Hm... At $3.99 for a 12-pack, it costs you about 0.33 a can for a name brand soda. Sodastream's website says it costs you about 25 cents a can for a savings of about 8 cents a can. With an initial investment of $200, you would need to drink 2,500 cans of soda to break even. That's the equivalent of 208 12-packs of…

Seconded. Kitchenaid's stuff is the bomb. Bought a Kitchenaid mixer when I got married and it is still going like a champ. Kitchenaid appliances are the "Deadpool" of the appliance world. You can't kill them.

Heh - this is the exact same argument I make with Solar Power. But for some reason people seem vociferously determined to spend $16,000 in order to "save" $60 a month on their electric bill and a break-even point of like 20 years.

Let's just say that some people are more interested in justifying a preconceived…

Actually, you're wrong in your facts. Antarctic ice has not been melting. It has actually been increasing...

M'eh. They've been trying to do this for decades and they fail every time. Wake me up when they actually accomplish something. I won't hold my breath. Seriously - I wish I had a nickel for every one of these "green breakthroughs" that get breathlessly announced and yet always come to nothing. Yawn.

/salute/ to Mr. Williams. Prayers & thoughts with your family. Any suicide is a tragedy. Any death is a loss to society.

They've done studies. Total holistic ICE energy efficiency is about 16% and for the EV it is about 26%. The difference is, in fact, quite marginal. That's just a fact. EV efficiency is nowhere near what people brag it is, which is why they obsess over the relatively myopic and somewhat irrelevant "well to wheel"…

I found most of Reloaded to be tolerable - though the whole "rave" sequence was idiotic. But Revolution was a lousy movie and an even lousier conclusion to the trilogy. But the trilogy suffered from the fact that the first movie was just so darn good. The others suffered by comparison.

I hope batteries make the leaps and bounds needed to be truly competitive one day. But an honest look at where we are says that battery efficiency is not going to reach the levels necessary for affordability and storage capacity for a long time. Lithium only has so much room to pack in the power. What we need is an…

Well, in truth electric motors are NOT 88% efficient. The efficiency of an electric car is 72 percent for the car, 40 percent for the power plant, and 90 percent for charging. That gives an overall efficiency of 26 percent. When you peel back the exaggerations, the spin, and the marketing hype, EVs are not very a…

Isreal has offered the Palestinians land on multiple occasions if they would (1) acknowledge the right of Isreal to exist and (2) promise to live peacefully. The Palestinians have rejected this offer every single time it has been given to them.

You do realize that you are whining that Hamas is incompetent at killing? Tell us how Hamas could possibly be justified in firing deadly weapons at innocent civilians, please. Aw - they aren't very good at it? Boo hoo.

Isreal isn't not targeting 'everyone'. They're targeting sites that have weapons, tunnels, and other terror tools. Sad trombones all around that there is collateral damage. Maybe next time the Palestinians will kill the terrorists, imprison them, and otherwise drive them out of their neighborhoods so that they…

Yes - it's very sad.

Yes - a supercapacitor that is large enough to hold a meaningful amount of energy is huge. Their energy density is 0.018 megajules per kilo. What you've got there is an ultracapacitor which is used to stabilize power transfer across functions in a device. That is NOT used for storing energy for primary…

Good job mentioning the limitations of supercapacators. Way too many people talk about those things as if they were the solution to problems, when there are very good reasons why you can't use them for very much. The energy density of gasoline is 46 megajules. The density of a lithium battery is about 0.5. The…

"Is hydroponic vertical farming the future? Maybe, maybe not."

It is pretty safe to say that the answer is definitely not. :) It's a cute idea. It makes a pretty concept drawing to show off at an Expo. It has no practical relationship to any sort of future.

I thought we spend the past 30 years trying to get rid of lead paint, and now they want to do it all over again?

Reservoirs STORE water. If the storage was there 20 years ago or 30 years ago then there would be plenty of water in storage to carry CA through the droughts. Droughts happen. You're supposed to plan ahead for them. CA is so dependant on water, and needs so much of it, that it has to come up with a plan or this…