Tomheivers

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The Witcher 2 gets May 17, 2011 release date (Big Download)

Nov 16th 2010 10:38AM "Today the developer announced that the game would be out on May 17, 2010, ..."

I think you mean May 17, 2011!

'Civilization 4: The Complete Edition' for $10 on Games for Windows Live (Joystiq)

Aug 27th 2010 10:00AM @acefondu
Steam actually already did this sale (twice) in the Summer sales.

Americans prefer to email on the go, social network at home (Engadget)

Aug 5th 2010 9:21AM I assume other = pron?

Enso whips up two smartphones and three new slates, but we wouldn't order any of 'em (Engadget)

Jul 31st 2010 8:40AM @Ceyran
Don't you have to buy the Ipad with a contract of 2-3 years? This is without a contract, I assume.

Coulomb's CT500 EV charging station now available for residential use (Engadget)

Jul 26th 2010 6:49PM @rmbrown09
Sorry to burst your bubble, but hydrogen is very energy INEFFICIENT compared to all EV (electrical verhicles)!

It costs a lot of energy to make hydrogen (low efficiency) and you waste a lot of energy converting it back to electricity (low efficiency). Hydrogen, is not the way forward I'm afraid.

Honda shows off conceptual, solar-powered station to refill your conceptual, hydrogen-powered car (video) (Engadget)

Jul 7th 2010 1:33PM @Hazdaz
Stop trying to promote hydrogen, Hazdaz is 100% right.

Making hydrogen takes enormous amounts of energy, if you were to scale it up, it would never be economically viable, unless they find another method (more efficient) method to produce hydrogen. Even then it's still crap vs EV, since it has to be converted back into electricity (at low efficiency, again), or it has to be ignited (like ordinary fossil fuels, again, at low efficiency).

Compare this to EV, which already have a lot of known tech (electrical motors, electronics etc.) and it also has a great efficiency ,70-90%, depending on the quality of the components.

The only component that needs tweaking is the batteries. They will probably end up being some sort of super capacitors that you can charge within minutes. That's it, while hydrogen will require a lot of research to be ever commercially viable. Besides, the infrastructure for EV is there, I'm not saying it would work today, but most of the infrastructure is there, all it needs is expanding.

Let's face it, hydrogen, is not a commercially viable way forward, EV (even now) is.