Thank god! It's about time that ethanol subsidies are based on real science instead of totally empty PR jobs. Corn ethanol is an absolute joke, no matter what. Even with future technologies...

Ah yes, the pinnacle of culture. Thanks for enlightening us all, Jason, and keep up the good work!

I must have missed that. If he's serious about this I think it could cause a major split in the White House. So far the establishment has been totally willing to let the banks take over, but I...

This is just the thing to bring Obama around! They'll be getting a bailout in no time.

I was with you up until the Amero. Get real man, nobody in Washington actually wants that. Obama and friends are currently trying to convince the rest of the world not to dump the US dollar for a...

I'm pretty sure everyone is just mad at the mega-banks. And the SEC. And the bond rating agencies. And the Fed/Treasury that are staffed by the same bigwig bankers.

These guys were doing more...

Unless I'm mistaken, with this kind of setup it's better to go with silicon cells that are tuned to one specific wavelength. I think that when the light gets trapped in the film it all becomes a...

It looks like we'll actually be able to compare A123's batteries with LG's right off the bat now. We'll find out if GM really made a mistake going with LG like so many people think.

Well the F-22 finally got cut today, as did a bunch of other expensive black holes. But Gates promised MORE money for missile defense. At least the F-22 is actually functional!

Here's a headline that isn't being trotted out so proudly: New student loans require payments while in school

I know times are tough, but damn. There's barely any point in getting a student loan...

In the 70s CEO pay used to be on average 40 times that of a worker's pay. Now it is 500. It's a widespread cultural problem in corporate America, so this news doesn't surprise me at all.

There are elements of truth hidden in the garbage that comes out of Alex Jone's mouth. I think this interview is more worthy of viewing: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html

I...

I'm less concerned about mutant killer viruses than I am about the more boring and hard to track long term disruption of food webs and habitat. The petrochemical revolution gave us all kinds of...

Funny how he's so eager to give jobs to the crooks who destroyed the economy then. I don't even want to know what his thinking is at this point.

You had it right in the title: viruses, not bacteria. Anyway, this is really cool. But at the same time I really worry about the unforeseen consequences of humans harnessing and modifying viruses,...

China completely depends on the US borrowing money to over-consume. It goes both ways.

I'm pretty sure that Doug deserves that title. I think it's plausible that that was a factor in GM abandoning battery electrics.

Anyway, the point is that certain interest groups were putting out...

Yeah, a lot of the early claims about the batteries only lasting 3 years or whatever turned out to be not quite accurate. Who could have guessed! But here's something to think about for the...

Isn't that the one that's only 40% efficient?

I seriously can't believe that the same people who deride the EV1 as an expensive and unviable prototype seem to think that hydrogen is the way of the future. Is this an April fool's joke?