someone new and make a difference for them. Maintain health. Solve a problem. Many dental problems are physically painful, or esthetically painful. I hope to solve...
Sky so Brown (not Blue)
Posted Mar 10, 2013 at ... a beginner at something
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Customer in control?
Posted Jan 11, 2013 at ... a beginner at something
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Social Might Connect
Posted Jan 5, 2013 at ... a beginner at something
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If no one flies the drones because they follow a programmed trajectory, and keep along routes to their destinations that are surveyed for relative safety in case of crash, why would FAA's "line of sight" rules apply at all?
Do we see drones more as model aircraft, or more as carrier-pigeons? Pigeons come with their own line of sight. Our carrier drones need built-in obstacle avoidance.
Type-tested and FAA certified for being airworthy, maybe... adds to cost, could be required in case nasty accidents happen.
DRONENET How to build it
How do you build a global delivery network that can handle billions of drones? NOTE: Why billions of drones? A short haul, on-demand delivery service that costs peanuts to use would generate enormous use. New markets would rapidly emerge. Instant food, pharma, etc. Jevon's paradox (altho...
Thank you, very interesting research. Wondering what would be the return to society on reducing other heavy metals like mercury and arsenic.
Violence Due to Lead?
A fascinating article has just emerged tying increases in violence to airborn lead in gasoline before that was outlawed. It's an extremely thorough study that correlates 90% of rising violence to lead exposure, with about a 20 year delay from when the lead went into the air. So is this all just...
How to define by what is not
Posted Jan 4, 2013 at ... a beginner at something
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CoCreatr is now following John Robb
Jan 2, 2013
Generous generations
Posted Jan 2, 2013 at ... a beginner at something
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Thank you, Anne. Yes, I was forward looking, and thinking how can I make such a life-changing decision without much data after just two months? I was aware I was making an emotional decision. This might not work. No one would believe me. I even waited for two more month before I told the company leaders. They were happy to have me and helped me get settled.
Enjoy Matthew E. May's books. He blogs subtractingly at edit innovation.
WHAT ISN’T THERE
Writes Matt, "...CAN OFTEN TRUMP WHAT IS". Quote: I love optical illusions. Here’s why: The white circles that you see in the rather incomplete grid below don’t really exist. Neither do the white diagonal lines you see connecting them. Yet what isn’t really there is the most interesting pa...
Longing for 2013
Posted Jan 1, 2013 at ... a beginner at something
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Thank you. I am outta there already. Embracing flickr more. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cocreatr/sets/72157632294747420/with/8291147844/
Instagram didn’t get the tone wrong
I hesitate to raise the Instagram topic on here. The controversial terms and conditions and subsequent ‘clarification’ have already received wall-to-wall coverage elsewhere. But there’s a writing angle to the whole thing that needs some airing. The whole story is already being co-opted as a ca...
Got a reply: "We will have digital version early in the new year and will post the link on Green Mondays as well as 5ive-Planets. We really appreciate your kind support!"
Tohoku and virtual community
The ongoing recovery operations for Tohoku were a topic at the recent Green Mondays event in Tokyo Mike Baldwin and I attended on the occasion of our first ever F2F meeting. Mike interviewed Patricia, the author/coordinator of Tohoku Comfort Food, where she said many people who were moved to temp...
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