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BoingBoing.net is reporting today on a tabletop “hydrogen power station” that produces hydrogen from water using a standard power outlet and costs around $200. While this may sound wonderful on the surface, it merely illustrates how the notion of a “hydrogen economy” is really a myth.
Let’s get one thing perfectly clear: hydrogen is not a [...]

While technology has become more affordable and readily available, discarded electronic waste, commonly referred to as e-waste, has become a great big problem.  That shiny new gadget you buy today will probably be obsolete tomorrow.  So what happens to all that electronic waste?
According to a 60 Minutes segment, an estimated 130,000 computers are thrown out [...]

Let’s face it, the Superbowl is watched by more Americans than any other single TV event.  Personally, my guess is that at least half of the people who watch it only watch it for the famous Superbowl ads.  They’re usually humorous (and this year, somewhat controversial, with the addition of the ad for an anti-abortion [...]

Just imagine if we were only now building our first electric infrastructure. Of course that would mean that we’d be decades behind our other modern counterparts. But it would also mean that we’d be in a position to build it using the very latest and best technology. That is exactly the position China is in [...]

Though historically high gas prices provide a strong market demand for electric vehicles (EVs) in California, it is the state with an electric grid that is the least able to support these cars. With automakers set to launch at least a dozen EV models by 2012, California’s electricity regulators are scrambling to respond to the [...]