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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive.

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

If Dan Kois wants us to live in a world where we all drive cheap, underpowered cars that are limited to 85 mph, he has that right. Never mind that perhaps some of the accidents linked were perhaps the same ones being covered by multiple news outlets. Expensive luxury/performance cars? The lack of strict speed governors in modern automobiles?

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

Cars That Think

Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We BMW , Google , Samsung , and Volvo have all said they will not buy metals mined from such sources until the environmental impacts are better understood.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? And yes, buy cheap (night) sell high (day) and sell local (remember there are HUGE line losses in the common interstate grids- more so in daytime high power draw hours.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Boone Pickens plan, which states that using all the wind power capacity from northern Texas to the Canadian border would produce AS MUCH AS 20%. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. Look at the T.

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