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  1. corn is really glorified oil on Can the US Be Weaned Off Ethanol? · · Score: 1

    fossil fuels create the fertilizer, they run the tractor and trucks. eliminating corn as a bio fuel would be a good thing.

  2. Re:Nissan Leaf on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    ok, your situation is the exception. You could even bike to work at that distance.

  3. Re:They're going to frack a Volcano? on Pouring Water Into a Volcano To Generate Power · · Score: 1

    precisely. Even though it's only water (no 10% special additional chemicals), I can imagine this having similar effects of increasing the toxicity of the drinkable ground table due to leaching. Unless they can demonstrate that X million gallons of water will remain contained in a closed loop this will have similar effect.

  4. file ex parte to the patent examiner on Tandberg Attempts To Patent Open Source Code · · Score: 1

    This sounds pretty convincing that it's a copy. You can tell the patent examiner about the prior art. You don't have to sue or be sued. The only defense Tandberg could claim is they actually told you about the idea, and you "stole" it when you committed the code. They would have to show evidence to the examiner to rebut his rejection based on your ex parte evidence.

  5. Re:Who paid for the report? on MIT Says Natural Gas Best To Lower Carbon Emissions · · Score: 2, Informative
  6. Re:Charging can't work, so what are the other opti on High Depreciation May Slow Electric Car Acceptance · · Score: 1

    >> Aside from that, I don't see any way for there to be a 5 minute or less charge of a car with a 400+ mile range, like we do with gasoline. If anyone else has an idea, I'd like to hear it. hmm... if you have a filling station full of already charged batteries, and the cars can easily swap, it probably would take a few minutes.

  7. Re:Sounds like a bad idea on More Climate Scientists Now Support Geoengineering · · Score: 1

    ok, read this excerpt from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080116114150.htm The eight warmest years in the GISS record have all occurred since 1998, and the 14 warmest years in the record have all occurred since 1990. so i guess most of your hypothesis about gw being bogus because the earth is cooling is suspect...

  8. Re:Caffeine or coffee? on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 1

    so the conclusion of the article is to drink coffee, not caffeine, which is *not* the logical conclusion of the data. that would be to eat caffeine pills. otherwise mountain dew would be just as sufficient as coffee. hmm... this is another example of bad science reporting.

  9. Re:god damn it on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 1

    one cup a day won't make a difference one way or the other.

  10. Does it take a tool to highlight bugs on 611 Defects, 71 Vulnerabilities Found In Firefox · · Score: 1

    Would the community welcome bug reports of bugs not found by an automated tool? Say for example I found 50 bugs by hand and submitted the report to the team.