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Comment A fuel cell is just a kind of battery (Score 1) 267

They just change the electrolyte. It suffers from all the problems batteries do, they always will.

Furthermore, hydrogen is never found in nature in a purely oxidizable state. The closest thing is natural gas, which is where 90% of hydrogen used for industrial purposes comes from. Using electricity for electrolysis results in 50% loss of energy to heat.

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Journal Journal: First look at FireFox 3 UI Changes

The proposed new icons for FireFox 3 have been released for a sneak peek over at Alex Faaborg's blog. A key new feature in FireFox 3 is how it will blend natively into each environment, thus there are four sets of icons effectively; one for Vista, XP, OSX, and Linux.
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Submission + - Music Downloads Don't Decrease Album Sales

DocForbin writes: Koleman Strumpf, Koch Professor of Economics at The University of Kansas, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard University analyzed millions of music downloads from 2002. Their Conclusion: "Downloads have an effect on sales that is statistically indistinguishable from zero." The findings, initially published in 2004, faced heavy criticism. After re-analyzing the data, Strumpf and Oberholzer-Gee defended their conclusions again in the Feb. 14 issue of the Journal of Political Economy.

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