Now that it’s officially hurricane season, we’ve been thinking about investing in a generator. But this backup battery looks like it might be an interesting solution. It’s also got a fifteen hundred watt voltage inverter built in, so it looks like you could use your car as a quiet gasoline generator.

Roy Innes, on the Green Man’s Burden. Contrary to Kermit, it’s not that hard being green. It’s only hard on the benighted objects of the greens’ affection.

Roy Innes, on the Green Man’s Burden. Contrary to Kermit, it’s not that hard being green. It’s only hard on the benighted objects of the greens’ affection.

Roy Innes, on the Green Man’s Burden. Contrary to Kermit, it’s not that hard being green. It’s only hard on the benighted objects of the greens’ affection.

Not for power satellites, but for powering or charging local devices, like cell phones. It doesn’t say what the efficiency is, though.

The previous post on Freeman Dyson’s global warming comments have kicked off a long (and apparently informed and happily troll-free) discussion on Bob Bussard’s latest fusion concept.

I hadn’t noticed it before, but apparently Howard Lovy is back, blogging about nanotech.

Dell is shipping Linux machines. Redmond can’t be happy. It will be interesting to see how they sell.

With planetary engineering schemes.

Sure beats Kyoto. And the solar shade idea would be a great market to drive down launch costs.

If anyone is still having DNS problems with Bellsouth (now AT&T), or any other ISP, this looks like an interesting solution. It’s a value-added free DNS service, that makes money from ads when you type in a bad URL. It also claims to block phishing sites, so it provides additional security.