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- Bolivia:lithium=Saudi:oil?
- Bolivia:lithium=Saudi:oil?The virginia modelis the one that works. If Bolivia is smart, they'll adopt it and tell the environmentalists to practice what they preach and go live in a cave somewhere.RE: Bolivia:lithium=Saudi:oil?This is a thought provoking commentary Mr. Fuller. Bolivia is indeed very rich in resources. I have full faith...
- Tags: Engineering, business capacity, battery company, Mario
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- Bolivia:lithium=Saudi:oil?
- What's a poor country with rich resources to do? There's the Nigeria model: tribal hatred and long-running civil war. There's the Saudi model: bribe your own people, hire aliens to do the dirty work and execute any dissenters. There's the West Virginia model: give the mining companies...
- Tags: Lithium, Bolivia, Battery, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- New spare lithium battery travel rules go into effect 1 January 2008
- I'm starting to think about what to pack for CES in Vegas and also have a few trips to Alaska planned for the early Spring. I just spotted some news on GottaBeMobile that is going to have an impact on how I pack for these upcoming trips. According to the...
- Tags: Gram, Lithium, Battery, Lithium Battery, Engineering, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
- Lithium buckyballs to store hydrogen?
- Lithium buckyballs to store hydrogen?And just how expensive would this be?Not to mention how we're to dispose of the spent fullerines. I'm surprised researchers looked at a molecular solution in CH4 but completely overlooked sodium borohydride. In about 10 gallons of solution a fuel cell powered by that stuff can...
- Tags: lithium, hydrogen
- Discussion threads 2006-07-26
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- Samsung HZ15W
- The Samsung HZ15W is a camera that looks good on paper but doesn't live up to the specs. The main attraction is the 24mm-equivalent wide-angle lens with 10x zoom, which is certainly a plus in a camera this size, giving you a lot of shooting flexibility for less than $280....
- Tags: Samsung HZ15W, camera, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2009-11-05
- Nissan to recycle batteries from electric cars
- Nissan will work with Sumitomo to recycle batteries from Nissan brand electric cars. They say this will allow them to lower the price on their plug-ins. A new venture will be formed to recycle the lithium-ion batteries. In the hybrid and electric car field Nissan is hustling...
- Tags: Car, Electric Car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Battery, Plug-in, Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Prius, FORD GOES ELECTRIC Ford Motor, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Coin-sized nuclear batteries to revolutionise electronics
- .. Nice post for a change. Good job. ntntA beautiful dream...and then reality hitspeople have been so indoctrinated that nuclear material is the most toxic substance on the planet and even saying the word will give you cancer, that this has about as much chance as a snowball in hell...
- Tags: Engineering, nuclear-battery, Coin-sized nuclear-battery, alpha, cell, electronics
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35
- Photos:Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35With the Lumix DMC-FZ35, Panasonic overhauls the insides of its popular FZ28 megazoom, offering higher resolution, an improved optical image stabilizer, faster AF, and support for the AVCHD Lite movie codec. But while the camera does deliver better performance and photo quality than its predecessor, they're still not...
- Tags: Panasonic, camera, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35, Panasonic Lumix
- Product reviews 2009-10-08
- What value research? In this case a cool billion dollars.
- Research at MIT led to the founding of A123 Systems. That company just went public to the tune of a billion bills. A123 Systems is in the rechargeable battery biz, a sweet spot these days. It was founded eight years ago with a $100,000 federal grant. My,...
- Tags: Lithium-ion, Battery, Lithium-ion Battery, Rechargeable Battery, A123 Systems, A123Systems, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- VholdR ContourHD wearable camcorder
- The ContourHD is a tube-style camcorder designed to be worn as a helmet camera for recording extreme activities. The ContourHD features an attractive design, but a limited feature set. Unlike the competition, it doesn't feature a still photography mode or a viewfinder, optical or digital. But what the Contour...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Engineering, camcorder, Video Resolution, Recording Video, Recharging, ContourHD
- Product reviews 2009-09-28
- Car news from Frankfurt. Color it green.
- CNET has a gallery of some of the new German-made cars debuting in Frankfurt this week. Hybrids, plug-ins, high efficiency cars. Here they come...eventually. Lexus LF. Photo courtesy CNET. There's now evidence that Toyota, maker of the top-selling hybrid Prius, has decided to...
- Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Frankfurt, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Windmills stir up opposition
- Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind energy
- Discussion threads 2009-09-13
- Cleantech award winners
- The Cleantech Group announced two tech winners at the Cleantech Forum XXIII in Boston. exro Technologies won for Most Promising Technology. exro makes Variable Input Electric Generator VIEG, an electrical generator intended to drive down the capital cost of renewable energy while delivering double-digit improvement to...
- Tags: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Johnson Controls Inc., Clean Technology, Exro, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- HiveLive: the beginning of community app consolidation?
- Knowledge bases need the wisdom of the crowd to provide sustainable valueSocial media clearly has shown tons of value to the CRM model and RightNow's acquisition of HiveLive makes perfect sense and should provide material value to their customers. What this means to customers using Lithium and RightNow is...
- Tags: HiveLive
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- HiveLive: the beginning of community app consolidation?
- Larry Dignan has the details of RightNow's acquisition of HiveLive. I was struck by two things. First up Barron's notes that HiveLive had raised $7.8 million so a sale at $6 million sounds like a distressed deal. Second, RightNow is talking very clearly about integration: RightNow believes that by...
- Tags: Consolidation, RightNow Technologies, HiveLive, HiveLive Platform, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Nokia 2680 - GoPhone black (AT&T) - Prepaid
- Photo gallery:Nokia 2680Cell phone bills can definitely add up, which is why a prepaid plan option can be an attractive alternative, especially if you don't make calls or need the mobile Web very often. For AT&T Wireless customers, the carrier offers its GoPhone plan with a handful of handsets, including...
- Tags: Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., feature set, Nokia 2680, Nokia Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-09-04
- SmartPlanet: New BMW turbodiesel hybrid goes 0-60 mph in 4.8 secs; 75 mpg
- A plug-in turbodiesel hybrid car that can go 0 to 60 miles per hour in less than 5 seconds, top out at 155 m.p.h. and get 75 m.p.g. in the process. That's what BMW has created, all packed into the skin of a...
- Tags: BMW AG, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- PowerBAR 3500 mAh Solar Battery Charger for HTC Touch Pro2
- There will be times when your smartphone is low on battery and you won't be near an outlet, but that doesn't mean you're in for a dead device. A portable accessory like the PowerBAR 3,500mAH Solar Battery Charger will allow you to charge your phone from anywhere, and even better,...
- Tags: Smart phones, Engineering, HTC Touch Pro2, HTC Touch, High Tech Computer Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-08-31
- Snow Leopard gets battery forensics
- There's a lot going on under the hood of Snow Leopard, to be sure, but a subtle change has been made to the battery menu item that will help portable users diagnose failing batteries. Within the new Battery menu bar extra in Mac...
- Tags: Battery, Engineering, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- HP extends support for long-life battery
- Attention to those of you outside the United States, or businesses with locations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Hewlett-Packard has introduced the HP Long Life Battery for commercial notebooks in those theaters. The batteries, which are based on Sonata Lithium-ion battery cell technology from Boston-Power,...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, HP Long Life Battery, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
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