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Comment Re:Heat + Air = Hot Air? (Score 4, Informative) 230

by tracore on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @02:11AM (#24381155) Attached to: Alaska Looks To Volcanos For Geothermal Energy

This has already been done and the research is going on now at ITER. This should be one of the last research reactors ever built. It is built to generate 500 MW for 400 seconds. After this reactor its on to large scale deployment. http://www.iter.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_confinement_fusion

Hubble Finds a Galaxy 12.8 Billion Years Old 134

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @07:39PM from the dark-ages dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has discovered the 12.8B year old galaxy now known as A1689-zD1. Using gravitational lensing of the massive Abell 1689 cluster of galaxies, they were able to find a surprisingly bright young galaxy from only 700 million years after the Big Bang, during the cosmic 'dark ages.' Researchers are itching to study the object with the upcoming Atacama Large Millimeter Array (to go online in 2012) and James Webb Space Telescope (to launch in 2013)."

U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders 658

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @12:21PM from the got-a-few-things-to-get-off-of-his-chest dept.

sleeplesseye writes "In a speech at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes, Paul McGuinness, longtime manager of the band U2, has called on Internet service providers to immediately introduce mandatory French-style service disconnections to end music downloading, and has urged governments to force ISPs to adopt such policies. McGuinness criticized Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' pay-what-you-want business model, saying that 'the majority of downloads were through illegal P2P download services like BitTorrent and LimeWire'. He also accused ISPs, telcos, device makers, and numerous specifically named companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook of building 'multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it', and of being 'makers of burglary kits' who have made 'a thieves' charter' to steal money from the music industry. The full text of his speech has been posted on U2's website."

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