This is not the first marketable apparatus using this technology. H2N-Gen has their very own unit that will cost about 4 grand, will fit under your car's hood, and will be on the market by March. There's been several articles on this (and a recent one in Popular Science, December issue). Here's one http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000373059415/
Even if the administration is anti-science, that's not going to translate through the entire country. Americans are not sheep, because there's no money in it. There is money in technology, and technology is built on science, and science advances everyday (read a newspaper). Our knowledge of the world and of ourselves increases exponentially, and we're nearing the knee of that curve. Soon, the Luddites wont have anything to say because we'll be thinking too fast to comprehend them.
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This is not the first marketable apparatus using this technology. H2N-Gen has their very own unit that will cost about 4 grand, will fit under your car's hood, and will be on the market by March. There's been several articles on this (and a recent one in Popular Science, December issue). Here's one http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000373059415/
..an answer to the proverbial question, "Who's your daddy?"
Even if the administration is anti-science, that's not going to translate through the entire country. Americans are not sheep, because there's no money in it. There is money in technology, and technology is built on science, and science advances everyday (read a newspaper). Our knowledge of the world and of ourselves increases exponentially, and we're nearing the knee of that curve. Soon, the Luddites wont have anything to say because we'll be thinking too fast to comprehend them.
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Cue the Kim Stanley Robinson discussion thread...
KSR needs to rewrite Red Mars...