Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-25 Thread Kurt Granroth
Technomage-hawke wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008, Stephen P Rufle wrote: I remember reading about this guy in Wired magazine. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=9 http://www.siei.org/mainpage.html The cost of his system seem a bit high, but maybe it would be a good place to

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-25 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Thursday 24 April 2008, koder wrote: Recreational vehicles and yachts use solar panels to power some decently sized storage batteries. If you put up enough of them you can run a computer system. batteries are all fine and good, but require frequent replacement (every 1-2 years down here

Re: Proprietary elegance good enough? (Was: Re: OT: notebook shopping)

2008-04-25 Thread Kurt Granroth
Craig White wrote: never missing an opportunity to pile on... [snip] I honestly think that the reason Apple has customers is because the people who buy Apple think the only alternative is Windows. Which is why so many Linux people I know also have Macs wait, that doesn't follow at all.

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-25 Thread koder
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:22 -0700, Technomage-hawke wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008, koder wrote: Recreational vehicles and yachts use solar panels to power some decently sized storage batteries. If you put up enough of them you can run a computer system. batteries are all fine and