rolandw writes “The Beeb have a piece about Loughborough University’s hydrogen motorcycle and one of the UK’s first hydrogen fuel pumps (presumably all developed by their excellent Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering department). Offering 50mph, the ENV will have a range of 100 miles on a 3-minute refill of hydrogen. By-products are warm air and ‘drinkable’ water. It will be interesting to compare these hydrogen powered automobiles with the hydrogen fuel cell-powered automobiles as pioneered by such as the Morgan prototype ‘Lifecar’ in the near future.”
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Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) has started selling a Blu-ray disc player for what’s probably the lowest retail price you can find one at: $229. I’ve said many times in the past that this new format won’t catch on with consumers until retail prices routinely get to less than $200, so this new price from Target is nearing that mark. Of course, panicked U.S. consumers probably won’t be buying any Blu-ray players the remainder of this year as they watch what wealth they did have evaporate in the markets.
The Target model is an Olevia brand player (yes, that’s an off-brand), which marks a $70 reduction from a recent Sony Blu-ray player that’s being sold alongside the Olevia player for $299. Still, unless there is some breakthrough difference that Blu-ray manufacturers and retailers can market correctly, most U.S. consumers will stay with their progressive-scan DVD players that sell for $75 or less and have a perfectly fine picture (although not true high-definition).
So, perhaps sometime in late 2009 — roughly a year from now — the market will see $99 Blu-ray players and regular consumers might finally feel the urge to purchase one and begin re-purchasing their movie libraries in yet another format. That is, until super-duper, high-fidelity Purple-ray players hit the market sometime in 2014 and the cycle repeats yet again. Perhaps by then, we’ll all be out of this economic funk and won’t be protecting our cash hoards, however little they might be by then.
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OriginalArlen writes “NASA’s next-generation rover, the nuclear-powered, laser-equipped Mars Science Laboratory is reported to be at a serious risk of cancellation due to budget and schedule overruns, including non-delivery of vital parts by a subcontractor. Costs are running over $2B so far, and the already thin schedule of Mars missions planned for the next decade — with budget ring-fenced for an outer-planets flagship mission — is in danger of further cuts.”
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SolarSells writes “Solyndra makes funky-looking cylindrical solar cells that resemble compact fluorescent lightbulbs. Their products are meant for office buildings, and are made from a thin coating of copper indium gallium diselenide on glass tubes. Even though they might not be able to fill them till 2012, the company has already received $1.2 billion in orders. Their manufacturing tricks make the cells so cheap that they might be competitive with other forms of power even after solar subsidies are phased out.”
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