Yeah yeah, but scaling up new H2 consumption as these Germans think is a good idea, will not benefit global emissions.

We don't need more H2 consumers at this stage. There is a huge consumption of grey H2, that needs to be replaced with green H2, before new H2-consumers (like cars,trains etc) can actually do anything to reduce emissions. Using grey H2 is more globally warming than just burning diesel/natural gas in directly efficient process.

To be clear: investing in H2-cars/trains today does nothing for global warming. Investing in wind/sun/nuclear/water-generation today can help generate power to run H2-electrolyzers in future. This can then gradually start to replace grey H2 with green in industrial processes (steel, chemistry etc). THEN when gray H2 consumption start to approach zero, other consumers can start to get in line.

*grey hydrogen is produced by splitting H2 from methane and spitting out the C as CO2). Blue hydrogen is the same, but vision is that CO2 is stored "somewhere".....

Well, then maybe they should spy on themselves once in a while?

Dude, my mod points had expired when I finally found an insightful topic completely wrongmodded (+2 off-topic at the moment). Nice touch with the italics .

Mine iphone 4 is way faster. Draining the battery. Two mornings I have woken to realize it shut down during the night. Probably was around 30-50 % charged in the evening. Crazy fast I tell you.

At least, if people had to pay for phones directly (instead of indirectly trough outrageous monthly fees), they would probably be more likely to spend money on a phone compatible with most standard networks, meaning they dont have spend more money if they change network.

This would mean that networks using "non-compatible" equipment would be in a worse position as people would hesitate more to drop money on phone only compatible with one network, driving developement towards more standardized networks and thus allowing direct competion. How is regulation not increasing freedom in this case?

Ocean is still same ocean though...

This certainly a current and intersting subject. I wonder if someone care to enlighten me (and I suppose a lot of other people as well).

I am very uncertain why this millisecond trading is so important. What in the market makes this a viable way of doing business? Appearantly most bids in the market has a lifetime of 3 ms or less and are never realized. To me this seems like a way of manipulating the market. Personally I think available bids or offers should be secret. Only realized deals should be common information. This way it would not be possible to affect the market without cost. E.g. by leaving a bid or offer just to withdraw it milliseconds later.
Another thing I am uncertain off is how a buyer and seller is matched? When I leave an offer to buy shares for a specific price. What happens next? Anyway, I think these are important aspects to understand whether highfrequency trading provides a real value or not.

In my opionon it doens't matter if their practices at this point of time is as bad as everyone else. If ad campaigns like this makes any difference, companies will start to realize that privacy does matter to a large enough number of people will decrease profits (or losses increase, in the case of Bing...).

Water consumption is needed to maximise efficiency. With evaporation cooling you can almost have vacuum after the turbine (increasing pressure with~1 bar over turbine) thus producing much more power.
the alternative is air cooling and then efficiency becomes dependent on ambient temp.

First time I heard Bing used as a verb. This surely must be a great moment for Microsoft!

You design notation....

Please give an alternative to how wealth should be calculated!

It would be really cool if it put pictures together realtime and sent it to a display like this: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/benko/projects/sphere/