*sigh*
This thing is not a solution for storing energy in the home. It's not about solar energy, and it's only potentially about fuel cells.

All this is, is a new, very cheap way to separate hydrogen and oxygen out of water, using electricity from any source you like. For that, it's a wonderful thing, because other methods of collecting hydrogen have either been very expensive, involved oil, or both.

Where will these collected gasses be stored? In big airbags in the attic? It would probably have to be compressed into bottles, which would expend so much of the energy you'd "loosened", that it would hardly be worth the fire risk and financial investment.

This would work, however at much larger scale in an industrial setting. This would provide cannisters of hydrogen and oxygen for our hydrogen and fuel cell cars and home generators.

There's just no way this would work as a home system!

Errr... am I the only one who sees the irony of this? The whole corporation moves so that the suits can be closer to an airport....

This is a TELECOMMUNICATIONS company! With all that bandwidth, technology and money bins full of cash, I would expect them to be among the best-equipped to provide for "face-to-face" meetings via teleconferencing.

Errr... am I the only one who sees the irony of this? The whole corporation moves so that the suits can be closer to an airport....

This is a TELECOMMUNICATIONS company! With all that bandwidth, technology and money bins full of cash, I would expect them to be among the best-equipped to provide for "face-to-face" meetings via teleconferencing.

Errr... am I the only one who sees the irony of this? The whole corporation moves so that the suits can be closer to an airport....

This is a TELECOMMUNICATIONS company! With all that bandwidth, technology and money bins full of cash, I would expect them to be among the best-equipped to provide for "face-to-face" meetings via teleconferencing.

They're in Austin already.

Today was trash day, so I go out and pick up whatever loose litter is blowing around after the trucks sweep through.

These tiny little guys were everywhere.

I also reviewed La Fontenna in English on my El Fon Blog. It sounds like we found similar results. La Fontenna was slightly better than the original antenna. However, I also compared with a home-made reflector which cost me nothing.Please visit http://elfonblog.fondoo.net Sorry about the shameless plug, but my blog is nonprofit.. :)

I also reviewed La Fontenna in English on my El Fon Blog. It sounds like we found similar results. La Fontenna was slightly better than the original antenna. However, I also compared with a home-made reflector which cost me nothing. Please visit http://elfonblog.fondoo.net

Laze: We'd been expecting the "Fon Liberator" aka "v2.0" to be based on the Accton MR3203A as you pointed out, however if you look at the new device, it's considerably larger and the connectors are in different places. You have to dig to find the MR20x devices on Accton's website now, which gives the impression that they have discontinued these devices and now Fon is rebranding another manufacturer's product.

LOL... I'm not letting this turn into a flame war, but when I say that the name "La Fonera" was proposed by Sebastien Gottschall, AKA "Brainslayer", this is not my opinion- it is *fact*. He and ex-company insiders have independantly confirmed this. Unsuprisingly, most of the ideas that make up Fon, as well as Fon President Martin Varsavsky's other pump-and-dump business ventures, were proposed by other people. Martin takes credit for these things for, uhm.. "brevity". I'm not sure whether Brainslayer speaks Spanish, but he probably manages fine, since he was once the programmer for Fon's earlier firmware version. In any case, it's no stretch of the imagination to name the "La Fonera"... the router of Fon, after "Foneros", the citizens of Fon.

Thank you for those links, Casey. The Flickr link you posted leads to an image of the -old design- for the Accton MR3203(?) router. The original La Fonera was a rebranded MR3201A router. We expected the La Fonera 1.5 to be a rebranded MR3202A, but it appears that Fon may no longer be rebranding Accton's equipment.