I've got two patents through work I did at Rutgers University and the university keeps a huge portion of the profit. One of the licensing things that happens is that the University gets stock from the upstarts or licensees. Rutgers gets 25-32% of the total patent royalties. See: http://ocltt.rutgers.edu/documents/patentpolicy.pdf
I've been to this house, I live about 10 miles away. Our house is covered with panels providing 95-100% of our electricity consumption but we didn't have the room to fit the 600sqft of hydrogen tanks he needs to keep his house powered. I've been to it and have pictures if anyone's really interested. He lives in the middle of the woods, that's why his neighbors don't care. His driveway is as long as the dead-end street I live on.
The Danish have done it: http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=1071
They take cow-dung and take the methane out of it. Why not use a platinum catalyst to catalyze methane's decomposition? Semipermiable membranes could be used to extract the hydrogen with particulate platinum. Sounds feasible to me, considering they can power towns off of the methane produced by cow crap.
I've used this once with t-mobile and once with cingular. I can say the latency isn't horrible, but it's not great. 170-250ms or so. Bandwidth is another issue. With Cingular, I've gotten up to 300kb/s on their new service, with t-mobile up to 44kb/s. It's definately good enough to browse the web, but it's no way to live like I do now. It may actually be faster to change your codec on your phone and connect a data cable and use it as a dial-up modem. (T-Mobile)
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I've got two patents through work I did at Rutgers University and the university keeps a huge portion of the profit. One of the licensing things that happens is that the University gets stock from the upstarts or licensees. Rutgers gets 25-32% of the total patent royalties. See: http://ocltt.rutgers.edu/documents/patentpolicy.pdf
The TI-83 does integrals too-- in Math -> fnINT(Integrationformula,variabletobeintegrated,lo werlim,upperlim)
Also with graphs, calc -> fnINT.
I've been to this house, I live about 10 miles away. Our house is covered with panels providing 95-100% of our electricity consumption but we didn't have the room to fit the 600sqft of hydrogen tanks he needs to keep his house powered. I've been to it and have pictures if anyone's really interested. He lives in the middle of the woods, that's why his neighbors don't care. His driveway is as long as the dead-end street I live on.
The Danish have done it: http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=1071 They take cow-dung and take the methane out of it. Why not use a platinum catalyst to catalyze methane's decomposition? Semipermiable membranes could be used to extract the hydrogen with particulate platinum. Sounds feasible to me, considering they can power towns off of the methane produced by cow crap.
I've used this once with t-mobile and once with cingular. I can say the latency isn't horrible, but it's not great. 170-250ms or so. Bandwidth is another issue. With Cingular, I've gotten up to 300kb/s on their new service, with t-mobile up to 44kb/s. It's definately good enough to browse the web, but it's no way to live like I do now. It may actually be faster to change your codec on your phone and connect a data cable and use it as a dial-up modem. (T-Mobile)