Interesting Tech Roundup

Heat your home with other people's computers for free: nerdalize.com.

A worldwide network of virtual pilots exists, some flying the same routes on
the same schedule as the real airlines.

A price war in cell phone plans is currently going on, mainly due to T-Mobile. This is a good time to renegotiate your current cell phone deal.

A company onlycoin is rolling out a single card that pretends to be all of your credit cards at once. But how are they going to adapt to the chip-and-pin cards coming to the U.S. (finally) in the wake of Target's little problem?

The 50 smartest companies? MIT Technology Review has a list.

Redox Power Systems' PowerSerg 2-80

Affordable fuel cells are coming, finally, in the next couple of years.

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A critical look at ECat

I found this LENR blog with a reference to a posting that is highly critical of Andrea Rossi's claims
about ECat.

I should have looked at this source before getting excited about it, I guess; looks pretty damning.

New website for cold fusion product purveyor

The website is here. The one mentioned in the previous post is by another guy who said Rossi had withdrawn approval for the site he developed. See the site for details.

A 1 MW heat plant based on 'cold fusion' -- now on sale!

I thought I'd have seen something in the mainstream media on this subject by now, but I only just found a note in a techincal magazine I get, Network World.

This Italian researcher, Andrea Rossi, has come up with a (relatively) low-temp fusion reactor system that he's bundled into a product now for sale: a 1 MW heat-producing plant. A 5-kW home version is supposed to be available by 2013.

Detail on his website ... oh baby!

No longer 50 years away?

I've been reading for decades that nuclear fusion was the energy source of the future -- and always would be! But a recent result indicates that the future may be closer than we thought: by 2020?

Wouldn't it be lovely? But I still think solar fuel looks like a more quickly achievable technical breakthrough. Let a hundred flowers bloom!

A stake through the heart of peak oil?

I subscribe to Technology Review in which appeared the most interesting

article on energy I've seen in a recent issue. They're calling it Solar Fuel, and it looks to me to be the best medium-term candidate for getting us out of our oil trap.

As I write this, the gulf is awash in oil and even if we're not running out of it

wouldn't we rather have a solar-fueled desert installation making our diesel fuel?

A couple of hopeful energy technologies

I first read about EESTOR in MIT Technology Review several months ago under the headline "Too Good to Be True"? They claim to have an "ultracapacitor" technology that will make batteries obsolete.

A less exotic but still exciting battery breakthrough is from Firefly Energy.
They claim to have swapped out most of the lead in lead-acid batteries for
a carbon foam, which is of course much, much lighter.

It seems that either one of these could make electric cars practical, at last.