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Charge in 5 minutes, Drive 500 miles?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shocking-discoveries dept.

ctroutwi writes "In the wake of rising gasoline costs there have been plenty of alternatives seen on the horizon. Including Hybrids, Biofuels, fuel cells and battery powered all electric cars. CNN has recently posted a story about a company (EEStor) that plans on offering Ultra-Capacitor storage products. The claim being that you charge the ultra-capacitor in 5 minutes, with approximately 9$ (~$.45 a gallon) of electricity and then drive 500 miles."

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  1. Noo noo noo noo by Colin+Smith · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks around. Surprised and wide eyed. There's something very wrong here...

    I know... We've had this day before!!!! We're in a TIME BOUNCE!!!!! AAAAArrrrrgghhhh!!!

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    1. Re:Noo noo noo noo by wizbit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You mean a "White Hole":

      CAT: So, what is it?
      KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's
          a white hole.
      RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
      KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole
          sucks time and matter out of the universe: a white hole returns it.
      LISTER: So, that thing's spewing time back into the universe? (He dons
          his fur-lined hat.)
      KRYTEN: Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time
          phenomena on board.
      CAT: So, what is it?
      KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's
          a white hole.
      RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
      KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole
          sucks time and matter out of the universe: a white hole returns it.
      LISTER: (Minus the hat.) So, that thing's spewing time back into the
          universe? (He dons his fur-lined hat, again.)
      KRYTEN: Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time
          phenomena on board.
      LISTER: What time phenomena?
      KRYTEN: Like just then, when time repeated itself.
      CAT: So, what is it?

    2. Re:Noo noo noo noo by TheLetterPsy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      So strange. I left work with this story at the top of the front page and when I come back in the next morning, I see only one story has been added since then. All /. could come up with in 16 hours was a single story for the front page?

      Normally, dupes are annoying, but this one caused me some trauma!

  2. Whoa!!! A deja Vu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn!!!!They changed something in the Marix.

    1. Re:Whoa!!! A deja Vu by orso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      mmmm...maybe the "t" in Ma(t)rix???

    2. Re:Whoa!!! A deja Vu by popeyethesailor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The spelling maybe?

  3. OMG!My time travel machine worked I'm in the past! by arcite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now that I'm in the past, I can use these new lotto numbers I got from the future... I'll be rich!

  4. Re:daddypants email link broken? by include($dysmas) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    100's of people posting duplicate messages complaining about a duplicate thread, more productivity to you!

  5. Huh? by Klaidas · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not just a dupe... the story is on the same page as this dupe!
    Nice work editors.

  6. haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's still on the front page! http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/ 25/1837254

  7. Holy repeated news batman! by jimstapleton · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's a rerun!

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  8. Re:daddypants email link broken? by ricepudd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There was almost a 3 hour gap between the latest two stories being published... what was ScuttleMonkey doing in that time? Surely he could have found a few minutes, perhaps whilst drinking his coffee, to actually read the front page of the website he's supposedly editing?!

  9. spam? by Marin3 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is the duplicate post a joke or what?

  10. time-warp by Stoertebeker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are we going to see this type of knotting in the space-time continuum every time someone charges one of these cars with 1.21 jigawatts?

  11. Yesterday called... by SirJorgelOfBorgel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...they want their article back!

  12. 1000 miles? by Spackler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, between this dupe, the dupe editor, and 5 minutes, could I drive 1000 miles?

    Really, do the editors even read Slashdot? You CAN read it at work you know. OSTG won't mind.

  13. Slashdot: News for amnesiacs... by jginspace · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At the top of the page now it's showing:

    Did you know subscribers can see articles in the future?

    Oh the irony...

    BTW: Mods, try to be on the lookout for copy and paste karma whores (man, plagiarism annoys me). Unfortunately with 700+ comments on the last discussion, this may not be easy, haha.

    1. Re:Slashdot: News for amnesiacs... by maxwell+demon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Even non-subscribers can see articles in the future. I thought the distinguishing feature would be that subscribers can see articles now which others only can only see in the future.

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  14. be a bit bored.... by JaJ_D · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...i messed around with anagrams of "ScuttleMoney" and got...

    Yo celment slut
    To clumsy teen

    and my favourate...

    u my clone test

    Jaj

    1. Re:be a bit bored.... by Kamineko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      What about 'ScuttleMonkey'?

  15. Re:Not only this, but... by Headcase88 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good idea, not only would it prevent super-obvious dupes but it would cut on the number of submissions an editor would have to read. Comparing submitted links to, say, all the links of accepted articles in the last week or so should be possible.

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  16. Re:paid editors, for what, exactly? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which is precisely why I'll never subscribe to slashdot. I've thought about it before, but I refuse to reward Taco&Co for doing a ridiculously half-assed job. Were they to actually take their jobs seriously and show some sort of professionalism in what they do, I'd reconsider.

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  17. On slashdot, it takes 5 minutes to store article by hcob$ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    in the editors memories. Buy you only get 500 miliseconds of storage after final submission.

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