Submitted: Apr 10, 2008 - In "Back to the Future," Doc Brown throws garbage into Mr. Fusion, powering his time machine. We might be closer than you think to generating electricity for our homes using trash.
At the most basic level, a plasma waste converter is a plasma torch applied to garbage. A plasma torch uses a gas and powerful electrodes to create plasma, sometimes called the fourth state of matter. Plasma is an…
Made Popular: Yesterday2008-10-05T18:23:00-07:00 We were looking for that SNL "CSPAN" clip in which the billionaire husband and wife who sold…
Submitted: Yesterday2008-10-06T03:58:17-07:00 A Canadian research group, Citizen Lab, says it found a database containing thousands of…
Made Popular: 2 hours ago2008-10-05T17:11:47-07:00 This isn't a political post. It's a security post. While spam in general is an annoyance,…
Made Popular: 4 hours ago2008-10-06T01:33:22-07:00 By Jonathan Kimak So Alaska is getting more attention now that Sarah Palin is a vice presidential…
Submitted: 8 hours ago2008-10-06T09:37:59-07:00 One of the more interesting developments of this election cycle has been the boom in viral online…
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