Today’s special at Woot is a USB-controlled missile launcher. Which means that it will work with a laptop for mobile applications.

Iain Murray doesn’t think much of the energy bill:

It will raise energy prices, raise food prices, increase hunger, worsen appliance performance, make the roads more dangerous and bring back Carter-era gas lines and shortages just when we need them the least – after disasters. It’s a horrendous concoction of every bad energy idea imaginable and will impact every family trying to make ends meet around the country. It’s unbelievably stupid in its rehashing of failed ideas and do-it-yourself economics. It needs to go down in flames, and soon.

[Update about 2:30 eastern]

There’s a request in comments for a link to the bill itself. I’m guessing that it’s this one (thank Newt Gingrich for Thomas).

Also, the editors of National Review are pretty unimpressed as well.

[Late afternoon update]

Thomas links seem to have a finite (and short) lifetime. Just go to Thomas, and search for S.1115.

Iain Murray doesn’t think much of the energy bill:

It will raise energy prices, raise food prices, increase hunger, worsen appliance performance, make the roads more dangerous and bring back Carter-era gas lines and shortages just when we need them the least – after disasters. It’s a horrendous concoction of every bad energy idea imaginable and will impact every family trying to make ends meet around the country. It’s unbelievably stupid in its rehashing of failed ideas and do-it-yourself economics. It needs to go down in flames, and soon.

[Update about 2:30 eastern]

There’s a request in comments for a link to the bill itself. I’m guessing that it’s this one (thank Newt Gingrich for Thomas).

Also, the editors of National Review are pretty unimpressed as well.

[Late afternoon update]

Thomas links seem to have a finite (and short) lifetime. Just go to Thomas, and search for S.1115.

Iain Murray doesn’t think much of the energy bill:

It will raise energy prices, raise food prices, increase hunger, worsen appliance performance, make the roads more dangerous and bring back Carter-era gas lines and shortages just when we need them the least – after disasters. It’s a horrendous concoction of every bad energy idea imaginable and will impact every family trying to make ends meet around the country. It’s unbelievably stupid in its rehashing of failed ideas and do-it-yourself economics. It needs to go down in flames, and soon.

[Update about 2:30 eastern]

There’s a request in comments for a link to the bill itself. I’m guessing that it’s this one (thank Newt Gingrich for Thomas).

Also, the editors of National Review are pretty unimpressed as well.

[Late afternoon update]

Thomas links seem to have a finite (and short) lifetime. Just go to Thomas, and search for S.1115.

Now that it’s officially hurricane season, we’ve been thinking about investing in a generator. But this backup battery looks like it might be an interesting solution. It’s also got a fifteen hundred watt voltage inverter built in, so it looks like you could use your car as a quiet gasoline generator.

Roy Innes, on the Green Man’s Burden. Contrary to Kermit, it’s not that hard being green. It’s only hard on the benighted objects of the greens’ affection.

Roy Innes, on the Green Man’s Burden. Contrary to Kermit, it’s not that hard being green. It’s only hard on the benighted objects of the greens’ affection.

Roy Innes, on the Green Man’s Burden. Contrary to Kermit, it’s not that hard being green. It’s only hard on the benighted objects of the greens’ affection.

Not for power satellites, but for powering or charging local devices, like cell phones. It doesn’t say what the efficiency is, though.

The previous post on Freeman Dyson’s global warming comments have kicked off a long (and apparently informed and happily troll-free) discussion on Bob Bussard’s latest fusion concept.