One Glimpse Of The Wireless Future [Slashdot]

Wired article on how college campuses are providing wireless access to students, and how the students and professors are in turn innovating the tech to change campus life and learning. Pretty cool stuff.

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A Role for Solar, but It's a Cameo. BP Amoco has 157 solar-powered gasoline stations in the United States and 220 throughout 16 other nations, with plans for more. By Phil Patton. [New York Times: Science]

I'm glad to see someone doing this, as I think local co-generation is the way to go in the future. Being able to both generate (via solar/wind) and store (flywheel) energy locally will go a long way towards both lowering the cost of such installations as well as minimizing brownouts during peak load times.

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