You're welcome.

Another way to look at this is that while you wanted to just be able to make phone calls on the go, now it is assumed no problem that you can also be tracked. There are a million applications of the information, but it was never anything you wanted to enable. Abuses -Breaking and entering (that will be an obvious abuse) -Personal profiling for commercial reasons -Adapting city security to where the people are -Road tax, other fines -Detecting less socially acceptable behaviour I believe the US will either break up or become a police state, the process for the latter is well underway and latitude is part of it.

Sorry to repeat myself, but that is naive. You can't be sure what some idiot with the highest security clearance may be thinking. If you can think up one profitable way to abuse this information (for example, breaking and entering while you are out) that should be enough to abandon the idea however benign and sexy it may be. What worries me more is that the info is already available in the system to the network operators.

That is what I mean with naive.

This is just a way to make this type of surveilance socially acceptable. In a while the government will ask you to open up the info to them (what do you have to hide after all?). It is not my intention to go through life as an ant in a terrarium, ready to be prodded with a stick if I move the wrong way. It is not anybodies 'right' to know more about me than I care to actively share.

The big four (wind, solar thermal, tidal and geothermal) do not use resources different from f.i. the car industry. These kind of statments, arguments, discussions are either a lame offensive by the fossil fuel industry, or just the ramblings of a moron.

I couldn't correct it (Slashdot timelock). But your passion for accuracy is comendable..

May have mistyped. But 1.5 kW for one hour is exaclty 1 kWh ;-)

Kwh is just more meaningfull as it allows you to apply it to the load. An electric motor doesn't say 1200 Joules/second, it says 1500 Watt, or 1,5 Kw so you know you can run it for one hour on one Kwh.

In the patant it states 52.22 Kwh storage capacity, not 52.220 Kwh as in thousands (52 Mwh). Thousands are separated by comma in the text.

You would be fighting symptoms. Warming is not so much the problem as the greenhousegasses are. Besides, the greenhouse gas effects of water vapor are unknown..

There is a low tech solution that can span millions of kilometers, its called light. How about a LED source combined with a 41% efficient composite solar panel on the recieving end? Porbably more efficient and zero electromagnetic 'pollution' Start work on saving the planet, we don't need these gadgets