That man is OLD.

Your truck weighs one ton? My god that's light. My cabrio weighs 1430 kg with me in it.

I'm so happy with that. I don't like blue light and many of those LEDs were far too bright.

Electrical energy is also free, apparently.

And nitrous oxides. They are the worst.

So? I live in the Netherlands and I also don't have a dryer. I put my wet clothes on a rack in the study to dry. Works fine and saves a LOT of electricity.

We don't have pennies in Europe. Just eurocents.

It looks like a very cheap process...

I don't think it suggests that at all. It says the Mg is used to make porous silicon out of sand (neat trick), but nothing about how to prevent the porous silicon from reacting with oxygen from the air. So I take it you have to use the porous Si in an oxygen free environment. That shouldn't be too hard to make in a battery though.

Ha, a real manager!

But seriously, hopefully Microsoft will benefit from him and become a bit more popular amongst nerds.

Out with a bang, not with a whisper.

One gene does not make a species.

That's not only in America. Here in the Netherlands there was a program on TV not long ago about how manufacturers design their products to break down after a few years. There are several ways to do this; the chips in printer cartridges being the most well-known one. But they also told us that Samsung designed the plastics in their washing machines so that they degrade when in contact with the detergent you use to clean your laundry. And many manufacturers build in 'time bombs' in the software of their products, so that they stop working after a certain period.

That exists already in the Netherlands. It's called the Action and it's mighty popular.

Luckily I have the impression that 3D TV is on the way out already...