Air Pollution-Free Operation
By-products are heat and water vapor
Renewable Energy
Powered by two of the most abundant elements -- hydrogen and oxygen -- in the universe
Now this is obviously not quite right. As usual, they're forgetting about where the hydrogen comes from. I assume that the easiest way to make hydrogen is to use electrolyisis with water. To do this, you need electricity. In order to make electricity, you normally burn fossil fuels.
What's happening is that the problem (pollution and using non-renewable energy sources) is being tranferred from the fuel cell to a big power station down the road. This might give the impression to the user that they're being environmentally friendly, but unfortunately they're being deluded.
Of course it's better this way as I'm sure that power stations are more efficient than internal combustion engines, and that more pollutants are scrubbed in a power station than a catalytic converter can manage, but they should be honest and say that the electricity used to make the hydrogen MAY have come from renewable energy sources.
I've used a few of the UK online stores (dabs.com, ebuyer.com, overclockers.co.uk and scan.co.uk), and also check other sites for prices (aria, insight and simply) and have found ebuyer to the cheapest, with good service. My one word of warning is to only order stuff that's in stock. Dabs have very good service, but you pay extra for it, overclockers are too small to give you good bargains, and aria and insight don't have a good enough range of stock.
Simply have to be the worst by far. I work for Waltham Forest council and as Simply is in the borough some stupid sod has decided to let Simply now be the sole supplier of all the council's PCs. Previously we had a mixture of Simply, Compaq and Dell, and the Simply machines cause no end of hassle. They're badly built with crap components, and are forever crashing. I was also in the Trading Standards department recently and they say they get quite a few calls from consumers who have had problems returning faulty items to Simply.
mark.
Slashdot Mirror
This has already been done by the guys at A List Apart.
There's also a second article where they attempt to make the Slashdot front end play nicely with mobile devices.
On their website Coleman say the following:
Air Pollution-Free Operation
By-products are heat and water vapor
Renewable Energy
Powered by two of the most abundant elements -- hydrogen and oxygen -- in the universe
Now this is obviously not quite right. As usual, they're forgetting about where the hydrogen comes from. I assume that the easiest way to make hydrogen is to use electrolyisis with water. To do this, you need electricity. In order to make electricity, you normally burn fossil fuels.
What's happening is that the problem (pollution and using non-renewable energy sources) is being tranferred from the fuel cell to a big power station down the road. This might give the impression to the user that they're being environmentally friendly, but unfortunately they're being deluded.
Of course it's better this way as I'm sure that power stations are more efficient than internal combustion engines, and that more pollutants are scrubbed in a power station than a catalytic converter can manage, but they should be honest and say that the electricity used to make the hydrogen MAY have come from renewable energy sources.
I've used a few of the UK online stores (dabs.com, ebuyer.com, overclockers.co.uk and scan.co.uk), and also check other sites for prices (aria, insight and simply) and have found ebuyer to the cheapest, with good service. My one word of warning is to only order stuff that's in stock. Dabs have very good service, but you pay extra for it, overclockers are too small to give you good bargains, and aria and insight don't have a good enough range of stock. Simply have to be the worst by far. I work for Waltham Forest council and as Simply is in the borough some stupid sod has decided to let Simply now be the sole supplier of all the council's PCs. Previously we had a mixture of Simply, Compaq and Dell, and the Simply machines cause no end of hassle. They're badly built with crap components, and are forever crashing. I was also in the Trading Standards department recently and they say they get quite a few calls from consumers who have had problems returning faulty items to Simply. mark.