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Napa Valley winery flips on Flotovoltaic solar array {Engadget}
Jun 2nd 2008 1:41PM You should point out that this is a report about a fire from 1975, 33 years ago. Safety protocols have come a long way since then. Also, the new reactor designs make this sort of problem impossible.
Napa Valley winery flips on Flotovoltaic solar array {Engadget}
Jun 1st 2008 1:53AM Great example of how ineffective solar power is. Don't we all have enough space to install this many panels. To generate enough power to feed a typical city would require many square miles of land, and then our sun goes down. Since we do not have any effective ways of storing large amounts of energy, I guess we all go back 120 years on the technology curve at night.
How about expanding our current nuclear power plants. New reactor technologies are extremely safe. Most people forget that the US's current nuclear reactors where designed in the 1960 & 70's.
A reactor like at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in japan produces 1.3 gigawatts of power. That is enough power for 1.6 million homes. All this power and ZERO greenhouse emissions.
The rest of the world is using nuclear power to reduce its carbon foot print, why aren't we?
Squeezebox Duet is even more feature-filled on second glance {Engadget}
Jan 14th 2008 11:11PM I have a squeezebox 1 and 2. They are the best way IMHO to stream your music collection to a quality home system (or a crappy one was well). SlimDevices makes good stuff and they put audio quality first, hackablity second. Just because it might be hacker friendly, these things still sound great. If you don't believe that they are audio freaks, then go to slimdevices.com and check out the Transporter!
I think many people who are not familiar with SlimDevices see that their products have a Logitech name on it and write the product off as a crappy cheap consumer product. This however is just wrong. Time will tell if SlimDevices will stay true to their small company history or if Logitech will destroy their new devision's ability to great audio hardware for the wired generation.
Netgear launches ReadyNAS Duo storage lineup {Engadget}
Jan 8th 2008 10:15PM Ahhhh, looks like the same features and the same look as their Readynas NV+ with two drive bays cut off. I have had one of these 4 bay units for over a year. They work great but are a bit underpowered. The web interface is painfully slow. Hope this update and dropping of two bays helps with processor performance.
Moletech Fuel Saver theoretically saves fuel {Engadget}
Jan 6th 2008 11:43AM Please! These so called "devices" have been around since the 70's gas crunch. Basically you drop in the magic device into your fuel tank and suddenly you get amazing gas savings. These do not work. Save your money. If you want to waist your money go by some carbon offset credits. They will not do anything either but at least you will feel good.
USA HD / Sci-Fi HD launching on Dish Network? {Engadget HD}
Dec 6th 2007 9:16AM Dont worry dgbellak, in typical SciFi fassion, they will replay Tin Man to DEATH all month, so you will have a chance to see it in HD. However, HD will not improve the the plot.
Poll: should we still run the 2006 Engadget Awards? {Engadget}
Apr 5th 2007 6:53PM how about renaming it 2006-2007 Engadget Awards or, may fav, 2006+ Engadget Awards "The Plus Means More"
