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MIT Emerging Technologies Conference
StoneLion writes "At Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week, speakers in various disciplines provided fascinating glimpses of future technology, including exotica like hydrogen energy and smart dust. NewsForge has a conference report." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.
Perfectly ties in with why Dell is going into the wireless biz to compete with Blackberry (RiM); Hardware benefits only the company selling it.
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i wish the presentations from MIT Emerging Technologies Conference, LinuxWorld, and Apache be available on the internet for free. I can't go to all of them. i only have money to goto to ApacheCon :(
Video taping them, and making them available on the internet or on a CD for a charge could be also beneficial. Just a thought.
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Having sat in on a few meetings with Intel and Dell guys, I can say for certain that they are really sharp. I am thrilled to see that Dell has stepped up to the hardware standards intelligence, and realized that benefitting the consumer in the end benefits the company, while creating things purely for profit inevitably ends in disaster :)
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Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of General Electric: "China and India will be strong international competitors, while the Internet levels the playing field for price."
...he already makes $6.9 million in bonuses and salary...
Part of leadership is personal. Immelt said, "People in the organization need to feel you're a part of their life, that they're a phone call away from the top of the company. They need to be able to trust the organization's command chain to pass information in an unfiltered way."
As a former GE employee I can say GE is an innovator in outsourcing competition to China and India. I'd like to make a phone call to the top of the company: "Hey, could you please stop sending American jobs overseas?"
The board will award Immelt 250,000 performance share units (PSUs) with a present value of $7.5 million -- 8.5% more than Immelt's 2002 salary and bonus.
Source: RatcliffeBlog
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OK... you can store hydrogen densly in metal matrix form, IIRC. I think you have to heat the matrix to release it, but it's been ages since I looked at it. You may not need to "get back" the electricity if you burn it as a fuel, eg BMW's H2 powered 7-series of many years ago. There's plenty of other way s to generate power too, solar, wind, and wave come to mind.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
Define "near term." Advances in the evolution of all kinds of technology will continue to progress at an exponential pace; so the long-term is closer to the near-term than you would think.
but really, if it can be made to work you aren't going to need a lot of other new, new ideas.
What do you mean "if it can be made to work?" Nature already does it, and "The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom." artificially.
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you are WAY behind the times.
the point of hydrogen is not a source of energy, but a place to store energy. so we make hydrogen by electrolosys at some huge nuclear facility. then we can turn that huge energy source into a portable energy source. we can make it even more practicle by making a metalic hydride, then just pump the hydride dust into your tank and boom, you have power.
another alternative to hydrogen would be the use of fast growing plants to create ethanol and then use the enthanol in the fuel cells. the net carbon placed into the atmosphear this way would be 0 since the plants need it to grow each season any way.
I personaly like the latter option, but we need to find a way to make a ton of ethanol with out impacting on the land a whole lot. hydroponics mabye?
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