I seem to remember that a charge is produced in an object (conductor) that is strung vertically in the atmosphere. People smarter than I surely have considered harnessing this as part of the elevator?

It always makes me leery when you don't actually get to SEE the product they're advertising. On the one hand, they're promoting intrigue as to what it will look like, on the other hand, it may be a soapbox with buttons drawn on with Crayola markers and they're not sure of how the public will receive it's looks.

I'd vote for them. They (corporate entity) seem to have a better head for good governance and forward thinking than any politician I've had the 'pleasure' of running in my province.

I own an 2008 Prius. ALL of my driving is country highway and at ~58 mph (90 km/h - keeps me from getting a ticket)I get 54 mpg. If I instead kept it to 85 km/h I'd get about 56 mpg. I have no idea who these people are you refer to, but they're 1) not driving their cars very well (i.e. high acceleration) or, 2) their tires are flat or, 3) they are in desperate need of a tune-up. Lastly, I HATE it when people say stuff like 'my 197X Continental/Pinto/Thunderbird got 9 bajillion mpg and that was back then'. You know what, yeah, the VW you refer to gets decent mileage at highways speeds only. A hybrid gets good (only, if you consider 50mpg good) mileage under city AND highway speeds.

I have to agree. Kids love nothing more in high school science than to sit down and watch an episode or two of Bill Nye. Plus, the added bonus is that his more adult themed shows (The Eye of Science) for kids slightly older than the targeted segment of the original series. Also, I'm stunned at how much Magic Schoolbus comes up in conversations with my children about our world. With topics ranging from the digestive system to how heat transfers between objects good old M.S. can captivate your kids and teach them to appreciate learning about natural systems and processes.

I'm hoping it will stream easily at speeds approaching that of NFS to devices like the WDTV. Right now I'm streaming 720p over a windows samba share, but it sure would be nice to have built-in faster transfers at speeds that would allow HD content to stream to the devices that can decode it on the fly.

Here I was trying to figure out how Dale Evans was going to help with the wind turbines....damn dyslexia!

...when you make the rules, you can change them at will.

Man, I like this guy more and more every day! "Mr. Obama expressed support for NASA and criticized the five-year gap between the scheduled end of the space shuttle program in 2010 and the planned debut of the first components of the new system"