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2011-03-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by gorb 2011-03-30 12:21|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Fuel cells are definitely a good way to provide cheap power. Traditionally, they have been extremely expensive and fragile, but the technology is improving and the cost is coming down. Combine newer and cheaper fuel cells with fusion power technology and we will have renewable and clean energy and can tell the Middle East terrorists they can eat their oil.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-03-30 13:09|| 2011-03-30 13:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Ho hum. Been reading about these promising new technologies for 30+ years. For now let's drill for oil and build fission plants, thank you very much. If things change in the next 30 years that's fine too.

Posted by Jock the Salmon 2011-03-30 13:30|| 2011-03-30 13:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Taxium
heh...

Posted by Water Modem 2011-03-30 14:25|| 2011-03-30 14:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Nope. Using freshwater is against the rules; freshwater disappearing from the surface of the earth and all that. Too bad.

I'm sure someone here can explain sorting the H2 from the O2 with an inexpensive backwoods-hardy device so I ask, as the H20 is seperated into its respective elements, what happens to everything else in the water? That is, how clean must this water be so that the leaf is not coated by the other stuff and rendered useless?

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-03-30 16:36|| 2011-03-30 16:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Why not just build a Solar powered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine

??
With a dynamo on it?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-03-30 18:20|| 2011-03-30 18:20|| Front Page Top

#6 BP - Always wondered why they didn't build a CPU cooler using a stirling engine.

Posted by Iblis 2011-03-30 20:55|| 2011-03-30 20:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Some of us use Water to cool our chips...

Koolance

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-03-30 22:43|| 2011-03-30 22:43|| Front Page Top

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