- Apple SDK for iPad shows camera.
- Google hit with EU anti-trust probe for being too good.
- Sex apps still in iPhone store. Nexus One has more.
- FCC pushing broadband even more than before. Why?
- Intel investing in green tech.
- Mobile phone sales down in 2009.
- Intel hacked with Google. Some kid supposedly doing hacks.
- New dinosaur story crops up again.
- Bloom Energy rolls out tomorrow.
- Amazon getting Linux patents for some unknown reason.
- AT&T faster than Verizon they say. Hmpf.
- Xerox attacks Google and Yahoo.
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The claim against Google is that PageRank demotes the sites of those 3 companies.
While I’d like to be enthusiastic about some new energy technology. I can’t help but wonder if this isn’t more of a plot to save the petroleum industry. It still uses fossil fuel (Natural Gas) as its fuel source. And they’re not saying what the waste byproduct is, coming from the cells. There has to be something. It doesn’t magically turn into energy without a waste byproduct. It is water vapor, or a hydrocarbon?
Ok, so let’s suppose it’s very clean. All you’ve done is trade gas pipes for electric lines, over the long haul. This might actually be much more beneficial to remote villages and towns, were power lines are too expensive to be run. Perhaps most places in Africa could use this Bloom Energy, more than in the US. In the US, it could be more about beating Energy rate regulation, by switching citizens to gas powered power transformers.
It might be nice to have as a backup, instead of gasoline fueled generators. Which emit way too much CO, for home use. But that’s only good if you already have natural gas for heating and cooking. Or are able to stored it liquefied. Assuming it runs on LP gas.
The thing is, I don’t believe it’s safer to replace long power transmission lines, with Bloom Energy stations and gas storage tanks. Are these cells more efficient than the larger power plants, that supply the electricity? Power lines can be run above and below ground. But Natural gas lines can only be run below ground, or not at all. And it’s more expensive to lay gas pipe, than transmission lines. So many a town would be subject to the whims of gas delivery schedules. And a bad winter, like we’re having this year. Could keep fuel from being delivered to a town’s Bloom station storage tanks. So they’d need to build extensive reserve storage. And then you also get into the whims of price changes of gas, that the electric grid might not be subject to.
Evil Enron is dead. The Bloom thing could bring it pack, as Natural Gas price fixers.
Amazon is covering their butts on patents for the Kindle and EC2.
#2 I have a suggestion. Burn firewood and drive a horse. My family used to do that and you can survive though life expectancy was lower then than now but we found out life was better with fossil fuels so we went that way.
I’d say your biggest challenges is getting land and of course doing all that manual labor kills elderly people.