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Sony Develops Buckyball Fuel Cell
Jonny Marx wrote to mention a post over at Digital World Tokyo detailing Sony's latest fuel cell technology, which uses Fullerenes (Buckyballs) to achieve a lot of power in a little space. From the article: "... The technology looks like a significant step in the right direction toward the development of DMFCs powerful enough to supplement or replace lithium batteries for handheld gadgets. Methanol leakage and power output have been the devilish details that have stopped DMFCs becoming widespread, along with regulations that are still being hammered out to allow methanol to be carried aboard passenger aircraft, and a methanol fuel infrastructure, i.e. being able to pick up refills at Japan's ubiquitous konbini (convenience stores) for example."
Sony engineers can do this, but they have to outsource their DRM to a third party who steals it from open source.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
"We can make scientific breakthroughs in energy production that can make all your lives easier, but I'll be damned if we can make a copy protection schema that doesn't suck."
Glad to know that soon I'll be able to use methanol biofuel to power my buggy, insecutre, DRM laden Sony products.