Presidential Hopeful John McCain has proposed that the US Government offer a $300 Million dollar prize to develop a new battery aimed directly at automobiles. This idea isn’t new, the Department of Defense’s DARPA has offered prizes in the past to develop certain projects such as autonomous self driving vehicles. On the surface his proposal sounds [...]

Several years ago, when I purchased my first laptop (a Gateway Solo Notebook,) I had bright ideas of keeping it off the grid and going solar. Unluckily I quickly found three problems. Portable solar panels were expensive, took forever to charge a laptop battery (12-18 hours) and well… Oregon Weather isn’t conductive to reliable solar power. [...]

Best Buy is not one of my favorite companies, but news that they are now going to accept most consumer electronics for recycle is actually pretty big news. As pointed out in the Yahoo Tech Blog they will also only recycle to responsible US based companies. In turn these companies will try to refurbish and [...]

This is the kind of technology that is going to revolutionize the solar industry. Easy to install solar panels would help make solar technology easily available to home owners and companies all over the World. Imagine a utopia with cheap solar panels applied to every single flat surface available. People would be like, energy crisis? [...]

48-Hour DVD’s make a come back, well at least according to German company Einmal-DVD. Some may remember that this has been tried before to less then stellar results. At first these were touted as a way to stop the Pirates from copying movies. Unluckily all 48 hours did was give the average viewer less time [...]