You use solar power to electrolyse water. You use the hydrogen that's released to fuel your car. The car burns the hydrogen to produce more water.
Fuel cell technology has been around for a while (it's used to generate electrical power on the Space Shuttle), but I suppose it's not in a lot of people's interests to use it. Fuel cells are pretty efficient, and Daimler-Chrysler announced this fuel-cell car last year which produces zero emissions. The company claims that by 2004 they'll have invested $1.4 billion in fuel cells. Sounds like the way forward to me.
We have a product in development and we want to make the APIs, docs, and source public, which is what we've announced,but we have to be able to make money on the end resultsor we'll just abandon the project.
Sounds like they want to make money too. If they get a VC on board then the VC has a vested interest in their success - for a cut, of course. In addition to cash they provide other kinds of help, such as legal advice and business advice. I'm just reading Under the Radar by the CEO of Redhat, and it seems that major VCs such as Benchmark Capital bought into the open source idea. Redhat couldn't have grown fast enough without their help.
This is precisely why people approach VCs. If you're product's good and you believe in it, then you need capital to start the ball rolling and pay your in-house developers. This model only works if there's a market for support. Zope is a good example and is used on OpenSource.org's business person's case for open source. Paul Everitt of Digital Creations was told to go open source by their VC Verticality, and it looks like it's been a success. Everitt makes a very eloquent case for his open source business decision.
I've read all 3 Mars books through twice, and didn't get bored at all. I now feel like I know the geography of Mars better than that of the Earth. Antarctica was good too, but Robinson didn't dwell on Mars analogies. The Dry Valleys sound like a fairly close analogue to Mars, except for the atmospheric pressure, which makes all the difference.
If you want to do some lucrative IT contracting in Europe check out Freelance HQ. It's a sort of Third Voice for IT contractors. It has reviews by contractors where they report hourly rates broken down by sector and country. If you want to know which O'Reilly books to buy they have level of demand for each skill (Visual Basic, SQL Server, Oracle, Access and C come out top). They currently have 284 agencies and 541 contracts on file. It also gives information about contractors' age and sex (almost all male, half of them are in their 30s). Germany seems to come out pretty well. And it's interesting that the biggest agencies suck ass, as they're often late on payments and judged to be dishonest.
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Fuel cell technology has been around for a while (it's used to generate electrical power on the Space Shuttle), but I suppose it's not in a lot of people's interests to use it. Fuel cells are pretty efficient, and Daimler-Chrysler announced this fuel-cell car last year which produces zero emissions. The company claims that by 2004 they'll have invested $1.4 billion in fuel cells. Sounds like the way forward to me.
Sounds like they want to make money too. If they get a VC on board then the VC has a vested interest in their success - for a cut, of course. In addition to cash they provide other kinds of help, such as legal advice and business advice. I'm just reading Under the Radar by the CEO of Redhat, and it seems that major VCs such as Benchmark Capital bought into the open source idea. Redhat couldn't have grown fast enough without their help.
This is precisely why people approach VCs. If you're product's good and you believe in it, then you need capital to start the ball rolling and pay your in-house developers. This model only works if there's a market for support. Zope is a good example and is used on OpenSource.org's business person's case for open source. Paul Everitt of Digital Creations was told to go open source by their VC Verticality, and it looks like it's been a success. Everitt makes a very eloquent case for his open source business decision.
I've read all 3 Mars books through twice, and didn't get bored at all. I now feel like I know the geography of Mars better than that of the Earth. Antarctica was good too, but Robinson didn't dwell on Mars analogies. The Dry Valleys sound like a fairly close analogue to Mars, except for the atmospheric pressure, which makes all the difference.
If you want to do some lucrative IT contracting in Europe check out Freelance HQ. It's a sort of Third Voice for IT contractors. It has reviews by contractors where they report hourly rates broken down by sector and country. If you want to know which O'Reilly books to buy they have level of demand for each skill (Visual Basic, SQL Server, Oracle, Access and C come out top). They currently have 284 agencies and 541 contracts on file. It also gives information about contractors' age and sex (almost all male, half of them are in their 30s). Germany seems to come out pretty well. And it's interesting that the biggest agencies suck ass, as they're often late on payments and judged to be dishonest.