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  1. Practical solutions first on More "Miles Per Acre" From Bioelectricity Than Ethanol · · Score: 0

    Last time I saw a bioelectricit setup was 5 months ago in a lab. The yield was low. Lets not go for one approach, but for many, the most practical first.

  2. Re:"Everyone's situation is different" on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 0

    I'm suprised there are no 'pirate' public transport companies..

  3. Magneto Hydro Dynamics on Motor Made From Liquid Film · · Score: 0
  4. Croc shield on Crocodiles With Frickin' Magnets Attached to Their Heads · · Score: 2, Funny

    So does a magnetic field deter them, so you can set up a magnetic perimeter around your garden opond and they will not want to come out?

  5. Re:Don't be naive on Map As Metaphor In a Location-Aware Mobile World · · Score: 1

    You're welcome.

  6. Re:Don't be naive on Map As Metaphor In a Location-Aware Mobile World · · Score: 1

    Another way to look at this is that while you wanted to just be able to make phone calls on the go, now it is assumed no problem that you can also be tracked. There are a million applications of the information, but it was never anything you wanted to enable. Abuses -Breaking and entering (that will be an obvious abuse) -Personal profiling for commercial reasons -Adapting city security to where the people are -Road tax, other fines -Detecting less socially acceptable behaviour I believe the US will either break up or become a police state, the process for the latter is well underway and latitude is part of it.

  7. Re:Don't be naive on Map As Metaphor In a Location-Aware Mobile World · · Score: 1

    Sorry to repeat myself, but that is naive. You can't be sure what some idiot with the highest security clearance may be thinking. If you can think up one profitable way to abuse this information (for example, breaking and entering while you are out) that should be enough to abandon the idea however benign and sexy it may be. What worries me more is that the info is already available in the system to the network operators.

  8. Re:Don't be naive on Map As Metaphor In a Location-Aware Mobile World · · Score: 1

    That is what I mean with naive.

  9. Don't be naive on Map As Metaphor In a Location-Aware Mobile World · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is just a way to make this type of surveilance socially acceptable. In a while the government will ask you to open up the info to them (what do you have to hide after all?). It is not my intention to go through life as an ant in a terrarium, ready to be prodded with a stick if I move the wrong way. It is not anybodies 'right' to know more about me than I care to actively share.

  10. Bogus, moronic, ill-willed, untrue on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 0

    The big four (wind, solar thermal, tidal and geothermal) do not use resources different from f.i. the car industry. These kind of statments, arguments, discussions are either a lame offensive by the fossil fuel industry, or just the ramblings of a moron.

  11. Re: can hold 52.220 kWh on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    I couldn't correct it (Slashdot timelock). But your passion for accuracy is comendable..

  12. Re: can hold 52.220 kWh on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    May have mistyped. But 1.5 kW for one hour is exaclty 1 kWh ;-)

  13. Re: can hold 52.220 kWh on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    Kwh is just more meaningfull as it allows you to apply it to the load. An electric motor doesn't say 1200 Joules/second, it says 1500 Watt, or 1,5 Kw so you know you can run it for one hour on one Kwh.

  14. Seems you are a factor ten wrong on the capacity on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In the patant it states 52.22 Kwh storage capacity, not 52.220 Kwh as in thousands (52 Mwh). Thousands are separated by comma in the text.

  15. Nice but no sigar on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You would be fighting symptoms. Warming is not so much the problem as the greenhousegasses are. Besides, the greenhouse gas effects of water vapor are unknown..

  16. Try using it in another way on Nintendo Slapped With Wiimote Strap Lawsuit Once Again · · Score: 1
  17. All that energy wasted on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 1

    There is a low tech solution that can span millions of kilometers, its called light. How about a LED source combined with a 41% efficient composite solar panel on the recieving end? Porbably more efficient and zero electromagnetic 'pollution' Start work on saving the planet, we don't need these gadgets