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How to Hack the Power Grid for Fun and Profit

Enron Enron manipulated power prices in California without tapping any wires. They would shut down substations for "maintenance", causing rolling... (read full comment)  

Posted on October 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM EDT

A Cleaner Printout, with Some Extra Ads

Trashy business practice Dear HP, Why do you think end users want ads on their print outs? Generate revenue? If I printed something out and it... (read full comment)  

Posted on September 27, 2010 at 4:30 PM EDT

Why Twitter Is the Future of News

Twitter is just a listserv The future of news? Give me a break. If anything, it is another form of a news wire, albeit one with lots of noise on... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 14, 2010 at 9:10 AM EDT

Drag-and-Drop into the Cloud

Replace the word "cloud" with "internet". Use of the word "cloud" is merely an attempt to rebrand and resell the same services. (read full comment)  

Posted on March 8, 2010 at 7:33 AM EST

Sodium-Ion Cells for Cheap Energy Storage

Baking soda battery Or use Sodium bicarbonate. Now, I have to go finish my paper mache volcano. (read full comment)  

Posted on December 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM EST

Computer Clusters That Heat Houses

Frosty processors Move data centers to the arctic or into space. (read full comment)  

Posted on November 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM EST

Superconductors to Wire a Smarter Grid

Delta It is interesting to think of this as a very large transformer configured as a Delta connection, with each grid as a phase in a super... (read full comment)  

Posted on November 16, 2009 at 1:25 PM EST

A New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table

3-d In an age of 3-d graphics, why we are still getting flat representations of the periodic table? I did this years ago. ... (read full comment)  

Posted on October 6, 2009 at 8:56 PM EDT

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