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Submission + - steampunk flatbed scanner mod - leather book

Submitted by Mark Tingalius on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @07:48AM

Mark Tingalius writes: Check out this flatbed scanner mod by Datamancer. It's built into a custom-made leatherbound book.
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There are more pics on www.datamancer.net and a bunch of other cool stuff.

Submission + - Can wild grass produce clean fuel?

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @03:33PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "As many other countries, the U.S. want to reduce their dependency on oil by increasing the production of renewable and alternative fuels. Today, the main source of biofuel is ethanol distilled from kernels of corn, with a production of 5 billion gallons a year. As current targets for biofuels have been pushed to 7.5 billion gallons by 2012 and 35 in 2017, using corn ethanol alone would require to convert the combined size of Kansas and Iowa into farmland. But researchers have studied other solutions. And the best one could be to use cellulosic ethanol as the fuel of the future. The main advantage of using a wild grass named miscanthus is that you can produce ethanol from the whole plant body as opposed to corn where you can only use the grains. The other one is that you would need to grow this plant only on an area of the size of Massachusetts — an area 18 times smaller. But will farmers follow this advice? Time will tell. In the mean time, read more for additional details and a chart comparing the respective profits you could expect from the utilization of corn, switchgrass and miscanthus to produce ethanol."

Feed Vista Not Selling as Expected (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:12PM

Microsoft's latest and supposedly greatest operating system, Vista, appears to be falling fall short of sales goals, but CEO Steve Ballmer says it's all in how you interpret the info. In Game|Life.

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