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It takes more energy to make hydrogen than what you get back out of it.

Well of course! Hydrogen has to obey the 2nd law of thermodynamics just like oil does, except that oil has the advantage of having the energy put into it millions of years ago.

You can't make this at home.

Yes you can. The storage is the problem though.

But you can make electric power at home, for free.

Um... Then why do I pay a bill for my electricity?

Plus, it's unbelievably explosive - in concentrations between 2% to 98% it's explosive.

Cool. So I'm free to smoke cigarettes at the gas station after all?!

I'd buy a metric f@ck ton of these if I could guarantee that they'd be filled with PETA members. What a bunch of retarded zealots. Lets worry about the f@cking animals once we've solved the whole ethical treatment of people issue. Maybe if we can all get them to read articles like this one and this one, we can convince them not to eat vegetables either and starve to death.

It was an honest mistake. Now I need someone to check my math.

According to calculations in the first post here http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2007/03/24/nevadas-solar-one-power-plant/ a CSP plant like the Nevada one can expect, optimistically, the equivalent of full output for 5 hours per day. 64 MWh * 5 hours * 365 days = the annual output would be 117 million kWh or 117 gigaWatt hours.

So 19698 of them would output about 2.3 petaWatts of power per year. Coal is roughly 6.67 kWh per kg, so 2.3 petaWatts of energy from coal requires 345 billion kg of coal, or 379 million US tons. At $40 per ton currently, give or take, that's about $15 billion.

If my numbers are more or less accurate, that's why the move off of coal is so difficult. Even if the price of coal goes up 10% per year, we can pay it for decades before replacing it with solar becomes cost effective. If you want this type of transition to occur, you have no choice but to advocate major government intervention.

Is this can be post-hydrocarbon time now please?

Attach it to this picture = internet gold

If you are good /. hack the official regime sites linked below

http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2007/09/30/hackers-unite-for-burmese-freedom/

Here's your chance to make a change !!

burma and partner in crime fortinet - yes, as mentioned. fortinet is a us company !!!

This country is among the very worst enemies of Internet freedom and in many ways its policies are worse than China's. The price of computers and a home Internet connection is prohibitive so Internet cafés are the target of the military regime's scrutiny. As in neighbouring Vietnam and China, access to opposition sites is systematically blocked, in this case with technology supplied by the US firm Fortinet. Burma's censorship is special - Web-based e-mail, such as Yahoo! or Hotmail, cannot be used and all Internet café computers record every five minutes the screen being consulted, to spy on what customers are doing.

http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2007/09/29/hackers-unite-for-burmese-freedom/

Regime sites include

http://www.myanmar.com/
http://www.myanmar.com/news/index.html
http://www.mrtv3.net.mm/ (blocked from external access)
http://www.mofa.gov.mm/ (blocked from external access)
http://www.moha.gov.mm/ (blocked from external access)
http://www.mpt.net.mm/ (blocked from external access)
http://www.myanmar-information.net/
http://www.myanmar.com/myanmartimes/
http://www.mnped.gov.mm/ (blocked from external access)
http://www.myanmar.com/newspaper/kyaymon/index.html
http://www.myanmar.com/newspaper/nlm/index.html

Wikipedia says

According to the OpenNet Initiative [6], FortiGuard is used by the dictatorship of Myanmar (Burma) to block communications critical of the regime carried over the internet, a system known as the Myanmar Wide Web [7].
Meanwhile, the Myanmar government features its adoption of the Fortinet firewall on its official website [9] with other photos showing a Fortinet sales director presenting a gift to the Myanmar Prime Minister during a ceremony [10].

Just giving him a gift, hmm ?

Take these f*ckers .mm websites down

http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2007/09/29/hackers-unite-for-burmese-freedom

Bloggers and other cyber activists within Burma risk their lives by publishing any information counter to the government line, but they still do it because they believe that freedom of expression is worth that sacrifice.

You don't have to make such a sacrifice, but if you have computer skills, can breach firewalls, routers and web site security then you could greatly assist the people of Burma. By taking down official Burmese government propaganda and posting pictures, information about the protests, information about the lies of the Burmese junta, and news of the huge support being offered by the rest of the world - preferably in Burmese - then you could help free the people from this terrible regime.

Hack the military regime sites linked below

http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2007/09/29/hackers-unite-for-burmese-freedom/

Replace them with pictures of wounded protesters etc.

Here's your chance to make a change, 1337 !!

Bloggers and other cyber activists within Burma risk their lives by publishing any information counter to the government line, but they still do it because they believe that freedom of expression is worth that sacrifice.

You don't have to make such a sacrifice, but if you have computer skills, can breach firewalls, routers and web site security then you could greatly assist the people of Burma. By taking down official Burmese government propaganda and posting pictures, information about the protests, information about the lies of the Burmese junta, and news of the huge support being offered by the rest of the world - preferably in Burmese - then you could help free the people from this terrible regime.

If you are good /. hack the official sites linked below

http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2007/09/29/hackers-unite-for-burmese-freedom/

Here's your chance to make a change