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For those of you wanting to know more about how it works, here is a short description from Science Daily:

"The key component in Nocera and Kanan's new process is a new catalyst that produces oxygen gas from water; another catalyst produces valuable hydrogen gas. The new catalyst consists of cobalt metal, phosphate and an electrode, placed in water. When electricity — whether from a photovoltaic cell, a wind turbine or any other source — runs through the electrode, the cobalt and phosphate form a thin film on the electrode, and oxygen gas is produced.

"Combined with another catalyst, such as platinum, that can produce hydrogen gas from water, the system can duplicate the water splitting reaction that occurs during photosynthesis.

The new catalyst works at room temperature, in neutral pH water, and it's easy to set up, Nocera said. "That's why I know this is going to work. It's so easy to implement," he said.""

(Cr*p, just seen the clip again, and Morgan is clearly visible at the beginning...)

The moment I heard the voice of the flight engineer (seen only from the back), I thought "Hey, it's that guy from MASH"...

Let me get this straight: Something that the eye can't see but is captured by cameras? Smacks of video artefact to me....

"regular people make less than average wages. duh"

That's actually true. The really high income of the few "pulls" the average upward (It's like the old joke: If Bill Gates enters a bar full of unemployed people, suddenly everyone in there is a millionaire "on average").

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States#Distribution_of_Income

the average household income in the US in 2004 was roughly $60K. On the other hand the median income (the income where 50% of the population is below or above) was roughly only $43K. So 50% of the households make $17K less than the average income. This probably means that about 65 to 70% of the household in the US make less than the average income. My bet is that Joe Sixpack is somewhere in there.

That wouldn't work anyway. Canadian immigration requires you to go through a medical exam before they'll give you residence status (even if you are married to a Canadian). Terminal cancer would definitely rule someone out.... Really sad, I agree...

Nice example of non sequitur, Farhad2000... (And to pursue the matter, explain to me how you intend to manage nuclear power waste safely for the next 10,000 years and I'm in.)

My first downvote ever. Hope this guy is better at physics and music than at hosting a science documentary. I usually love science documentaries, and I'm not that demanding. But here the treatment is so superficial, the interviews so inane that you really have to wonder why he bothered going to all these places in the first place (pining for his touring days?). My impression is that he's way to self-absorbed, not really caring about his audience.

After watching the train snowplow videos, I was looking for videos of a train snowblower in action. I came across this...

For those of us that are french impaired (yes, it is in french), the whole thing is about getting busted by mom for "busting" the free minutes limit on your cellphone rate plan. They're selling a "capped" rate plan. I think this is the non-censored version of the ad.

Well, not quite 1/3, since the word "OK" is uttered at the end...

Anybody noticed that the guy in the orange shirt is George Chakiris, who played Bernardo in "West Side Story" (obviously, the voice is dubbed).

German!

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