Is it? – Not prior to 1996 according to Gizmodo. The industry that promised "electricity too cheap to meter" in the fifties, safety at Three Mile Island, Windscale (subsequently renamed Sellafield – only the names have been changed to protect the guilty), Chernobyl & until now Fukushima, promises that post 1996 reactors are safe. Anyone else seeing a pattern?
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Is It Possible To Build A Disaster-Proof Nuclear Power Plant?
This post was displaying incorrectly on some browsers. A corrected version is available above, or at:
http://hhg2tech.blogspot.com/2011/05/is-it-possible-to-build-disaster-proof.html
Eye Controlled Laptop
Positive review of an eye controlled laptop on engadget. My first thought was a risk of doing something accidentally because I looked away from the screen. The review indicates this was not a problem in their testing.
Something for RSI sufferers?
Facebook, Single Identities, & The Right To Be Anonymous
Interesting piece from engadget on anonymity & privacy on the Internet:
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Cold Fusion – Didn't we do this already?
No less a journal than PC PowerPlay (April 2011 edition), reports another "breakthrough" (their quotes) in the field of cold fusion.
To be fair, PC PowerPlay takes a cautious approach, as does this article:
http://m.io9.com/5742290/no-
Although there's a bit more enthusiasm at:
http://newenergyandfuel.com/
I'll wait to see if they get further than Pons & Fleischmann.
To be fair, PC PowerPlay takes a cautious approach, as does this article:
http://m.io9.com/5742290/no-
Although there's a bit more enthusiasm at:
http://newenergyandfuel.com/
I'll wait to see if they get further than Pons & Fleischmann.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)