New York Times Said it charges fully in 7 hours, and at special stations, can be charged halfway in 10 minutes.It also has a 1.0 litre gas engine that is used to recharge the batteries when a power outlet isn't nearby.

I like this comment from the CEO :

Chinese automakers still lagged behind Western companies in conventional car technologies, but were at a similar level when it came to hybrids.

"The Chinese manufacturers have the opportunity to leapfrog the traditional technologies and to gain a leading position in terms of new energy cars," he said.

I want to share as this video is one of the most impressive social experiment I have seen so far.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/

click on "watch the full video"

http://physicsworld.com/blog/2008/05/coldfusion_demonstration_a_suc_1.html

I hope that our honorable eurotrib physicists could add some details (hoax?).
some more here http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/29img/Arata-Demo.htm
and in Jap :
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jhts/33/3/33_142/_article

This concept of Wind turbines look quite promising and is going to be build in China this year. perhaps Jerome has more information /debunk on this.

Beautiful isn't it.

"Professor," said Captain Nemo, "my electricity is not everybody's.
You know what sea-water is composed of. In a thousand grammes are found 96 1/2 per cent. of water, and about 2 2/3 per cent. of chloride of sodium; then, in a smaller quantity, chlorides of magnesium and of potassium, bromide of magnesium, sulphate of magnesia,
sulphate and carbonate of lime. You see, then, that chloride of sodium forms a large part of it. So it is this sodium that I extract from the sea-water, and of which I compose my ingredients.
I owe all to the ocean; it produces electricity, and electricity gives heat, light, motion, and, in a word, life to the Nautilus."

A guy has just discovered by accident how to burn salt water (strangely the flame seems to be yellow (sodium?) in the video, not blue like hydrogen does) by simply applying some RF to it.

A dream that comes true : Getting energy from sea water

what s next ?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Iran is suffering a staggering decline in revenue from its oil exports, and if the trend continues income could disappear by 2015, a National Academy of Sciences analysis found.

Iran's economic woes could make the country unstable and vulnerable, with its oil industry crippled, Roger Stern, an economic geographer at Johns Hopkins University, wrote in the report published Monday.

Iran earns about $50 billion a year in oil exports.

The decline is estimated at 10 to 12 percent annually.

from cnn : http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/25/iran.oil.ap/index.html

where ET'readers like to invest their hard-earned money ?  

"A "trophy" video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal."

the Sarkozy symphony ;-)

The device, called the Mosquito ("It's small and annoying," Mr. Stapleton said), emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that, he says, can be heard by mostpeople younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, they cannot stand it and go away.

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Are we going to an anti-youth society ?

Now perhaps can we think about what kind of europe do we want and where are the frontiers without see the debat hijacked by the silly Turkish accession.

if we decide that the Bristish view of Europe, an UN bis/or just free-market without frontiers, is what we want, then Turkey will be welcome.

For this moment i am absolutely opposed to it, not because i am racist, not because i do not like turkey (i like this country and i crossed it until Syria) but because i strongly fell than it does not make sense for the Europe i dream, the identity i want, affinity i need.

I do not accept without support the strange idea that this membership can solve an hypothetical clash of civilization and i do not believe that i must be the purpose and burden of Europe (as organisation).

I want you opinion about it and post this article that sound right for me, as bloody french.

thanks